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  1. “America Dethroned? The U.S.A. in Decline? The Iran War”

    View the white paper here

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  2. The two Blue Planet Prize Laureates for 2026 are announced:

    Professor Edward Barbier (USA) Born on July 22, 1957 University Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Colorado State University Professor Edward Barbier has led efforts to value…

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  3. 5 Questions for Ethical Decisions EXCERPTS from MILLER and RICHARDSON

    Excerpts from The 5 Questions for Ethical Decisions: How to Succeed Without Selling Your Soul By David W. Miller with Susan Richardson Princeton University Press, April 2026…

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  4. Defying tyranny

    The Dutch will go orange-crazy this coming Monday. Canals in Amsterdam will overflow with boats crammed with orange-clad merrymakers. Music will fill streets festooned with orange…

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  5. New Book Examines Claims of State-Directed Organ Harvesting In China

    (REVIEW) Jan Jekielek’s “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary” is difficult to read. Not because it is…

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  6. Battling for Freedom

    Freedom – of speech or of worship, from want or from fear – was both celebrated and contested on various fronts this week, reminding us that the…

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  7. The Constantine Trap

    Ever since Constantine in the fourth century, nations and empires have been tempted to define themselves as ‘Christian’.  But can a nation or an empire be…

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  8. Change of Distributors

    Please note that our Europe/ EU distributor has now changed to Script Publisher Services: https://scriptps.co.uk Also that our distributor for Canada and the USA has changed to…

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  9. Vaclav Smil book review by Sanjoy Sanyal

    The Recipe for Tomorrow We can feed a growing and warming planet without magic bullets or radical upheaval. How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide….

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  10. Two milestones

    This month marks twenty-five years since the first Weekly Word was sent out in February 2001.  When this column began, Europe stood at the dawn of a new…

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