Global Issues Archives

12 May 2019

May 12, 2019
Author Mike Brand

Educators Institute for Human Rights Webinar

Event, Genocide & Mass Atrocities, Global Issues, Highlight

Atrocities Prevention and What We Can Do Join me and the Educators Institute for Human Rights for a webinar conversation about atrocities prevention in today’s world and what we can do to make prevention a reality. When: Sunday, May 19th at 9:00 PM Eastern TimeWhere: Click here to register and […]

24 January 2019

January 24, 2019
Author Mike Brand

Max Boot is Wrong, Democrats Shouldn’t Embrace Status Quo Foreign Policy

Global Issues, United States

Max Boot, a columnist for The Washington Post, recently penned an article entitled, “The Democrats need a new foreign policy — one that doesn’t sound like Trumpism of the left.” In his opinion piece, Boot makes the case that progressive Democrats are embracing a foreign policy centered on isolationism and […]

14 December 2018

December 14, 2018
Author Mike Brand

Big News in Genocide and Atrocities Prevention

Genocide & Mass Atrocities, Global Issues, Highlight

Genocide and atrocities prevention advocates don’t often get good news. But, recently we’ve had a few victories that are worth celebrating. Congress has passed a series of bipartisan measures focused on genocide and mass atrocities. The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention […]

28 November 2018

November 28, 2018
Author Mike Brand

We Need a New Term for Climate Change

Genocide & Mass Atrocities, Global Issues, Highlight

I think we need a new term to replace Climate Change. It is too soft. It’s like seeing a forest fire and saying the leaves are changing colors. We need to call it human-caused planetary death (or something equally as serious). Because really, that’s what we are dealing with. Different then past extinction […]