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Glen T. Martin is professor of philosophy and chair of the Peace Studies Program at Radford University in Virginia. President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA), the Institute on World Problems (IOWP), and International Philosophers for Peace (IPPNO). His website is www.radford.edu/gmartin. His books, focusing on human liberation and planetary paradigm shift, include Millennium Dawn -- The Philosophy of Planetary Crisis and Human Liberation (2005), World Revolution Through World Law -- Basic Documents of the Emerging Earth Federation (2005), Ascent to Freedom -- The Practical and Philosophical Foundations of Democratic World Law (2008), Triumph of Civilization -- Democracy, Nonviolence, and the Piloting of Spaceship Earth (2010), and Constitution for the Federation of Earth -- with Introduction, Commentary, and Conclusion (2011). His 2013 book "The Anatomy of a Sustainable World: Our Choice between Climate Change or System Change -- and How You Can Make a Difference" examined the fundamental worldwide changes necessary for a sustainable civilization. In 2016, he published "One World Renaissance: Holistic Planetary Transformation through a Global Social Contract and in 2018 "Global Democracy and Human Self-Transformation: The Power of the Future for Planetary Transformation." Dr. Martin has given lectures, seminars, and workshops in many countries of the world directed toward transforming our world order to one of peace, prosperity and sustainability under a democratic world parliament. In November 2013 in the Philippines, he received the GUSI International Prize for Peace in recognition of this global work toward planetary peace with justice. In 2016, he published "One World Renaissance: The New Transformative Holism and Our Global Social Contract," which explores the immense transformative potential of the new scientific, philosophical, spiritual, and psychological holism that is sweeping the world. His latest book is called Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence" was published by Cambridge Scholars in August, 2018).
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018Global Ecofeminist Socialism and the Earth Constitution This article describes the relations of domination and exploitation inherent within capitalism, patriarchy, and the system of militarized nation-states. It shows that the feminine principle, the principle of democratic socialism, and the rule of democratic world law under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth share the same revolutionary roots and are fundamental to overcoming both capitalism and patriarchy.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018System Change or Climate Change and No Third Possibility This article shows that the fundamental principles of global capitalism interfaced with the system of sovereign nation-states directly contradict the principles of ecology required for planetary sustainability. It also describes the principles of sustainability and shows the many ways in which the Constitution for the Federation of Earth embodies and actualizes these principles.
Thursday, May 10, 2018The Clueless Left and the Future of Humanity This article reviews the innumerable problems of today's world and argues that the cause of these problems is the world system itself, which must be changed from the fragmentation of global capitalism intertwined with sovereign nation-states to one of holism under the Earth Constitution.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017The Coming Climate Collapse This article argues that the U.S. withdrawing from the Paris Climate accord is not the main issue. The main issue is the fact that saving the planet's climate is effectively impossible under the system of militarized sovereign nation-states. We need to really unite, which means ratifying the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016From State Department Madness to Empire of Chaos to Climate Collapse: The Missing Element is Human Unity This article examines our human situation in the light of climate collapse, US military madness, and the system of competing sovereign nation-states. What is lacking is human unity, and human unity is not just some abstract ideal but comes about through concrete system change under the Earth Constitution.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016The Deeper Roots of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atrocities This article looks at President Obama's speech in Japan as a massive propaganda stunt, examines the real story behind the bombings and his speech, and identifies the root problem of war in the nation-state system itself. It advocates the Constitution for the Federation of Earth to end both nuclear weapons and all wars.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016The Left Needs a Vision: A Response to Chris Hedges, Sheldon Wolin, and Pepe Escobar The article proposes the Earth Constitution as an authentic vision for the left and explains why this is absolutely fundamental.
Monday, May 2, 2016Empire of Chaos meets Global Dracula: Trashing Democracy: What is Our Way Out? A long-overdue presentation of the only concept that could possibly save humanity from certain extinction, this article is a call to endorse the Earth Constitution, which would lead to a World Parliament, giving the left the necessary tools to effect meaningful change. A must tread!
Friday, March 18, 2016Social Democracy in Venezuela, Latin America, and the World Having just returned from Venezuela, this article describes the current situation in Venezuela still identified as a "threat" by the Obama administration. It speaks of the socialist projects currently going on, of the relationship with Simon Bolivar and with the struggles for freedom and justice throughout Latin America. It links this struggle to our need to unite the Earth under the Earth Constitution.
Monday, February 8, 2016Hillary, Bernie, and the World Federalist Vision: Whom Should We Support? As world crises continue to mount, and as it becomes ever-more clear that the system of sovereign nations is unable to deal with these crises, world federalist voices should expect to become much more mainstream. But the US needs an internal environment that ends the Patriot Act and makes real dialogue possible. For this reason alone, Bernie Sanders is by far the best choice.
Sunday, January 31, 2016Patterns of Thought and Human Survival: Holism vs. Fragmentation This article argues that we must begin thinking holistically if we want to survive much longer on Earth. We must look at our problems from a holistic perspective like that in the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
Thursday, December 10, 2015The Global Democracy Manifesto: A Critical Appraisal This article is a critique and analysis of the well-known "Global Democracy Manifesto" that is being circulated worldwide. It shows in what ways the Manifesto is ineffectual and empty, a far cry from that the world absolutely needs if we are to create a decent future and real global democracy.
Friday, October 16, 2015The New Sustainable Development Goals and Global Schizophrenia This article examines the newly formulated UN "sustainable development goals" (SDGs) in the light of the global realities of climate-collapse, militarism, war, imperialism, and economic exploitation. It concludes that achievement of these SDGs is only possible if this reality is addressed through converting the UN to a democratic world government under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015American Violence and the Commonwealth of God Violence permeates American domestic life and foreign policy, as journalist Tom Engelhardt has pointed out. One book about American Imperialism says that we need to replace this with the "commonwealth of God." This conception of a nonviolent community is indeed the vision of Jesus, but I argue that the real commonwealth of God also requires ratification of the Earth Constitution.
Thursday, May 14, 2015Trans-Pacific Partnership versus National Sovereignty: A False Dilemma The Trans-Pacific Partnership cannot be successfully opposed through protecting an illusory "national sovereignty." We need insight into the global system as a whole, and we desperately need a "utopian" vision of human liberation. This vision is provided by the Earth Constitution.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015Changing the System Requires Seeing It Clearly This article reviews the lies made by the state-terrorist nations that they are fighting terrorism. It points out that the world-system itself is the root cause of our inability to pacify the planet or to protect the environment. We need a global cooperative economics and politics under a global social contract. Nothing else will create a decent future for humanity.
Saturday, November 29, 2014Climate Marches May Well Promote, Not Prevent, Climate Collapse This article describes why the giant environmental protests will fail to protect the environment and what we must do if we really want a sustainable future.
Friday, May 23, 2014Global Robocop, a Multipolar World, and Climate Collapse: How to Think Outside the Box This article defines the alternatives between US global domination and a multipolar world as false alternatives characterized by "inside-the-box" thinking. It defines "progressive" and shows that progressives are still thinking inside the box and therefore putting the endangered future of humanity at risk. It shows the genuine alternative to both capitalism and nation-states as ratifying the Earth Constitution.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014The Moral Collapse of U.S. and Global Society- and the Necessary Conditions for Rebirth The illegitimacy of Neoliberal domination contrasts with the moral legitimacy of democracy. The destruction of democracy within the U.S. is connected with the same phenomenon worldwide -- the two are inseparable. Thinkers have long understood that democratic values are universal, and that, to really establish democracy, it must be a global democracy under the Earth Constitution.
Thursday, April 10, 2014Planetary Maturity and Our Global Social Contract: Part Two- The Social Contract Where Part One focused on the emerging consensus regarding 'planetary maturity', this Part Two focuses on our global social contract. It shows in what ways the holism of the contemporary paradigm-shift is embodied in the Earth Constitution and the ways in which the meaning of a 'global social contract' goes far beyond the limited and problematic uses made of the concept by 18th century thinkers such as John Locke.
