Cherish What You Have For Your Children’s Kids

WebPublica – Quote – “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance” ― Theodore Roosevelt.

WebPublicaPress Pause – Reflect & Reorganize

WebPublicaPress (New York) – It is due to global pandemic and special circumstances here in New York which became epicenter of the US outbreak of the coronavirus/Covid-19, that our web-magazine WebPublicaPress (WPP) will stop publishing for – hopefully short period of time. We plan to return in a short while – in fact in a [...]

White Supremacists Yellow Peril and — “Chinese Virus” Add to a Volatile Political Mix

By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS  - When US President Donald Trump repeatedly characterized the fast-spreading COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” last week, it prompted some white supremacists to resurrect an age old ethnic slur against Chinese and East Asians: the “Yellow Peril” which, in a bygone era, was touted as a xenophobic threat to [...]

UN Building in New York is a Ghost Town Now

WebPublicaPress – UNITED NATIONS – At the normally busy headquarters of the United Nations in New York, life is suddenly moving at slow speed – very slow speed, AFP reported.
This temple of multilateralism, with its daily meetings both large and small on world conflicts and almost every other subject, is reeling from the impact of [...]

Fear on Planet Corona – and Fighting for Truth

By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — Truth is often stranger than fiction.  If somebody suggested a thriller novel plot set to the backdrop of gyrating stock markets, falling oil prices, rising tensions with Iran, amidst a spreading worldwide health pandemic, all juxtaposed to a contentious American Presidential election, most literary agents would gruffly scoff, “it’s too far-fetched.”  Perhaps, [...]

Corona Spread All Over US – New York Worst

WebPublicaPress (New York) — West Virginia is the latest US state to confirm a case of the novel coronavirus, meaning the virus is now in all 50 states. Australia declared a “biosecurity emergency” and told its citizens not to travel abroad news agencies (DW) reported.

The virus has been confirmed in all 50 US states as voters cast [...]

Minimalism — “New” Way of Life We Will Need

By Jennifer Collins (DW) - Rob Greenfield is on a mission to bring a sustainable living message to the world using unusual approaches from wearing the trash he produces and foraging for food to cycling penniless across the US on a bamboo bicycle.

Rob Greenfield bounds over to a plant growing amidst the makeshift garden plots on the grounds [...]

What Can We Learn from Taiwan on Coronavirus

WebPubliaPress (New York) – Taiwan’s number of COVID-19 infections is currently below 50, despite the island’s proximity to the outbreak’s epicenter on mainland China. Experts say early intervention has helped stop a public health crisis.

More than two months after a new virulent coronavirus emerged from the Chinese city of Wuhan, more than 100,000 people in dozens of [...]

Trump bans travel from EU to prevent coronavirus

(WebPublicaPress) New York – US President Donald Trump has announced a 30-day travel ban on most foreign nationals who have been in 26 European countries in the last 14 days. The ban does not include US citizens. It is in effect since Friday 13 March 2020
Who will be affected by the ban? 

The restriction applies to [...]

UN Reaches 90:90 Gender Parity in Senior Leadership Transforming Organizational Culture

By Thalif Deen –  UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations claims it has reached one of its primary goals relating to women’s rights in the world body: gender parity at senior levels of management and in the highest echelons of the Organization.
Leading the way, besides the UN Secretariat, is UN Women, ‘the United Nations Entity [...]