“There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.” WayTodayWaterEnvironmentPlanetsCrisisWater Crisis Author:Maude Barlow
“In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.” HumansHomeRunningTodayPoliticalOrderFreedomLibertyEconomicCitizensDemandHappeningsDignityCrisisUnionsWestRevolutionaryIronicSovietTidesSoviet UnionMarxismHuman DignityHuman FreedomEconomic OrderMarxism Leninism Author:Ronald Reagan
“The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.” WorldRealMightTodayFacesSpiritualFaithMoralStruggleMilitaryRootsDecidedTestsArmyCrisisBombsRockets Author:Ronald Reagan
“Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.” IfsYearsImportantWould BeCareTodayAmericaPoliticalPlansPoliticianYears AgoUniversalCrisisDemocratPhonesArguingWhy NotCoveredEmployersSandwichesCoverageProvidersFriesWailingFree Food Author:Ann Coulter
“What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.” IfsWorldMindHeartMayTodayMovingSpiritDiesTomorrowApproachConcernedProgramCrisisAffairTidesNew DayLive For TodayUnchangingTimes Of CrisisEach New Day Author:Owen D. Young
“With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans’ embrace of a broken immigration system.” PeopleThinkingHumansTodayHouseLostChanceMoralMovementBrokenRepublicanLaborVoteCrisisMajorityEmbraceCongressImmigrationRepresentativesCitizenshipArrestedRippedDemographicsHouse Of RepresentativesPollingDeportationLabor MovementMoral Crisis Author:Arlene Holt Baker
“The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the environment, but above all we see this in mankind Man is not in charge today, money is in charge, money rules. God our Father did not give the task of caring for the earth to money, but to us, to men and women: we have this task! Instead, men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.'” MenGivingHumansTodayEarthCultureFatherEnvironmentMankindWasteMen And WomenTasksCrisisEnvironmentalProfitCaringIdolsConsumptionEcologyPopeLinkedOur FatherTimes Of Crisis Author:Pope Francis
“Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.” TodayNextWeekFailureCrisisDisasterShrinksHeadlinesNext WeekFootnotes Author:Hal Borland
“In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems” MayTodayRiskCrisisFinancialTraditionalProbabilityFinancial CrisisFinancial SystemFinancial Risk Author:Timothy Geithner
“I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.” ThinkingWorldTryingUseTodayLanguageCrisisExistentialismExistentialExistential Crisis Author:Sean Lennon
“Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.” WorldArtBookPlaySeemsTodayArtistStruggleIssuesArmsCapitalismTreatsCrisisNotesLocalsDialogueCommunismThemeContradictionFascismImplicationsAngstDisappointingBrecht Author:Richard Foreman
“Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.” TodayPartySecurityCallingProtectConflictConcernCrisisNotesHumanitarianStatementsMassiveCouncilCiviliansSecurity CouncilDarfurCeasefire Author:Jan Egeland
“Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.” WorldHumansEndsTodayNationsRightsSecurityWallDignityCrisisHuman RightsHumanitarianNational SecurityCalamityNigeria Independence Author:Kofi Annan
“....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.” StatesMightTodayIndividualNationsGroupsSeriousAmountEconomicsAccountsCrisisFinancialPassagesRulersSovereigntyGlobalizationEludeEconomic GlobalizationDecide Upon Author:Patricio Aylwin
“We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.” PeopleWorldTwoProblemTodayFacesCausesGrowthLeaderStepsResourcesRootsPressureCrisisEnvironmentalPopulationSolveConsumptionOur EnvironmentOverconsumptionWorld LeaderExplodingIrreplaceablePopulation GrowthOverpopulationRoot CauseEnvironmental ProblemsWorld PopulationEnvironmental CrisisPopulation Problem Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau