"A thousand dollars per person should be the baseline."

An Interview of Andrew Yang

KALOS: Greek word meaning both "good" and "beautiful"
COSMOS: Greek word meaning both "the world" and "the people"

^{Alfred de Grazia died on July 13th, 2014. KALOS.COsmos is the living website of his political ideas and projects.} 

^{Alfred de Grazia,} The Divine Succession

A beggar in China collecting alms by way of a QR code...

According to internet consulting firm iResearch, payments made via mobile devices by Chinese consumers last year reached 38 trillion yuan (US$5.5 trillion, HK$43 trillion), more than half the nation’s GDP.

We are certainly well on the path here of the possible implementation of a Universal, Unconditional Basic Income system. 

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• The technology is here
• The great flop of Benoît Hamon
• The 2016 Swiss Referendum
• Daniel Häni - interview in Der Spiegel
  
• Mr Häni - are you a communist?
• Countdown to the Swiss Referendum
• Lausanne dares the test
• Should we scrap benefits...?
• NYT: Give everyone a paycheck!

You may want to meditate over some of Alfred's thoughts on the Presidency - going back to the Sixties:

• Overview
  
• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on the Greek Crisis
  
• Paul Krugman on the Greek Crisis
  
• Jacques Sapir on the Greek Crisis
  
• Joseph Stiglitz on the Greek Crisis
  
• The horror of the Euro
  
• Jayati Gosh: The failed project of Europe
  
• Heiner Flassbeck

• 100 years Battle of the Somme
• Commemorating the End of World War II
• It's in Winter that the Days gets longer - the Liberation of Auschwitz, by Joseph Bialot
• Syria: the Background
  
• Alfred de Grazia: the Campaign of Provence
• Alfred de Grazia: Actually, you may add this to the failure of the Seventh Army...

by Alfred de Grazia

Alfred de Grazia wrote this "Manifesto" for a preparatory session at the United Nations in view of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002.

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Every child has an equal interest in the world, therefore an equal right to share in its inheritance.

What should the inheritance be worth?

The inheritance should be composed at the least of a sufficient diet, clean water, clothing and a shelter, an education, security of person and property, freedom to move about in an environment well-maintained, a right to honor, power, liberty of cultural and individual expression.

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In the night of December 3rd, 1984, a letal gas cloud escaped from the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, and killed 3,000 people. 8,000 more died within the following two weeks.  Some 500,000 were exposed and 45,000 sustained injuries. 8,000 more at least have since died of consequences of the exposure. A Cloud Over Bhopal is the fruit of Alfred de Grazia's research and reflection on the spot, the first book written on the disaster, a few weeks after the accident.Go to: A Cloud over Bhopal

There is a constant tendency, among parties as diverse as the poorest of victims and learned American environmentalists, to reduce the Bhopal problem to a particular safety failure for which an assignment of responsibility and quick compensation are the proper resolution. To the contrary, I would say that the meaning of Bhopal needs to be preserved and enlarged. It is a jolting reminder of the gas ovens of Auschwitz, the radiation cloud of Hiroshima, the burned women shirt-makers of a New York City sweatshop whose death began a new chapter in the history of safety and better working conditions. Bhopal can be a watershed in industrial, even in world, history if the victims receive fair treatment and full justice, and if a new code of conduct comes to govern transnational business operations.

Alfred de Grazia, A Cloud Over Bhopal (1985)

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Pictures of Bhopal, January 1985

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A Cloud Over Bhopal
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^{Alfred de Grazia in his study (with R. Stern), picture of World Trade Center in the upper left hand corner.} 

^{(Sarthe, Feb. 14, 2014)}

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