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HISTORY LIVE

This page represents a continuation of the "History" page of this website. This page treats current events as live history, or it treats current events as history in the making. It does so by examining daily human life as captured by a very small sample of the world's newspapers.

A few of these current events, undoubtedly, will be elevated to events of great historical significance. The vast majority of these current events will be completely forgotten or will be swept into the trash bin of history, so to speak.

248 Countries and Territories from A to Z with Photo:

Countries



Credit for Flags, Maps, and Photos: The World Factbook



CHILDREN KNOW

What happens when national leaders become obsessed with ego tripping and power tripping? People begin to kill one another is what happens. At the present point in human history, there is more than enough land mass on Earth to accommodate everyone. There is no excuse for humans to be slaughtering one another over land. While disputes and disagreements over land might not be avoidable, for humans to go to the extreme of slaughtering one another over land, well, it is senseless and inexcusable. Less drastic solutions exist to resolve these land disputes and disagreements even if these solutions require binding arbitration from the international community. How silly would it be for humans to destroy the world from what began as a simple dispute over land but somehow managed to escalate into a nuclear confrontation? If humans were to one day choose such an irrational path, then they would be betraying their "wise" designation.

Listen (Marvin Gaye, What's Going On)

To be sure, if past atrocious human conduct over land is to serve as an indicator, then it is not a good sign of things to come if the projected freshwater crisis should become reality. Being an optimist, I think that the technology will emerge to generate ample quantities of freshwater for all humans to survive long before the projected freshwater crisis becomes reality.

Watch Future of Water)

Who suffers the most when adults bicker? Who suffers the most when nations cannot seem to resolve their disputes peacefully? It is the innocent ones who suffer the most. It is the children who suffer the most. It is the children who become contaminated by the hatred and violence that they learn firsthand from adults. Children notice and internalize what's going on around them. Children know.

Listen (Marvin Gaye, Save The Children)



ONE SPECIES, ONE EARTH

In this day and age of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, the stakes for humankind are quite high, that is, if nations do not learn how to peacefully resolve their differences. The whole of life on Earth is what's at stake if nations, at some future point in time, should permit their disputes to spiral out of control.

To this day, there is little doubt about it: National military might confers to a nation considerable respect, stature, and influence on the world's stage. Instead of diplomacy, in the final analysis, it does seem as if the nations with the biggest guns (that is, with the greatest military might) do seem to carry the day on issues of international importance. Unlike, say, a national commander-in-chief, there exists no equivalent commander-in-chief at the UN with a military force under his or her control. At the same time, national leaders should not lose sight of the fact that it is now 2014 (that is, a period in time where numerous nuclear bombs exist) and not 1944 (that is, a period in time before any nuclear bombs existed). National leaders should temper their behavior responsibly in accordance with these new realities. Might does not necessarily make right (such as the right of one or two national egomaniacs to come along one day and destroy all life on Earth by unleashing nuclear weapons upon the world). I do not see anything right about a leader using his or her military might to push the world to the brink of nuclear war. A lot has changed in the world since 1944. The advent of nuclear bombs is one of those very important changes.

To be sure, the United Nations (UN) was created in 1945 to help prevent the outbreak of (nuclear) World War III. When it comes to fostering world peace, one of the main reasons why the United Nations is not as decisive and effective as it could be is this: The UN only possesses limited and tenuous enforcement powers. No single entity at the UN is empowered to or is in charge of enforcing resolutions promulgated by the UN's Security Council. Before global enforcement action is taken, Security Council resolutions require unanimous consent by its five permanent members (that is, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and China). In the UN forum, often there is a failure to take action on peace-related issues of global importance because, for various geopolitical and historical reasons, one of the five permanent members usually either would outright veto the resolution or would impede or not sternly and wholeheartedly support international enforcement of a given resolution. Another reason why the United Nations is not as effective as it could be is this: No nation wants to be viewed neither as yielding too much of its national sovereignty or its national autonomy nor yielding too many of its national prerogatives to the control of the United Nations.

To become more effective and decisive, perhaps the Security Council's unanimous consent rule should be amended. Most importantly, when a Security Council resolution is adopted, all nations must agree to abide by the resolution even those nations who oppose a given resolution but also lost on a vote that led to passage of a given resolution. Global crises require global solutions. Given the very real prospect that a nuclear war could lead to the destruction of life on Earth, then you had better recognize that humans perpetually must be on guard and vigilant of world politics. Every living thing on Earth is at peril by the existence of these extinction-inducing nuclear weapons.

It is conceivable that new problems could be created by changes in the way in which the United Nations' Security Council conducts its business. One possible problem would be that nations suddenly might decide to withdraw their memberships from—and suddenly might decide to withdraw their financial support for—the United Nations because these nations do not wish to be bound by certain Security Council resolutions.

Another possible problem is this: Adoption and enforcement of some controversial or unpopular Security Council resolutions might lead to more tensions and confrontations between nations instead of realizing the UN's goal of making the world a less dangerous place for humans to exist. That is to say, if most nations agree that binding arbitration is the preferred way to cope with a given international issue, then the United Nations suddenly becomes less of a forum to air international grievances and more of a forum to dispense international redress of grievances. The accused nation might not take too kindly to the proposed remedy. Instead of abiding by United Nations decisions, some nations might seek to vehemently and militarily oppose any United Nations attempts at enforcing its resolutions. On the other hand, if, say, 200 nations (that is, UN members) express support for a given course of Security Council action and 1 nation opposes the action, obviously, common sense dictates that the 200 nations should prevail and the 1 nation should comply.

Watch [The United Nations: Then and Now (Sir Brian Urquhart)]


In very, very, very recent history, humans already have witnessed World War II and Cold War I. Rhetorically speaking, who needs Cold War II not even to contemplate World War III? Nobody does! Cold War II would be akin to humans moving backwards instead of forwards. Humans must never forget about the rise of Adolf Hitler and how his megalomaniacal conduct plunged the world into war. Ten of millions of humans ended up dying because Adolf Hitler couldn't seem to keep his ego in check.

Watch (Earth, Wind & Fire, I've Had Enough)




Watch (The Beatles, We Can Work It Out)


Listen (The Pointer Sisters, Yes, We Can Can)




Watch (Ronnie Laws, There's A Way)




Watch (Labelle, What Can I Do For You?)

I think that, with the passage of time, the world continues to change for the better. It seems to me that positivity is on the rise. I think that humans are on the verge of undergoing and realizing a New Age of Enlightenment, and all nations are welcome to participate in it. For, as the saying goes, the more, the merrier.

Humans must not overlook or forget a very important fact of life: Despite their political, economic, social, cultural, racial, and religious differences, they remain one species here on marvelously diverse planet Earth. Are humans wise enough to overcome and transcend their differences? I think that they are.

Being the dominant life form on Earth, humans owe it to the other life forms to behave responsibly. Humans owe it to the other life forms—and they owe it to future generations of humans—to manage the Earth wisely.



Listen (Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, We Are One)



HAPPINESS FOR ALL

The next bloc of songs/videos represents a brief respite or a brief refrain from this human preoccupation with nations grabbing land, or more accurately, a brief respite from this quest by nations to wield global power. The time is come for perpetual joy and happiness for all to reign on Earth. Don't you agree?

Listen (Teddy Pendergrass, Get Down, Get Funky)



Listen (James Brown, Get Up Offa That Thing)



Listen (KC & the Sunshine Band, [Shake, Shake, Shake] Shake Your Booty)

Listen (Marvin Gaye, Got To Give It Up)



Watch (Earth, Wind & Fire, Let's Groove)




Watch (Michael Jackson, Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough)




Watch (Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch, Good Vibrations)




Watch (Mary J. Blige, Family Affair)




Watch (Chris Brown, Yeah 3x)




Watch (The Black Eyed Peas, Imma Be)




Watch (Captain EO Full Feature Starring: Michael Jackson)




HISTORY LIVE: CURRENT EVENTS

Navigation for Country/Territory Links Below:

List of 248 Countries and Territories from A to Z with Current Events:
  1. Afghanistan
  2. Aland
  3. Albania
  4. Algeria
  5. American Samoa
  6. Andorra
  7. Angola
  8. Anguilla
  9. Antarctica
  10. Antigua and Barbuda
  11. Argentina
  12. Armenia
  13. Aruba
  14. Australia
  15. Austria
  16. Azerbaijan
  17. Bahamas
  18. Bahrain
  19. Bangladesh
  20. Barbados
  21. Belarus
  22. Belgium
  23. Belize
  24. Benin
  25. Bermuda
  26. Bhutan
  27. Bolivia
  28. Bonaire
  29. Bosnia and Herzegovina
  30. Botswana
  31. Bouvet Island
  32. Brazil
  33. British Indian Ocean Territory
  34. British Virgin Islands
  35. Brunei
  36. Bulgaria
  37. Burkina Faso
  38. Burundi
  39. Cambodia
  40. Cameroon
  41. Canada
  42. Cape Verde
  43. Cayman Islands
  44. Central African Republic
  45. Chad
  46. Chile
  47. China
  48. Christmas Island
  49. Cocos [Keeling] Islands
  50. Colombia
  51. Comoros
  52. Cook Islands
  53. Costa Rica
  54. Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
  55. Croatia
  56. Cuba
  57. Curacao
  58. Cyprus
  59. Czechia
  60. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  61. Denmark
  62. Djibouti
  63. Dominica
  64. Dominican Republic
  65. Ecuador
  66. Egypt
  67. El Salvador
  68. Equatorial Guinea
  69. Eritrea
  70. Estonia
  71. Ethiopia
  72. Falkland Islands
  73. Faroe Islands
  74. Fiji
  75. Finland
  76. France
  77. French Guiana
  78. French Polynesia
  79. Gabon
  80. Gambia
  81. Georgia
  82. Germany
  83. Ghana
  84. Gibraltar
  85. Greece
  86. Greenland
  87. Grenada
  88. Guam
  89. Guatemala
  90. Guernsey
  91. Guinea
  92. Guinea-Bissau
  93. Guyana
  94. Haiti
  95. Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  96. Honduras
  97. Hong Kong
  98. Hungary
  99. Iceland
  100. India
  101. Indonesia
  102. Iran
  103. Iraq
  104. Ireland
  105. Isle of Man
  106. Israel
  107. Italy
  108. Jamaica
  109. Japan
  110. Jersey
  111. Jordan
  112. Kazakhstan
  113. Kenya
  114. Kiribati
  115. Kosovo
  116. Kuwait
  117. Kyrgyzstan
  118. Laos
  119. Latvia
  120. Lebanon
  121. Lesotho
  122. Liberia
  123. Libya
  124. Liechtenstein
  125. Lithuania
  126. Luxembourg
  127. Macao
  128. Macedonia
  129. Madagascar
  130. Malawi
  131. Malaysia
  132. Maldives
  133. Mali
  134. Malta
  135. Marshall Islands
  136. Mauritania
  137. Mauritius
  138. Mayotte
  139. Mexico
  140. Micronesia
  141. Moldova
  142. Monaco
  143. Mongolia
  144. Montenegro
  145. Montserrat
  146. Morocco
  147. Mozambique
  148. Myanmar (Burma)
  149. Namibia
  150. Nauru
  151. Nepal
  152. Netherlands
  153. New Caledonia
  154. New Zealand
  155. Nicaragua
  156. Niger
  157. Nigeria
  158. Niue
  159. Norfolk Island
  160. North Korea
  161. Northern Mariana Islands
  162. Norway
  163. Oman
  164. Pakistan
  165. Palau
  166. Palestine (Gaza Strip)
  167. Palestine (West Bank)
  168. Panama
  169. Papua New Guinea
  170. Paraguay
  171. Peru
  172. Philippines
  173. Pitcairn Islands
  174. Poland
  175. Portugal
  176. Puerto Rico
  177. Qatar
  178. Republic of the Congo
  179. Reunion
  180. Romania
  181. Russia
  182. Rwanda
  183. Saint Barthelemy
  184. Saint Helena
  185. Saint Kitts and Nevis
  186. Saint Lucia
  187. Saint Martin
  188. Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  189. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  190. Samoa
  191. San Marino
  192. Sao Tome and Principe
  193. Saudi Arabia
  194. Senegal
  195. Serbia
  196. Seychelles
  197. Sierra Leone
  198. Singapore
  199. Sint Maarten
  200. Slovakia
  201. Slovenia
  202. Solomon Islands
  203. Somalia
  204. South Africa
  205. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  206. South Korea
  207. South Sudan
  208. Spain
  209. Sri Lanka
  210. Sudan
  211. Suriname
  212. Svalbard and Jan Mayen
  213. Swaziland
  214. Sweden
  215. Switzerland
  216. Syria
  217. Taiwan
  218. Tajikistan
  219. Tanzania
  220. Thailand
  221. Timor Leste (East Timor)
  222. Togo
  223. Tokelau
  224. Tonga
  225. Trinidad and Tobago
  226. Tunisia
  227. Turkey
  228. Turkmenistan
  229. Turks and Caicos Islands
  230. Tuvalu
  231. U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
  232. Uganda
  233. Ukraine
  234. United Arab Emirates
  235. United Kingdom
  236. United States
  237. Uruguay
  238. Uzbekistan
  239. Vanuatu
  240. Vatican City
  241. Venezuela
  242. Vietnam
  243. Virgin Islands
  244. Wallis and Futuna
  245. Western Sahara
  246. Yemen
  247. Zambia
  248. Zimbabwe



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