Roger Kotila: Time for a Federal World Government?
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In light of existential threats such as thermonuclear war, Democratic World Federalist Roger Kotila explains the need for a world government in the form of a constitutional world federation. He explains the history of the movement, why the League of Nations and the United Nations are not proper forms of global government, and the road ahead.
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About Roger Kotila
Dr. Roger Kotila is a psychologist and peace activist. Receiving a Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1969, he has worked in community mental health, for the State of California, and in private practice. Dr. Kotila served his clinical internship on a Public Health Fellowship at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital in conjunction with Stanford University’s Dept. of Psychiatry. He has been a radio producer (Earthstar Radio, San Francisco), organized and worked with the homeless, and is an advocate/activist in the nonviolent protest movement for safe energy, human rights, and peaceful solutions. Roger is US Vice President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association whose mission is to build a parallel world body to the United Nations, an emerging Earth Federation with a Provisional World Parliament under the Earth Constitution.
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| 0:00.0 | On this edition of Geopolitics and Empire, we are joined by Dr. Roger Cotilla, who is a retired |
| 0:06.8 | psychologist, peace activist, president of the Democratic World Federalists, and vice president |
| 0:12.5 | of the World Constitution and Parliament Association. We'll be discussing all things world |
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| 1:01.2 | All right, on to our interview with Dr. Kotilla. |
| 1:03.8 | You know, I'm a psychologist in my background. |
| 1:06.4 | I'm retired from official psychology, although I still am very active. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm probably more busy now than I've ever been. |
| 1:14.9 | But I always like to ask people why you got involved in this kind of endeavor anyway. |
| 1:21.6 | What motivates you? |
| 1:23.7 | I ask people, activists, I say, well, what eats, what eats away at your mind at night? |
| 1:32.0 | That keeps bothering you. |
| 1:33.5 | That, what's the motivation? |
| 1:36.2 | So that's my question to you, why you even bother with this kind of stuff? |
| 1:40.9 | I like the truth, right? |
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