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A Covid Chronicle: This crazy, yet crazy-beautiful world

POEM     A grim specter has been haunting the four corners of the world. North, South, East, West, An unseen virus, like a whirlwind Has wreaked havoc on the lives of all and sundry.   Lives and livelihoods are…

Conversation with Aida Yepes, author of “My Little Eulalia”

My mother was barely a teenager when Gaitan was assassinated on April 9, 1948. His death generated a wave of political violence throughout the country. This topic and the violence that occurred, was never discussed at home. What I do…

South Korea: 2021 DMZ Art & Peace Platform aspires for a Borderless Peace Zone

The Cultural Cooperation Team of Korea hosted a successful concurrent exhibition in five venues at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) areas through its first Art & Peace Platform from September 15 to November 15, 2021. Organized by the Inter-Korean Transit Office,…

Indian MP Dev attempts to defame Saudi Arabia and Muslims

MEDIA/CINEMA     by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Indian actor, Dev alias Deepak Adhikari alias Raju, who currently is a member of Lok Sabha (General Assembly) from Trinamool Congress has made an outrageous attempt to directly insult the Kingdom of Saudi…

#They will not silence us

No democratic system is sustainable without real freedom of expression. Few actions arouse greater fear in political and economic circles than the exercise of critical, independent, ethical and uncompromising journalism. This is why the visceral reactions of certain governments mired…

Madeleine John: “Reconciliation is a choice”.

Madeleine John, Peruvian, has been a member of the Humanist Movement since she was very young. Today, from Silo’s Message, she summarises her activism by saying: “The guiding thread of my life has been to try to contribute to a…

Three campaigns against gender-based violence produced in Argentina go viral, reaching several continents

“Amigo se cuenta”, “Yo me ocupo” and “Sin mochilas” are three campaigns strategically designed by Spotlight, a joint initiative of the European Union, to build societies that respect and empower women, taking into account the different aspects that converge in…

Cambio

16 November 2021. El Espectador The strength of independent journalism will always be necessary; there is no day propitious for servility and no right time for falsehood. And in certain regimes such as the current one – in which a…

Old and new social paradigms

Information and communication technologies are leading society into a new paradigm of coexistence, where the virtual is gaining ground every day in all daily activities, including science, politics, e-commerce, tele-education and all the systems of mass persuasion never seen before.…

Jailed US journalist Danny Fenster freed and deported from Myanmar

Danny Fenster, the American journalist, was released on Monday and deported out of the southeast Asian country. Danny Fenster is on a flight out of Myanmar, said the authority of a digital media outlet named Frontier Myanmar, where he is…

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