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From Europe to Brussels: say no to the Pact on Migration and Asylum!

Resistance organises against inhumane migration laws. On 10 April 2024, many people followed the call to demonstrate in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. We resist together against the European migration and asylum policy! On 10 April, the European…

Husserl, the father of phenomenology, turns 165

Edmund Husserl was born on 8 April 1859 in Prostějov, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now in the Czech Republic. Husserl is known as the founder of phenomenology, a philosophical trend that seeks to study and describe the…

‘A Massive Win for All Generations’: European Human Rights Court Rules Switzerland Violated Rights With Climate Inaction

In a historic ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has found that Switzerland’s inadequate efforts to tackle climate change violated the human rights of its country’s citizens, represented by more than 2,000 older Swiss women. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The landmark decision…

The Decline of Extreme Poverty

One of the foremost accomplishments of the industrial age is the “immense progress against extreme poverty.” “Extreme poverty” is defined by the World Bank as a person living on less than $2.15 per day using 2017 prices. This figure has…

April 15: NYC Tax Day Protest to call for an end to genocide and endless war

Divesting from Genocide & US Militarism: “War Tax Resisters” Protest with Their Money War tax resisters are taking to the streets to call for an end to genocide and endless war. They are divesting from the taxes that fund war…

Uncharted Territory Dead Ahead

When America’s leading authority on the climate system Gavin Schmidt of NASA throws his hands up in the air, exclaiming, we’ve got a knowledge gap for the first time since satellites started tuning into the planet’s climate system, what does…

Yanis Varoufakis: The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress

The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style). Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words: Friends,…

In times of rupture, building the integration of peoples.

Several events of related significance have marked the political landscape of Latin America and the Caribbean in recent days. First, the illegal armed invasion of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador to kidnap former vice-president Jorge Glas, who had requested political…

Popular pharmacies on trial

A few months ago, we published an interview with the mayor of Recoleta, Santiago de Chile, Daniel Jadue. In November this year, he will end his third and final term in office, having implemented social programs with a broad impact,…

High-level online conference of the Schiller Institute Saturday, April 13, 2024

Online Conference: April 13, 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (EDT) Register In October 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy recognized the urgent need for a diplomatic agreement with the Soviet Union so directly and immediately – a failure in those…

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