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Around this time in January 2001, the idea of enabling the collaborative edition of the encyclopedia that would end up being created under the name of Wikipedia a few days later was launched. The immediate predecessor of Wikipedia was Nupedia,…

Yakov Rabkin, Professor Emeritus, Université de Montréal Samir Saul, Professor of History, Université de Montréal The war in the Ukraine has revived Western plans of dismembering Russia and, in the words of the promoters of this idea, to complete the…

The Los Angeles Times reports that “the audacious gamble by the U.S. government to…restore democracy” suffered a “spectacular failure” in Venezuela. What this State Department stenographer masquerading as a newspaper considers a “democratic” setback consisted of failing to impose unknown…

This interview with Aminata Dramane Traoré was first published Nov. 30 in the German newspaper junge Welt (jW). Traoré is an author, human rights activist and former Minister of Culture in Mali. She discusses the chaos caused by Western states…

UN representative calls on governments to implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and end “once and for all arbitrary detentions”. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on all governments of the world to grant amnesty, pardon or…

It’s part of a field of work that is expanding the use of archaeological techniques into environments where they were previously thought to be unusable. The Temple Culture of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean began nearly 6,000 years ago…

La Paz, 04 January 2023 (ABI) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced to his Bolivian counterpart, Luis Arce Catacora, that his country will once again join the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), from which…

In the closing years of the 1940s, when World War II had ended and its winners were reorganizing human life on planet earth, many feared nuclear war.  The delegates who met at San Francisco and founded the United Nations intended…

Zero Waste for Zero Emissions The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific is using the strength of the movement to celebrate International Zero Waste Month this January. Leveraging its wide international network, GAIA boldly takes the lead to…

Since the corona crisis, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have become the centre of attention of a wide range of conspiracy theories. Most of these “news” are so one-sided, poorly sourced or not sourced at all, and…