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William Hartung: Stand-Up & U.S. Military War Machine

William Hartung — senior researcher at The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft — reads from his new book “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” and talks about The Big Five — the U.S. military industrial complex using American tax dollars to arm the world and make…

Interview with Delia Espinoza: “Corruption kills and it’s present in politics today”

“I’m used to dealing with and confronting criminals, delinquents. And they don’t scare me,” says Delia Espinoza Valenzuela, the Attorney General who was disbarred by those she was investigating, and an emblematic figure in the fight against corruption in Peru.…

Lula’s Brazil: COP30, Indigenous Territories, and Broken Promises.

COP30, the dark plots of “green capitalism,” the colonization of carbon credits, the false technocratic solutions to the climate crisis, the fight for the recognition of Amazonian indigenous territories, and the broken promises of the Lula government, now totally dependent…

Germán Altamirano: “Humanism Must Reach the Government”

Peru is on the verge of the 2026 General Elections, to be held on April 12, and, as in different parts of the world, presents a bleak political landscape, with high fragmentation and corruption in all branches of government. This…

Anjali Mehta: Conquering the 7 Summits & Gender-Based Violence. Pt 2

Anjali Mehta is a 31 year-old mountain climber challenging the “seven summits” to support international agencies fighting gender-based violence and to bring attention to the rights of transgender girl athletes. In the first part of this two-part BCR program, we…

Anjali Mehta: Conquering the 7 Summits & Gender-Based Violence – Part 1

Anjali Mehta is a 31 year-old mountain climber challenging the “seven summits” to support international agencies fighting gender-based violence and to bring attention to the rights of transgender girl athletes. In this first part of a two-part BCR program, we…

Obama, Biden and Trump: Changing U.S. Policy towards Africa

In this exclusive interview, Professor David Shinn, a former top U.S. diplomat and now an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs, discussed Washington’s changing policy initiatives for Africa, from Obama through Biden…

Southeast Asia’s Greatest Power, Indonesia Bets on an Economy that Combines ‘the Best of Socialism and Capitalism’

This Asian country aims to structure itself by combining the virtues of a strong state and a market economy Amid the legacy of a decade of infrastructure development and the ambition to add value to its productive base, Indonesia is…

Russia Pivots to Asian Markets with its Energy 

At the 8th Russian Energy Week (REW), a convergence of leading Russian and foreign producers and corporate executives of service companies and state officials, Russian President Vladimir Putin traditionally highlighted essential aspects of the global energy market. “Russia plans to…

A conversation about Shakespeare with echoes in the present

Interview with Dimitris Eleas about William Shakespeare What follows is what was said between Dimitris Sakislidis* and me for the bibliophilic website Bookia, on the occasion of my book When Shakespeare Was Lost, 1585–1592, published in Athens by the historic…

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