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“Children first” is a statement typical of show business politics. It sounds pretty, it lacks content, but it has the virtue that everyone understands it and assimilates it according to their own principles, values and identification with some public policy.…

The new blockbuster film on Oppenheimer has brought back the memories of the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and…

In times of elections and short-term promises, indigenous communities are raising fundamental and structural issues. As in 1946, the native peoples mobilised in a new Malón de la Paz to Buenos Aires. The arbitrary constitutional reform of Jujuy, the defence…

August is the month of the Pachamama, a celebration that forces us to reflect on the demands of the indigenous peoples of Jujuy and their valuable Third Malón for Peace, which – passing through various parts of the country to…

It is catharsis and art to paint forgiveness, to carve it in stone or cast it in metal; but more difficult than sculpting marble is to carve the spirit and, after a tragedy, to dedicate oneself to work for the…

Last Thursday I had to get up very early. I had to be at the Hongqiao train station in Shanghai at 6:30 in the morning to travel to Beijing. A light breakfast of wanton soup (Chinese ravioli) in a small…

The Emperor of Rome, in order to keep Roman citizens and slaves distracted and demobilised, applied for a long time the imperial policy of “bread and circuses for the people”. By Ollantay Itzamná Bacchanalian festivals or circuses that lasted up…

It is not only in our continent, that the people have never been more ignored. The constant abuses of the great corporate powers, with the open complicity of a neoliberal system disguised as development, have transformed international politics into a…

Last year, following an invitation from some folks who lived there, I was in Western Sahara in northwestern Africa. By Tim Pluta, World BEYOND War, Some friends of mine from the U.S. took a trip to visit me and the…

A Living Synthesis Victoria Nuland, who is the current Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States, is a living synthesis of everything that has gone horribly wrong with US foreign policy over the course of the…