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March arrives and a new school year begins. Many families are relieved to return to their work and domestic routines as their children start school, but it is always accompanied by the stress of the economic demands placed on them…

Supporters of the ruling party are finding themselves deplatformed as the social media giant defends the opposition Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has blocked a slew of accounts and groups as part of its “Adversarial Threat”  program. The social media…

The first steam locomotives travelled at a maximum speed of eight kilometres per hour; today’s locomotives exceed 300 kilometres per hour. By Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa Rail transport has improved a lot in less than two hundred years, but unfortunately, there is…

Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago, on February 21st, 1965, standing at the podium before a crowd in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, and his four daughters, aged 6, 4, 2 and five months,…

When a cartoonist was recently denounced and canceled for racist remarks, Jon Schwarz pointed out that his resentment at black people for not being grateful for what white people do for them echoed similar resentment over the years for the ingratitude of…

Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, on values, or on truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any one of these “domains of the spirit,” as they used to be termed. But intellectuals should also not shrink…

A “Goebbelian” campaign of enormous diffusion and great impact seduces the masses. We are observers of one of the most striking propaganda phenomena of recent times: the collective dazzle of a skillful campaign, whose purpose is to turn an emerging…

First Things First I have condemned and continue to condemn Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine in the strongest possible terms. I ask that you keep this in mind as you read on. The Impending Fall of the “Fortress” Both the…

We are not at the 1-year anniversary of the war, as the Western governments and media claim. This is the 9-year anniversary of the war.  And that makes a big difference. By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Other News, March 1, 2023 The…

One of the main issues that have characterised the various demonstrations for peace in Ukraine, which have taken place in many parts of the world over the last few days and which Pressenza has tried to report on, has been…