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NATO in the Amazon: Petro Plays with Fire

NATO recently expanded to Sweden and Finland, has been de facto incorporated in Ukraine, and may extend to Georgia. Now, NATO’s entry into the Amazon is in the works under the aegis of newly elected President Gustavo Petro of Colombia.…

Humanising work in the age of “digital slavery”.

One of the subjects I have been researching as a sociologist is work in the current post-modern era and information technologies. Remote” work also imposes its own conditions, and we are witnessing a kind of new industrial revolution, where oppression…

Rebel against the “old World Order” the future is now !

The “new order” according to Chrystia Freeland – Canadian Minister of Finance  On Tuesday October 11, Canadian Minister Chrystia Freeland was addressing a talk to a modest-sized crowd in Washington, but really her audience was the top-level international economic leaders…

The little wooden horse

The marvellous wooden rocking horse, which survived for centuries and became the symbol of protected childhood, did not make it beyond the frontier of the twentieth century. Advances in technology also have their downsides. They sometimes present that dark, cheap…

Argentina: Court unconstitutionally conditioned the other branches of government

The highest court as a “counter-majoritarian” power that has not been elected by the people should not condition what “constitutionally the democratic powers” -legislative and executive- decide, says the author of this article. He points out that both the president…

Education: Putting lessons learned in pandemics into practice

There are more than five million students in primary and secondary education in more than ten thousand educational establishments in the country. The diversity is gigantic and no other state institution has the territorial coverage that education has. It is…

The Vatican, authoritarianism and anti-Semitism (III)

After the loss of the Papal States in 1870, the Vatican intensified its conservative, intolerant and anti-Semitic positions. This was expressed fundamentally in the biweekly, semi-official Vatican magazine La Civilta Cattolica, directed by Jesuits, which from 1880 to 1938 published,…

White-West Museums

I have to thank John Oliver for his show “Last Week Tonight” on museums. It’s a lively way to capture the deep cultural and historical background of the White-West. In half an hour, Oliver captured the White-West’s determination to own…

Negociate Peace for Ukraine!

Why were the last federal politicians to take the Russian nuclear threat seriously were Liberal Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Progressive Conservative Douglas Roche? Why COP27, after years of blockage, will finally consider military environmental damage? Why did Elizabeth May’s pathetic…

We are not indifferent. We are people who cultivate good living: voting for Lula makes a difference!

More than an option, voting for Lula is becoming a historical necessity. By Adriana Doyle Portugal and Eduardo Alves Gramsci, a man committed to life and to the best conditions for human existence, once said that he “hated the indifferent”.…

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