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Climate Change Wows the Polls

Australia’s federal election on May 18th turned left with a new power broker named climate change. Major networks refer to the election as: “Australia’s Climate Election,” with newly elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vowing to turn Australia into a “renewable…

Arming teachers – an effective security measure or a false sense of security?

In the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, some elected officials are making calls anew for teachers to be armed and trained to use firearms to protect the nation’s schools. To shine light on the matter, The Conversation reached out…

Chile’s New Constitution: The best constitutions I have read in a long time, if ever.

I just used Google Translate to translate the constitution draft from Spanish to English (which worked great) and took two hours to browse through it. I had absolutely no idea what I was going to find in it. To make…

Voting with social intelligence

Pilate’s legacy or post-pandemic effect, hand-washing has become a general way out. We arrived at this last week navigating between tweets and speeches of false champions of the good, and the commandments of politics became adjustable to the convenience of…

Western leaders have many complexes – Lavrov

Their neocolonialist policies are driven by delusions of grandeur and a sense of entitlement, Russia’s top diplomat tells RT Western leaders believe themselves to be exceptional and are driven by delusions of grandeur and irrational fears, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey…

Coexistence means taking charge of conflicts

Acts of violence in school contexts have gained public relevance through the media and social networks. Some say that today we are seeing behaviour that was normalised and made invisible, others attribute it to a lack of socialisation as a…

What’s Really Happening In Ukraine: Russia Is Winning

The NY Times Suggests That “Winning” Might Not Be A Realistic Aim For Ukraine A little less than a week ago the editorial board of the New York Times posted an article that essentially calls for Ukraine and US-NATO forces…

Indigenous issues in the draft constitutional bill: key aspects for an informed debate

After almost a year of intense work, the Constitutional Convention has just presented the first draft of the new constitution. In the coming weeks, it will now be up to the Convention to draw up the final draft, which will…

The end does not justify the means, and some means have unjustifiable ends

Media objectives, whether for financial gain or political influence, cannot be, or should not be, above decency, truth and justice. By Iñaki Chavez Last April, Noticias Caracol published a false story that the media outlet itself described as an “error…

The indigenous decolonial project

Public opinion polls show a progressive increase in the rejection of the project for a new Chilean Constitution. According to analysts, what favours rejection is the gap between what the constituents have drafted and what Chileans want. According to the…

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