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Rosalía. LUX. The Unexpected Return of the Feminine Mystic

Rosalía has just ascended to the altar of light with her lates album “LUX”, a release that once again places her at the centre of cultural debate. Her new album offers a gaze toward feminine mysticism, casting light on the…

The financial handover of Boric to the next government of Chile: Debunking myths of “Blatant Theft” and Bankruptcy through sovereign bonds

Amid electoral polarization, the most reactionary sectors of the traditional right and the far right accuse the government of Gabriel Boric of having “robbed blatantly,” leaving the country on the brink of bankruptcy due to irresponsible use of sovereign bonds,…

Myanmar’s sham elections, the Civil Disobedience Movement, and the Government of National Unity

On December 29, elections will begin in Myanmar – the Burmese call them sham elections —which will be held until January 11, 2026, with a subsequent phase. Meanwhile, the junta’s army has been heavily bombing villages in the areas occupied…

Towards Piracy 2.0

The world is not entering a grey zone of international law. It is leaving it. What is taking shape is not an anomaly, nor a “moment of tension,” nor an exception justified by geopolitical circumstances: it is the normalization of…

Caning The Protesting Farmers: How Justifiable Is It To Suppress Their Voice?

On the occasion of the Human Rights Day celebration, the Indian President, Smt. Droupadi Murmu said, “There is no peace without justice and there is no justice without peace”. But on the other hand, the Rajasthan government was finding a…

It is not the far-right; it is the parastate.

In a previous article referring to the Cultural Battle, we spoke of the growth of the extreme right in the world and its hegemonic project in the context of the struggle between factions, and we said that behind both the…

America Has To Make a Choice

The Choice Between Two Systems of Governance Considering the unsteady quality of most corporate, ie: “mainstream” journalism these days, many people in the Collective West, in the US, Australia, Canada and much of Europe, aren’t aware of the immense changes…

The Post–Cold War Era and the Rise of the Illiberal Order: An Essay on Hegemonic Decline and Democratic Erosion

From the “end of history” to the beginning of a new contradiction. Or how a Pinochet supporter managed to captivate an electorate he does not represent. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in…

The Obsolete Engine: How Pakistan’s Profit-Driven Education System is Failing Our Future

In the heart of Pakistan’s societal crisis lies an education system running on fumes. It is a system profoundly misaligned with our cultural values, utterly unfit for the challenges of the 21st century, and obsessively modelled on the industrial paradigms…

Gen Z and the bankruptcy of “Company-Store Democracy”*: From nitrate tokens to a generational verdict

Across the arid pampas of Tarapacá and Antofagasta, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chilean nitrate mining camps erected a system of total domination that went far beyond ordinary labor exploitation. Thousands of workers—Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians, Croatians, Italians—lived…

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