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2021 IUCN Report Says Pygmy Tarsiers (Once Believed Extinct) Are Decreasing in Number

The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) has ranked the pygmy tarsiers from the mountains of the Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, as endangered, and their adult numbers are decreasing due to continued human intrusion into…

Heartwarming Testimony for this Days! – Letter to Silo

Dear Mario; Antonio informed me that you have departed from this world, now we live in different spheres, but I feel that our spiritual and moral contact, our friendship and sympathy do not disappear and can never disappear. You and…

Salamat, Silo

PERSONAL ESSAY         May 4, 1969, more than 50 years ago, Silo gave his first public speech to some few hundred people high up in the Andes Mountains near Mount Aconcagua, entitled the Healing of Suffering. It…

In the name of the mother: the fight over naming politics in Central Asia

Giving a mother’s or a father’s name to children at birth has become a battleground for activists in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan Uprooting naming conventions is no easy task, but activists in Central Asia, especially women and LGBTQI+ people, are defying…

Future Challenges in Health

The future has always been an unknown that is difficult to unravel and has generated different feelings depending on the present state of those who wonder about it. By Jorge Pompei Thus, with regard to health, some see an irreversible…

Face 2 Face with Michael Beer

On this show we are speaking with Michael Beer about his new book Civil Resistance Tactics in the 21st Century, published by the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict. Michael is the director of the organization Nonviolence International, who advocates for…

The Roots of Violence – episode 1 – Iran 1952 to 2001

Welcome to the first in what we hope will be a series of interviews in which we look at the Middle East region and try to understand better what is going on there. The view from the West is that…

Homage to Professor Lewis Warsh

LITERARY         by Jhon Sanchez Unlike John Casquarelli, my dear friend and classmate of the MFA program, I don’t like taking pictures very much. I don’t even use my phone camera and rarely take selfies. But I…

Homage to Lewis Warsh: Collage Prose Poems

LITERARY         by Andrea Clark Libin       About the Poet:  Andrea Clark Libin is a Brooklyn-based writer, teacher, and the author & artist of the novella, Orphan of the Moon—Notebook of a Girl in a Moscow…

Homage to Lewis Warsh: So Long

Literary         by Daniel Owen saying goodbye is always one way to keep the past from vanishing completely. you can say it over and over again, while you still can. what can be said anyway about how…

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