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Critical Semiotics in the Age of Generative AI While the world celebrates the creativity of machines, human language is under siege. Beneath the rhetoric of efficiency, accessibility, and expanding possibilities, a silent operation is underway: governing language from outside lived…

This is the 5th series of the 5th Hanseatic League of Universities Conference By Genevieve Balance Kupang, Dumaguete City, Philippines Thank you for reading the first four series which was not only published in Pressenza but also re-published in Philippine Times:…

The Western Know-it-Alls  I have some friends who pride themselves on their intake of what they consider to be a wide spectrum of opinions and sources of information. They’re intelligent people with a genuine interest in everything from politics to…

“There will be no real energy transition as long as coal powers the present and the future remains just a promise for export.” Chile wants to become a green hydrogen powerhouse. The government says it, companies repeat it, and the…

In today’s polarized political landscape, rising leaders like Zohran Mamdani are facing fire from both extremes—the far-right and the corporate-backed centrists. Accusations of antisemitism, communism, and extremism are being hurled at him in a coordinated smear campaign. Of course, these…

The sky opened not only over Florida. It opened over my chest. I saw it live, on the screen, but with the intensity of someone witnessing more than a launch: a reaffirmation of what we are still capable of doing…

You will make your conflicts disappear when you understand them in their roots, not when you want to resolve them. (Principle of wise action, Silo Teachings) According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, the “worst-case famine scenario…

I ADDRESS YOU, MR. PRESIDENT: While Brazil steps forward with decisive sanctions, President Boric’s ever-classic “let’s be cautious” reveals itself as inaction that condemns Chile to the role of a mere spectator in the historic passage of a genocide. This…

“It doesn’t shine like gold nor smell like oil, but it’s worth more than both. And the countries that don’t control it will vanish from the new energy map.” The Resource You Can’t See, But That Powers Everything Green hydrogen…

by George Banez “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”  Says Juliet to lover Romeo whose family name betrays him as nemesis to her own.  She convinces him that…