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Disaster Capitalism: outsourcing violence and exploitation

In his just-released book, Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe, http://www.versobooks.com/books/1985-disaster-capitalism Antony Loewenstein offers us a superb description of the diminishing power of national governments and international organisations to exercise power in the modern world as multinational corporations consolidate…

The Papel Encyclical: Ecological Crisis and Globalization

Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si, is an urgent call for a world-wide dialogue on the defining issue of the 21st century: climatic change and the future of the planet. The Papal encyclical builds upon the tradition of Catholic thought on…

Challenge the media trivialization of the Pope’s radical message

 Save the Pope’s Radical Prophetic Message from Media Trivialization By Rabbi Michael Lerner – most recent editorial in Tikkun magazine The recent national conference of the Religion Newswriters Association in Philadelphia focused on preparing the several hundred media attendees for…

USA More Attentive to Russia’s Initiative on Syria, Says Lavrov

Moscow, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that the United States has become more attentive to the viewpoint of Russia regarding the settlement process in Syria. Lavrov told reporters that the US side has become…

Jammu & Kashmir: healthy bilateral communications essential

Pressenza speaks with our own correspondent on the Jammu side of the Jammu-Kashmir region, Shilpa Thakur, who gained an honourable mention at the Ashok Sodhi Memorials Awards for the best photography 2015, organised by the Press Club of Jammu. We…

Belo Monte Dam – noncompliant with conditions for operation

                                                               September 23, 2015 Press Contact: Astrid Puentes Riaño, co-director…

The Refugee Crisis: Made in the U.S.A.

The main cause of the refugee crisis in Europe is the U.S. wars and sanctions to orchestrate regime change in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.  The horrible images of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, Iraq,…

Greek election result analysis: The thunderous silence

These Greek national elections have probably been the quietest in recent years with an “eloquent silence” of the electorate. Everyone should have expected this though after so many surprises and twists that have taken place in Greece in recent months.…

Spanish Unity: A sacred and indissoluble marriage “by the grace of God”?

In recent days we have heard President Obama calling for Spanish Unity, as if he were acting as a matchmaker or a marriage broker, just as in the past we heard the same from General Franco. And it’s true that…

Assam and surrounding Indian states stability threatened

The Indian government is mulling the arrangement of polls for early next year in this region amidst the threat of large scale insurgencies by the United Liberation Front of Assam – ULFA and its associates among the CPI (Maoist) left…

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