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Jeffrey Sachs: A Negotiated End to Fighting in Ukraine Is the Only Real Way to End the Bloodshed

With the war in Ukraine now in its 10th month, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden have both expressed openness to peace talks to end the fighting, as have leaders in France, Germany and elsewhere. This comes…

New legislative elections in Tunisia after a year with no parliament

After more than a year with no parliament, Tunisia is finally having its new legislative elections for new parliamentary representatives this December 17. These elections are happening unprecedentedly because of the Tunisian president’s decision of freezing the 2019 elected parliament…

Spain: No appointments, no rights

Applicants for international protection denounce that they find themselves without the right to be so, as Spain has failed to fulfil its obligation to protect them by not facilitating access to the application for such protection. For this reason, on…

New York Times Strike: From Reporters to Rabble-Rousers

Workers at the “newspaper of record” stopped working to demand better pay and labor rights—but only for a day. What would happen if they actually flexed their power? By Sonali Kolhatkar Strike activity in the United States appears to have reached…

Face 2 Face with Diane Sare

On this show, we speak with Diane Sare, an anti-war activist and the only candidate against nuclear weapons, running for U.S. Senate in New York State.  She is looking to break the Political duopoly in the US and push back…

Ukraine War Evolves: Who Will Awaken Rip Van Winkle?

Disdaining Diplomacy, Seeking Victory Prefatory Note: This is the third iteration of an essay on the evolution of the Ukraine War, the earlier two versions published online in Transcend Media Service (TMS) and CounterPunch. The essential argument remains: war-mongering geopolitics…

Counter-coup: The anti-democratic subversion of the right-wing in Latin America resumes

While millions of eyes – including this reporter’s – devour the colourful incidents of the circus staged by the Qatari dynastic monarchy in collusion with FIFA, other events, perhaps much more relevant to the lives of the people, continue to…

Acción Humanista: Constituent Agreement must strengthen democracy

Public statement on the Constituent Agreement At a time when the bases of a new constituent process are being discussed, for humanists it is very important to reaffirm the democratic principle as the guiding principle to promote any agreement for…

RSS continues to engage new blood: Mohan Bhagwat

Guwahati: The nation should be the priority for everyone. Leaving aside all differences, we have to work tirelessly for the welfare of the nation, thus said the chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Sarsanghchalak, Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, while addressing a conclave…

Duterte’s fear of ICC probe shows guilt

Pressenza journalist Perfecto Caparas sought former senator Leila de Lima’s views on the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor’s investigation into the situation in the Philippines involving alleged crimes against humanity committed during former president Rodrigo Duterte’s reign of…

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