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Sorsoganon Filmmaker wins Best Short Film in the Empowered Bicolana Filmmaking Contest

FILM A filmmaker and visual artist from Sorsogon province, Philippines bagged First Place in a film competition organized by Philippine Information Agency Region 5. Robert Marticio, who is a member of the Kurit-Lagting Art Collective and the Concerned Artists of…

The True Adventure of a 19-year-old North American Fighting in the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro

Book Review: Wild Green Oranges, by Bob Baldock. (Clapton Press, London, 2021, 238 pages) By Roger D. Harris Wild Green Oranges describes how author Bob Baldock dropped out of college and was at loose ends in 1958. Then he became…

War and Refugees – From Bangladesh to Ukraine (And Corporate Media’s Hypocrisy)

How many wars have been fought in the world from March 1971 to December – from the time of Bangladesh’s bloody liberation war to March 2022, and how many millions of innocent people have had to leave their homeland and…

Humanists Interconnected: Why Their Stories Matter

On a school trip to Central Italy in April 2014, I met Italian film director Paolo Bianchini, who together with Paola Rota, create and produce artistic, meaningful films full of social value with their enterprise, Alveare Cinema. These films of…

India celebrates arrival of spring with Holi festival

After two years of interruption due to a health emergency, one of India’s main popular festivals, Holi, which marks the seasonal change and the arrival of spring, is being celebrated these days. Known as the festival of colours, and sometimes…

Street Concert for Peace in Ukraine and a Friday Candlelight Vigil in Seoul, South Korea

Koreans are organizing various events in support of Ukraine’s peace and showing solidarity with the Ukrainian people who live here. It’s said that about 3,800 Ukrainians citizens are residing in Korea for different reasons. I have attended two similar events…

Time to reinvent our guiding words

Our guiding words, those powerful words that guide us, direct us, motivate us, matter a lot. Spoken words are not ethereal entities that are blown away by the wind, and even words imagined without being spoken have profound effects on…

International Debate on the notion of Nation-State: Canary Islands and Kabylia

LIVE SHOW: March 26, 2022 at 12p.m (NY Time) FACEBOOK – YOUTUBE Topics: THE NATION-STATE IN CURRENT POLITICS AND GEOPOLITICS. REGIME OF AUTHORITY, IDEOLOGY, AND REPRESSION Moderators: Rabah Arkam Human rights activist, defender of Kabyle identity and contributor with Pressenza…

Face 2 Face Ibrahim Ali

LIVE SHOW – Thursday, March 17th at 12:30 PM (EST/EDT) On this show, we speak with  Ibrahim Ali about his book The Black Celts – The African Substratum Theory. This book provides a coup de grace or final blow to the fake…

The communication war was never cold

“It is easier to deceive people than to convince them that they have been deceived” Mark Twain We are not so innocent anymore. I don’t know at what point we lost our naivety, but what is clear is that we…

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