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Why More Upstream Care Ethics Are Badly Needed

The time has come for ethics of care. In the plural. Reverberating through revivals of venerable old spiritual caring traditions. Reverberating through adoptions of benevolent new innovative caring practices. My story starts in Sweden in the late 1980s. A young…

Stop Biden from Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions to shore up Ukraine’s slow counter-offensive against Russian troops. By Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd On Friday, 19…

Guatemala between electoral political limbo and US progressivism

A week after the general elections, following the preliminary announcement of the suspension of the results made by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), nobody knows who the winners of the recent elections in Guatemala are or will be. By Ollantay…

In Chile the elite only pay fines for abuse and crime

The governing alliance in Chile today is dealing with “damage control”, after it was revealed in the press that influence peddling was used to financially feed, with direct and millionaire flows, NGOs administered by cadres of Giorgio Jackson’s party, “Revolución…

Huenchumilla presents project for indigenous peoples to participate in lithium exploitation

“The idea is that these same groups, who have been isolated from this development strategy and have even been affected by the extractive processes, go from being marginalised to being protagonists,” said the DC senator. By Carolina Ceballos Francisco Huenchumilla,…

China’s Belt and Road: ten years of shared success

In recent years, China’s Belt and Road project has captured global attention as an ambitious initiative that seeks to promote economic connectivity and international cooperation. Also known as the New Silk Road, this project aims to revive ancient trade routes…

Cultural and national identity; who we are, where we come from and where we are going; we are an awakening nation

The Peruvian nation is a historical process prior to the Peruvian state. It is an unfinished cultural historical synthesis, dislocated from a state that neither articulates nor benefits national development. The winds of a coming national and cultural awakening are…

To be a pacifist in Ukraine, the toughest job: They call me a traitor

Yurii Sheliazenko , leader of the Nonviolent Movement in Kiev speaks: “I risk my life, but I am not intimidated by warmongers. Putin and Zelensky remain supreme peace deniers and seek victory on the ground. They lack imagination in building…

“Mega-mining has proven to be a failure throughout Argentina”.

The multinational Pan American Silver, which has accumulated complaints in four Latin American countries, acquired the MARA mining project in Catamarca. Broad rejection by the residents of Andalgalá, a town that has known the impacts of mega-mining since the 1990s,…

I am a blind person who feels a lot of love and force: a testimony of life

“Your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness.” My name is Antonia. I was 26 years old, I was reading at the time when I rubbed my eye and I resumed reading and suddenly I…

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