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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…

COP15 communities and indigenous peoples must be at the center of discussions and negotiations and not “big money”

After a week of mostly glacial deliberations, are COP15 negotiators any closer to reaching agreement on a global plan to reverse biodiversity loss? According to World Wide Fund (WWW) officials, what happened in week one is not ambitious enough to…

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…

Detained ex-senator vows to continue the fight for human rights

In her interview with Pressenza journalist Perfecto Caparas, ex-senator Leila de Lima envisions a future characterized by her continuing fight for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. “There is this part of me that refuses to rest until…

10 December, Free Assange: photos from around the world

On 10 December, International Human Rights Day, activists around the world mobilised for Julian Assange. The first to arrive were students from National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, who demonstrated for Julian Assange’s freedom in front of the AIT (American…

COP15 countries must agree on real enforcement mechanisms and reviews otherwise the global pact to save nature is doomed

The global pact to save nature, under negotiation at COP15, will be condemned to failure, whatever its ambitions, if the countries do not agree on real mechanisms for applying and reviewing the commitments, have denounced several environmental activists on Saturday.…

Photos: International Human Rights Day NYC Vigil to Free Julian Assange

Rally in front of the British Consulate in New York City on December 10, 2022 While the US criticizes other countries for their lack of freedom of the press, it is the US that is attacking Julian Assange for revealing…

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