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What the Midterm Results Mean for U.S. Climate Action

When it comes to control of the House and the Senate, the outcome of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections is still unclear. Yet the election sent many positive signals about the importance of climate action for U.S. voters.  By Olivia Rosane A…

What Was Humanity’s First Cultural Revolution?

We live in a fast-moving, technology-dominated era. Happiness is fleeting, and everything is replaceable or disposable. It is understandable that people are drawn to a utopian vision. Many find refuge in the concept of a “return” to an idealized past—one…

The new capitalism of platforms and surveillance: farewell to hope?

The context of the covid-19 pandemic created the right conditions for an institutional and normative framework capable of changing the mentalities, customs and values of our societies, driving new desires, habits and values, but above all, imposing the production mode…

Vatican, authoritarianism and anti-Semitism (V)

The Vatican and church hierarchies not only said nothing in defence of the Jews in the face of growing Nazi persecution, but maintained their radical anti-Semitism unperturbed in the 1930s. Thus, for example, even in a country as remote as…

Indian village discovers the treasure of organic and indigenous agriculture

In Jhargram, a remote village in the Indian state of West Bengal, a group of farmers sit together in one of the large fields around them. Here they must discuss, deliberate and decide on the marketing strategy they will use…

Ceremony in Villa Mascardi: chronicle of Mapuche ritual in support of Lafken Winkul Mapu community

In the disputed territory, the community persecuted by the government and the provincial justice system carried out an ancestral ceremony in front of Lake Mascardi, in an act of spirituality that charges the place from which they were dispossessed with…

Climate Change and Basic Income

We share the presentation given at the 2nd World Forum for Water, Land, Climate and Diversity, promoted by Senator Andrea Blandini, which took place on 1 November. In it, we talked about who is ultimately responsible for climate change, the…

Letter from Manuel Zelaya, former President of Honduras, about Julian Assange

Honourable Excellency RISHI SUNAK Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Your Excellency Prime Minister Sunak: I am writing to you, in my capacity as Former President of the Republic of Honduras and current President of the Anti-Imperialist Peoples’ International in…

Yemen: War of Pacification and International Policing

The war in Yemen is as much a war of pacification by the United Kingdom and Empire as it is a war of the Saudi-led coalition. Wielding the gavel of legitimacy within international society, the world’s liberal authorities are allowed…

IFOR International Conference in South Sudan

From the four corners of the world, artisans of non-violence, reconciliation and peace are meeting in the African city of Juba, South Sudan. On Friday 11th and Saturday 12th November 2022, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) -a spiritual based…

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