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Facing a new constituent process

PRELIMINARY The selection and registration phase of candidates for constitutional councillors in the new constituent process ended on the 6th of this month. Consequently, a new phase has begun in which both the parties and the candidates themselves will have…

Iuventa ship destroyed in Italian custody: crew files criminal complaint

The Iuventa crew filed a criminal complaint to the Trapani Prosecutor’s Office on 13.02.2023, requesting an investigation into the abandonment and destruction of the rescue ship iuventa. As a vital part of the civil fleet, the Iuventa was in constant operation until…

A Realistic ‘Energy Transition’ Is to Get Better at Using Less of It

Being an early adopter of solar technology has given me personal insight into some of the practical limitations and difficulties of the energy transition. By Richard Heinberg In 2022, I authored two articles expressing doubts about society’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable…

Dismantling “development”, by Ted Trainer

Millions of people are simply abandoning the conventional capitalist model of development, turning away to build their own collective, self-sufficient, non-market, frugal forms of development in accordance with cultural traditions. By Ted Trainer* For over two hundred years it has…

The historical memory of the Saharawis

I arrived in the year 2000 in the city of Madrid accompanying a group of Sahrawi children. We were hosted in Leganés by an association of friends of the Sahrawi people. I acted as interpreter and mediator with the host…

While we’re laughing about a balloon; Biden paves a path to war.

There is reason to be alarmed by the recent China balloon. However, that reason is not the alleged China aggression but the very calculated aggression towards China by the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. This hate and the manufactured reasons…

The Agony of Liberal Zionism

Among my Israeli friends there used to be many liberal Zionists. They sought social justice, supported peace initiatives with the Palestinians, and otherwise believed in Israel’s progressive roots. Indeed, in its pioneer years, Zionism, while engaged in colonization of Palestine,…

Ecuador 2023 Elections: what did the Ecuadorian people tell us?

Seven days after the regional elections and the elections of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (the “fifth power”) and a popular consultation of eight questions, with which the neoliberal government of Guillermo Lasso tried to regain lost…

Generations and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean

The political forces that value human solidarity and critical thinking are astonished to see that many young people, a priori considered champions of rebellion and promoters of new visions, are manifesting themselves on the public stage by adhering to retrograde…

Pure balloon (ufologists refrain)

After the overblown reactions of the highest US authorities to the overflight of a Chinese hot air balloon, which Beijing claims was a weather observation balloon and which Washington claims was spying, the government headed by Joe Biden has been…

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