Politics

Which human rights matter enough to put politics above sports? For decades, the United States and its European allies have gotten to decide the answer at their convenience. By Charles Xu On February 4, the 2022 Winter Olympics are set…

Amidst many ongoing surveys, debates, and interviews of stalwarts gunning for the Philippine Presidency, the Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI) – an NGO with more than 230 network members across the Philippines – launches its 2022 electoral education campaign, Power…

29 January 2022 (openDemocracy)* — As the Ukraine crisis evolves, the military machinery on both sides gears up for combat, with Russia moving troops and equipment towards Ukraine and NATO sending reinforcements to Eastern Europe. Each side persists with its propaganda,…

Global challenges and pathologies (climate change, the destruction of the shared biosphere, poverty and unequal distribution of wealth, profit-orientation, authoritarianism, gender inequality, racism, and more) require worldwide networking and solutions, which, however, must not only be enforced at the global…

Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Russia, Brigadier General (rtd) Nicholas Mike Sango, who has been in his post since July 2015, was one of the African envoys to attend a special meeting with Russian legislators to exchange views on common problems, common issues…

25 January 2022. El Espectador I am sending this column hours before the meeting of the Coalición Centro Esperanza (CCE) announced for Sunday night, so everything can change; but so far, it would seem that history has not been a…

The declines of U.S. capitalism and of its imperial position provoke fear among its mainstream politicians. Their response, in large part, has been to deny that any such decline is happening. These politicians do this partly by acting as though…

Gold mining is already the second biggest cause of deforestation in the Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian Amazon, according to a scientific study. Deforestation caused by gold mining has increased by 90 % in the southwest of the…

Latin America is a continent where magic is permanently mixed with reality, from the streets of Macondo in García Márquez’s “100 Years of Solitude”, the stories and novels of Cortázar, or those of Horacio Quiroga and so many others, we…

Lima, 21 January 2022 Mrs. Mirtha Esther Vásquez Chuquilín Mirtha Esther Vásquez Chuquilín President of the Council of Ministers Present. Subject: We, the trade unions of Petróleos del Perú Petroperú, in view of the serious and irremediable damage caused by…