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Chile: Launching of Gabriel Boric’s government programme

In the gardens of the Centro Cultural de Ñuñoa, Gabriel Boric’s long-awaited government programme was presented this morning. In the presence of many collaborators and supporters, as well as numerous press media, the presidential candidate was presented by the Mayoress…

Ecuador’s Neoliberal Government Announces State Emergency to Impose Austerity

On October 18, 2021, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days. This declaration led to the constitutional rights of Ecuadorian nationals being suspended and heavily armed troops flooding the streets in Ecuador. The immediate reason…

Understanding Russia’s Special Interest Within The Context Of Power Shift In Sudan

Whether it was “a coup or not a coup” by definition, description or explanation, what happened October 25 was simply a power shift or appropriately a political power grab under gun point (unconstitutional change of government and state power) in…

First Continental Conference on Trade Union Communication: In search of convergence of popular communication

The First Continental Conference on Trade Union Communication, which took place between 27 and 29 October, dedicated its second day to the theme of Popular Communication. As stated in the Road Map collectively debated within the different centres and sectors…

The Unconscionable Hypocrisy of the Federal Spending Debate

Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich? By Sister Karen M. Donahue Right now, the United States is locked in a contentious debate over the Build…

Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart

The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic…

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina’s recent meeting with Pakistani envoy has a message for India

by Pathik Hasan Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Ahmed Siddiqui’s recent meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was comprehensively covered in the media. It only shows the strategic significance of the meeting. The meeting has messages for the…

The book “Nonviolent Journalism: towards a humanising approach to communication” was presented

As part of the activities of the Nonviolent October in Ecuador, the International News Agency Pressenza today presented its most recent publication: “Nonviolent Journalism: towards a humanising approach to communication”. The book is the result of a reflection on the…

Sofía Scasserra: “A supranational digital economy is being generated, over our heads”.

A few days ago, the Transnational Institute published the report: Digital Colonialism, an analysis of the European trade agenda. “Cuatro elementos” interviewed Sofía Scasserra, research associate at the Transnational Institute, to discuss the key points of the report. Q: Remind…

Coronacrisis, neoliberalism, democracy: what’s next

The coronavirus, instead of becoming a cohesive factor in the fight against a common enemy, turned out to be the opposite, because of absurd ambitions within the neoliberal model, which has not only lost legitimacy, but constitutes one of the…

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