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The wildcat: The great forgotten one

Of all the wild mammals of our fauna, the wildcat is perhaps the least known of all, the great forgotten of our forests. There is no known study on the distribution and status of its population in the Iberian Peninsula.…

The transnational plunder of Chilean copper

The study, “New estimates of the wealth given away to large private copper mining companies: Chile 2005-2015”, addressed the economic rent obtained by the 10 largest mining companies in Chile. Using official World Bank (WB) data for the period 2005-2014…

CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally

The world now has a new COVID-19 vaccine in its arsenal, and at a fraction of the cost per dose. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen over 314 million infections and over 5.5 million deaths worldwide. Approximately 60%…

Genital mutilation: remnants of a past that cannot continue to exist in the present and (much less!) in the future

Genital mutilation is a practice that is still carried out in approximately 30 countries around the world. Most of these countries are in Africa and the Middle East, but the custom is also found in some countries in Asia and…

Between reason and faith

We have been conditioned to believe, not to exercise reflection. Most of the actions projected from any sphere of authority in our social environment force us to accept myths, thoughts or decisions based on a truth about which, in general,…

Cooperative Artist Residencies Give Black Creatives the Space to Thrive

How two nascent artist residencies on opposite sides of the country are giving Black creatives opportunities to rest and create. By Aric Sleeper Under the pervasive stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, waxing and waning ad infinitum, with no end in…

Palestine: conversation on the right to water

How do you live when you have no running water in your home? Why and how is Israel drying out the Palestinians? How does the climate crisis affect access to water in the West Bank, and what does the future…

Haiti, San Martin and the odious foreign debt

The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.…

A strategy against divisiveness and disillusionment

“Utopia is on the horizon. I walk two steps, it moves two steps away and the horizon runs ten steps further. So, what is utopia for? That’s what it’s for, it’s for walking. This famous phrase, popularised by Eduardo Galeano,…

Victorina’s way

When Victorina agreed, she was already perched on a tyre tube crossing the waters of the Rio Grande. The shouts of the other migrants brought her to her senses. What time was it? Maybe it was 1 or 2 a.m.,…

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