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War returns to the heart of Europe and talk of conscription is back on the agenda.

Europe is continuing its suicidal mad dash towards the militarisation of society. After a year of war in Ukraine, almost everywhere there is talk of reintroducing compulsory military service, reopening a debate that was thought to be definitively closed and…

Sorry to bother you but people are dying!

Dear President Biden, My name is Olivia DiNucci and I am the anti-war activist who interrupted your dinner in DC the other night. You, the most powerful man in the world, were sitting right in front of me. Normal people…

A new school year begins

March arrives and a new school year begins. Many families are relieved to return to their work and domestic routines as their children start school, but it is always accompanied by the stress of the economic demands placed on them…

VISION & GRIT: Exceptional Zero Waste Women in the Asia Pacific Region (ninth in the series)

Nalini Shekar: Giving Waste Pickers Dignity and Legitimacy  by Sherma Benosa Homecoming Nalini Shekar saw at once the missing piece in Bangalore’s solid waste management program — the waste pickers. The regrettable non-inclusion of waste pickers in the conversations on, ironically,…

Less poverty, higher life expectancy and a booming economy. How did Bolivia become a booming nation?

Bolivia, a country in the Andes, has developed strongly in recent years. Since the left-wing president Evo Morales took office, poverty in the country has been more than halved, life expectancy has risen by four years and the economy is…

EcoWaste Coalition Backs Global Green Fund to Address Toxic Chemical Crisis

28 February 2023, Quezon City.  The environmental health and justice watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has added its voice to the call to create a Global Green Chemicals and Waste Fund. The group aired the need for a dedicated fund to…

We must stop the march towards World War III, now!

In Europe, North America and a few other countries that feed themselves with information from the western media, it can have escaped no one’s attention that we are actually on the march towards World War III. The similarities with the…

Time and energy control

In order to understand what historical moment we find ourselves in, it is not only about the geopolitics of the great powers, it is about seeing history in its present dynamic, trying to observe the interaction of various factors. Transhumanism…

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…

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…