As Indians continue to scramble for survival through a deadly second COVID-19 wave and deal with an inadequate health care system that has failed them at every step, for a majority of the country living in rural areas and in…
While most Chileans want deep systemic change, the vote to create a new constitution is a historic moment in the struggle to undo the legacy of Pinochet’s dictatorship. Jordan Flaherty By Jordan Flaherty Mass protests that began in 2019 in…
SPIRITUALITY As part of the series on Ramadan amidst the co-vid 19 pandemic, Pressenza interviewed Mohammad Nazrul Islam Jashim. Mohammad is currently the country representative of the Community for Human Development. An international socio-cultural organization…
The most conservative right together with the extreme right -Partido Popular plus VOX- gets 78 deputies, compared to the 58 who have added between Mas Madrid, PSOE and Unidas Podemos. The most conservative right won in the best Trumpist and…
A genetically engineered chestnut tree may be the first to spread into forests, setting dangerous global precedents. By Anne Petermann On August 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a petition by researchers at the State University of…
As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing, and other fishing-related environmental issues are real problems, but it’s not clear that government intervention is the solution. Indeed, it might be one of the main drivers of overfishing and other…
The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) has ranked the pygmy tarsiers from the mountains of the Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, as endangered, and their adult numbers are decreasing due to continued human intrusion into…
LITERARY by Lisa Rogal Dear Lewis, The one nice thing about dead people is you can tell them anything. Dear Lewis, I feel I should tell you a story. My dad said you’ve got to have…
by John Scales Avery I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the relationships between water and life. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link: http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Water-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf The United Nations’ World Water…
THREATS TO INTERNATIONAL LAW AND WORLD ORDER Weaponized drones are probably the most troublesome weapon added to the arsenal of war making since the atomic bomb, and from the perspective of world order, may turn out to be even more…
