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Rome’s Fall Is America’s Warning: Civic Neglect Can Topple Even the Mightiest Republics

History shows that even the strongest republics crumble when leaders and citizens neglect their duties. Invading armies can topple a state, but republics are often undone from within—by the neglect of those sworn to their care. Rome, with its Senate,…

The “Corporation of Silence”

Special Report: The construction of the media agenda in the capital of the Movimiento Popular Neuquino (MPN) [Neuquén People’s Movement, the dominant local political party]. Kiñe | One. What information appears when I Google the name “Claude Staicos”? An official page titled “laverdaddemilo.com“.…

Why It’s Time to Retire ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’

Decolonizing our worldview requires decolonizing our language—terms like ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ obscure complexity and uphold colonial hierarchies. The term “Global South” gained popularity in the 1990s as a neutral alternative to “Third World,” which had become outdated and…

The Scapegoat and the Mirror: Donald Trump as Lightning Rod for Liberal Guilt

Liberals have turned Donald Trump into a moral scapegoat—fixating on his every word as a way to avoid confronting their own complicity in systemic failures, and distracting themselves from the harder task of articulating a compelling political alternative. In the…

Flow Like Water, or Fall Like Fools

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal & Dr. Qurat-Ul-Ain Rana The streets of Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Islamabad have turned into rivers again – not by nature’s whim, but by our own foolish defiance. As climate change brings heavier rains and faster glacial melts,…

Colombian government and National Liberation Army hold peace talks in Caracas

The Colombian government’s delegation for political dialogue with the National Liberation Army (ELN) said on Sunday that peace talks in their country began yesterday, Saturday, in Venezuela and will continue today. “Yesterday, the two peace delegations began talks in Caracas.…

Paraguay created “zero hunger” law

The Paraguayan Congress has approved the ‘Zero Hunger in Schools’ bill, presented by the executive to alleviate this serious social problem, which has led to criticism and protests from university students. The law was approved by the Senate and the…

Senegal: Opposition leader sworn in as president-elect

Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been sworn in as President of Senegal. In just a few weeks, Faye went from prison to the presidential palace in an electoral process that, despite the difficult path it took and the country’s difficult context,…

“Neither Ayuso nor anyone else can decide when or how someone dies. To say so is obscene”.

Interview with Fernando Flores, editor of the report by the Citizens’ Commission for the Truth in Madrid’s Residences. By Gorka Castillo/ctxt Fernando Flores (Valencia, 1968) holds a diploma in Advanced Defense Studies from the Centro Superior de Estudios de la…

Brazilian government authorizes green modernization of state postal company

The Brazilian government has authorized state-owned Correios, Latin America’s largest postal company, to raise 3.8 billion reais (about 760 million dollars) to modernize its technological infrastructure and implement the ecological transition of its 23,000-vehicle fleet, the government portal Agencia Gov.…

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