Shortly after the right-wing, ethnosupremacist government in power in Israel initiated its genocidal assault on Palestinian people of Gaza, Social Medicine/Medicina Social registered its opposition. The November 2023 issue of Social Medicine/Medicina Social included...
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Proxy War: US Regime Change in the Russian Federation
Stepan Bandera torchlight procession 2020, Kyiv. Photograph Source: A1 – Public Domain – CC0 In previous essays in the real free press (the US mainstream media is currently ranked 57th in press freedom by Reporters Without Borders), I discussed the sabotage operations...
Britain Quits the ‘Free World’
Photo by Avery Evans Cambridge, UK— The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted tradition of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, along with the right to protest. The move to...
The Fanatic’s Gaze: Louis Theroux and the West Bank Settlers
Photograph Source: Claire Boxall – Public Domain He has made it his bread and butter for years: finding society’s kooky representatives, the marginal, the crazed and the touched. But what makes Louis Theroux’s The Settlers troubling is its examination of a seemingly...
The Criminalization and Resistance of Brown People in El Norte
Photograph Source: Becker1999 – CC BY 2.0 As a U.S.-born citizen of Mexican origin, as the saying goes, I constantly feel like a “foreigner in my own land.” During these dark times, when brown people—my people—are being targeted, kidnapped and imprisoned by ICE...
Proteste deboli in movimento
Il Novecento è stato fecondo di soggetti molteplici che si sono posti il tema della trasformazione con una carica e una speranza utopica elevata. Sconfitti, hanno lasciato un’eredità pesante di interrogativi e un bisogno di trovare nuovi soggetti per soddisfare...
Il decreto flussi: l’ennesima truffa delle etichette
Il decreto flussi predisposto dal Governo è uno strumento inadeguato e irrazionale. Non solo per il numero assolutamente insufficiente di lavoratori stranieri che potranno essere assunti, ma anche per una serie di incongruenze interne e perché si fonda sul presupposto...
The Criminalization and Resistance of Brown People in El Norte
Photograph Source: Becker1999 – CC BY 2.0 As a U.S.-born citizen of Mexican origin, as the saying goes, I constantly feel like a “foreigner in my own land.” During these dark times, when brown people—my people—are being targeted, kidnapped and imprisoned by ICE...
Extremadura ante el espejo del rearme: ¿más tanques o más derechos?
Una reflexión, con mirada extremeña y desde el mundo de la cooperación, sobre el preocupante giro hacia la militarización de las políticas públicas y de la economía.Temas: Actualidad, Cooperación internacional, Industria armamentística, Gasto militar, Extremadura,...
Decenas de barrios en Sevilla, Granada y Almería viven otro verano récord en calor con cortes de luz diarios
Endesa mantiene a miles de vecinos de decenas de barrios populares en las ciudades de Granada, Sevilla y Almería sin electricidad, las instituciones siguen sin atajar una situación que en muchas zonas lleva más de una década enquistadaTemas: Actualidad, Andalucía,...
Macrofestival BBK Live en Bilbao: beneficio para Last Tour y miseria para los trabajadores
Nos lo venden como dinamización cultural, pero el BBK Live es mucho más que música: subvenciones públicas para una empresa privada, precariedad laboral sistemática, blanqueo institucional y hegemonía cultural del capital. Bajo los focos del festival se esconde el...
Kneecap y Bob Vylan logran lo que el punk no pudo: aterrorizar a los medios británicos
Hasta ahora, que unos veinteañeros punkis dijeran un puñado de tacos se consideraba un escándalo, pero no un motivo para cambiar todo el modus operandi de una de las cadenas de televisión más importantes y prestigiosas del mundo.Temas: Radical Magazine, Opinión,...