POEM AND A PIECE OF MUSIC by Trudi Lee Richards This mini-episode consists of a poem called “Unleash Peace” and a piano composition called “Heart of Hearts,” both inspired by a daily meditation for peace and… Pressenza IPA
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Second day of dialogues: a look from the Network of Ecuadorian Anthropology and Collective of Anthropologists
Interview with the Ecuadorian Anthropology Network and Collective of Anthropologists What is the opinion of the Ecuadorian Anthropology Network on what happened during the second day of dialogue between the representatives of the five state functions and the...
EcoWaste Coalition Seeks Mayors’ Cooperation to End Trade of Perilous Cosmetics with Mercury
3 July 2022, Quezon City. In a bid to safeguard their constituents from health-damaging mercury exposures, the EcoWaste Coalition has reached out to the newly-installed local chief executives in 19 cities in Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and the National Capital Region.…...
Contempt for women in Brazil, Patria A(r)mada
Although not surprising, the violence perpetrated by magistrate Joana Ribeiro Zimmer, who denied the right to an abortion to an 11-year-old rape victim, is astonishing, demonstrating the perversity of the current government’s agenda of customs. In the same week,...
Global warming and future pandemics
A study published in the journal Nature says that animal migration due to rising global temperatures and habitat destruction will lead to a “network of new viruses” that could affect human health. As a possible mitigation plan, they urge governments… Redacción Mar del...
Either we will all be saved or we will all disappear equally! That, is the dilema
Following the recent strategy decided by NATO at its Madrid Summit, which states that China “challenges its interests, security and values”, and that Russia is “the most significant and direct threat” to its interests, the world is moving very quickly… Redacción...
The United States Contests the Chinese Belt and Road with a Private Corporation
At the G7 Summit in Germany, on June 26, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden made a pledge to raise $200 billion within the United States for global infrastructure spending. It was made clear that this new G7 project—the Partnership for… Independent Media Institute
Work: The world of promises between despair and hope, the eternal neoliberal narrative
The global organisations of the UN system estimate that by 2022 there will be more than 207 million unemployed people, and that more than 800 million men and women around the world do not earn enough to lift themselves out… Centro Latinoamericano de Análisis...
50 years after Nixon’s trip to China
Fifty years ago, President Nixon made an international tour that would change the fate of the world: the visit of a US president to China for the first time in two decades. By Patricio Torres Luque* This was the great… Redacción Chile
It’s The End Of The Unipolar World As We Know It (And I Feel …)
As You’ve Surely Noticed As you’ve surely noticed, there have been a lot of changes taking place over the last couple of years. There’s the pandemic, the continually escalating prices of just about everything and a host of other oddities… Mark Lesseraux
NATO summit and its protest marches
As the NATO Summit in Madrid gets underway on 29 June, its detractors are already in their thousands and thousands of people all over Spain and the world. It is worth noting that Spain joined NATO in May 1982, a… Juan Gómez Valdebenito
Change, does anything change: the progressive wave and the libertarian response?
The strong right-wing offensive of recent years in Latin America failed to stabilise a new situation; social and cultural fascisms grew but did not (yet) achieve a new hegemony, and the “democratic” imposition that US president Joe Biden intended for… Aram...