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The Sea Kept Giving, Until it Couldn’t

The Sea Kept Giving, Until it Couldn’t

by George Banez “Wake up!” I heard my late mother say.  I remember not budging.  The faint flashes my half-opened eyes caught appeared more like midnight stars. We, four children and mom, likely went to bed at eight that night because we had nothing else to do. The...

The persistence of the memory of those who fo not remain silent

The persistence of the memory of those who fo not remain silent

The contemporary world seems trapped in a machinery designed for forgetting. A machinery made of foolish algorithms that reward banality and one-minute trending topics, while rendering invisible the struggles that should shake consciences. The solidarity flotilla that...

The South China Sea: The Storm That Lays Bare the Great Powers

The South China Sea: The Storm That Lays Bare the Great Powers

“It’s not a sea, it’s a chessboard. On its waters float aircraft carriers, millions of tons of goods, and the promise of an energy bounty. Here the great powers stare at themselves in the mirror of greed and the fear of losing control.” The South China Sea is the blue...