Inequitable family planning and illogical pro-growth policies are taking away every child’s right to a fair start in life. By Carter Dillard There is a conflict between ecocentric people struggling for freedom, and anthropocentric people threatening that freedom....
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Faith in the dollar, in counterfeit money, will be destroyed”, they warn
“Everything will collapse, including gold, silver and bitcoin prices. Don’t panic,” they say Renowned US investor and author Robert Kiyosaki believes confidence in the US dollar “will be destroyed”, he said in a message posted on his official Twitter account on...
Traces of memory
By Hugo Behm Rosas* FRATERNITY IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF THE DICTATORSHIP From the foreword by Miguel Lawner: This is a song of fraternity over hatred. There are not many books written about the experiences suffered by tens of thousands of Chileans, confined by...
Is the Right Wing ‘Whitewashing’ the History Curriculum Taught in Public Schools?
A fight over new history curriculum standards in Virginia is part of a nationwide campaign to undermine public schools and prevent educators from teaching the truth about America’s inequality. By Sandra Jones “People still want to hide the truth about Black history,”...
PEC demands the release of Afghan scribe Mortaza Behboudi
Geneva, 17 February 2023: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, demands an immediate release of Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, who was arrested on 7 January by the Taliban regime in Kabul. Though Afghanistan did not report any incident...
Study: 140 million people could fall into extreme poverty due to energy crisis
Households in Central Asia continue to be the hardest hit by rising energy prices, followed by South and Southeast Asia. RT English – The global energy crisis, triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, has driven upward the price of energy for “heating, cooling and...
Dismantling “development”, by Ted Trainer
Millions of people are simply abandoning the conventional capitalist model of development, turning away to build their own collective, self-sufficient, non-market, frugal forms of development in accordance with cultural traditions. By Ted Trainer* For over two hundred...
A Realistic ‘Energy Transition’ Is to Get Better at Using Less of It
Being an early adopter of solar technology has given me personal insight into some of the practical limitations and difficulties of the energy transition. By Richard Heinberg In 2022, I authored two articles expressing doubts about society’s transition from fossil...
Iuventa ship destroyed in Italian custody: crew files criminal complaint
The Iuventa crew filed a criminal complaint to the Trapani Prosecutor’s Office on 13.02.2023, requesting an investigation into the abandonment and destruction of the rescue ship iuventa. As a vital part of the civil fleet, the Iuventa was in constant operation until...
The Agony of Liberal Zionism
By Yakov M. Rabkin, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Montreal, is the author of What is Modern Israel? (Pluto Press). Among my Israeli friends there used to be many liberal Zionists. They sought social justice, supported peace initiatives with the...
Gun Violence in the United States: Truth and Facts
Gun violence is a chronic disease in the United States. With its interplay with gun culture, individual rights, interest groups and partisan politics, it has long plagued American society and gravely violated people’s right to life, leaving an indelible stain on the...
Ecuador 2023 Elections: what did the Ecuadorian people tell us?
Seven days after the regional elections and the elections of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (the “fifth power”) and a popular consultation of eight questions, with which the neoliberal government of Guillermo Lasso tried to regain lost...