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Antisemitism and Antizionism: A Dangerous Conflation

Anti-Semitism is making the headlines. The Israeli Prime Minister describes as anti-Semitic the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and even American students who are calling for a ceasefire. What Israel is doing does in fact provoke anti-Semitic…

Combatants for Peace: Public Screenings of Joint Memorial Ceremony 2024

Let’s all join this important Joint Ceremony that will take place tomorrow evening, May 12, as a way of sharing memories and sorrows from both Israeli and Palestinian communities, for their deceased. The initiative marks the 19th year of peace…

“How do you think to end violence?”, Silo

The Humanist International held a meeting on 4 May 2024 to discuss “How to end violence”, with the participation of political and social organizations and individuals from 9 countries (Angola, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Spain, India, Togo, and Uruguay). In…

USA: Between war and the courage to negotiate

President Joe Biden’s recent decision to approve a $95 billion military aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan is very bad for the world because it assures us that conflicts and military escalation will continue, with undoubted consequences for everyone.…

The BRICS – Is another world possible?

The BRICS is the name given to the group of five countries that began to form this group and to work consensually in areas such as trade, investment, technology, and finance, to promote their common interests on the world stage,…

Mankind celebrates the 200th anniversary of the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

The 200th anniversary of the premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony will be celebrated on 7 May with concerts around the world. Composed between 1822 and 1824, it is best known for its fourth movement, which includes the famous…

India, Mexico, Japan, UK, Australia, France, Canada, USA: pro-Palestine protests continue around the world

In the last two weeks, more than 160 actions and 125 camps in solidarity with Palestine have been registered in at least 17 countries. The common demand of the students is to divest from companies that support Israel and the…

NATO’s entry into the Ukrainian war?

The war in Ukraine would have meant a return to the Cold War between Russia and the USA and a return to the Doctrine of Containment, the foundations of which were laid out by George F. Kennan in his essay…

Silo and the coming revolutions

On 4 May 1969, Silo – the literary pseudonym of the humanist thinker Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos – gave his first public speech. The dictatorial regime of Juan Carlos Onganía had removed him from the large urban conglomerates and the…

The end of the Cold War or the birth of today’s world

From the common house to the new iron curtain By Gilberto Lopes It is December 2014 and a year ago the Maidan protests forced a change of government in Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the then 83-year-old president of the Soviet Union…

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