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Environmental journalism saves lives

Journalists are challenged to provide relevant information for necessary social change. Environmental reporting is essential. By María García de la Fuente* Renewable Energies, 4 May 2024 – We are living through a triple planetary crisis: the climate crisis, the loss…

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…

Veterans Support Students Protesting Genocide in Palestine

“The students are absolutely right, and may be saving our humanity.” Veterans For Peace applauds the students who are protesting against the US/Israeli genocide in Palestine.  These courageous young students are doing the right thing at the right time. “The…

Argentina does not sell out, it defends itself

We are experiencing institutional immunodeficiency in the face of a national government that acts as a serial violator of the national constitution. There is an urgent need to respond. By Miguel Julio Rodríguez Villafañe Malvinas, Antarctic, and South Atlantic Islands…

US vs. China: Who Really Stands for Peace?

Thousands of innocent civilians are dying– men, women, children– being bombed to death as they sit in their homes. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men have been unwillingly drafted into the military, torn from their families, forced to kill each…

The Heat’s On – Big Time!

“Nearly nineteen thousand (19,000) weather stations have notched record high temperatures since Jan. 1.” (Source: Earth’s Record Hot Streak Might be a Sign of a New Climate Era, The Washington Post, April 19, 2024) A blistering start to the 2024…

What to do in the face of violence?

The debate on security confronts conflicting visions of society and the state, which should be expressed in proposals that address them and, above all, take into account the principles that inspire them; the needs of the workers, but also solutions…

Let a Global Movement for Nonviolent Social and Personal Transformation emerge from this nightmare

For over 200 days since October 7th, the brutal oppression of Palestinians in their homelands has been brought into the awareness of a previously unaware western population Western governments’ desperate attempts to support Israel’s genocidal leaders reveal their own authoritarian…

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…

Why shy away from political reform?

To give priority to other legal initiatives, President Boric has refused, for the time being, to undertake the political reforms necessary for the consolidation of democracy. However, this postponement will certainly lead to municipal and legislative elections that will perpetuate…

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