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Ruchama Marton: A voice from Israel against hatred and revenge

It is 20 years now that we accompanied the Mobile Clinic of Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHR‑I) on a mission in the West Bank and the Negev for our documentary film “1000 Women and a Dream”.* Back then, we portrayed Israeli…

The fractured state of Myanmar

If anybody reads Myanmar’s state-run daily newspaper, the Global New Light of Myanmar, the oldest English Daily that covers news, the state Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV), one would not fathom the crisis faced by the Myanmar government. News coming…

Plastics: the recycling hoax

On 15 February 2024, the Center for Climate Integrity (CCC) released a devastating report, The Fraud of Plastic Recycling, which, based on numerous previous studies and recently uncovered internal documents, shows us that we have been misled and misinformed about…

Argentina: Mileinato loses centrality, Macri and Cristina enter the arena

The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was a political-territorial entity established by the Spanish Crown in the Americas as an integral part of the Spanish Empire from 1776 to 1810, with the port of Buenos Aires as its…

How Nations Could End Israeli Genocide: Stop the Weapons; Stop the Oil; Stop the Tech

How Nations Could End Israeli Genocide: Stop the Weapons; Stop the Oil; Stop the Tech By Marcy Winograd If the nations of the world–particularly the United States and the Arab countries–wanted to stop Israel’s slaughter, torture and ethnic cleansing in…

A European universal basic income

Proposals of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) have proliferated enormously during the first decades of the 21st century, especially with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020. Jordi Arcarons, Daniel Raventós, Lluís Torrens. One of the…

The money of the banks, the army and the Catholic Church

 The real military expenditure of the Kingdom of Spain is immense. And it is increasing. It is one political option to devote a considerable part of the general state budget to military expenditure, but it is another to devote this…

The “mileinato”, co-government, the Pope… and the street

After the failure of his omnibus law in Congress, at odds with governors and with his popularity and credibility on the wane, far-right President Javier Milei would meet with former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) to discuss the formal incorporation of…

An important step towards equality for same-sex couples

Back to 2008. Based on what we learned a few hours later and what is detailed in the later documentary by Panagiotis Evaggelidis, the late Mayor of the tiny island of Tilos, Tasos Aliferis, performs a civil marriage to two…

Is there a window of opportunity for peace in Ukraine and the Middle East?

The outcome of the presidential elections to be held this year in the US and Russia could mean a return to the doctrine of nonviolent co-existence between the US and Russia and the consequent end to Cold War 2.0. Thus,…

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