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ZERO WOULD BE NICE: We can safely abolish all nuclear weapons

Been hearing about the Oppenheimer movie? Oscar buzz! Barbenheimer! Cillian Murphy’s alarmingly blue eyeballs! In all the hoo-hah, two crucial things are missing. We have to fully grasp the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons: The movie offers only the tiniest…

The U.S. tries to control the aquatic resources of sovereign countries

In our world, countries have always fought and continue to fight for the right to control and use natural resources. Recently, oil with its unexplored reserves joined the competition. Most people are convinced that oil is the most valuable resource…

Mitigation sovereignty or sovereign mitigation in the face of climate change?

Latin America is called to dialogue at the European Union’s table on the implementation of renewable energies as a strategy to mitigate climate change. At the summit with the European Union on 17-18 July, CELAC member governments made clear their…

Towards a European basic income

Basic income (BI) is one of the most revolutionary and innovative proposals currently available to end poverty, redistribute wealth and build a fairer and more equitable society. It has been much talked about in recent years, especially since the Covid-19…

Israel Is On The Brink Of A Disaster. Will History Repeat Itself?

The battle over Israel’s democracy, if not its very soul, has been raging since the current Netanyahu government came to power seven months ago. The passage of the first round of ‘reforms’ has made an indelible crack in Israel’s democracy;…

The Movie and the Moment: An Oppenheimer Review Through the Lens of an Anti-War Activist

The ground-breaking movie Oppenheimer, despite its unsympathetic protagonist, packs a powerful anti-nuclear punch that makes it hard, if not impossible, to sleep after watching the film. For this reason alone, the movie should be shown on the floor of Congress…

CELAC-EU: Latin America and the Caribbean facing the caravels of green and digital capitalism

Moved by an urgent impetus for peace, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States -CELAC [1]- invested a good part of its first years in filling the Declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Peace Zone [2]…

The illegality of the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement

Now that the fisheries agreement between the European Union and Morocco has expired, there are no moral or legal arguments left to maintain any economic activity in Western Sahara. The status of a Non-Self-Governing Territory in the face of Moroccan…

The challenge of reducing absenteeism and dropping out of school

In the year 2022, one million two hundred and eight thousand students had serious non-attendance, meaning that almost 4 out of 10 students did not have sufficient attendance to pass the school year. Just under fifty thousand students in 2021…

USA: Fort Benning – New name, same shame

As of Thursday 11 May 2023, “Fort Benning”, home of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) became “Fort Moore”. The name change was part of a broader US military initiative to remove the names of Confederate officers from…

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