Opinions

Introduction Fifteen months ago, I began writing a series of articles about what was taking place in Ukraine and what was likely to take place in the future there if a peace settlement was not reached. I’m sorry to say…

Recently the Polish sociologist Krzystof Wielicki has made a case for regarding the democracies of the world as in a civilizational crisis.   Somewhat less recently, Susan Strange of the London School of Economics proposed the idea that in our times…

It should come as no surprise that the world is currently facing an existential nuclear danger.  In fact, it has been caught up in that danger since 1945, when atomic bombs were used to annihilate the populations of Hiroshima and…

The word intoxication refers to the ingestion, inhalation or skin contact with tangible products that cause serious physical injury or death. These are harmful chemicals in the form of drugs, poisons, gases, etc. More recently, a variant has been introduced…

Nearly two weeks after the election of the Convention of Conventions, with an overwhelming victory for the Chilean ultra-right, I share six reflections with the aim of contributing to the analysis of the political scenario that is opening up for…

A changing world order, a shrinking U.S. empire, migrations and related demographic shifts, and major economic crashes have all enhanced religious fundamentalisms around the world. Beyond religions, other ideological fundamentalisms likewise provide widely welcomed reassurances. One of the latter—market fundamentalism—invites…

Chile’s political form expired on 18 October 2019, when huge protests erupted over an increase in public transport, which later turned into a real social explosion. By Gilberto Lopes, in San José, Costa Rica This is what Fernando Atria, a…

The change in the new world order will have to go beyond economic, political and military issues. It is a deeper, broader and more decisive change. Since the Greeks, since Alexander. By Edgar Chacón Morales Some millenarists might say that…

The economic and social crisis that Argentina is experiencing has its correlate in the weaknesses shown by its political regime, especially in this election year, and are laid bare by the difficulties in selecting candidates in the two large coalitions…

‘Revolution’ is a very positive word that has been increasingly used in a negative sense as well. So it is important to be clear about how this word is used here in a very positive sense. When the problems of…