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For two consecutive nights this week, during the holy month of Ramadan, the Israeli military stormed Al-Aqsa mosque. They entered the mosque before prayer was over, firing rubber bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at Palestinian worshippers. These events left…

The unprecedented popularity of ChatGPT has turbocharged the AI hype machine. We are being bombarded daily by news articles announcing humankind’s greatest invention—Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is “qualitatively different,” “transformational,” “revolutionary,” “will change everything,”—they say. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT,…

News came at the end of March, courtesy of German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, that Germany had completed a delivery of 18 Leopard 2 A6 main battle tanks to Ukraine. Still more, as Reuters reported on April 2, the German…

On March 29th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally requesting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an advisory opinion on the obligations of states with regard to the effects of climate change. The adoption of…

Recent alarming reports state that the UK is prepared to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium ammunition in the ongoing slaughter in Ukraine. These lethally toxic carcinogens are known to cause illness and death, not only for the victims of war…

Talking today with a grandmother who has observed education for the last 60 years, first as a pupil, then as a mother and now as a grandmother, she was telling me that what remains unchanged is the definition of a…

Most people are typical, they have a typical behaviour and some have a different behaviour which makes them atypical. Atypical because they feel, think and act differently from the majority. On the National Autism and Asperger Awareness Day, which is…

” She doesn’t give up as long as she has a heart. She doesn’t give up as long as she has a reason”. One hour and 25 minutes of reflections, voices that cry, that evoke, that spill out and get…

As the Pentagon steps up its war games in the Asia Pacific, Defense News reports the US Army has a logistical problem with waging a future war against China: too much equipment to haul from “fort to port”–and too many…

Assessment of the current situation By Ramon Franquesa With this article I address myself to all the activists of COESPE and the pensioners’ movement, after the meeting with a representation of the parliamentary group of Unidas Podemos (UP) on 23…