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Vatican, authoritarianism and anti-Semitism (IV)

With the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Catholic – and extreme right-wing secular – anti-Semitism in Europe increased even more. Thus, in 1921, the Vatican magazine CiviltaCattolic conceptualised that “at bottom Bolshevism is not the old Judaism that embraces (…) the…

Lula won by God’s hand

On the birthday of the world’s greatest popular myth, Brazil couldn’t go wrong. Because if there is something that Brazil has, it is roots, black entrails, ancestral rites, welcoming of all diasporas, resistance and macumba. Brazil is blood, sweat and…

Why Support for Ukraine Could Dwindle in the Final Months of 2022

With the U.S. midterm elections looming and Europe’s economic situation deteriorating, the threat of reduced international support for Ukraine could limit Kyiv’s options heading into the new year. By John P. Ruehl Since February 24, 2022, Ukraine’s armed forces have…

Defectors in Chilean politics, an indecent spectacle

The condition of origin In Chile, democracy and its political system is based, beyond any minimally logical foundation, on a model of political parties, which has no basis for its functioning, evaluation and necessary improvement in a changing world. This…

Argentina. Monetary sovereignty in chaos and Congress defection

The way in which the value of the Argentine peso is fixed today “is unconstitutional” and it is up to Congress to act urgently to determine, in accordance with the Constitution, how to establish the Argentine currency on the basis…

364 days

25 October 2022, El Espectador At the time of sending this column I have gone 364 days without hearing my mother’s voice, without a hug from her or finding her at home reading a book about the cosmos or writing…

NATO in the Amazon: Petro Plays with Fire

NATO recently expanded to Sweden and Finland, has been de facto incorporated in Ukraine, and may extend to Georgia. Now, NATO’s entry into the Amazon is in the works under the aegis of newly elected President Gustavo Petro of Colombia.…

Humanising work in the age of “digital slavery”.

One of the subjects I have been researching as a sociologist is work in the current post-modern era and information technologies. Remote” work also imposes its own conditions, and we are witnessing a kind of new industrial revolution, where oppression…

Rebel against the “old World Order” the future is now !

The “new order” according to Chrystia Freeland – Canadian Minister of Finance  On Tuesday October 11, Canadian Minister Chrystia Freeland was addressing a talk to a modest-sized crowd in Washington, but really her audience was the top-level international economic leaders…

The little wooden horse

The marvellous wooden rocking horse, which survived for centuries and became the symbol of protected childhood, did not make it beyond the frontier of the twentieth century. Advances in technology also have their downsides. They sometimes present that dark, cheap…

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