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Russia’s indigenous heartland

My friend, the Ecuadorian anthropologist José Salcedo, a researcher of shamanic cultures and civilisational crises, had a dream: he wanted to get to know the ancestral Siberian cultures and be able to compare their oral creation myths and healing ceremonies…

Militarism is the elephant in the climate room

A subjective report of the International Peace Conference for Ukraine in Vienna. There was the elephant on the stage when several hundred committed peace fighters and human rights defenders – of which at least half were women [including] a notable…

Free Leonard Peltier, Racing Against Time

A year is always a year, but when you’re almost 79 and you’ve been locked up in a maximum security prison for 47 and a half years, time hangs really heavy. 26th of June was the 48th anniversary of the…

July 10 begins collection of 1 million signatures to stop violence at European borders

A group of human rights activists has submitted a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) to the European Commission calling for the respect and full implementation of Article 4 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: “No one shall…

Lula’s historic speech in Paris

On 23 June 2023, at the invitation of President Macron, an international summit for a “New Global Financial Pact” was held in Paris with the aim of obtaining more financial support for the poorest countries and the countries of the…

[Spain] Ernesto Maleno: “Transculturality is the reality to which we are called in these times, a loving response to so much violence and disintegration”.

Accepting the new global reality means recognising the increasing disappearance of cultural and even physical barriers. Activists like Ernesto Maleno are championing and working in Spain with the concept of transculturality to promote integration across borders. Ernesto Maleno is a…

Cardinal Zuppi on peace mission to Ukraine and Russia

After a stop in Kiev earlier this month, the mission of Matteo Maria Zuppi, president of CEI (episcopal conference of Italy) and archbishop of Bologna, as the pope’s envoy to “ease tensions” over the war in Ukraine and find possible…

National elections in Greece: Conservatism and the far rightwin

In the second and final national election contest in Greece, the conservative and far-right forces have triumphed. The left suffered a crushing defeat, while abstention exceeded 47%. Only the conservative left, expressed by the KKE, emerged stronger, while MeRA25 was…

Neofascists start hate speech against the LGBTQ+ community in Crete

“We will put an end to this brothel”, say two candidates of the neo-fascist – not only in name but also in practice – Spartans party that recently entered the Greek Parliament. They were parliamentary candidates in Rethymnon and Chania.…

Optical illusion in art

How many times have we not spilled out into a kind of hypnotism when looking at a painting or any other object that creates an optical illusion? That’s what happened to a mother and daughter when they were enjoying a…

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