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Potentially habitable Earth-sized exoplanet found
Astronomers discover a rocky exoplanet about the mass of Earth, suitable for searching for signs of life. A group of astronomers, led by Diana Kossakowski of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, in a paper published in the…
We have also been lied to about Ukraine
Published with permission of the author. Fernando del Pino Calvo-Sotelo 2 February 2023 Covid, climate change and the war in Ukraine have two things in common. First, that our politicians defend foreign or supranational interests to the detriment of the…
The Highland Clearances and the Scottish Gaelic Renaissance
As the forces of uniformity, conformity and homogeneity spread inexorably towards a society in which everyone tends to look the same, eat the same thing, listen to the same music and receive the same sources of news and information, pushback…
Political earthquake in Kiev, Ukrainian leftist (banned) explains what’s happening
The wave of resignations and dismissals of senior Ukrainian officials is just the latest jolt in a broader political earthquake that is rocking Kiev. It began with the resignation of Oleksij Arestovych, one of President Volodymir Zelensky’s most prominent advisers,…
PSOE and French far right support Morocco in the European Parliament
The vote of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in the European Parliament alongside the French extreme right is increasingly inexplicable from the point of view of human rights and ethics. A vote against freedom of information and expression in Morocco.…
Migrants trapped in the forests of northern Serbia: a look at reality
The “Balkan Route” opened in 2015 when thousands of refugees travelled through the Western Balkan states from Greece to reach the EU. In an unprecedented flight they crossed Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary and Croatia until the borders were closed in spring…
Interview with Rafael de la Rubia, Founder of World without Wars and without Violence and main promoter of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence
Rafael de la Rubia welcomes us into his home and we settle into a room full of books. On the table is a huge illustrated book about the World March for Peace and Nonviolence that was organised in 2010 and…
Rent cap in Denmark: rents may increase by a maximum of 4 percent
Denmark introduced a rent cap. The rents were set to rise by 10 percent because they are linked to inflation—as they are in Austria. But the Danish government has removed this link in order to ease the burden on households:…
Workers in the UK take to the streets in largest day of industrial action in a decade
On the 1st of February 2023, the UK came the closest it has come in a generation to a general strike as workers from across a wide range of sectors including education and transport walked out in protest regarding poor…
Cold War 2.0, retrograde insistence that everything repeats itself
Cold War II or Cold War 2.0 are not the titles of a fictional film (yet) but terms used by unimaginative analysts who insist that history is repeating itself, as a parallel to the Cold War between 1945 and 1991,…
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