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Millions of Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia’s invasion in February 2022. The longer the war continues, the less likely they are to return, with dire consequences for Ukraine. By John P. Ruehl Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine…

People are protesting Rightist government moves ousting President Pedro Castillo. By Countercurrents Collective Tweeting from jail on Tuesday, Castillo said history will remember Peruvians “murdered for defending the country from the coup dictatorship,” and that “terror is the last bullet of…

Outgoing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fled the county just before his term of office ended on January 1, apparently fearing legal prosecution for multiple wrong-doings once he lost presidential immunity. By Roger D. Harris Bolsonaro had long predicted that if…

The appointment for EMERGENCY and Ogilvy’s video greeting is renewed, now in its sixth edition. This year’s theme is the need to begin to imagine the abolition of war, a goal made even more urgent by the outbreak in 2022…

Balamos in the Roma dialect is defined as anyone who is not a gypsy. This was what they called me when I started to approach and photograph these people, I was a balamos or in other words, a stranger to…

Anchored in the face of uncertainty, doubts and scepticism, I search for fantasy. Immersed in a hustle and bustle from which we cannot escape and of which we are, in a way, voluntary hostages, we live under a succession of…

The Japanese government recently announced plans to double the size of its military budget, which is already the 8th largest in the world. It also issued three new military doctrines which vastly increase its war fighting commits in the Asia-Pacific…

In the first eight days of 2023, more than 2,500 migrants from North Africa landed on Italian shores, compared to 370 in the same period last year, the Ministry of the Interior said today. According to a report published by…

By Urariano Mota * I retrieve the post-scripted chapter that I published in the American edition of the novel “Never-Ending Youth”, in the last pages of Peter Lownds” translation, “Never-Ending Youth”, I added these lines: Posters have taken over the…

With regard to the results of the PAES (university admission) and the chaotic admission process for the different establishments throughout the country, we must focus on this reality from the perspective of the right to education, foreseeing a chronic neglect…