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Benin: A reality difficult to be grasped

There are places where the interweaving of times and spaces makes understanding difficult. Phenomena emerge from different tectonic layers of existence, mutating into apparitions that dissuade the simple, linear and superficial narrative. To penetrate this complex reality is an almost…

A Reading & Discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence” Speech

Please join the North Country Peace Group for an online Reading & Discussion of Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence” speech on Thursday, Jan. 12, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. MLK delivered this controversial but little known…

Washington’s “Democracy Promotion” Spectacularly Fails in Venezuela

The Los Angeles Times reports that “the audacious gamble by the U.S. government to…restore democracy” suffered a “spectacular failure” in Venezuela. What this State Department stenographer masquerading as a newspaper considers a “democratic” setback consisted of failing to impose unknown…

They want to lead us into war – interview with historic African leader from Mali

This interview with Aminata Dramane Traoré was first published Nov. 30 in the German newspaper junge Welt (jW). Traoré is an author, human rights activist and former Minister of Culture in Mali. She discusses the chaos caused by Western states…

Generation and self-consumption, the way to clean energy in Argentina

With large projects held back by the economic crisis and lack of infrastructure, Argentina seems to see an alternative path towards greater sustainability of its energy matrix in small renewable energy ventures, promoted by industries, businesses and private users sensitive…

Wrapped in a spider’s web

“Not even the worst of the criminal is foreign to me. And if I recognize it in the landscape, I recognize it in myself. So it is that I want to overcome that which in me and in every man,…

Warning Out on Toxic Cadmium in New Year Lucky Charm Bracelets

EcoWaste Coalition pushes for chemical ingredient disclosure, insists consumers have the right to know. 10 January 2023, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has detected high levels of cadmium, a hazardous chemical, in lucky charm bracelets being sold…

Affected communities ask the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to divest from Davao’s Waste-to-Energy (WtE) facility

Farmers, Environmentalists, and Experts Stand Against Waste Incineration On January 9, 2023, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific together with Ecowaste Coalition and the Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustianability (IDIS) – Davao and in partnership with Ecoteneo,…

Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR

I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to spend my childhood, adolescence and even my youth in a…

“2023, the hour of a new world” : the interview of Nicolas Maduro by Ignacio Ramonet

Ignacio Ramonet – Mr. President, first of all I would like to thank you for receiving me again for this interview, it is good to continue this tradition – this is already the seventh occasion when we meet at the…

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