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Congress approves education rollback and blocks environmental progress

Parliament approved legislation that represents a step backwards in the quality of education and sex education, and blocked other initiatives to make progress on environmental issues. While the country was plunged into a new political crisis, the Congress of the…

European Union targeting Comprehensive Partnership with Africa

European Union seeks to build strongly on its existing economic and trade during the February 17 – 18th summit with African leaders, and the African Union. Leading business enterprises and representatives from academic, civil society organizations and media will be…

The government of Mendoza has privatised a part of the Cordillera

The free handing over of 12,351 hectares, with an important portion of the Cordillera with strategic natural assets, was formalised through Decree 2138/2021, signed by the governor of Mendoza, Rodolfo Suárez, and the Minister of Government, Victor Ibáñez, on 23…

Agreement to shield megaprojects promotes “private profit and public dispossession”, denounce organisations

The presidential agreement that protects the projects and works of the federal government promotes “private profit and public dispossession”, as well as representing “a death sentence for the communities and territories affected” by the megaprojects, according to indigenous and peasant…

Face 2 Face with Dr. Ernest Biscardi

LIVE SHOW – Thursday, February 10th at 12 (noon) On this show, we speak with Dr. Ernest Biscardi, about the origins of how and why people get stuck. Why we have fixed ways of responding with no easy access to other…

The wildcat: The great forgotten one

Of all the wild mammals of our fauna, the wildcat is perhaps the least known of all, the great forgotten of our forests. There is no known study on the distribution and status of its population in the Iberian Peninsula.…

The transnational plunder of Chilean copper

The study, “New estimates of the wealth given away to large private copper mining companies: Chile 2005-2015”, addressed the economic rent obtained by the 10 largest mining companies in Chile. Using official World Bank (WB) data for the period 2005-2014…

Cooperative Artist Residencies Give Black Creatives the Space to Thrive

How two nascent artist residencies on opposite sides of the country are giving Black creatives opportunities to rest and create. By Aric Sleeper Under the pervasive stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, waxing and waning ad infinitum, with no end in…

Palestine: conversation on the right to water

How do you live when you have no running water in your home? Why and how is Israel drying out the Palestinians? How does the climate crisis affect access to water in the West Bank, and what does the future…

Haiti, San Martin and the odious foreign debt

The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.…

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