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In Chile, the right wing is not a single mass. It is a jungle with hierarchies. At the very top sits Tarzan, the export elite that moves copper, pulp, wine, and forests. In the middle leap the monkeys, those of Renovación Nacional (RN): shopkeepers, hardware…

Cornelius Castoriadis: 130,000 Weeks After Ancient Greece Τhe French intellectual–philosopher, psychoanalyst, and social critic of Greek origin. An intellectual, both of international standing and ‘somewhat marginal’. This article is dedicated to Mr. David Andersson, the French-American editor of Pressenza New…

For African countries, more and more diverse economic opportunities have opened up primarily due to the changing geopolitical dynamics around the world today. These changes are obviously influencing Africa’s development landscape. While it has some negative connotations, it is simultaneously…

Donald Trump came into office promising to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Now, six months later, his high stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska may have put the United States and Russia on a new path…

Perhaps the most amazing thing is that media, commentators and many others seem to believe that peace might appear from such a bread and circus show… By Jan Oberg Here is CNN’s take-away from the “Pursuing Peace” Summit in Anchorage yesterday. “Peacemaking”…

I’m attending the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival after speaking with playwright Alicia Foxworth about her piece Ghost Writer, an Abolitionist’s Tale. BBTF’s 2025 season spotlights four new musicals and eight original plays making their New York debut—works that champion “story,…

Guwahati: Commending the Assam government for deciding to name the under-construction Dighalipukhuri–Noonmati flyover in the city after legendary Kamrup ruler Prithu Maharaj, a forum of nationalist citizens appeals to the State chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, for erecting a life-size…

The recent shootings in Manhattan two weeks ago and Brooklyn this week have reignited the familiar “law and order” drumbeat in New York politics. Predictably, establishment voices—Mayor Eric Adams, former governor Andrew Cuomo, and their allies in big media—have rushed…

It is not fatigue: it is erosion. Reality, when it touches you daily with the coldness of a war report and the smell of a morgue, wears you down from the inside until it makes invisible the edges that once…

Watchdog Group Lists 48 Skin Lightening Products Adulterated With Mercury 15 August 2025, Quezon City.  As the eighth anniversary of the global entry into force of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is observed on August 16, the toxics watchdog group…