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Chronicle of a phantom crisis or how France tried to destroy us…

December 2019, while France is going through one of its greatest social crises, the Gilets Jaunes are on the streets, ready to do anything for their demands and getting dangerously close to power, a new disease is making its appearance…

A High Seas Treaty Aimed at Protecting Polluted Oceans is Now a Reality

By Thalif Deen A historic new international treaty, described as “a monumental win for the protection of the world’s oceans”, will be open for signature by member states beginning September 20 during the high-level meeting of world political leaders at…

Peru’s parliament passes ruling against the right to information

The Peruvian Congress has approved a bill that gives the executive power to legislate on security issues. Among the 50 bills that would be approved is Bill No. 5632/2023, which seeks to criminalise the work of journalists who report on…

The eleventh in testimonies of a half-century commemoration

The political and social transition of a nation from a dictatorship to a democratic regime implies assuming the existence of a divided country that carries within itself a past that continues to be present for a large number of people,…

Sadness, fear, impotence, indignation and frustration

The commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the coup d’état has made me relive that date and what came after. Emotions came to the surface again: sadness, fear, impotence, indignation and frustration. It is difficult to share emotions with others,…

Those who are left over

How is it possible that “they” (said elite) have so much power over us, that they are able to make us believe in a reality that is simply an exercise of strategies on a chessboard, where what is at stake…

G20 and nuclear weapons: ICAN’s commentary

G20 members must go beyond reiterating their condemnation of the threats of the use of nuclear weapons The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) calls on G20 members to go beyond reiterating the condemnation of nuclear threats already formulated…

50 years after the Chilean assassination. Testimony

We lived in Mac Iver Street, along which, at great speed and with equal noise, tanks, tanks, trucks with army soldiers and carabineros of the ” creeping general ” Mendoza were running. Named after President Salvador Allende for joining in…

30 years after the Oslo Accords: Is hope for peace revived between Palestinians and Israelis?

On 13 September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat sealed in Washington the Oslo Peace Accords, which had been negotiated for months in the Norwegian capital. The accords maintained Israeli jurisdiction over foreign…

The urgent need to share

Some friends and I are organizing a photography exhibition entitled “Sharing will save the world“. I’ve noticed that it’s attracting continuously more interested people. This shows that women, children, and men are becoming sensitive to the idea of sharing and…

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