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With Over $34 Trillion U.S. Government Debt Jumps To New Height

U.S. government federal debt has breached an unflattering milestone, topping $34 trillion for the first time in history and amounting to more than double the total of the world’s next-biggest borrower, China. The U.S. Treasury Department disclosed the new debt total on…

How Long can Israel Defy the World?

Palestinians in Gaza are being decimated. Over 20 000 have been killed, mostly women and children. Three times more have been wounded. Some experts qualify it as genocide, others as massacre. Two million people have been displaced, many more than…

Painting and Revolution: Manet and Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of New York

Side by side at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, this exhibition is a forceful reminder of why Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas were of such revolutionary significance. Manet was the father of modern art according to Clement Greenberg – the Immanuel…

Ceasefire! New Year’s Eve in Piazza Duomo in Milan, with Gaza in the heart – video

This event had been launched a few days earlier by an international network that invited people to count down to New Year’s Eve by asking that the fire cease, by calling for a ceasefire in many squares. In Milan, they…

Milan, January 1st, several churches in the square against all wars – Video

Piazza Santo Stefano, 4 pm on January 1st, on the occasion of the 57th World Day of Peace, called by the community of Sant’Egidio, at least 200 people arrive, a good part of them immigrants. They remember the violence in…

In the age of the pragmatic Left

President Gabriel Boric himself took it upon himself to inform his country of the agreement reached between Codelco, Chile’s most important state mining company, and Soquimich (SQM), the private company that has been operating in the rich Atacama salt flats…

Argentina: Milei’s DNU 70, null and void, does not apply

As I have been arguing, when President Javier Milei issued the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) 70, on 20/12/2023, he seriously violated institutional good faith maliciously, in a true illegal deviation of power and carried out a null and…

14 years after a historic milestone: More necessary than ever to redouble efforts for Peace and Nonviolence

Fourteen years ago, on January 2, 2010, the closing ceremony of the First World March for Peace and Nonviolence was held in the mountainous area of Punta de Vacas, a few kilometres from the border between Argentina and Chile. After…

Goddess Parvati: reality is not disconnected from her

All religions collect substances from the mundane reality and manifest those in their scriptures and narratives. But considering this process very insignificant, labeling it anthropomorphic will be imprudent. The religions mainly deal with the Anthropon (Greek term; singular Anthropos) or…

Latin American feminisms and transfeminisms: “We are here”.

Latin American feminisms and transfeminisms are characterised by their heterogeneity, as they have been shaped by each country’s different political, economic, social, and cultural realities. Although there are certain common elements in most of our countries, such as the fight…

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