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Hayao Miyazaki Comes out of Retirement with One Last Movie: How Do You Live?

Hayao Miyazaki’s last movie How Do You Live? Open first in Japanese theatres on July 14th of 2023, after a resounding promotional silence that entailed the absence of a trailer, a voice cast list, or any other form of traditional…

Stella Moris Assange: “They want to jail Julian so that they can jail any journalist”

“Day X”, the fateful day in the Assange saga, is fast approaching. Incarcerating Julian Assange gives governments the power to imprison any journalist, Stella Moris Assange told a packed room at the Swiss Press Club in Geneva last Monday (2023-07-10).…

Milagro Sala, a tribute to the colours of her homeland demanding her freedom

The most beautiful mountains I have seen in Latin America are those of north-western Argentina. It is a landscape tinged with the voices of Atahualpa Yupanqui and Mercedes Sosa, with its rugged and monumental geography of the lyrics of their…

International Reconciliation Movement expresses concern about the escalation of war and the nuclear risk

The Movimento Internazionale della Riconciliazione (International Reconciliation Movement) (Italian non-violent organization adhering to the International Fellowship of Reconciliation) expresses concern about the further overheating of the climate of international conflict following the holding of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, the…

NATO Is a Warfare Alliance, Not a Force for Global Peace or Stability

CODEPINK’s Statement on 2023 NATO Summit At his speech during the NATO Summit in Lithuania, President Biden called the U.S. and Europe “anchors for global security” when in reality there are no anchors during this increasingly dangerous and polarized time…

Stop Border Violence: collecting one million signatures in Europe kicks off

Starting today, July 10, [2023], you can support the European Citizens’ Initiative “Stop Border Violence.” It is the European Union’s only participatory democracy tool. By collecting one million signatures within one year’s time, European citizens can force the Commission to…

Amazon Deforestation Drops 33% in Lula’s First Six Months

From January to June of this year — the first six months of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s presidential term — deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon has fallen 33.6 percent, new government satellite data shows, as The Associated Press reported. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Lula’s stricter…

The hypocrisy of war: The Ukrainian government’s double game on “cluster bombs”.

While on the one hand, the Ukrainian government showed apparent sensitivity to the issue and promised Human Rights Watch to investigate the possible use of cluster bombs by its own troops, on the other hand, it asked Biden to be…

Signals fixed in time II

Siegfried relief at Xanten in Nordwall, Xanten. By Javier Belda In Norse mythology Siegfried (Sigurd in Scandinavia) is the hero who fights the dragon. In the traditional narrative, the dragon is the ultimate representative of the beast, terror, the invincible,…

Happy In(ter)dependence Day!

What do Argentina and South Sudan have in common? At first glance, nothing. While one has a vast territory – it is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world – the African nation could fit in the territory of two…

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