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The Australian journalist/editor is missing from the official program but activists will be distributing a pamphlet showing why his case touches everyone working in the media. They will also be handing out a flyer on the new Melzer book. By…

When the way things are isn’t working, we can build something better if we draw from our collective power and focus on care and interconnection. By April M. Short We are alive in a unique time of challenges that arrive…

The BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – is expected to increase their share of the global economy to nearly 35% by 2028, Bloomberg reported on Monday. By Countercurrents Collective According to Bloomberg’s calculations based on the…

In Europe, Ukraine, Russia, and all over the world, people want peace while governments demand more and more weapons and human resources for war. People are asking for the right to health, education, work, and a liveable planet, but governments…

In response to the country’s worst drought on record, the Tunisian national water distribution company has declared that it will be cutting off water supply to citizens for seven hours a night during Ramadan with the possibility of extension even…

The French president admitted to “social anger” but argues that pension reform was essential. French President Emmanuel Macron signed into law a pension reform that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64 and extends the time of work needed…

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that since “President Putin is not taking the initiative to stop [the conflict], Zelensky is not taking the initiative to stop [the conflict]. Europe and the United States continue to contribute to…

The 9th International Symposium of the World Centre for Humanist Studies (WCHS) will take place the 28th, 29th, and 30th of April. Since the beginning of the WCHS international symposiums, 15 years have passed and the organisational deployment of volunteers…

The Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci presciently observed: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” By Roger D. Harris…

His (Translator’s Note: This is Nico Piro’s book) Maledetti pacifisti (Damned Pacifists), winner of the Ilaria Alpi prize, is an important book of denunciation with a provocative title. But is it really still possible to do journalism in the service…