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That’s enough monarchy now

No doubt millions of people felt a heartfelt attachment to the Queen, which will be displayed fully in the next few days. But the anachronistic nature of monarchy is also fully on display, in the obvious absurdities and pantomime procedure,…

How to Oppose Both Sides of a War

It’s tricky to oppose both sides of a war, and rarer even than supporting both sides. The weapons dealers support both sides. By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, September 4, 2022 In obedience to their televisions, people all over the…

Failure as a path

The day before yesterday Chile lived through what some are calling the biggest triumph of the right wing in its electoral history. Almost 62% of its population rejected the constitutional change project, which only two years ago was demanded by…

Ideas as bullets

Ideas are bullets, that’s why we say that Fidel was, is, a soldier of ideas. At this moment in history, we feel that men no longer produce ideas, that there are no new ideas, that we are condemned to remain…

Full Gender Equality Still Centuries Away, Warns New UN Report

The latest available Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 data show that the world is not on track to achieving gender equality by 2030. At the current rate of progress, it may take close to 300 years to achieve full gender equality, according…

Philippines must “commit to concrete, time-bound justice and accountability targets” for “drug war” victims

by Perfecto Caparas iDEFEND urged the UN Human Rights Council to exhort the Philippine government to “commit to concrete, time-bound justice and accountability targets” for victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called “drug war.” Rose Trajano, iDEFEND’s international advocacy officer, made…

Catastrophes will give rise to a new world

This is the thesis of the short story “Auroville, 2046, after the end of a world”, written by the Brazilian author Débora Nunes and already published in eight languages. The book will be launched by the Multiconvergencia de Redes Globales,…

Climate crisis – is there still a tomorrow?

We are witnessing the end of the world. Not of the planet Earth, which will continue to revolve around the sun for billions of years, but of the world understood as the condition of life of human beings and especially…

Dementias. Encounters and misunderstandings

The literature says that we come into the world fragile and dependent and that through others we become human. By Claudia Mónica García That we then internalise parental figures that will be the scaffolding (in the best of cases) of…

Interview with Tomás Hirsch: “It is the sum of many factors that explains the triumph of the rejection of the Chilean constitutional proposal”.

We interviewed the humanist Deputy Tomás Hirsch to know his vision of the failure at the ballot box of the constitutional project plebiscited this Sunday in Chile, in an attempt to reflect as broadly as possible on the matter. Why…

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