Politics

What you need to know about education savings accounts, a kind of “super-voucher.” By Peter Greene Although a sizable number of Republican candidates in the 2022 midterm elections who were counting on school vouchers to be a winning issue—including Tudor Dixon in…

The minimum required of democratic countries is that their authorities are elected by the people in free, informed and secret elections. In Chile, let’s say that this objective is fulfilled, although the elections are not so free and informed, because…

“From January 1, 2023, I will govern for the 215 million Brazilians, not just for those who voted for me,” he promised, knowing that it will not be easy to do so with a Congress in the hands of the…

The last throes of 2022 have evaporated, as an unbalanced, unstable and contradictory expression of the relations of power between the interests of the ruling classes and the broad and heterogeneous movement of the struggles of the workers and the…

The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another…

Since the corona crisis, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have become the centre of attention of a wide range of conspiracy theories. Most of these “news” are so one-sided, poorly sourced or not sourced at all, and…

2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. This imperial fiat arrogates to the US the unilateral authority to intervene in the affairs of sovereign states in the Western Hemisphere and to exclude any other power from meddling in…

The main political news of the year was twofold. One, the resounding rejection of the constitutional proposal presented by the convention on 4 September; and two, the agreement recently reached to initiate a new process leading to a new constitution.…

The turn of the year again focuses our thoughts more on the future of families. Hopes turn to health, peace and well-being. The German chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke at the last general assembly of the UN of a change of…

The committee ends its historic investigation of a failed presidential coup. By Steven Rosenfeld The House select committee investigating the January 2021 attack on the Capitol has referred former President Donald Trump and a handful of top aides to the…