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More than 70 countries pledge to strengthen the right to free education

Statement at the UN supports free education from pre-school to secondary school level This week at the United Nations Human Rights Council, more than 70 countries from all regions of the world expressed their support for “efforts to strengthen the…

For neutrality and peace instead of NATO and war

In June 2023, the Irish government has been holding a „Consultative Forum on International Security Policy,“ intended to „open a discussion“ about Ireland’s policy of neutrality. At the invitation of Irish MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, German MP Sevim…

US Treasury Secretary leaving for visit to China

July 6. /TASS/. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit Beijing on July 6 through 9 to meet with high-ranking Chinese officials. Although she is not scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, she is expected to hold talks…

The Not-So-Discreet U.S. Campaign to Pressure Brazil’s Foreign Policy

The respected London newspaper Financial Times ran with the following headline last week: “The discreet U.S. campaign to defend Brazil’s election.” The report, written by Michael Stott, Michael Pooler and Bryan Harris, deals with a “pressure campaign” carried out by…

“Oras de Peligro”, A Movie Review

The truth deserves to be told for future generations.     by Lui Queano Oras de Peligro, which prominently featured the historical narrative of the four-day peaceful EDSA revolution, was the result of a collaboration between acclaimed director Joel Lamangan…

Nine duly linked and binding conflicts

In the context of the fundamental contradiction of confrontation between the government and its initiatives presided over by Xiomara Castro Sarmiento and the powerful and active de facto groups – which range from official political parties, to business associations, to…

Constituent Process: Modatima warns that the Expert Commission proposal maintains water privatisation model

The environmental and territorial organisation described this situation as “alarming and contradictory” to the contents of the human right to water, and called for support for a popular initiative for a norm they have introduced, called “Water for Life”. By…

Deteriorating credibility: all that is solid vanishes into thin air

Regaining confidence in politics and politicians is fundamental to strengthen democracy and its institutions. There are public figures who permanently denigrate political activity with their actions, confusing republican spaces with a circus, a stage or a television set. By Antonio…

Occupied Palestine: burning of Palestinian villages by armed settlers continues

Hundreds of armed settlers continued their arsonist actions yesterday. They set fire to dozens of houses in several villages in the Ramallah area. Particularly devastating was the attack in Umm Safa, which required Palestinian firefighters to rescue a family trapped…

Humanism in the Cordoba elections: The small great joys that history is made of

Sunday 25th June saw the completion of a new phase of a series of voting days in which, for reasons of electoral speculation, the election of executive and legislative positions at the provincial and local level in the province of…

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