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Laura Rodríguez Riccomini Room in the Chilean Congress

With the participation of the President of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, Vlado Mirosevic, the Laura Rodríguez Riccomini Room was inaugurated today inside the National Congress building. The steps leading to this initiative were led by Deputy Tomás Hirsch, who…

Tunisia: repression of press freedom

Tunisia: UN human rights chief requests authorities to stop restricting press freedom and criminalising independent journalism By: UN News. On Friday, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern over increasing restrictions on the right to…

America Faces Its Greatest Peril Since The Civil War

I am still at pains to internalize what sinister schemes Republican leaders in the House and Senate are concocting only to retain power, at whatever cost to the country and its future. The Republicans are terrified of the changing demographics…

India’s Ominous Turn to Totalitarianism

India is at a historic crossroads. A sixth of the world’s population, nowhere else today democracy, social harmony and free speech are in such peril. By Partha Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his powerful home minister Amit Shah have…

Summer Of Suicide 2023

“Yeah, That’s Called World War III!” Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland, Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan are quite aware of how devastated and depleted the Ukrainian army is and has been since this past winter. This is why President Biden continues…

The crime of fighting for decent housing in Chile

Faced with the existing human housing crisis in the country, which causes a level of indignity and daily pain in millions of people, the failed state, in the hands of the political elite, takes a line that coincides with its…

EU-Mercosur agreement still at a standstill, but can still be concluded by 2023

The agreement signed in 2019 must be ratified by all countries involved. Negotiations have been dragging on since 1992. The meeting between Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on 12 June…

Daniel Ellsberg warns that the risk of nuclear war is growing as tensions over Ukraine and Taiwan escalate.

Daniel Ellsberg, photo 2020 (Image by Christopher Michel photo 2020) In-depth interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the renowned Pentagon Papers whistleblower, who talks about his sustained anti-war activism and analyses the recent leak of Pentagon documents on the war in Ukraine.…

Why UN Peacekeeping Chief Lacroix is Visiting Bangladesh?

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, will be visiting Bangladesh on June 25-26 at the invitation of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a state guest. This will be his first visit to Bangladesh on the…

Statement of the CPM against the criminalisation of the protest

Forty years after the end of the last civil-military dictatorship, and in the context of the reflections that we as Argentine society must make around this anniversary, we would like to point out our preoccupation and rejection of various initiatives…

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