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Love for Living Animals: African Forest Elephants and People — Similar Emotions, Similar Mental Disorders, Too

ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…

A Covid Chronicle: This crazy, yet crazy-beautiful world

POEM     A grim specter has been haunting the four corners of the world. North, South, East, West, An unseen virus, like a whirlwind Has wreaked havoc on the lives of all and sundry.   Lives and livelihoods are…

IFOR’s statement on 5th anniversary of the Colombian Peace Agreement

5 Years of the Peace Agreement in Colombia: The Support of the International Community is Crucial for its Implementation November 24th, 2021 Today marks the 5th anniversary of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces…

Just out — Enviro Close-Up #661 Bruce Gagnon and Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

The Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space is the leading group internationally working to keep space for peace. In this Enviro Close-Up, Bruce Gagnon, its coordinator since it was established in 1992, details his impetus in challenging…

Cuba: Five Years After Fidel

Fidel Castro died five years ago, but I feel like decades have passed in Cuba since November 25, 2016. Trump arrived and passed slowly with his string of sanctions that have felt worse than ever because of the pandemic. Then…

Washington’s lackeys and the elections in Venezuela

Despite the fact that independent international observers have confirmed and revealed that the elections that took place in Venezuela were exemplary, the establishment insists on stigmatising the Bolivarian country through articles that seek to cast suspicion on the electoral process…

The defence of the murderers of Elías Garay

The statement of the accused: three accidental shots, the Mapuche were like a “pack of dogs”, only one of the accused fired, there was a black lump that looked like a gun and the 22 carbine “kills cats”. Today, during…

Who is Martín Cruz Feilberg?

The name of Martín Cruz Feilberg is currently making the rounds of all the local media in Chubut and Río Negro, including the national media in Buenos Aires. This man is accused and charged as one of those responsible for…

Environmental Groups to Senate: Pass Genuine EPR Law 

Public health and environment groups ask the Senate to amend Senate Bill 2425 – An Act Institutionalizing The Practice of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) on Plastic Packaging Waste. “We laud the Senate for finally addressing the producers’ role on waste…

Conversation with Aida Yepes, author of “My Little Eulalia”

My mother was barely a teenager when Gaitan was assassinated on April 9, 1948. His death generated a wave of political violence throughout the country. This topic and the violence that occurred, was never discussed at home. What I do…

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