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“Enough of CFA franc monetary colonialism”. Revolutionary governments in the Sahel aspire to a free currency.

On 16 September 2023, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso signed the Liptako-Gourma Charter, establishing a new alliance between the three French-speaking African states of the Sahel. An alliance that laid the groundwork for even greater change. In December, the leader…

Surrogacy, motherhood in the face of new reproductive technologies. An ecofeminist perspective. Interview with Laura Corradi

In recent days, Surrogacy returned to the news, after the right-wing has flaunted the weapon of prohibitionist propaganda, declaring it a “universal crime”. Although right-wing prohibitionism is not a solution, it has been clear for years how neoliberalism in Italy…

Climate collapse, the digital transition is not an ecological transition

We live in an era of continuous “emergencies” described with apocalyptic words that have the effect of frightening and paralyzing people’s thoughts and personal actions, and depressing them: the Covid-19 syndemic, the war in Ukraine with announced nuclear danger, the…

Brazil, Lula: “We will eliminate deforestation in the Amazon by 2030”

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has promised that the deforestation process suffered by the Brazilian Amazon will end by 2030, after making combatting indiscriminate logging and forest removal the centerpiece of his environmental policy. Lula’s Brazilian socialist government…

Gandhi between degrowth, nonviolence and deep ecology. Interview with Gloria Germani – Part II

Mahatma Gandhi’s thought and political action represent the highest expression of the Indian cultural movement that aimed at the full reaffirmation of the essential values of the Hindu tradition against the slavish imitation of Western ideas, which had been developing…

Gandhi between degrowth, nonviolence and deep ecology. Interview with Gloria Germani – Part I

Mahatma Gandhi’s thought and political action are part of the movement for the revival of Hinduism that took place in India from the last years of the nineteenth century until the first half of the twentieth century, following the strong…

Hindu ecology, the interconnectedness in the All One. Interview with Gloria Germani – Part II

Below is the second part of the interview on Hindu ecology with Gloria Germani, an ecophilosopher who has always been engaged in dialogue between West and East, a student of philosopher Serge Latouche, Swedish ecologist Helena Norberg Hodge, and Titian…

Hindu ecology, the interconnectedness in the All One. Interview with Gloria Germani – Part I

Ganesh, god of wisdom Climate collapse is part of a much larger environmental and social turmoil, which requires us to reflect on the values and direction taken by our Western industrial civilization. Hindu ecology, older than Buddhist and Jain ecology,…

Peru, Pedro Castillo’s achievements that the elite doesn’t like

After the right-wing coup in Peru and the waves of protests against Castillo’s ousting, the question remains as to why Pedro Castillo was so inconvenient to Western elites. Certainly there are many answers, but we can identify turning points in…

Bolivia: Movimiento Al Socialismo’s victory against the coup and the right- wing

Justice is finally done! After a year of the coup, the Bolivian people have once again expressed their will against neoliberalism, its policies and economic interests aimed at destroying their country. The election results arrived at one a.m., after several…