Democracy

We will often come back to the roots of the ongoing Ukrainian tragedy, which hold a valuable lesson for everyone. One of its primary ironies is that history is repeating itself. The West has once again used one of its…

How the emergence of a nation rejecting neoliberal dogmas and building the Common could shake a Western world grappling with inequality, economic stagnation, environmental devastation, and fascism. A chronicle of a journey By Antonio Martins Located 2,400 kilometers from Beijing,…

The battle over Israel’s democracy, if not its very soul, has been raging since the current Netanyahu government came to power seven months ago. The passage of the first round of ‘reforms’ has made an indelible crack in Israel’s democracy;…

After a five-year publishing silence, the fifth book by Uruguayan journalist and communicologist Aram Aharonian is now in (Argentinean) bookstores, they say the last in the saga of Seeing Ourselves with Our Own Eyes (2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013), The…

Millions are the victims of the neglect of essential policies. Guatemala is today on the verge of a coup d’état, which has been brewing underhandedly from the presidential palace and the highest levels of its institutions. The manoeuvres leading to…

Nearly fifty years ago I emigrated from the Soviet Union. My only reason for leaving all that was known to me was a deep longing for freedom of expression. I resented restrictions on foreign publications and deplored the practice of…

The change in the new world order will have to go beyond economic, political and military issues. It is a deeper, broader and more decisive change. Since the Greeks, since Alexander. By Edgar Chacón Morales Some millenarists might say that…

We will be proposing a procedural vision with a broader context than the one that is usually used to view this type of analysis. The aim is to take a social-historical look and try to discover how the era imprints…

Yesterday the coronation of the new king of England; Charles III, took place in Westminster Abbey followed by a parade to Buckingham Palace. The estimated cost of the event is about 100 million pounds while the country is facing an…

For two consecutive nights this week, during the holy month of Ramadan, the Israeli military stormed Al-Aqsa mosque. They entered the mosque before prayer was over, firing rubber bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at Palestinian worshippers. These events left…