Back in February, in London, a Latin American woman in the UK and her partner suffered severe pneumonia and lost their sense of smell. But they did not believe that they had contracted the virus because at that time it was thought that those who had not been to China […]
Author: ThePrisma
The US must choose between a unifier and a divider
The presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden will set out their stalls this coming 29th September in Cleveland, Ohio, in the first debate of an election marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic collapse and demonstrations against racism. Luis Beatón Trump, the 45th president of the United States, […]
Cardienal Barreto: “Social indifference promotes injustice”
He is one of those responsible for the new winds sweeping the Peruvian Catholic church. He condemns the ruthless US blockade against Cuba for its “moral perversity” and severely criticises the neoliberal economic model. Manuel Robles Sosa From his position of Archbishop of the central Andean city of […]
The incompletion of melancholy
I write about ‘my depression’. But why so possessive? Because, every person’s depression is unique to them. Steve Latham To appropriate Tolstoy’s observation about families (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’), we are happy in the same way; we are […]
Ordinary heroism
Maria Fouillette, daughter of a butcher in a French town close to the border with Switzerland, was the mother of two children. Her husband Roger became leader of an anti-Nazi resistance group until he was arrested in 1943. Sean Sheehan Roger was brought, shackled and bruised, to his […]