Nearly all of our world has been mapped by Google and although that includes North Korea this still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to the most steadfastly secretive country on Earth. Sean Sheehan What we think we know about the place seems to be […]
In Focus
In Focus
From defamation on social media networks to actual suicide
Two weeks before Christmas, Flavio came home from university in São Paulo, had lunch with his parents and locked himself in his room. At 2:30 a.m., the intercom in the flat woke his parents. Frei Betto The doorman told them he would come up to talk to them. […]
Multiculturalism, integration and tolerance
Multiculturalism is about ‘integration’ and ‘tolerance’, both ill-defined. This envisages a meshing together, in some sense, of a socially complex and pluralistic western culture, with those that are ‘Other’. This Other may be traditional, and very different. Nigel Pocock Most psychologists would say that adaptability and the […]
Militaristic tendencies in the global economy
Information coming from the North Atlantic Trade Organisation (NATO), the European Union, the United States, Japan, Russia, China and other international players shows an increase in expenditure on the production of weapons and dual-use technological goods (civil and military). María Julia Mayoral Last January, NATO signed additional contracts […]
In memory of the future
The gap between ethics and politics has never seemed to yawn wider. The response of the laughingly called “international community” to Gaza has exposed truths and the need for a politics of Truth. Sean Sheehan Such a need confronted Lenin when the leading socialist party in Germany transformed […]