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Reporting violence

Journalists and photographers of court reporting in Mexico decided to show their work to the public from another stage: an exhibition room where the graphic testimony of crime and death have their own voice. The exhibition will be open until 16 September.   The exhibition is called “Sweet Violence” and […]

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Suicide, an aesthetic demand

Suicide has its influence on Catholicism, something that the Church paradoxically denies, as being the doctrine of death itself.   Armando Orozco Tovar   At the age of twenty, a young university student committed suicide. All of a sudden, he decided to cut with his own hand the absurd thread […]

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The people immortal

Military histories tend to be less-than-riveting for readers who are not war buffs – and who wants to join that club? – but novels based around non-fictional episodes of warfare can fill the gap created by our need to know more about significant moments of military history.   Sean Sheehan […]

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Social democracy and “human” capitalism

In critical situations similar to the current one, there have always been at least three alternatives. Radical system change (revolution), extreme hardening of capitalism (barbarity), or reform of the social order (capital-labour pact). Fascism now is essentially the same as fascism then, although its outward forms are numerous and extremely diverse.