At what point did we allow ourselves to be stripped of the most valuable thing in our existence which is peace and eagerness to live? Aminta Buenaño There was a time, not so long ago, when at night Guayaquil opened like a flower. The nightlife, bohemia, buskers offering […]
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How to hide an act of terrorism
Specialists affirm that the West is just beginning its journey through other publications that will complete, as on previous occasions, the smokescreen which is in place to erase any possible implication of the White House in an act of State terrorism. Antonio Rondón Garcia Pulitzer prize-winner Seymour Hersh […]
What is ‘Love’?
“All you need is love”, sang the Beatles, in their classic “Yellow submarine”. But what is love? Is it the same as ‘sex’, or is sex an expression of love, its servant? Nigel Pocock What did the great prophet of 2000 years ago mean, when he said that […]
Chelsea Manning: the personal and the political
The myth of Narcissus is a familiar one. He sees his reflection in a pool and, as Ovid says in “Metamorphoses”, he “fell in love with an empty hope, a shadow mistaken for substance’” Sean Sheehan His falling victim to his own reflection serves as a metaphor for […]
A party leader and the politics of truth
In her red dress, tight-lipped and gimlet-eyed, the speaker looked up from her notes, and declared that if you believed you were elephant, that was true. Nigel Pocock Well—not quite. If you believed, and self-defined, as whatever gender or non-gender you were, that was true for you. And […]
















