Today we are on the cusp of total environmental disaster on our planet. Life in all its forms is deteriorating, and nothing is happening to change this despite a multitude of voices demonstrating for change. John Elvis Vera S.* Neither governments nor other responsible bodies are taking the […]
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A history of migration
As thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers cross over from Asia and Africa into Europe, it throws up resonances with the movement of peoples through history. Steve Latham The drift of peoples has frequently been from the East into the European peninsula, with the original settlement of human […]
Nationalisms today
Those currently achieving political prominence in the Old Continent have little or nothing to do with national recognition of poor people on the peripheries, victims of the growth of capitalism. The flags of internationalism await more favourable times. Juan Diego García Here, in the periphery of the global […]
Refugees and borders
This text is written when domestic and international pressure seems to be weakening the UK conservative government’s hard position towards refugees as in recent hours information has emerged about an announcement that Cameron might give soon. Mabel Encinas Up to recently, the only humanitarian ‘urgency’ for the conservative […]
Critical journalism overcomes fear and breaks the silence
What is the role of journalism in our lives as readers of media, I wonder, facing the murder of another journalist in Mexico. Ruben Espinosa was killed in a collective murder a few weeks ago. Mabel Encinas By contrast with journalism that perpetuates the status quo and does […]