The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has ethnic, religious and territorial overtones and compromises the early days of the UN’s creation and the reckless and rigged operation of the powers that sit on the Security Council. Germán Ayala Osorio I will not address the origin of the hostilities and the contextual […]
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A socialist writer
It is 1955 and Brigitte Reimann, who has wanted to be a writer since the age of 14, is now 22. She lives in the eastern half of a country divided by post-WW2 geopolitics into opposing parts, one effectively controlled by the US (West Germany) and the other by Russia […]
Building an environmentally sustainable society
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 […]
Tragedy with a capital ‘T’ transforms into cry
This is the title Francis Fergusson gives the summary of Sophocles tragedy “Oedipus the King”, which according to Umberto Eco is the maximum condensation, that allows you to know something about a novel that’s not more than a two hundred page essay. Armando Orozco Tovar But going back […]
Lest we forget
Words like provocative, unruly, radical easily come to mind but seem inadequate when discussing Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the hyper-prolific filmmaker whose untimely death in 1982 signalled the end of a politically tumultuous period in German history. Sean Sheehan To be more exact, the history of the western half […]
















