France’s media-friendly President Emmanuel Macron assumed the French presidency for the first time in 2017. In his inaugural speech, he said that Europe needed “a France that is strong and sure of its destiny and that carries the voice of freedom”. Miguel Ángel Ferrís In just seven years, […]
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‘Para-justice’ or vigilante justice in Colombia
The citizens’ weariness with street thieves naturalised revenge and punishment as instruments of a kind of dangerously vindictive “para-justice”. German Ayala Osorio* Every day, videos are posted on social media showing citizens, particularly men, subjecting thieves to violent punishments they call “paloterapia” (lynching), cognitive recalibration, therapeutic massages (punching […]
Times of increasing war and conflicts
The definition of war is a conflict that results in at least 1000 deaths in a year. Taking this into account, the world is now experiencing the largest quantity of these conflicts since 1946. The number of armed conflicts in which several states have become involved rose to 59 […]
Gaza in the 21st century
We are in the 21st century now. We have learned in school about the ancient human and how he used to ignite the fire in order to get light, heat, and make food. He used simple tools in his primitive life. This is what history says. (This article was published […]
Roaming the streets at random and whim
Last week I wrote about how the cityscape contains empty spaces, voids, which are the as-yet undeveloped tracts within the urban setting. Steve Latham But the word ‘void’ possesses a dual meaning. It is also a spiritual word. The void is what mystics experience in the depth of […]
















