International legal and moral responsibility towards Palestine must not be limited to describing the state of catastrophe, the destruction, the aggravation of the humanitarian catastrophe and the change of the geographical and demographic reality by the force of occupation. It must go further and take the necessary measures imposed by […]
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Series ‘Fascism’: Defining fascism, defeating fascism
What strategies serve to combat the rise of fascism in contemporary society? How to distinguish between legitimate criticism of fascism and the misapplication of the term in political discourse? Examples showing the transition from bourgeois democracy to fascist rule. These and other aspects are explored by The Prisma in its new series ‘Fascism’.
The successful social protest made invisible by the media
After the demonstrations in Colombia called by the Gustavo Petro government on 18 March, the mass media did not recognise their massive scale. Germán Ayala Osorio The Noticias Caracol news programme, for example, avoided as much as possible making reference to the number of people who came out […]
Trump’s authoritarianism hits… the anti-Cuban media
An executive order from President Donald Trump, targeting the US Agency for Global Media (Usagm) to “continue the reduction of the federal bureaucracy”, directly impacted Radio and TV Martí. Its journalists, according to various press reports, simply received an email informing them that they were on administrative leave. The […]
The mass public impunity of ‘media stoning’
One of their worst qualities is their intensely public impunity. There is no going back. The slander, lies, rumours, gossip, false evidence and generally all the attacks provided by the civil and penal codes, are especially hostile when they happen in public, without boundaries or possible restraint. Fernando Buen […]
















