In 2012, the then-president Barack Obama filled with hope thousands of young people who were in this land without the papers to authorise it. However, a few days ago a US court declared this initiative illegal and remanded the case to a lower court. Today, they are waiting while other […]
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Covid-19 favours the rich
In 2021, despite the force of the pandemic, the planet’s wealthiest inhabitants accumulated 45.6 per cent of global wealth. The amount of money concentrated in the hands of the richest 1 per cent was up on the year before, thanks to the volume of assets hoarded and the addition of […]
Jair Bolsonaro, clinging to his dying power
Bolsonaro will not accept the outcome of the elections in Brazil if he is defeated and is seeking to mobilise his supporters now to try to repeat in Brazil a violent movement of fanatics and lumpens, inspired by the invasion of the Capitol in Washington by supporters of the then […]
The subversive speech of a President at the UN
The address by the President of Colombia Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego, to the 77th session of the UN comes not only from Latin-American ecological politics, and global ecological ethics, but also expresses a critical spirit that goes beyond the evaluation of environmental sustainability. Germán Ayala Osorio The head of […]
Emir Hasanpor, a campaigner for women’s right in Iran
“Religion overcasts on Iran’s sky like an octopus and people are controlled like stitch dolls, if anybody speaks something athwart is condemned to execution and easily done so”, says this Iranian independent film maker. Shanta Sultana The melancholy director, a campaigner for women’s right and secular democracy in […]
















