How can people be conservatives? Surely no right-thinking individual would admit to being part of this antiquated tribe? Steve Latham This is especially so during this recession, with conservative governments throughout the globe cutting back on welfare, and choosing policies which favour the rich over the poor. But […]
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The Ukraine war in a multi-polar world
What started as a crisis in two Russian-speaking Ukrainian provinces now has global implications. US influence is diminishing as new power blocs emerge, and sanctions against Russia are not followed by many countries. New economic and political interests are creating history in the Arab world and on every continent.
Female Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest
Memory is a trickle of water that peters out, goes the poet, but war it seems is not like memory. In fact, listening to the Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest is further proof of the somersaults people turn to survive. Text and photographs by Victor de Currea-Lugo* Irina arrives […]
Lopez Obrador strengthened after referendum
Last week’s exercise, in which for the first time the Mexican people exercised participatory democracy and confirmed their omnipotent power, set a constitutional and irreversible precedent. Luis Manuel Arce Isaac The referendum to decide whether Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador would remain as Mexico’s president showed that the people […]
Lessons from a democratic dream
In a world where the business of war is so seductive, some people have even welcomed the conflict in Ukraine. But in the face of this wave of abandonment of pacifism, there is also a rejection of the use of arms. History tells us, for example, of the time when […]
















