A militaristic way of thinking seems predominant, promoted in part by the influence of military leaders and arms companies on the government. The United Kingdom is in fact the fourth largest investor country in arms and in the military sector in general. Nestor Marin The maiden voyage of […]
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Double standards in handling migration crisis
In 2021, around 200,000 people tried to cross the borders of the European Union illegally. Today the war over Ukraine is generating another wave of migration and, curiously, the countries willing to take in those fleeing are the same ones that have been indolent in the face of a long-standing […]
Ukraine, the graveyard of Putin’s dreams?
Fukuyama’s influential claim that history – driven by the conflict of ideologies – ended with the end of the USSR and Gorbachev’s commitment to stop interfering in the affairs of eastern European countries, was revised by its author in 2018. He adapted his analysis to say instead that identity is […]
All human life is here
Bloodaxe Books has done more for appreciating poetry than any other publisher and it all started, back in 2002, with “Staying human: new poems for staying alive”. Sean Sheehan This anthology was hugely and deservedly popular and two years later “Being alive“ came out, followed in 2011 by […]
A ‘Gaza in the Caribbean’ generates discord
The smart perimeter fence between the Dominican Republic and Haiti could hinder relations between the two nations. Edilberto F. Mendez The fence seeks to control and limit immigration and licit and illicit commercial activities between the two nations. And its completion by the second half of this year […]
















