Slavoj Žižek has written that a frustrating aspect of the pandemic is that it continues without end, with no conclusion. It’s an ongoing emergency, which proceeds non-teleologically in different stages. Steve Latham As we are learning, with the virus a permanent presence in our world, the implications of […]
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Coping with life and death: the Westerns of Budd Boetticher
As a child, Budd Boetticher (pronounced ‘bettiker’) was assured by his mother that she was taking him to the circus but brought him instead to the dentist. Sean Sheehan Arriving there, he asked “Where are the elephants?” –the question became the title of his second, unpublished autobiography– and, […]
The obstacle to Biden’s foreign policy
For Robert Menéndez, chair of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the cases of Cuba and Iran are sacrosanct. His hatred for the Cuban revolution and, therefore, the people whose ideas do not mirror his own, goes back a long way. The Cuban American senator has been in […]
USA vs. Venezuela: When the war is fear
What motives have led the United States to declare Venezuela an imminent danger to its national interest? The government of Mr Obama was the first to take this decision, Trump maintained it and Joe Biden’s new administration has just reiterated it.
Europe, in search of lost time
A different Europe should adopt a policy of peace and neutrality. For the moment, demands like this arise as the dispersed expression of very diverse groups and citizen initiatives but they are gaining ever more ground among wide sections of the population. Juan Diego García Public awareness is improving […]















