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Michelle Bachelet y la defensa de la civilidad internacional en tiempos de demolición del orden global
Chile, junto a Brasil y México, impulsa la candidatura de Michelle Bachelet a la Secretaría General de Naciones Unidas en uno de los momentos más críticos del multilateralismo desde la posguerra. No es solo una postulación política: es una apuesta ética frente al avance del autoritarismo, el desprecio por el derecho internacional y el desmantelamiento…
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Ocean Heat Goes Ballistic
Climate science, over the past few decades, especially since the turn of the new century, has increasingly identified trouble spots with ecosystems that support life on Earth. These crucial ecosystems are stressed. But not many of the scientific reports of the past couple of decades compare to a bone-chilling new study of massive ocean heat…
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From Paper-Based to Real-Time Care: How Parañaque City Strengthened Progress to Eliminate Cervical Cancer
by Geri Matthew Carretero, Jhpiego Philippines Marie Lea Aragon takes her role in cervical cancer prevention very personally. For her, every woman who walks into a health center in Parañaque City represents a responsibility and a promise: to provide timely, respectful care and to ensure no one is lost in the system. “Many women were…
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When Security Becomes a Business
When security turns into a business, humanity becomes expendable. Fear is no longer an unfortunate consequence of international politics; it is a commodity—produced, marketed, and sustained. In today’s global order, wars are not always fought to end threats but to manage them, prolong them, and, in many cases, profit from them. In this marketplace of…
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Letter from Gran Canaria Park to the American parks of Study and Reflection Hudson Valley (New York) and Red Bluff (California)
Dear friends of the Hudson Valley and Red Bluff Study and Reflection Parks: From the Gran Canaria Study and Reflection Park, we send you our deepest greetings, filled with affection, gratitude, and solidarity in this time of great hardship for humanity. We are living in extremely violent and dehumanizing times, where life—in all its forms—seems…
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Supporting Action in a Time That Demands It
We are living in a moment that demands action. Many people feel it viscerally: something is wrong, old structures are failing, and silence is no longer acceptable. Across communities, people are mobilizing—marching, organizing, donating, speaking out. The desire to act is widespread and sincere. By Dennis Redmond At the same time, there is confusion, exhaustion,…
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Contemporary slavery: structure, power, and the production of exploitable lives in the current global order
This journalistic essay examines contemporary slavery as a structural regime of the current global order rather than as a residual anomaly, a marginal criminal deviation, or an isolated humanitarian problem. Drawing on a critical review of the literature in political science, political economy, and decolonial approaches, it argues that modern slavery is actively produced by…
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“No work, no school, no shopping” strike across the United States
In the wake of the strike that brought thousands of people together in Minneapolis on Friday, January 23, a week after the call for a total blockade against ICE brutality, cities across the United States were involved—New York, Chicago, Denver, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and of course Minneapolis. Here, the demonstration centered…
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The Peace Walk to Jerusalem has started from Finisterre
Several dozen people from all over the world took part in the start of the Peace Walk to Jerusalem today, February 1, from Finisterre. A delegation from the World March for Peace and Nonviolence, which will celebrate its fourth edition this year, also participated at the start of the walk. The walk will cross the…
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Five year old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father are going home!
We’re picking up from The Other 98% Facebook page the good news that the five-year-old boy arrested by ICE agents along with his father has been released. The image of Liam wearing a bunny hat quickly went viral and helped expose Trump’s brutal anti-immigrant policy. Five year old Liam Conejo Ramos is finally going home…