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The U.S. Betrays Its Heritage by Threatening World War III Against Russia and China

Americans who cherish our country’s legacy are horrified by our headlong rush to war. America at its best was the very motor of world progress, higher living standards and peace. That is our true national identity. We betray “the better…

Unleash our Power of Active Nonviolence, Reclaim our West Philippine Sea

By Perfecto Caparas WHAT do you call Beijing’s usurpation and unlawful appropriation of all economic resources within Manila’s own exclusive economic zone? “Grand theft,” says former Philippine Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Carpio. On 12 July 2016, the Ad Hoc Arbitral Tribunal…

Decriminalisation of abortion: an issue on the table

On 20 January, the Constitutional Court resumed the debate on the decriminalisation of abortion in Colombia, following two lawsuits calling for it to be removed as a crime from the penal code. This is an issue that had been postponed…

“I express myself politically, that’s why I sing in Mapuzungun”.

Anahi Mariluan, Mapuche singer, has an extensive career in the dissemination of the culture and identity of her people. She has just participated in the album “Ülkantun: Mujeres Memoria” (Ülkantun: Women Memory), which brings together nine songs that recover the…

EcoWaste Coalition Pushes Candidates to Incorporate RA 9003 into Their Campaign Strategies and Platforms

23 January 2022, Quezon City.  As the observance of Zero Waste Month enters its final week, an environmental organization appealed to national and local candidates for the May 9 polls to incorporate Republic Act 9003 into their campaign strategies and…

Kurit-Lagting Art Collective: When artists come together to become social activists

VISUAL ARTS     Sorsogon is a city in the Bicol Region located in the southern part of Luzon island, Philippines. Starting out as a mural artists’ group and joining several contests in the city, the group coined the term…

Intimations: A haiku journal #1

THREE HAIKUS AND A BACKSTORY       #1. all-embracing sky under your protective dome seas breath, mountains rise.   #2. there on an empty lot on a lone brown hilltop— tall, tall sunflowers.     #3. the dew on…

Munich Is Not in Ukraine: Appeasement Begins at Home

The word “Munich” — for me it calls up images of surfing in a giant park with nude sunbathers and nearby beer halls. But in U.S. news media it means the unconscionable failure to launch a war more quickly. According…

Chilean President-elect presents his ministerial team

Early this morning Gabriel Boric presented those who will make up his cabinet from 11 March. The team is made up of 14 women and 10 men. The new president, who is about to turn 36 and will be the…

Godi Gutierrez

I met him very young, on a street corner in Makati, a neighbourhood in Manila, Philippines. I immediately felt a deep connection with him. Perhaps it was his sense of humour, or the refined aesthetic quest in everything he did,…

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