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70 States unite to call for action on autonomous weapons at UN General Assembly

Last Friday, for the first time ever, 70 states from around the world came together for it to make a joint statement on killer robots. It is the largest inter-regional group statement ever made in UN discussions on autonomous weapons…

Ladies and Gentlemen who represent the United States

We call upon you in the name of the Agora of the earth’s inhabitants, in the name of your electors who have chosen you to defend life in its multiplicity, the life of despoiled humans, the life of uprooted forests,…

China in the world: Proposals backed by facts

Pressenza was one of the media invited to the press conference held by the Chinese Embassy in Chile this morning. Ambassador Niu Qingbao read Xi Yinping’s report to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), held this…

Psychological, Emotional, and Moral Injuries of War

How we characterize the injuries sustained by veterans in war is crucial both to our understanding of the war experience and to the healing process. I have argued elsewhere that to ignore, trivialize or subsume the whole of the veterans’…

Putin says world faces most dangerous moment since World War II

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the world faces the most dangerous and unpredictable decade since the end of World War II while insisting that the war in Ukraine is continuing as planned. During a four-hour speech at a…

364 days

25 October 2022, El Espectador At the time of sending this column I have gone 364 days without hearing my mother’s voice, without a hug from her or finding her at home reading a book about the cosmos or writing…

Leila M. de Lima: “drug war’s” prisoner of conscience

Here’s the next part of Pressenza’s two-part interview with political prisoner Leila M. de Lima – former senator, justice secretary, and chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights – conducted by journalist Perfecto Caparas. De Lima discusses challenges to the rule of law…

30 By 30: Wild Land Workers Need a Fivefold Salary Increase to save 30% of Global Wild Lands by 2030

The first-ever study of its kind stresses that earnings of natural park staff  must increase for the health of life on Earth Governments around the world have come together to potentially commit to protect 30% of the planet’s wild lands by 2030. The…

UnMasking the Truth

People are now rushing to buy costumes and scary props and decorations in time for the upcoming Halloween celebration. In stores, you will find many Halloween-related products like masks, costumes, toys, make-up, and other scary items that children would like…

Everything in its place

It is essential to know how to distinguish the difference between journalism and propaganda. The way in which the news function has been transformed into a strategic arm of global economic power has evolved until it has become part of…

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