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- Analysis and testimonies / André Vltchek's Column / Democracy / Europe
- 26 May 2020
The Soviet victory over nazism 75 years ago, and COVID-19
How could the Great Patriotic War in which the Soviet people (including many members of my own family) lost at least 25 million lives, have anything in common with the […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / André Vltchek's Column / Democracy
- 26 May 2020
“Battle” against COVID-19 in a fragmented world has ruined billions of lives
It is not only about physically surviving the pandemic. People miss people, and places, sometimes desperately. And they die, when separated. We are bombarded by briefings and numbers. We are […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy
- 16 Apr 2020
Controlling epidemics? The WHO had the answer 40 years ago
For once, everyone agrees. The only way to deal effectively with Covid 19 is through comprehensive, equitable, universally accessible health systems. This was precisely the solution proposed to countries […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy / Environment
- 18 Dec 2019
Water and the New Colonial Powers
On November 14th the Canadian group Wellington Water Watchers organized the «All Eyes on Nestlé» conference in the city of Guelph, Ontario, bringing together indigenous’ peoples and citizens’ movements fighting Nestlé’s water takings from Canada, the […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy / Environment
- 29 Aug 2019
Nestlé and water privatisation: worrying news from Switzerland
Last February, the Government of Switzerland announced the creation of a Foundation in Geneva (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foundation-for-the-future_switzerland-moves-to-boost-international-geneva/44771548), under the name ‘Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator’ (GSDA). The purpose of this new […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy / United States
- 15 Aug 2019
“In the US Prison Industrial Complex, slavery can be used as form of punishment”
The 31st july a group of incarcerated people at Scotland Correctional, North Carolina started a hunger strike in order to protest against the use of torture in the correctional facility. […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy / Latin America
- 06 Aug 2019
Moro and the failure of the police State in Brazil
The project of the construction of a Police State is one of the three fundamental pillars of the Bolsonaro Government and its agent is judge Sergio Moro. One pillar […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy / Latin America
- 16 Jan 2019
60 Years of Defending Cuban Sovereignty Against the Most Barbarous Empire Since World War II
When Fidel Castro triumphantly announced the people’s victory on January 1, 1959, it had been barely 15 years since the U.S. had savagely bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This atrocity marked the […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy / Latin America
- 14 Oct 2018
Brazil: defeating the Bolsonaro plan
Brazil is going through a crucial time, but the coup already took place in 2016 with the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. It is not a surprise: barring Lula from running […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Democracy / Latin America
- 13 Oct 2018
Brazil: A Monster is Born
Bolsonaro has promised Donald Trump to authorize the installation of a US military base in Alcántara, on the strategic promontory of the Brazilian Northeast, which is the closest point between the […]
