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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 / André Vltchek's Column / Asia
- 26 May 2020
Hong Kong rioters should never fight against their own country
For several months, Western mass media called the Hong Kong rioters, “pro-democracy protesters”. It still does. But I began noticing a new, even deadlier terminology. Now, the black-clad ninja-looking men […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Europe
- 27 Apr 2020
The daughter of Zeus or the privatization of Mount Olympus
When three representatives of the European Central Bank come knocking on the door of the House of the Gods, it ends up making sparks fly. Franklin Frederick offers us a […]
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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 / United States
- 27 Nov 2019
The origins of the United States of America : JOKER and the end of white supremacy
«At its root, capitalism not only meant slavery and white supremacy but also the ethos of the gangster » (Gerald Horne) The film ‘Joker’ presents a contemporary phenomenon present […]
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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 / Europe
- 23 Aug 2019
The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality
In a remarkable book, 1939 : The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, the Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley describes how, at the end of the […]
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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 […]