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On October 15th, NBC reported that the CIA received an order directly from US president Barack Obama to prepare an unprecedented cyberattack to be used against Russia as a response for the “continuous interferences” by Russian hackers trying to rig the 2016 presidential elections. The sources cited are “current and...
The Black Lives Matter movement developed in reaction to how 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder. The founders, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors, position the movement as a stance against state violence directed at African American. that deprives blacks of their basic...
Anti-Muslim rhetoric has become a useful tool for European right-wing populists to mobilize voters. In his 2016 electoral campaign, President-elect Donald Trump adopted a similar strategy and employed rhetoric demeaning entire groups of people like Muslims, but also immigrants and refugees. Trump is thus regularly mentioned in the same breath...
For more than 30 years the growth rate of world trade has been higher than the growth rate of the world economy as measured by the world GDP. This constitutes a rare phenomena for the XXth century, as trade after the Second World War has experienced faster growth rates than...
Many of us are still in disbelief that Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States. His bombastic assault on immigrants, due process of law, religious freedom, and free speech all give us reason to sound the fascist alarm bells. And while his rhetorical attacks on these civil...
In the last two decades, the world has achieved a vast improvement in social living conditions for the global poorest population. The 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report unveils an outstanding world performance: people living under extreme poverty declined from 47 percent in 1990 to 14 percent in 2015, falling
In 2015, at the highest political level, the international community reached three global agreements: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) and the Paris Agreement (COP 21). These three Agreements articulate a comprehensive, long-term and world-wide strategy to...
The United Nations declared the 17th of October as the day for the eradication of poverty. This year the topic was “ending poverty in all its forms”, as it is stated in the Sustainable Development Goal #1, from the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. Eradicating poverty is feasible. Alongside the Millennium...
It is well known that adequate feeding and nutrition are key elements for good health and growth of human beings. However, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), about 795 million people out of the 7.3 billion people in the world do not have enough food to...
The first UN Sustainable Development Goal “End poverty in all its forms everywhere” sets as second target: “By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions”. In Mexico, poverty levels are...
