Fascism 2.0 in eight lessons
2020 Diciembre Internacional
Today, November 16, 2020, it is impossible to predict what will happen in the United States over the coming weeks. There are many critical questions...

Is democracy dying?
2020 Marzo Internacional
Is democracy dying? The short answer is No. The long answer for the detail-oriented is “of course not.” And yet, concepts like “democratic recession,”...

We’re living in the Anthropocene and the end has already begun
2019 Abril Internacional
Demarcating a new era as Anthropocene because humans have become a force for global transformation on a geological scale has become central in referring...

How does one democratize communication in the post-truth era?
2017 Marzo Internacional
What are we talking about when we demand the democratization of communication and information? Do we only mean redistributing radio frequencies to guarantee...

Trump’s victory signals the end of progressive neoliberalism
2017 Febrero Internacional
The election of Donald Trump represents one of a series of dramatic political uprisings that together signal a collapse of neoliberal hegemony. These...

The challenge to avoid catastrophe is to reunite power and politics
2016 Septiembre Internacional
Since the publishing of Zygmunt Bauman’s books Joys of Life Made, Not Bought and Does The Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?, I’ve thought...

How did we get to this chaos?
2016 Agosto Internacional
A curse long attributed to China says: May you live in interesting times. What makes it a curse is that too many events disturb the essential element...

Is the green economy really the new magic formula?
2016 Julio Internacional
The dominant image of the green economy is that it wants to get away from the use of fossil fuels. It is an attractive and optimistic message: the economy...

How self-help has become part of our common sense
2013 Septiembre Internacional
Self-help ideas are a phenomenon peculiar to our times but have an extensive genealogy. Their present form incorporates the modulations of their history,...

Fear is an instrument of opression
2011 Noviembre Internacional
George Bernard Shaw said that fear can lead men to any extreme. Fear is one of the most uncomfortable sensations we all feel and we share it with...

What is a secular society like?
2011 Mayo Internacional
Secularism is a liberation movement, one of those that have contributed most to fighting domination and struggling against the persecution of pluralism....

A Needed Consideration of the Gaddafi Case
2011 Abril Internacional
In its day, Gaddafi’s regime represented an important bastion of support for world revolution, whether through genuine revolutionary movements like the...

From John Paul II to Benedict XVI: Memories, Analyses, Fears and Hopes
2005 Mayo Internacional
Four days after John Paul II’s death, with the streets of Rome and St. Peter’s Square still teeming with people, I found myself in a meeting of Jesuits,...

The Narrow Road to the Globalization of Solidarity
2005 Abril Internacional
Now that we have entered the third millennium, the idea of “the end of history” as the only economic alternative has entered into internal crisis and...

War Is a Defeat for Humanity
2003 Marzo Internacional
1. The world is currently experiencing the most serious situation since the end of the Cold War. The reason is President Bush’s threat to attack Iraq,...

World Trade Rules: Rabbit and Tiger in the Same Cage
2002 Diciembre Internacional
Since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, the first between developed nations and a developing one, the price Mexican...

What Is Good Governance? And How Do We Measure It?
2002 Noviembre Internacional
The obsession with governance continues to grow throughout the world, as does the debate about and further elaboration of the concepts of local, national...

For Peace, For the Future: A State for Palestine
2002 Abril Internacional
Ramallah under siege. Yasser Arafat isolated there. Bethlehem occupied. Every day new Palestinian suicide martyrs immolate themselves as they kill Israeli...

The World on the Ropes
2001 Octubre Internacional
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers and their subsequent destruction was an act of insanity that graphically demonstrates the giant...

Who’s Rescuing the South’s Shipwreck: NGOs or the State?
2001 Septiembre Internacional
At the beginning of this year I shared with envío readers some reflections on the work of NGDOs, the nongovernmental organizations dedicated to...

Shipwreck: NGOs to the Rescue
2001 Enero Internacional
Such disasters occurred from time to time, and when ever they did thousands of people drowned. The news began to reach the North as journalists managed...

Defining Left and Right
2000 Noviembre Internacional
The current climate of ideological uncertainty is largely due to the fact that the Right is employing a progressive discourse and the Left a conservative...

Development Aid In Crisis: Donor Fatigue
2000 Agosto Internacional
Cooperation in the process of developing impoverished countries is a multifaceted task involving both the private and public sectors. Given the lack...

Transgenic Crops: Critical Voices from the South
2000 Julio Internacional
There is talk in the world about a second "green revolution." Two elements characterized the first one, which translated into the boom of fruit cultivation...

Transgenic Foodstuffs: Gateway to a Controversy
2000 Julio Internacional
Emotions and feelings are unquestionably important in human life. They are also important in approaching the ethical dilemmas resulting from the extraordinary...

Money Laundering and Investment: A Few Clues
2000 Junio Internacional
Starting at the end of the 1960s, certain platforms for "dirty" money began to be set up in offshore tax havens and financial centers—the same countries...

Seattle: First Fruit of a Changing Epoch
2000 Abril Internacional
If there is an ideological leitmotif for the end of the last century (how strange it feels to type those words about one’s own century!), it undoubtedly...

Several Key Questions
1999 Septiembre Internacional
Many different strategies have been developed in an attempt to resolve the foreign debt crisis since the problem first emerged in the early 1980s. From...

Five Basic Theses on the Third World Foreign Debt
1999 Septiembre Internacional
The following five theses on the third world foreign debt problem are based on the crisis that began in 1997 and the experiences of the 1980s. The main...

The "Solution" of the Rich
1999 Septiembre Internacional
Some 17 million signatures collected worldwide to demand the cancellation of the foreign debt owed by poor countries were handed over to the heads of...

USA-NATO vs. Yugoslavia: The Empire’s Impunity
1999 Mayo Internacional
NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia under us auspices is unprecedented. It is the first time since World War II that NATO has launched a military offensive...

A Way Out of the Economic Growth Trap
1999 Enero Internacional
The limits of growth: A quick look backThe first Club of Rome report, with the now-historic title, "The Limits of Growth," was published 25...

Tools for Understanding "One-Line Thinking"
1998 Julio Internacional
How can one describe from the ideological perspective the historical moment in which we find ourselves? What are the planet's characteristics today from...

Multilateral Investment Agreement: A World Alert
1998 Febrero Internacional
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM WAS HELD IN DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, from January 19 to February 3. This forum is the private club of the planet's...

It's Time to Turn History Around
1997 Septiembre Internacional
It's time to revert the course of history. The destiny of Humanity is at stake. Scientific progress and technical advance, the jewels of knowledge, are...

What Remains of Socialism?
1997 Agosto Internacional
Social philosophy would have a hard time avoiding one of the crucial issues of our time: the foundering of the socialist projects of social transformation....

One Ethic Is Vanishing and Another Being Announced
1997 Mayo Internacional
Violence, criminality, isolation, drugs and unrestrained sexuality are not the true problems. They are the symptoms of a more radical and widespread...

The Dead in the West's Basement
1997 Abril Internacional
Speaking today of alternatives to the existing neoliberal system cannot be limited to technical discussions about political alternatives. In their essence,...

Narcissism: The Epidemic of Our Time
1996 Septiembre Internacional
Each social context creates its own lifestyle, a specific hierarchy of values, diverse behavior guidelines and its own pathologies. Narcissistic personality...

The Fight Against Corruption: Banner of the Left
1996 Abril Internacional
The word corruption comes from the latin corrumpere. Corominas says IT BE?came part of the language between 1220 and 1250. The Diccionario de la Academia...

A Society With Room for Everyone
1996 Enero Internacional
A conviction predominated in the 1950s and 1960s that the First World was showing the Third World what its future would be. Today we see the opposite;...

The Future of Humanity Is Being Decided Today
1995 Noviembre Internacional
The simultaneous end of the second millennium and of the 20th century calls us to reflect on the moment humanity is going through on this, its spaceship,...

The Death Throes of Liberalism
1995 Octubre Internacional
The first great political expression of liberalism, with all its ambiguities, was without doubt the French Revolution. What happened during that revolution...

Copenhagen: The Potential Success of a Failure
1995 Mayo Internacional
The recent summit on social development in Copenhagen, which took up the issues of poverty, unemployment and social disintegration in the world, was...

The Economic and the Social: Divorced in Copenhagen
1995 Abril Internacional
With March's world summit on social development in Copenhagen, a new chapter is added to the series of planetary spectaculars on social issues that the...

For an Equitable and Autonomous Coexistence
1995 Febrero Internacional
"Underdevelopment" Makes Its DebutIn his January 1949 inaugural address, President Truman used the term "underdevelopment" for the first time,...

World Bank and IMF: Guilty as Charged
1994 Diciembre Internacional
The session of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal was convoked by the International Lelio Basso Foundation for the Liberation and Rights of Peoples, in...

Roots of the Colombia-Nicaragua Territorial Dispute
1994 Diciembre Internacional
Atiny and anomalous document from 1803, which was only in effect for a scant three years and never had any practical consequences, has served right up...

World Bank and IMF to the Stand
1994 Octubre Internacional
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), two institutions targeted by growing...

Laws and Electronic mail: an Alternative of Struggle
1994 Septiembre Internacional
Traditionally, laws have neglected both community interests and the interests of nature and the environment. Their role has thus been viewed with mistrust...

Why are More People Poor?
1993 Diciembre Internacional
The Conference on Social Development and Poverty, in preparation for the World Summit for Social Development to be held in Denmark in 1995, was held...

Somalia: Lessons for the South
1993 Agosto Internacional
To begin with, television screens around the world were inundated with daily images of emaciated children and entire populations dying of hunger. Next,...

Just The Facts: The NED* Dollars: 1987-1989
1989 Agosto Internacional
Cuadro 1 – 1987 Cuadro 2 – 1988 Cuadro 3 – 1989 ...

The Last Word: On the Expulsion of US Diplomats
1989 Julio Internacional
“The diplomat in question [Kathleen Barmon] has publicly said in effect that all the unions affiliated with the United Federation of Honduran Workers...

EEC Applauds Central American Initiative
1989 Abril Internacional
While the US government has enforced an economic embargo against Nicaragua since 1985, the European Economic Community (EEC) has continued to give aid...

US Policy: Economic Embargo: The War Goes On
1989 Abril Estados Unidos
US Secretary of State James Baker told congressional representatives on March 2 that the Bush Administration may offer to lift the nearly four-year-old...

Internationalists Caught in the War
1986 Junio Internacional
"The internationalists. Some may consider them simply tourists. I don't know how they are looked upon in official US circles. Reagan calls them 'terrorists.'...