PERSPECTIVE: Ebola: Why such indifference to West Africa
1804CARIBVOICES/ALC ST. AUGUSTINE, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO By Sir Ronald Sanders: Is the global response to Ebola in West Africa indifference?...
Category: Columnists
Six billion USD in food is wasted every day in Brazil
(ALC São Paulo) By Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira* The culture of waste and disposal, not only...
Climate Change and Toxic Assets
(Latin America in Movement/ALC QUITO) By Fander Falconí*: The assets of oil companies have a toxic effect. The irrational behaviour...
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EARTH
(ALC São Paulo By Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira*) Not only are we on Earth; we are the Earth. We have...
Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014)
(Patheos www.patheos,com By Philip Clayton*) Wolfhart Pannenberg—In Memoriam, by Philip Clayton. Wolfhart Pannenberg has often been called the greatest...
Margarita Murillo: Another Victim of Neoliberalism in Honduras?
The Huffington Post By Marco Cáceres The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ The killing of peasant activist Margarita Murillo on Tuesday...
Women-Led Resistance against False Development in Guatemala
Upside Down World/ALC Source: Other Worlds By Deepa Panchang and Jessica Hsu Interview with Aura Lolita Chavez Ixcaquic, Maya K’iche...
We are Israeli reservists. We refuse to serve.
Whenever the Israeli army drafts the reserves — which are made up of ex-soldiers — there are dissenters, resisters, and AWOLers among the troops called to war. Now that Israel has sent troops to Gaza again and reserves are being summoned to service, dozens are refusing to take part.
Social and human economy
We need an economy that is far from the wills dictated by the global financial markets and which approaches the conditions that lead to social and human welfare and well-being.