Year: 2022

As millions of Britons and admirers the world over mourned Queen Elizabeth II’s death Thursday, others—especially in nations formerly colonized by the British Empire—voiced reminders of the “horrendous cruelties” perpetrated against them during the monarch’s reign. “We do […]

Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development.  In hunter-gather societies, on average, about 57-67% of children made it to 15 years. Then 79% of those 15-year-olds made it to 45 years.  Finally, […]

Thursday, September 08, 2022  The Committee in Solidarity with Cuba in Puerto Rico (CSC) has received dozens of national and international messages of support referring to the recent campaign of harassment by the U.S. government […]

Jueves, 08 de septiembre de 2022 El Comité Solidaridad con Cuba en Puerto Rico (CSC) ha recibido decenas de mensajes de apoyo nacional e internacional frente a la reciente campaña de acoso por parte del […]

On September 4, 2022, more than 13 million Chileans—out of a voting-eligible population of approximately 15 million—voted on a proposal to introduce a new constitution in the country. As early as March, polls began to suggest that the […]

El 4 de septiembre de 2022, más de 13 millones de personas que viven en Chile y chilenos y chilenas que viven en el extranjero (de un total aproximado de 15 millones de personas con derecho a […]

In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography […]