People’s Park – A Legacy of Protest and Possibility
In 1969, a small plot of land near the University of California (U.C.) Berkeley became a site of symbolic protest against war and racism, a place where students and community members came together to imagine a better world, and to demonstrate their vision of the future they wanted to create. They took this small plot […]
Climate Crisis In Panama Threatens To Choke The Global Poor
The Panama Canal, which has historically connected commerce from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is facing a potentially serious crisis. In normal times, roughly 5 percent of all seaborne trade of the entire world passes through the Panama Canal. The Canal is one of the most important choke points in global trade. However, a prolonged […]
Taiwan Holds Elections As U.S.-China Tensions Rise
On Saturday, January 13, Taiwan held its presidential and legislative elections to determine who will replace the term-limited president Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who has served two four-year terms. The presidential election, which was conducted using single-round plurality voting, resulted in the victory of the DPP’s Lai Ching-te, the current vice […]
El genocidio de Gaza pone en riesgo una guerra generalizada en Medio Oriente
Un helicóptero militar Houthi sobrevuela un carguero en el Mar Rojo, fuente: Reuters La guerra genocida de Israel contra el pueblo palestino se ha prolongado por más de tres meses. Más de 23.000 palestinos han muerto, casi 10.000 de ellos niños. La ONU calcula que 1,9 millones de palestinos, más del 80% de la población […]
Boeing Near-Disaster
On January 5, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 nearly crashed when a door plug, a critical component designed to seal unused exit doors, ripped away from the fuselage. Fortunately, no one was injured, and the flight landed safely. Subsequent inspections of United Airlines’ aircraft revealed bolts too loose to hold door plugs on […]