In his miserable hut, Pierre was spending the saddest Christmas Eve he had ever known. An orphaned Frenchman who had one day found himself heir to ten thousand francs left by a distant relative, he [...]
What is Europe? Let us not talk about identity, a term that should always be handled with caution: let us simply talk about differences. Even today, being European means first and foremost this: [...]
We have become accustomed to speaking of ‘culture wars’ to describe the growing tendency - encouraged by those social networks that connect us full time with the great theatre of other [...]
What is Greenwashing? Greenwashing, or eco-posturing, refers to companies using misleading environmental claims to capitalize on the rising demand for sustainable practices without making meaningful [...]
The goal is Zero Hunger by 2030, but the target is still far off and the hunger monster is more alive and vigorous than ever: this is revealed in the latest report ‘The State of Food Security [...]
The celebration of a Jubilee Year in the Catholic Church was proclaimed for the first time in 1300 by Pope Boniface VIII, who established the deadline every hundred years. At the time when the Popes [...]
The economic gerontocracy is in control of the planet. The numbers sparkle like diamonds in a jeweller's window. The infinitely cited BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), [...]
More than a third of Africans want to move permanently to live elsewhere, according to a study by the US-based analysis and consulting company Gallup based on a 2023 survey. A result that marks a new [...]
She, ‘I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry, please come in and I'll give you something to eat’.
Them (the old men), ‘Are the children from home here?
She [...]
They resent political leaders deemed “corrupt,” “incompetent,” “in the pay of the West” (accused of imperialism and neo-colonialism). We have seen them parading in [...]