The electoral victory of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, son of the late dictator Marcos in the Philippines, has been seen as a new defeat for the democratic forces. Indeed, despite his valiant fight against the abuses and authoritarianism of current President XXX Duterte, Leni Robredo failed to create a coalition of democratic forces capable of preventing…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine should serve to remind us of the wisdom and foresight the American Founding Fathers demonstrated drafting the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be…
In politics, there isn’t a clear concept to define what constitutes the “right” and what constitutes the “left” because they are “positional analyzers” whose results depend on the time and place they are applied. Ever since the origins of its use at the Constituent National Assembly of the 1879 French Revolution, each one of these…
All hell broke loose. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came up with the idea of saying that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood” in an Italian television program. Mr. Lavrov bit off more than he could chew. Even the dictator Vladimir Putin had to apologize in a conversation with Naftali Bennett, Prime Minister of Israel, who…
The South Korean philosopher “Byung-Chul Han” has written about the determining influence on human life of “cybernetics”, which Plato, by the way, defined as “the art of directing men”. Which is the same, “the skill to govern them.” It is read that in 1787 the British Edmund Burke limited in a speech in the “House…
An unprecedented event took place in the United States. This is the leak of the draft of a ruling by Justice Samuel Alito, one of the 9 Justices of the Supreme Court, appointed like his colleagues until he dies or decides to resign. It is a real political and news bomb, which in a city…
The Constituent Assembly is the mechanism that the 21st Century Socialism or Castrochavism, uses to wreck the democratic institutionalism in America’s countries and to impose its strategy to install the “Plurinational State” acknowledging the existence of several nations within the one same State and fractioning the “nation” to destroy its identity and national unity. The…
Many are the predictions about the imminent fall of the American empire, but there is little evidence that this is an imminent or probable contingency. Those who hold this opinion point to the loss of value of the dollar as irrefutable evidence of the American decline; the reduction of the economic participation of the United…
The married couple that runs Nicaragua with an iron hand has a reputation for not being intelligent, but they are very cunning. Foreign Minister Denis Moncada cannot be blamed for the country’s departure from the OAS. “Mr. Moncada is a puppet of Ortega and his wife,” a prominent Nicaraguan exile, who didn’t want to give…
Hans Island is a barren uninhabited island measuring 4,230 feet long and 3,934 feet wide located in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island. Its location places Hans Island within the territorial waters of both Canada and Denmark and both countries claim it as their own territory. On periodic visits to the Island, the…
