El Comandante has left the building

Source: Asia Times: Unfortunately for turbo-capitalists in Washington and Brussels, the death of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez from cancer does not signal an end to the spirit of Chavism. With his “socialism of the 21st century” and defiance of centuries-old patterns of subjugation in Latin America, El Comandante struck a […]

What went right at Almaty

Source: Asis Times: By Richard Javad Heydarian After eight months of diplomatic hiatus, Iran and the “P5+1” powers – the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and Germany – were finally able to return to the negotiating table. In Kazakhstan at the end of last month, to the […]

Religion in the 21st Century

Source: Huff Post, by Akash Arasu. Recent times have seen an increasing trend in non-affiliation to religion in many parts of the world — in the United States there’s been an increase of nearly 5 percentage points in the past five years. Coupled with this, there has been an increase in atheism, dubbed “New […]

Catholicism’s future

Source: The Economist: FATHER Brendan Hoban is a priest in a remote Irish village who is also active in the national and international Catholic scene. In the midst of this busy life, he told me, he often reflects on something he heard from a professor when he was in seminary 40 years ago. “Irish […]