This article is part of ourEconomy's 'Decolonising the economy' series. An in-depth analysis of court cases shows how the Dutch government is very reluctant to change its tax-friendly policies on multinationals and tax treaties, thus making it extremely difficult for developing countries like Indonesia to collect much-needed taxes. Indonesia won its independence from the Netherlands […]

This article was first published on Waging Nonviolence. Joaquin Oliver loved basketball, the music of Frank Ocean and his family. On February 14, 2018, only a few months before he was supposed to graduate high school, he was shot down with an AR-15 in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre. He was 17 years old. The […]

Yv E. Nay captures the potential and pitfalls of the contemporary marriage equality and rainbow family movement in Switzerland. Feeling Family makes a compelling case for rethinking the boundaries between economy and society in a description of how emotions and economics interact in shaping the desires and goals of the movement as they respond to […]

When Erika Venadero was 15 years old, she attended a retreat that she thought would bring her closer to God. But instead she found herself held captive, deprived of food, and then raped by men who told her she should be thankful because now she was “a real woman”. I met Venadero, now 26, in […]

Leaked documents show that Jair Bolsonaro's government intends to use the Brazilian president's hate speech to isolate minorities living in the Amazon region. The PowerPoint slides, which democraciaAbierta has seen, also reveal plans to implement predatory projects that could have a devastating environmental impact. The Bolsonaro government has as one of its priorities to strategically […]

Fearing Japanese espionage in the Soviet Far East, in 1937 Stalin deported some 170,000 Koreans from these border areas to uninhabited regions in northern Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan. These Koreans had originally settled in Primorye after fleeing famine on the Korea peninsula in the 1860s. Today, the number of Koreans living outside the peninsula counts […]

Click:Buy cheap chlorine tablets Ezio Marlier presenta le ultime cascate di ghiaccio salite a Cogne e in Valleè in quest’ultimo scorcio d’inverno. A metà febbraio, con l’innalzarsi delle temperature, sembrava che l’imminente primavera avesse relegato gli amanti delle cascate di ghiaccio a cercare il loro elemento in alta montagna. Invece, tra l’ultima settimana di febbraio […]

Ultime notizie dala montagna. Anche la spedizione italiana da Nord è sulla via del ritorno mentre a sud i catalani tentano ancora la “magic line”. Un primo, parziale, punto di questi intensi ultimi due mesi sulla Grande Montagna. Il K2 del 50°, almeno quello dell’azione sulla Grande Montagna, ormai è quasi giunto alla conclusione. Dunque, […]

Guido Giacomelli e Lunger Hansjoerg e Roberta Pedranzini e Francesca Martinelli si sono aggiudicati con un tempo record la 13a edizione della Sellaronda. La mitica maratona sci alpinistica a coppie e in notturna che ha visto alla partenza 720 atleti per un totale di 360 coppie. Tra loro una gran folla di appassionati. Venerdì scorso […]

Il 20/05 David Lama e Angela Eiter si aggiudicano la seconda prova della Coppa del Mondo Difficoltà a Dresda (GER). Flavio Crespi è 8°. La finale è stata annullata per il maltempo. Non è stata una tappa fortunata quella di Dresda. Vento, pioggia, il crollo del tendone dell’isolamento (con gli atleti – erano 101 quelli […]