Utopian who’d love to be a polymath but ends up knowing as much as Socrates and Jon Snow. Delves in storytelling, legal and philosophical debates, & life as art
These dark times a new publication seems almost irrelevant. But in this piece, I argue that the arts -including literature- can expose the inhumane ways in which authority and the law are instrumentalized, and highlight the need for empathy & solidarity juragentium.eu/wp-content/up…
"Tout le monde parle de paix mais personne n’éduque à la paix. On éduque pour la compétition, et la compétition marque le début de toutes les guerres. Quand on éduquera pour la coopération et pour nous offrir les uns les autres de la solidarité, ce jour-là alors on éduquera pour la paix."
Maria Montessori
Claude Brasseur,
June 15, 1936 – December 22, 2020.
Running through the Louvre with Anna Karina and Sami Frey in Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders (1964).
A video of an armed Israeli settler terrorist, under the protection of the Israeli army, attacking Palestinian civilians in the village of Qabalan and kicking them off their own land.
🚨 The District Court of The Hague has convicted a 58-year-old man of 19 international crimes - including sexual violence - committed in 2013 2014 in Syria under the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The man has been sentenced to 26 years’ imprisonment. rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-e…
"Sé humilde, sé simple. Inclínate ante la grandeza de una flor, de una nube, de un insecto. No seas nada. No seas nadie. Sé literalmente una nada. Y cuando estés completamente vacío, el recipiente se podrá llenar de todo lo que realmente eres”.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#ÚLTIMAHORA | La alta representante de la Unión Europea para Asuntos Exteriores y Seguridad, Kaja Kallas, propondrá vetar importaciones desde asentamientos ilegales israelíes a la Unión Europea.
"The International Committee of the Red Cross has said the risk that the thousands of Palestinians buried beneath Gaza’s rubble may never be identified is increasing by the day"
"Beneath the rubble, at least 10,000 people are thought to be buried"
📹 Un gato se ha convertido en el protagonista de una representación de 'Romeo y Julieta' en la ciudad turca de Esmirna, cuando en una de las escenas de mayor intensidad dramática, se ha puesto a jugar con el pelo del actor protagonista
Le quitaron su parcela en Cisjordania y ahora la ve anunciada en Booking como alojamiento “ideal” en un asentamiento israelí.
La vivienda de Cisjordania forma parte de las 41 propiedades que @bookingcom anuncia en asentamientos israelíes ilegales.
eldiario.es/internacional/th…
“We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead. Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border,” Pope Leo declared in a major speech on migration.
americamagazine.org/vatican-…
Two years before publication of A Theory of Justice, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Kenneth Arrow used an early draft of the book while co-teaching a political philosophy course at Harvard.
“By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon.”
— Marcel Proust
Bob Dylan in the NYT today, in a piece where artists in their 80s were asked to describe the best and worst parts of being that age, and whether they had advice for the president on his reaching the milestone. (Dylan apparently passed on the final question, not surprisingly.)
"I believe that, in 10 years, Colombia will be able to say: The Embera women stepped up. They fought for change," says Representative Carolina Giraldo.
Colombia has become the first Latin American country to ban female genital mutilation.
🔗: aje.news/5racmp
Australian police launched investigation into to Israeli forces’ alleged sexual assault of Australian flotilla activists. (Sexual violence is a war crime under Australian law, attracting extraterritorial jurisdiction) abc.net.au/news/2026-06-15/f…
“ Etre différent n'est ni une bonne chose ni une mauvaise chose. Cela signifie simplement que vous êtes suffisamment courageux pour être vous-même. ”
- Albert Camus
There are two ways to look at science. You can look at it as a body of knowledge, which is how it’s usually taught in school or you can look at it as a way of thinking.
When we treat science as an exclusive club with its own secret language, we ghettoize knowledge. We make the public feel stupid, and a frightened public is a dangerous public.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been making headlines for months. But what does it reveal about the deeper shifts underway in the global energy economy? Justina Uriburu is joined by Jorge Vinuales and Sergio Puig to explore the present and future of energy [...] [1/2]