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Open letter to two young indigenous Ecuadorians

Open letter to two young indigenous Ecuadorians

My dear young friends, I appreciate the time you have spent conversing with me over these past few weeks, discussing the election process now underway in your country. As I told you then, I was truly perplexed by the international controversy among the various party families on the left regarding

Asia is Working with Data and Masks

Asia is Working with Data and Masks

Translated by David Ownby[i] The coronavirus is a system test. It appears that Asia has a better control of the pandemic than Europe. In Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore there are very few people infected. Taiwan has 108 cases and Hong Kong 193. In Germany, by contrast, in a

The Robotized Vigilante

The Robotized Vigilante

The drone’s coming of age During the nineties, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, did not interest military strategists nor espionage agency directors. Drones were used marginally in different forms since World War I until the Vietnam war, mostly for spying and as decoys. It was considered a

Coup 53: A Re-Enactment of the British and American Role in the Overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh

Coup 53: A Re-Enactment of the British and American Role in the Overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh

“Coup 53”, a documentary by Taghi Amirani (Amirani Media, 2019), is an extensive visual account of the removal from power of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in the 19 August 1953 Coup, a historical event that continues to reverberate as a theme within Iranian society. The Anglo-American-directed operation which unseated

Historical Knowledge, Academic Journals and historical communication: new challenges

Historical Knowledge, Academic Journals and historical communication: new challenges

The health crisis has confined to varying degrees a large part of the population at home, limiting face-to-face interactions to a minimum. Even in countries like Brazil, where the disastrous management of the situation did not allow for strong and consequent social isolation, the fear of contagion interfered in interpersonal

Who Translated Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth into Persian?

Who Translated Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth into Persian?

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) Frantz Fanon’s Les Damnés de la Terre (1961), translated into English as The Wretched of the Earth, is an incontrovertible classic in the literature of anti-colonial insurgency. It has acted as a source of inspiration for myriad intellectuals in the Global South, but by no means