Portugal // Austerity against professional firefighters
No matter if the Social-Democrat or the Socialist party rule, public workers never amount to more than salaries requiring cuts....
2018 was the year of limitations
2019 will be the year of trying to break through these limitations....
Spain // Interview with Adrià Carrasco, Catalan independentist in political exile
A militant for independence, he jumped out of his balcony and into exile when 15 civil guards came for him in the night....
Too much plastic // Corporate unaccountability
Despite the talk about "corporate responsibility", neither corporations nor governments are interested in solving the problem....
Too much plastic // Rampant production
About 8 300 million tons of plastics have been produced between 1950 and 2015....
Portugal // Licensing to drill in Aljubarrota and Bajouca continues
The kafkian licensing process involving Australis Oil & Gas continues, ignoring transparency concerns and the population....
USA // A biography of G.H.W. Bush sans bootlicking
Yet another war criminal has his obituary written by the media as if he was a man full of humanist virtues....
Portugal // António Mariano and SEAL want to ruin Christmas
Government, media, bosses and their unions are attempting to open a new propaganda front against striking dockers and SEAL....
Portugal // 5 000 offenders pay to clean up their domestic violence records
The Public Ministry is applying a provisional suspension of the process that clears the record of the accused as long as they comply with an...
Portugal // Feminicide and domestic violence numbers
24 women have already been murdered "in a context of intimacy or close familiar relations" since the beginning of 2018....