Category: Articles
Fascism displaces Neoliberalism
Category: Articles Fascism displaces Neoliberalism Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, November 14, 2016, 16:46 Views: 6736 Although many factors contributed to Trump’s victory in the November 8 election, as usually happens with major social and political mutations in empires that are coming to an end, most of the people who report to…
What’s behind Trump’s victory?
Category: Articles What’s behind Trump’s victory? Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Thursday, November 10, 2016, 14:41 Views: 8551 Right after the November 8 election, the general view of the media and the world’s leading political analysts was that it represented a reaction by the founding groups of Anglo-Saxon ethnic origin against the multi-ethnic…
The End of the United States
Category: Articles The End of the United States Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 09:36 Views: 70 I must admit that the unexpected victory of Donald Trump in the November 8 election has been a great surprise to me and to the vast majority of those of us…
What is happening now with the FBI?
In June 2013, the current President of the United States, Barack Obama, nominated James Comey to relieve Robert Mueller as Director of the FBI. Comey is a Republican lawyer who worked as the second in command at the Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration and was also a prosecutor in…
Start of a New Era
Start of a New Era Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 13:30 Views: 17 At the moment there is series of events and conflicts throughout the world which indicate that the existing world order has come to an end and that a new era is beginning, in which most models…
Echoes of Spain
Echoes of Spain Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, October 24, 2016, 9:21 Views: 37 I waited until I returned to Spain to write this story after a three-week stay in that beautiful region of the world. Although I had only been away from the ‘motherland’ for a year, I found some great…
The European Union is falling apart
The European Union is falling apart Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 9:16 Views: 9887 The electoral processes for the election of the highest political leaders in the immediate future are experiencing a serious crisis in the major countries of Western Europe, for example in the case of France,…
The Carolingian Renaissance
The Carolingian Renaissance Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, October 17, 2016, 9:11 Views: 38 Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768, and was later crowned emperor in 800. His reign ended with the death of his son Ludovico Pio in 840. His kingdom extended over Germany, Switzerland, Austria, plus Belgium, the Netherlands…
From Animal into Gods (Part II)
Category: Articles From Animal into Gods (Part II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 13:45 Views: 6 I have made a great effort to give a very brief summary of the extraordinary history book written by history professor Yuval Noah Harari, since most of his narrative covers the 2.5…
From Animal into Gods (Part I)
Category: Articles From Animal into Gods (Part I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, September 12, 2016, 9:38 Views: 1985 Thanks to the recommendation of a good friend of mine, I read one of the most wonderful books in my long life. It is written by a young Israeli genius named Yuval Noah…
A Less Violent World
Category: Articles A Less Violent World Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Wednesday, September 7, 2016, 14:21 Views: 2314 The number of violent conflicts in the world has fallen dramatically in recent decades. Between 1990 and 2014 the total number of violent events fell by 40%. Although there are always cases of extreme…
Chaos of Dominant-Party Autocracy in Europe
Category: Articles Chaos of Dominant-Party Autocracy in Europe Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Friday, September 2, 2016, 14:08 Views: 27 With the election of the 751 deputies who make up the European Parliament (2014-2019) in May of this year, in addition to certain changes that will give more power to the Parliament, such…
Toward a New Great Recession
Category: Articles Toward a New Great Recession Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, August 29, 2016, 18:13 Views: 3207 For most of the world economies that have oriented their growth outward, the most important thing is to have an adequate infrastructure. These infrastructure networks are the central element in the economic…
Towards a Hybrid Global Political Model
Category: Articles Towards a Hybrid Global Political Model Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Thursday, August 25, 2016, 16:32 Views: 28 Right now, at the culmination of an era, Europe feels compelled to begin discarding the political mechanisms through which it has handled all kinds of business for three and a half centuries. And…
The Twilight of the Nation-State (II)
Category: Articles The Twilight of the Nation-State (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, August 22, 2016, 15:59 Views: 21 At the moment, the influence of States in defining and solving global problems is more limited each day because they must reconcile the conflicting demands of their domestic world and, increasingly, the…
The Twilight of the Nation-State (I)
Category: Articles The Twilight of the Nation-State (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Friday, August 19, 2016, 10:09 Views: 2094 The exponential growth of the global population and population ageing pose serious problems in terms of both the satisfaction of basic needs and the preservation of the environment. Ecological disturbances are affecting…
On China’s Five-Year Plan
Category: Articles On China’s Five-Year Plan Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Tuesday, August 16, 2016, 11:14 Views: 14 China’s new Five-Year Plan for the next 5 years was approved just a few days ago by the Central Committee of the Communist Party. This plan still has to be approved by the Legislature and…
Brief History of the Olympics
Category: Articles Brief History of the Olympics Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, August 15, 2016, 9:52 Views: 1107 Although the first Olympic Games were very different from what they are today, the basic objective of celebrating victory in sports peacefully still remains. In 776 B.C., when the Olympics started there…
ICT in Cibersociety
Category: Articles ICT in Cibersociety Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, August 8, 2016, 15:27 Views: 775 New Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a decisive role in production and current social development. In developed and developing countries, the problems have been seen as a contribution to the achievement of broad national goals…
A View of the Current Crisis
Category: Articles A View of the Current Crisis Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Thursday, August 4, 2016, 13:08 Views: 2093 Many factors have contributed to the fact that the world today is going through a major crisis, both politically and economically. In trying to deal with only one aspect of this complex…
God bless America
Category: Articles God bless America Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Friday, 29 July 2016; 13:37 Views: 8 For those who have not had the experience of living in the United States for extended periods to be able to share or at least perceive the collective thinking and concept of life of Americans, the…
Has Fascism returned to the West?
Category: Articles Has Fascism returned to the West? Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 10:21 Views: 25 Almost one century after the rise of Fascism in the West there is talk again right now about that controversial social phenomenon, while thousands of small far-right political parties are managing to control…
World Economy Heading towards Outer Space
Category: Articles World Economy Heading towards Outer Space Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Thursday, July 21, 2016, 12:47 Views: 430 According to recent publications by the journal Global Research, the global economy is now in a process of transformation and the billionaire elite are gradually destroying the old structures of the world economy while…
The New Digital Society
Category: Articles The New Digital Society Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, 17:44 Views: 1342 Apart from all the criticism of the new world of globalization and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) as the cause of inequality, displacement, cultural uniformity, disturbance of private space, rising unemployment without lower production volume…
Criticisms of the Modern State
Criticisms of the Modern State Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Thursday, July 7, 2016, 9:38 Views: 43 With the emergence of the bureaucracy of the Modern State, certain flaws began to appear in the political administration of societies, regardless of whether their style was liberal, democratic, socialist or communist, or…
What will happen in Europe?
What will happen in Europe? Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Friday, July 1, 2016,18:11 Views: 1898 According to an article in the British newspaper The Telegraph, published on July 1 this year, Europe is slowly dying even though there is an increase in the global population as a whole. According to data…
Possible Geopolitical Effects of Brexit
Possible Geopolitical Effects of Brexit Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, June 27, 2016, 16:48 Views: 3633 According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union (EU) could make its economy contract by 5% by 2019. According to research conducted by the business group Confederation of British…
Decline of the Western Political Model
There are many factors that came into play to cause the decline of the model of federal republican democracy that began to be established in Europe and then in America in the late eighteenth century. Although the French Empire was the real designer of this political model which created public officials, allegedly representing the interests of…
Geopolitics and Art in Europe
This last trip to Europe was completely puzzling to me because I could see two current social phenomena at the same time: on the one hand, the imminent breakup of the European Union that is being precipitated by the departure of Great Britain and, on the other, the rapid disappearance of the old role…
Florence
There is no doubt that the most beautiful jewel of the Renaissance is the spectacular city of Florence where one can find the monuments and most important art works produced by this unexpected cultural phenomenon between the late fourteenth century and the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. We are focusing especially on the buildings and monuments…