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Moving from Paris to Rome is equivalent to traveling from the First to the Third World. While the city of Paris has a very advanced tourism system and the maintenance of its streets, parking lots, buildings and monuments can be enjoyed without a hitch, in Rome the opposite is true, as the chaos in the…

This last visit to Paris in early June was a total contradiction: on the one hand it shows that the mechanisms for promoting tourism are still working perfectly and the rate of tourist visits to the beautiful city not only remains at the usual level, but the increased security measures and the intelligent deflection of…

According to eminent American linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, the United States has always been a colonizing society. Even before becoming a State it was already eliminating the native population, which meant the destruction of many indigenous nations. Chomsky argues that in 1898 the US turned to the international arena, taking control of Cuba, then…

  The New Multipolar World Order  Written by Alfonso Elizondo  Created on Friday, May 20, 2016; 17:50 The world today consists of two blocks of countries: those that are under the control of neoliberalism and states with mixed economies. There are several geopolitical conditions that have led to the creation of this new world order,…

Brief History of Mexico Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 14:37   The graph that appears in this article has been published with data provided by INEGI and contains the official figures for murders committed on Mexican soil per 100,000 population from 1930 to 2014, with and without the intentional homicide…

Twentieth Century: Art in Motion Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, 16 May 2016 11:33       After photography, the big innovation in the artistic world was film, when the attempt was made to put movement into the frozen image of photographs. In the early twentieth century, film developed rapidly when the successive…

  Romanticism and Realism Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Saturday, May 14, 2016; 8:29   Romanticism encompasses both the freedom and the inherited misfortunes of the French Revolution and it spread throughout Europe for most of the nineteenth century. This new artistic movement sought to counter realism which aimed to be faithful to historical…

Written by Alfonso Elizondo Created on Monday, 28 March 2016 11:06   Although for many political and economic analysts, the final downfall of the North American giant – the United States of America – is a remote and long-term possibility, for well-known financial analyst of The Wall Street Journal, Paul B. Ferrell, whose accurate analyses…

Given the serious problems of migration into Europe, the economic, financial and political crises in most European nations, the US and most Latin American countries, it is fitting to refer to an interesting economic study undertaken by the young French economist Thomas Piketty just three years ago, in which he raises concerns about the West’s…

  End of Traditional Politics    After the primary election in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, it is thought that the candidates of the two major political parties in the United States for elections next November will be Hilary Clinton for the Democrats and Donald Trump for the Republicans. Although who control the GOP…

DEMOCRATIC UTOPIA IN THE UNITED STATES   The spread of information regarding the presidential elections in the United States next November done by the mass media and hypermedia ishavinga profound effect and raising questions regarding the electoral mechanisms used by the Americans, especially regarding the complexity and the use of outdated political models in the…

  After the incredible victory of Trump in the past ‘Super Tuesday’ electoral processes, it is a fact that the magnate, comedian and xenophobe will be the winning candidate for the Republican party to run for presidency of the United States and thereisvery little chance for his own party colleagues to create a formula to…

THE STATE VS THE FINANCIAL WORLD   Since the global dominance of neoliberalism started four decades ago, we have seen the tendency of central banks to reduce interest rates on deposits up to negative levels.This has been most evident in the cases of Japan and Europe.So the question arises: what is the purpose of these…

By Alfonso Elizondo    Created Friday February 5 2016 The company Bloomberg Business has compiled the average of 17 forecasts in different countries from which the conclusion is drawn that by the end of 2016 WTI oil price would reach $ 46 per barrel, while Brent will cost about $ 48. It is expected that…

    By Alfonso Elizondo   Created Wednesday, January 27 2016 Although the vast majority of politicians and economists in the United States think that the growth of its economy is a permanent phenomenon since the American state was created in the late 18th century, just a few days ago a book entitled ‘the Rise and…

      It is an evident fact that we are running towards the end of a time when democracy was compatible with capitalism, and Western society has enetered the phase of post-democratic capitalism. Also, the whole world is in the pressence of a perfect feedback mechanism between the generation of growing inequality and the…

  By Alfonso Elizondo Created Monday January 11 2016   According to Alexander Higgins, a reliable  analysts working for the US Network, the last US economic figures show that the global banking crisis spread from Greece to other banks in Europe, until it generated more than 10 billion dollar debt per week. We now know…

By Alfonso Elizondo Created Wednesday January 6 2016 After what happened last Monday January 4th in the global stock markets and the withdrawal of China in those same markets, they had to close prematurely after reaching a loss limit of 7% after learning that production in China had decreased for the tenth consecutive month. Adding…

  From economic crisis to geopolitical disaster   By Alfonso Elizondo     Without any sign that the economic crisis ignited in 2008 is about to be over, new international tensions on the world political scene throughout the Western world  are on the rise. This tendency has isolated countries that considered the theory of imperialism…

Geopolitical conflicts in 2016 (Part II) By Alfonso Elizondo Created Monday December 28 2015 5. The TPP (TransPacific Partnership) is a project of trade agreement promoted by Obama in an attempts to link several nations with coastlines in the Pacific. These include Australia, the United States, Japan, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam,…

Geopolitical conflicts in 2016 (Part I) By Alfonso Elizondo Created Monday December 28 2015 During 2015 several conflicts erupted around the world that have not been resolved and will continue to represent a serious problem for peace and security in the world in 2016. Although it is very difficult to establish its significance, I will…

    By Alfonso Elizondo   On Wednesday September 16th, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) finally increased the interest rates, which had remained unchanged since 2006, from 0.25% to 0.50%. The financial authorities justified this by saying that the US economy is now strong enough to continue growing with less help from the Central Bank.…

The Failure of Paris Summit By Alfonso Elizondo Created Wednesday December 16 2015 Almost all scientists have described the Paris summit as a fraud, displaying the huge gap between the main objective of the agreement, which was to maintain the increase of global temperatures below 2C and the efforts to limit the increase to 1.5…

    The predecessors of ISIS By Alfonso Elizondo Created Wednesday December 08, 2015 According to a public declaration made by the US General Wesley Clark, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), self-appointed universal Caliphate, is a cover operation created by Anglo-Israeli Zionist intelligence. Its essence has been the attempt to create an…

Paris, Climate Apocalypse Summit  By Alfonso Elizondo Created Wednesday December 02 2015   The two-week meeting in Paris, between country leaders, environmentalists and experts on climate change · from 150 countries is the most important global event of the last decade. The huge problem that has caused greenhouse gases since the start of the industrial society…

ISIS, The Great Enigma Created Friday November 27 2015 By Alfonso Elizondo The terrorist group name ISIS comes from an acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and Syrias the acronym for the group’s full Arabic name comes from the initials of and Daesh in Arabic refers to Isis, the name of an Egyptian divinity assumed both…

The hidden origins of ISIS   Created Wednesday November 25 2015    By Alfonso Elizondo   The militant Islamic group, formerly known as Al Qaeda in Iraq is now the most feared terrorist groups the world. It has gathered ruthless extremists and advisers whose mission is to wipe out everyone who won’t agree with their…

  By Alfonso Elizondo On September 10th, shortly after ISIS took control of the last oil well in Syria, Raymond Wilcox, Nigerian Content Development General Manager at Chevron Nigeria Limited posted a comment on the web expressing the United States concerns in regards to the Russian attacks of ISIS in Syria. That was due to…

  By Alfonso Elizondo The Sykes-Picot deal was a secret pact agreed between Great Britain and France with the support of Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Italy, and its main objective was to carry out the distribution of territories in the Middle East that belonged to an Ottoman Empire already in ruins. It was…