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Monogamy in the 21st Century (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo     ‘Deviant’ sexual relations in humans are usually not spoken about in public but are tolerated in private, particularly in the case of males, and this has been part of the praxis of monogamy all along. However, the model of the monogamous couple has…

Monogamy in the 21st Century (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo   One of the most disturbing questions of the moment is why have both monogamy and life as a couple changed over the last 20 years. During this period there was a rise in divorce by mutual consent, marriage declined rapidly and sexually diverse couples…

The Current Crisis of  Capitalism Written by Alfonso Elizondo According to William Robinson, philosopher and professor at the University of California, global capitalism has been in crisis since the 1980s. There has been a global polarization where the rich have become richer and the lower classes have fallen into extreme poverty. In his book on…

Chinese Wisdom (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo In contrast to Kant, Mencius does not even raise the issue of freedom. Jullien believes that any theoretical conceptualization of freedom in the West comes from the epic and tragicomedy. Then along comes the Enlightenment that conceives of the human being as a moral subject with everything revolving…

Chinese Wisdom (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo   According to the brilliant French philosopher and sinologist François Jullien, China followed a way of thinking that was very different from that of Greece and Europe. China promotes wisdom and Greece promotes a philosophy which tries to arrive at truth and justice through ignorance. When China refers…

White Supremacy in the United States (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo   The current reality is that right-wing extremism is still relegated to the level of a distant threat and these groups are considered irrelevant to matters of national security because right-wing organizations only intimidate and harass minority ethnic groups that are not Anglo-Saxon. The problems caused by the far-right in the United States are being lost in public debates and in policies…

White Supremacy in the United States Written by Alfonso Elizondo In 1871, one hundred and fifty horsemen were roaming the streets of York County, South Carolina, in the United States. They had their faces covered with masks and white cloth hoods. They were moving slowly looking for a black man. They had violently entered the house of a black man who had been freed by the victory of the American Union Army. It was the home of a man named James…

The Diamond Sutra Written by Alfonso Elizondo   A few days ago, a generous and very recent friend gave me a deluxe edition of the Christian Bible printed on fine paper, very light in beautiful characters. He told me that this bible, printed in the sixteenth century by John Gutenberg, was the oldest printed book…

  National Electricity System and Sunday’s Power Failure.   Written by José Luis Apodaca   Everything seems to indicate that a failure at the San Jerónimo substation caused the outage of the North Eastern and Northern systems (a 7,500 MW load on Sunday with ambient temperatures below 30C; on Monday it most probably increased to…

The Current Crisis Viewed by Chomsky (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo In a September 16 interview, journalists from the Colombian newspaper El Espectador asked Chomsky what ordinary citizens who have work and a family can do to take care of this new world order? The great American intellectual responded by saying that they have to…

The Current Crisis Viewed by Chomsky (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo    At present, the whole world is on fire. Not only is Europe feeling the force of irrational violence, but all hopes for peace, for democracy and for fraternity that emerged with the new century are coming to an end. The result has been…

  Solar Flares and Climate Change Written by Alfonso Elizondo Last Wednesday, September 6, NASA detected the two largest solar flares of this decade. The second was the most intense to be recorded since 2008. The bursts of radiation from these solar flares were detected by the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite at 9:10 and 12:02…

  Killed by US Military Actions (II)   Written by Alfonso Elizondo   The Korean War began in 1950. According to a veteran of the US Army, in that war the Armed Forces, the US Army and Navy killed about 3 million civilians in both Koreas and the Army left about 650,000 tons of bombs…

Killed by US Military Actions (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo     According to the April 10, 2016 publication of Resumen Latinoamericano, the United States has killed more than 20 million people in 37 countries since the end of World War II. The study reveals that US military forces are directly responsible for 10 to…

The Real World Power Written by Alfonso Elizondo   In his book titled Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More, renowned political researcher David Icke notes that in the last few centuries an elite of global conspirators have used ‘fear’ as the fundamental basis of their control of the world. According…

Fascism returns to the West Written by Alfonso Elizondo   Fascism is a very complex social phenomenon that took different forms according to the countries where it emerged. Nevertheless, a set of common features can be identified, with ‘totalitarianism’ ranking highest, as the government and the bureaucracy try to intervene in all areas of the…

Millennials are coming to Power Written by Alfonso Elizondo   The most notable part of the difficulty of avoiding the current geopolitical crisis is that those who wield political power and the mainstream media lack the necessary language to express the true extent of what is taking place at the moment. The basic fact is…

End of the US Empire Written by Alfonso Elizondo   The collapse of all the empires of humankind has always stemmed from internal causes. Right now in the United States a series of events is taking place that indicate that the great state that has been world leader for the last hundred years has gone…

The New Chinese Trade Routes Written by Alfonso Elizondo   The most representative project of Chinese President Xi Jinping is his expansion policy called ‘Yidai Yilis’ which means’ a belt of a road’ consisting of land routes that pass through Russia, Central Asia and Pakistan to Eastern Europe, in addition to the ‘Maritime Silk Road’…

 The Digital Renaissance Written by Alfonso Elizondo The incomparable beauty of the naked female body appeared for the first time, touching the earth with its delicate feet and giving a hint of its varied emotions in the beautiful oil paintings of the Earthly Paradise of Adam and Eve by Masaccio and Masolino that still survive…

Geopolitics of the Middle East Written by Alfonso Elizondo   Even though the Western media is determined to hide the great crime committed by the United States against the nations that make up the Greater Middle East (the area from Cairo to Saudi Arabia), there is no doubt that the real situation in this Eurasian…

From the Megalithic to Feudalism Written by Alfonso Elizondo   Perhaps the only major difference between the evolution of carnivorous animals and homo sapiens was that humans had a language that allowed them to create narratives. And narratives were what established a different evolutionary process in animals and humans, especially in the Neolithic period, when…

Power that is Inherited Written by Alfonso Elizondo   This experience of the Upper Middle Ages that still survives in the North of Spain is perhaps the clearest current experience in the Western world of the phenomenon of the transmission of earthly power in human society since the time when the idea of land ownership…

From Animals to Gods: Harari Written by Alfonso Elizondo According to Yuval Noah Harari, the brilliant historian with a PhD from Oxford University, in his book titled From Animals into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind, there is very little that humans know about themselves since most of that knowledge comes from their imagination.  …

Overview of the New World Order Written by Alfonso Elizondo    If we look at the main events in the world since the beginning of the 21st century, it is possible to formulate some hypotheses about what will happen in the immediate future, although all matters related to the environment in terms of climate, geology…

Will the United States Return to War? Written by Alfonso Elizondo At present, no country in the world comes close to the military power of the United States, but apparently that will not define a country’s world domination in the 21st century. Everything suggests that the dominant country of the future will be the one…

Ghost Cities in China Written by Alfonso Elizondo   The extraordinary rapidity of China’s urbanization process is unprecedented in the history of humankind. Between 2011 and 2013 China consumed more cement than the United States in the entire 20th century, according to China’s National Bureau of Statistics. However, there are no official data on the…

After Independence Written by Alfonso Elizondo   When the Spaniards finally left Mexico after Iturbide’s failed empire in 1823, the country was in total chaos, with two opposing factions of liberals and conservatives, a centralist government that tried unsuccessfully from Mexico City to resolve the conflicts between the federal entities, and a destitute population suffering…

After the Brief History of Mexico Written by Alfonso Elizondo If we analyze objectively Mexico’s five-hundred year history, three hundred as a Spanish colony and two hundred as a sovereign nation, we may arrive at some startling conclusions:   1- The majority of Mexico’s different aboriginal ethnic groups had a collective myth telling them about…

Brief History of Mexico (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo After the fall of Santana came the process of the Reform in Mexico. The Reform Laws had a significant effect on the interests of many landowners, but mainly on the interests of the Church. In 1857 the New Mexican Magna Carta was promulgated, establishing a secular…