
A Visit to Heaven and Hell: Mapping Planet Earth – Eduardo Galeano
The following passages are excerpted from Hunter of Stories, the last book by Eduardo Galeano, who died in 2015.
The following passages are excerpted from Hunter of Stories, the last book by Eduardo Galeano, who died in 2015.
As the war on terror enters its 17th year, it's clear that abuses of power by one administration lead to abuses by the next.
George Orwell’s preference for plain-speaking over artistic experimentation, common sense over high theory, and common decency over fashionable cynicism has made him one of the twentieth-century writers who remains not only readable but worth reading.
In a world where only 8 individuals – all of them men—possess as much as half of all the planet’s wealth, and it will take women 170 years to be paid as men are, inequality appears to be a key feature of the current economic model. Now a new study reveals that there is also a widening gap in hunger.
Rapid urbanization is increasingly shifting the impacts of malnutrition from rural to urban areas. From 777 million chronically undernourished people worldwide, 2016 saw a jump to 815 million.
Following the ‘Che route’ to the remote spot where the revolutionary icon was executed.
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