Ninety journalists, activists and civilians across Europe have been illegally spied with an Israeli spyware called Graphite. Three of the ninety people have come forward: Francesco Cancellato, Luca Casarini, and Husam El Gomanti. They have one thing in common: they have all been critical of the conduct of the Italian government led by Giorgia Meloni. […]
A silent battle rages on in the bustling city of Accra. The struggle for LGBTQ+ rights in Ghana has reached a critical juncture, highlighting severe human rights violations that have captured global attention. The approval of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill by the Parliament of Ghana on February 28, 2024, marks a […]
It is 25 January 2011, the day of the Police celebration in Egypt. A. D. is 17 years old and has stepped onto the streets with his uncle in Fayoum, a city very close to the capital to protest against the police, the persecution of activists, artists and all political dissidents. However, protests in the […]
“I was insulted, tailed and offered ‘helicopter rides’, a reference to the way they used to throw disappeared prisoners into the sea during the Chilean dictatorship”. Maria Rivera, a Chilean lawyer and activist, described the climate in Chile during the Estallido Social, the social demonstrations that broke out in 2019 and continued during the COVID-19 […]
In December 2023, Chileans were asked to vote on a new constitution written by right-wing parties after the failure of the 2022 referendum, which proposed a constitution written by the left. The result was no different, however, and the new constitution was rejected by 56 per cent. Interviewed by The Bottom Up, Vicente Rodriguez, a […]
Dear friend, At last, I am writing to you. I have wanted to do it since January or maybe February, not for you, but for me. It is not with anger or hatred that I write to you, perhaps not even resentment. I breathe a quiet calm; it tastes of fatality. In these […]
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. John 1:10 Obscene, brilliant, blasphemous, revolutionary, intolerable, audacious, immoral: Nils Runeberg (1). March 12, 1922: A ruptured aneurysm killed the one who, in the wake of Nestorius and Luther, shocked and transformed Christendom. Through Runeberg’s mind, […]
For the pseudo-Kantian optimists who see humanity’s intent in a process toward the better, here is a statistic that you too will find alarming: gender equality is 132 years away. In 2154 women will flock into parliaments, fill heads of state summits, lead most of the more profitable companies, lead immense multinational corporations, and be […]
Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin’s collaboration is a shrill and harassing scream that echoes throughout the room. It is a sum of primordial and disturbing silhouettes imbued with morbid fascination. The product of Bourgeois’ mind combined with Emin’s is a series of sixteen dirty, macabre nudes. The woman is a womb, and the man is […]
Insatiable conqueror, it is a barren land you have usurped. With disdain, you have subdued this body, a battlefield. Every day a new punishment you inflict on this unrooted and in darkness you plunder her sacred temple. Gorged with hybris (1) you started an unjust war, without dread, without scruple, strong in your […]