The Ides of October, by Josep Borrell

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The essay of a subject from within requires an undeniable exercise of introspection without fuss to pull out what may be true. In this case, Josep Borrell presents his essay The Ides of October with the soon-discovered claim of delving into the failure of a mechanism ...

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Against populism, by José María Lassalle

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Populism is the triumph of noise. And in a certain way it is the grave that the traditional political parties themselves dig for themselves thanks to their lukewarmness, their half-truths, their corruption, their post-truth, their interference in other powers and even in the fourth estate and their statistical figures ...

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The Red Squad, by Clinton Romesha

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The war testimonies in the first person are that reality that surpass all fiction raised to the nth power. The still recent intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, beyond its greater or lesser political adjustment, its convenience, its ethics or its international legality, gave itself to war scenarios ...

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What Happened to Us, Spain, by Fernando Ónega

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Subtitle: From illusion to disenchantment. And of that transition that this subtitle points to, beyond the historical Transition, there is much. A disenchantment with the work of political engineering that we were left perched for the elections of June 15, 1977. What seemed like a twinning has ...

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Your consumption can change the world, by Brenda Chávez

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From time to time I go around the current books and rescue those that evoke something about our society that is out of the ordinary, that raises critical thinking amid so much easy wandering, so much self-help for self-problems and so much unsubstantiality. I looked at the book ...

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Conspiracies, by Jesús Cintora

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Reality surpasses fiction. Hence, in this case, I took a leap in my reading tendency of black, historical, intimate or fantasy novels, to fully introduce myself into politics and current affairs, a kind of science fiction with touches of thriller where citizens browse ...

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The dictator DNA, by Miguel Pita

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Everything we are and how we behave may be something already written. Not that I got esoteric, or anything like that. Quite the opposite. This book talks about Science applied to reality. Somehow, the script of our lives ...

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