Hans E. Offerdal

"According to SESAN, 50% of packaged products in #Guatemala contain excessive amounts of sugar, sodium, saturated fats, and trans fats."

On this day, 7th October, I honour those who keep hope alive, who continue to seek dialogue and peaceful coexistence in Israel and Palestine - the peace activists in Israel such as @standing-together.bsky.social and @peacenowisrael.bsky.social as well as the Gazans protesting against Hamas.

Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack against Israel 'Two years have passed since Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack against Israel and the Jewish people. On 7 October 2023, around 1,200 people – children, women and men, both young and elderly – were kille...

"Every country has the right to defend itself against terrorism...such defence must be conducted in accordance with international law...and human rights...Israel’s response to the...attacks has gone far beyond the limits...the Palestinian population has been subjected to unimaginable suffering."

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

@cbsnews.com: It is so sad that (corporate) media tag along with autocrats; in the U.S., in Russia and everywhere else.
Thus, it is really more important than ever to save, and support, public broadcasting, such as @pbsnews.org @npr.org @ebu.ch @corporate.dw.com @rtvenoticias.rtve.es @news.rte.ie

Dos millones de inmigrantes han sido deportados por ICE o se han ido de Estados Unidos, ¿es realista esa cifra? - La Opinión La Administración Trump presume que dos millones de inmigrantes están fuera de EE.UU., pero no ofrece detalles de los datos, ¿son creíbles?

Article published in Spanish by La Opinion

Chaplin's life "is detrimental to the moral fabric of America," Mr. Rankin asserted, urging that he be kept "off the American screen and his loath-some pictures be kept from the eyes of American youth."
- John E. Rankin, U.S. House of Representatives, 1921-1953.
(quoted in NYT, Dec.26, 1977, p.29.)

How the Visa Became America’s Favorite Censorship Tool Long after most political censorship was rolled back, the US preserved its power to bar outsiders for what they believe. A new court case could test that power.

What do Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso and Gabriel García Márquez have in common? The US once denied all of them visas because of their beliefs.

Enlace - Reelección indefinida en El Salvador: ¿una reforma a la medida de Bukele? Esta edición de Enlace desde El Salvador analiza la reforma exprés a la Constitución por parte de la Asamblea Legislativa, controlada por el oficialismo. La controvertida reforma dio vía libre a la re...

Muy buen reportaje de Liliana Flamenco, corresponsal de @es.france24.com en San Salvador, sobre el poder perpetuo del #Bukele en #ElSalvador.
¿Sabías que se ha eliminado el financiamiento público a partidos políticos en en el país? No estoy seguro de lo que eso significa para el partido en el poder.

Very interesting on #nouvellethéologie
"Examining the archives left by these actors and situating them in their institutional and interpersonal context yields a quite different picture, revealing significant fault lines between the Dominican and Jesuit branches of the nouvelle théologie."

#Theology

Geopolítica de la educación superior En un mundo marcado por la transición ecológica, la revolución tecnológica, las tensiones geopolíticas y las crecientes desigualdades, la Universidad se encuentra en una encrucijada histórica. ¿Puede ...

Nuevo libro: 'Geopolítica de la #educación superior
La #Universidad como actor global'; editado por Rubén Garrido-Yserte, Héctor Casanueva.
"Este libro -de @cataratalibros.bsky.social - reúne una pluralidad de voces #académicas para repensar el papel de las universidades en un nuevo orden #mundial."

Revista Estudios Sociales Estudios Sociales es una revista de investigación social, publicada cuatrimestralmente por el Centro de Reflexión y Acción Social Padre Juan Montalvo, SJ, y por el Instituto Superior de Humanidades, C...

It is a good video for context.
However, it is not liberation theology as such, rather about bishops and priests sharing liberation theology's concern for the poor and oppressed.
Note: '(preferential) option for the #poor', is from the document from #Puebla (1979), not #Medellín (1968).
#PedroArrupe

Interesting piece by @rbreich.bsky.social.

¿Y qué pasa con la #corrupción política, la corrupción en el gobierno y en las instituciones, por no hablar del partido #Morena (o deberíamos mejor llamarlo #PRIENA)?

¿Cuándo debemos tomar en serio las promesas del presidenta #Sheinbaum?

#Mexico #4T #circoYengaño

Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction … no longer exists”.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

#STASI

"Atacar un centro cultural que nació como un Memorial del 68 es una afrenta a quienes lucharon en paz por una sociedad más justa, tolerante y democrática."
#UNAM #Mexico #Octubre1968

AMLO sabía del huachicol fiscal: La carta que demostraría el aviso al presidente Aristegui Noticias reveló una carta que García Cabeza de Vaca, mandó al expresidente advirtiendo de la red de corrupción en Tamaulipas.

#Mexico: a diario salen más pruebas a la luz que el gobierno de #AMLO sabía del megafraude del #huachicolfiscal y no hizo nada. Es co- responsabilidad por omisión. politico.mx/2025/10/02/a...

La UNAM condena las acciones violentas contra el Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco

Es triste que algunos intenten destruir la memoria de 2 de #octubre de 1968.

"El CCUT reitera su vocación, como ha sido desde su creación, de ser un espacio de memoria, derechos humanos, identidades y resistencia pacífica".

#Tlatelolco

Free to Think 2025 | Scholars at Risk Free to Think 2025 is the eleventh installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 395 attacks on higher education communities around the world.

SAR’s #Free2Think2025 report is here! As violent threats to #highered in authoritarian contexts persist, recent years have seen increases in attacks on historically liberal contexts—incl. in the #UnitedStates. Read the report’s pressing findings now: www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...

La próxima semana presentaremos nuestro artículo sobre el desmantelamiento de la Policía Federal en el Centro de Estudios Estados Unidos-Mexico de @gpsucsd.bsky.social

Ojalá puedan acompañarnos

“When people are able to be snatched off our street with no probable cause, then thrown into a detention center with no due process and no timetable for release, that’s a threat to all of us”, says Amy Fisher, an organizer at the DC-based Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network.

Hace 1 año, #Sheinbaum asumió el cargo de primera presidenta de #México. Algunas portadas de los periódicos mexicanos de hoy👇
"En mayo pasado, siete meses después de asumir el encargo, la presidenta se vio obligada a enviar una carta a #Morena", escribe Dalila Sarabia en @pajaropolitico.bsky.social.

Full 23 March 1980 homily (also with original Spanish audio), is available from @romerotrust.bsky.social 👇

This is #Romero speaking during a celebration of The Lord’s Supper, Holy Thursday, 23 March 1978. However, the complete (original) quote is slightly different.👇 www.romerotrust.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Moreover, Romero often preached about the 'Revolution of God'.
#ÓscarRomero #MonseñorRomero

Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.

Journalist from El Salvador, Mario Guevara, writes from an ICE detention facility, about the ongoing violations of his human rights and dignity since his arrest in June while covering protest activity. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

From @militarytimes.bsky.social in April.