Los millones acumulados por la alcaldesa de un pequeño pueblo de España son el paradigma de la corrupción en el país
- Suzanne Daley
La Muela, provincia de Zaragoza (España) – En los buenos tiempos, la anterior alcaldesa de este pequeño pueblo de 5.000 habitantes, azotado por el viento en el norte de España, estaba muy ocupada construyendo el museo del aceite ...
Small-Town Mayor’s Millions as Exhibit A on Graft in Spain
- Suzanne Daley
LA MUELA, Spain — In the good times, the former mayor of this small, wind-swept village of 5,000 in northern Spain was busy building: the olive oil museum, the wind museum, the museum of life. If that were not enough, there was the new bullring, ...
Com um sapo na garganta? Resenha de The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West, de Brian Levack
- Terry Eagleton
A Europa moderna dos primeiros tempos foi farta de casos de possessão demoníaca. Milhares de homens, mulheres e crianças falavam línguas que jamais tinham ouvido, fatiavam a própria carne e berravam blasfêmias ...
Neonaziler Sanık Sandalyesinde
- Tony Paterson
Almanya’da 1945’ten bu yana Nazi ideolojisiyle bağlantılı en büyük davada suçlanan dört adam ve bir kadın için kendilerini itham edildikleri seri cinayetlerin ardındaki ırkçı ideolojiden uzak tutmak ...
Frog in your throat? Review of The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian Levack
- Terry Eagleton
Early modern Europe was awash with cases of demonic possession. Thousands of men, women and children conversed in languages of which they had no knowledge, tore at their own flesh and uttered blasphemies and profanities. They vomited vast quantities ...
Neo-Nazi Nuremberg
- Tony Paterson
The four men and one woman charged in Germany’s biggest Nazi-linked trial since 1945 will find it hard to distance themselves from the racist ideology behind the string of murders they are accused of: when they appear in a heavily guarded Munich ...
Lame de fond sociale au Chili
- Paul Walder
La première marche de cette année, appelée par l’ensemble des organisations étudiantes, a atteint tous ses objectifs. La mobilisation du 11 avril non seulement a permis de démontrer que ...
Kristallnacht in Venezuela
- Romain Migus
Der venezolanische Oppositionskandidat Henrique Capriles hat nach der Verkündigung seiner Niederlage eine Welle von Angriffen losgetreten. Jeder weiche Staatsstreich beginnt mit einer Gewaltwelle. Es ist jedoch nicht sicher, ob er sein ...
Encher de alvos o campo de batalha
- Tom Engelhardt
O livro Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire [Tiro pela culatra: Os Custos e Consequências do Império Americano] de Chalmers Johnson foi publicado em março de 2000 – praticamente sem ser percebido. Até ...
Filling the Empty Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter
- Tom Engelhardt
Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 -- and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined ...
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