Why a neoliberal society can’t survive
- T.J. Coles
Humans are complicated creatures. We are both cooperative and sectarian. We tend to be cooperative within in-groups (e.g., a trade union) whilst competing against out-groups (e.g., a business confederation). But complex societies such as ours also ...
Caetano Veloso: dark times are coming for my country
- Caetano Veloso
In the late 1960s, the military dictatorship in Brazil arrested and imprisoned many artists and intellectuals for their political beliefs. I was one of them. The militarists are back.
RIO DE JANEIRO — “Brazil is not for beginners,” ...
How a homophobic, misogynist, racist ‘thing’ could be Brazil’s next president
- Eliane Brum
Jair Bolsonaro is the monstrous product of the country’s silence about the crimes committed by its former dictatorship
Jair Bolsonaro: ‘The content of what he says doesn’t matter – what matters is the act of saying it.’ ...
A year after her murder, where is the justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia?
- Margaret Atwood
The Maltese journalist reported on government corruption, but no politician has been questioned about her murder, says novelist Margaret Atwood, writing on behalf of PEN International
Today marks one year since the brutal assassination of Daphne ...
Brazil: Manuel Castells' open letter to the world's intellectuals
- TLAXCALA ΤΛΑΞΚΑΛΑ ТЛАКСКАЛА تلاكسكالا 特拉科斯卡拉
The sociologist Manuel Castells has just published the following appeal on the Brazilian presidential election
Intellectual friends committed to democracy:
Brazil is in danger. And with Brazil the world. Because after Trump's election, the seizure ...
Hiding in plain sight: Why we cannot see the system destroying us
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.
We have well-known sayings about power: “Knowledge is power” ...
Imperialism and its accomplices: The question of dictatorship and democracy at home and abroad
- James Petras
One of the most striking world historic advances of western imperialism (in the US and the European Union) is the demise, disappearance and dissolution of large scale long-term anti-imperialist and anti-interventionist movements (AIM).
One of the major ...
In memory of Alexander Zakharchenko
- Gennady Zyuganov Геннадий Андреевич Зюганов
I receive all news from the Donetsk land with a special feeling. The fate of my family is closely connected with the Donbas, with Ukraine, with Crimea, where during his struggle against fascism my father was seriously wounded. And now, another pitiful ...
"Not Enough!"
- Uri Avnery أوري أفنيري אורי אבנרי
The State of Israel has no oil wells. It has no gold mines. What has it got? It has the ownership of the remembrance of the Holocaust.
That is worth a lot. Everyone who wants to clean himself from the stain needs a certificate from the State of Israel. ...
70 years of Nakba, 25,567 days of sumud
- TLAXCALA ΤΛΑΞΚΑΛΑ ТЛАКСКАЛА تلاكسكالا 特拉科斯卡拉
On this 15th May 2018, the Palestinians commemorate the 70th anniversary of their Nakba, the catastrophe that the proclamation of the State of Israel was for them.
Jorge Alaminos, Tlaxcala
In the 25,567 days since the sinister date, the four generations ...
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