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An analysis of central bank decision-making

An earlier version of this paper was presented at ‘The MPC at 25’, a conference organised by the United Kingdom’s National Institute of Economic and Social Research, in London, 30 March 2022 The process by which central banks take decisions has evolved over the years,...

A bolha da IA e a economia dos Estados Unidos

A economia dos Estados Unidos tornou-se, em essência, uma grande aposta na inteligência artificial. O mercado de ações dos Estados Unidos continua atingindo novos recordes; o preço da bitcoin também está próximo de valores máximos, e o preço do ouro disparou para...

TFFF: falsa solução para as florestas tropicais

O TFFF faz parte da lógica do capitalismo verde, que propõe valorar monetariamente os serviços ecossistêmicos para supostamente conservá-los e evitar sua deterioração e perda. O governo brasileiro lança nesta 30ª Conferência das Partes da Convenção-Quadro das Nações...

Los latinos le van dando la espalda a Trump

Los latinos le van dando la espalda a Trump

Observatorio en Comunicación y Democracia (Comunican) Una clara mayoría de latinos en Estados Unidos rechaza la labor del presidente Donald Trump en su segundo mandato y evalúa negativamente tanto sus políticas migratorias como sus decisiones económicas, según un...

Maradona eterno

Maradona eterno

Rubén Armendáriz Diego Armando Maradona murió el 25 de noviembre de 2020 y, sin embargo, sigue apareciendo todos los días donde siempre estuvo: en las paredes descascaradas de los barrios, en los altares improvisados en esquinas, en los santuarios de Nápoles y Villa...

¿Qué está pasando en América Latina?

¿Qué está pasando en América Latina?

 Álvaro García Linera La región vuelve a ser un laboratorio de oleadas progresistas y contraoleadas derechistas que se disputan nuestro futuro político.  Una oleada política reaccionaria recorre el continente. Allá donde las izquierdas y los progresismos colapsan por...

Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

Photo by Ryan Moreno One of the oldest maxims in advertising is that sex “sells.” But it turns out that race – and racial controversy – “sells,” too. Witness the sprawling controversy over an American Eagle advertising campaign to promote sales of its new line of blue...

The Progressive Case for Tariffs

The Progressive Case for Tariffs

Cargo ship entering the Columbia River from the Pacific. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. As the Trump Administration continues to push ineffective tariff policies and ignite trade wars, America’s working families hang in the balance — caught between rising prices and a...

Partyism Without the Party

Partyism Without the Party

Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

Coalition Socialism

Coalition Socialism

The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

The Epstein Island of Everyday Capitalist Reality

The Epstein Island of Everyday Capitalist Reality

A missing story thread of the Epstein scandal involves his connection to and service in behalf of Israel. Yes, we know the marketing platitude: “sex sells.” It goes without saying, genocide doesn’t. But there is a connection: The confederacy of pervs of the economic...

Extremistas frustrados

Extremistas frustrados

La derecha israelí se rebela contra los términos de la tregua impuesta por Estados Unidos y renueva su guerra contra el poder judicial y el sistema de controles y equilibrios.

A vueltas con los afectos, la amistad y el amor

A vueltas con los afectos, la amistad y el amor

Sabemos que la amistad aparece como un tipo de afecto encorsetado. Que parece tener límites en cuanto a intimidad, tanto física como mental. Pero qué pasa si ya no queremos que sea así. Temas principal: OpiniónLeer artículo completo

Trump and Mamdani Agree on the State, Not on Whom It Serves

Trump and Mamdani Agree on the State, Not on Whom It Serves

The cordial meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani wasn’t as strange as it looked; both reject the myth of a self-regulating market. The difference is that Trump uses the state to shore up wealth, Mamdani to expand rights and public provision.The Donald...

The Truth About the “Gen Z” March in Mexico

The Truth About the “Gen Z” March in Mexico

Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.Contradictions surrounding the “Gen Z” march in Mexico demonstrates the willing obtuseness of the international corporate press in...

Intimate Advertising, the Next Frontier in AI Manipulation

Intimate Advertising, the Next Frontier in AI Manipulation

OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will soon allow erotic features for adult users. The move points toward new and intimate forms of advertising, in which Big Tech shapes human desire and manipulates it for profit.With the new tactic intimate advertising, personal AI...

In France, the eternal return of facial recognition

Last May, the French government launched a working group aimed at legalizing real-time facial recognition. Far from being a surprise, this announcement is part of a series of proposals put forward by state officials, along with industrial and scientific players. We...

COP 30: It’s no joke

COP 30: It’s no joke

COP 30 failed, even as the urgency of the climate emergency becomes terrifyingly clear, because fossil fuels are more profitable than renewables, explains Michael Roberts.

Explainer: Why Sudan Needs Peace Now

Explainer: Why Sudan Needs Peace Now

With more than a quarter of the population displaced, numerous documented war crimes, and widespread hunger, Sudan faces unthinkable violence and deprivation as much of the world falls silent.

Marcha das Mulheres Negras: o grito pela Vida

Marcha das Mulheres Negras: o grito pela Vida

Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Assinar Loading... Assinar Loading... Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber os boletins em breve. Boa leitura! Às vésperas da 2ª Marcha das Mulheres Negras por...

Escala 6×1, herança de um país escravista

Escala 6×1, herança de um país escravista

Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Assinar Loading... Assinar Loading... Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber os boletins em breve. Boa leitura! Este texto foi escrito por Carlos Alberto de Oliveira,...

A fascinante proposta do Emprego Garantido

A fascinante proposta do Emprego Garantido

Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Assinar Loading... Assinar Loading... Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber os boletins em breve. Boa leitura! Pavlina Tcherneva, entrevistada em Alternatives...

Waiting for a Spectacular Initiative called CNFF

Waiting for a Spectacular Initiative called CNFF

Come 29 and 30 November 2025, the film buffs, cine critics and movie producer-directors of eastern India will have an unique opportunity to encounter film-works, dedicated to foster nationalism and paying homage to Bharat’s thousands years old civilization, culture...

Auschwitz ad infinitum • Um debate com Heiner Müller

Auschwitz ad infinitum • Um debate com Heiner Müller

  Heiner Müller, tem escrito bastante a partir da história alemã, especialmente do nacional-socialismo. Há algo de especificamente alemão nessa matéria teatral? Mao Tsé-Tung disse uma vez que enquanto o nacional-socialismo estivesse ao ataque seria imbatível. E esteve...

O Fim da Revolução • Pedro Levi Bismarck

O Fim da Revolução • Pedro Levi Bismarck

O argumento segundo o qual a CDU deveria ter apoiado a candidatura de Alexandra Leitão não tem nenhuma lógica política a não ser na démarche própria das paixões partidárias. A questão, na verdade, deveria ser posta ao contrário: por que razão deram o Bloco e o Livre...

Lisboa, política sem glória • Pedro Levi Bismarck

Lisboa, política sem glória • Pedro Levi Bismarck

Era preciso encontrar um termo apropriado para o momento exacto em que um sistema deixa de ser capaz de dissimular e ocultar as suas próprias contradições. O «acidente» não é apenas o «milagre invertido», como dizia Paul Virilio, que expõe as fragilidades da...

Crisis global y renovación social

¿Gestión del desastre o búsqueda de autonomía? La iglesia capitalista, con sus sacramentos del crecimiento ilimitado, extractivismo, productivismo, y consumo compulsivo, ha logrado en unas pocas décadas, desde la gran aceleración de los años 50 del siglo pasado,...

¿Dónde nos llevan los designios celestiales del imperio?

“En cuanto termine la guerra [Primera Guerra Mundial] podremos someterlos a nuestro modo de pensar, entre otras cosas porque estarán financieramente en nuestras manos”. William Wilson, presidente de EE.UU., en carta al coronel House. Toda la historia de EE.UU. cabe en...

Mutual aid – review

Revisiting a modern classic ahead of its anticipated expanded edition, Darcy White explores the contours and applications of mutual aid, which for Dean Spade must be grounded in shared understandings of systemic injustice The post Mutual aid – review appeared first on...

Moving music: an interview with Hamsaz Ensemble

A 15-strong group fuses traditional Iranian instruments with contemporary stories of diaspora, community and hope. For member Freesia, folk music can build connection and understanding across difference The post Moving music: an interview with Hamsaz Ensemble appeared...

Sahel: The broken promise of false anti-imperialism

The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi The post Sahel: The broken promise of false...

Ucrania ante una elección insoportable

Agotados por más de tres años de ataques rusos, los ucranianos están cada vez más dispuestos a aceptar compromisos políticos injustos y duras concesiones territoriales para poner fin a la guerra. Sin embargo, está lejos de ser seguro que esta difícil elección...

Why Putin Went to War — One Year Later

Why Putin Went to War — One Year Later

On Feb. 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin explained his country’s intentions in Ukraine in a televised speech. How has what he said then measured up to today?  Joe Lauria reports.  It is instructive to compare Russia’s war aims expressed on Feb. 24, 2022 to the state of the...

The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists

The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists

Jane Borden The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas. The post The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists appeared first on The Nation.

The Nuzzi Seizure of Power

The Nuzzi Seizure of Power

Chris Lehmann The journalist’s rise and fall and rise again looks like a performance of tabloid drama. But really, it’s Beltway access reporting taken to its natural extreme. The post The Nuzzi Seizure of Power appeared first on The Nation.

La Cop 30 tra delusioni e iniziative dal basso

La Cop 30 ha dato frutti estremamente deludenti. Il documento finale, infatti, non cita nemmeno il termine carburanti fossili e si limita a generiche esortazioni, cioè conferma gli obiettivi delle precedenti conferenze, ma senza fornire strumenti per raggiungerli. A...

La Germania è in crisi e vaga nella nebbia

L’economia tedesca, come quella di gran parte dei paesi UE, è in grave crisi da almeno tre anni: per la cessazione degli acquisti di gas russo, per la concorrenza cinese, per le difficoltà della globalizzazione e le tariffe di Trump, per i ritardi nell’innovazione,...

Conservative Governance Has Undermined U.S. Life Expectancy

Although, in recent decades, American conservatives have embraced what they call the “Right to Life,” they have certainly done a poor job of sustaining life in the United States.  That’s the conclusion that can be drawn from a just-published scientific study, “U.S....

There Is an Alternative to War

The war in Ukraine provides us with yet another opportunity to consider what might be done about the wars that continue to ravage the world. The current Russian war of aggression is particularly horrific, featuring a massive military invasion of a smaller, weaker...