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¿Nuevos elefantes blancos en África?

La  tercera cumbre africana para el financiamiento al desarrollo de infraestructuras tendrá lugar en Luanda del 28 al 31 de octubre de 2025. De acuerdo a  Africa Intelligence, busca movilizar capital de África y otros lados para fortalecer la estrategia de corredores...

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,...

Navegando rumo a Gaza

Nicolas Calabrese, o “Nico”, faz parte da dezena de brasileiros que se somaram á Flotilha Global Sumud que tem como objetivo de furar o cerco de Gaza a trazer ajuda humanitaria. Nico e tripulante da nave Isobella que, saída de Barcelona, se encontra atualmente na...

A passividade ou cumplicidade dos BRICS+ com as guerras imperialistas

Na primeira parte desta série “Por que os BRICS não denunciam o genocídio em curso em Gaza”, Éric Toussaint mostrou que, longe de romper relações comerciais com Israel, os BRICS+ mantêm e reforçam seus intercâmbios com o regime neofascista de Netanyahu, fornecendo-lhe...

Jair Bolsonaro condamné : un tournant pour le Brésil ?

Intervention de Laurent Delcourt du CETRI sur les ondes de la RTBF (Les Clés/La première) --- Jair Bolsonaro a été condamné à 27 ans de prison pour tentative de coup d'État. Une décision de justice historique, aux multiples conséquences, analysée par Laurent Delcourt,...

L’Afrique, terrain de jeu global ou force géopolitique ?

Article de François Polet (CETRI) publié dans une version condensée par le quotidien Le Soir, le 08/09/2025 --- Longtemps marginale sur la scène mondiale, l'Afrique a gagné en importance géopolitique. Grandes puissances et pays émergents y rivalisent pour l'influence...

El plan de ajuste de Milei acumula derrotas

El plan de ajuste de Milei acumula derrotas

Rubén Armendáriz Con una mayoría que superó los dos tercios, la oposición dejó al desnudo las mentiras del presidente Javier Milei sobre los fondos para el hospital pediátrico Garrahan y las universidades nacionales, El gobierno intentó varios manotazos para...

Franja de Gaza incomunicada, mientras avanzan los tanques israelíes

Franja de Gaza incomunicada, mientras avanzan los tanques israelíes

Maxime Doucrot Toda la Franja de Gaza ha quedado totalmente incomunicada este jueves tras sufrir un apagón en las conexiones a internet y telefónicas. El miércoles la capital y la parte del norte del enclave ya habían experimentado un corte en las telecomunicaciones,...

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...

[NYC EVENT | October 19] Food Tour with Arun Gupta

[NYC EVENT | October 19] Food Tour with Arun Gupta

Please join us in New York City for a food tour in support of Dissent. On Saturday, October 18, Dissent editors, staff, and donors will enjoy New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour,” eating our way through the …

Why Do Men Watch Porn? A Feminist and Queer Analysis

The dominant neuroscientific discourse on male porn addiction is underpinned by a moral pedagogy that tacitly assumes a normative sexual baseline: that the brain’s reward circuits, genitalia, and arousal systems were designed by evolution for heterosexual intercourse...

Winston and Smith

“Let’s continue where we left off yesterday. What’s your name, when and where were you born? Hellllloo!” “Winston Smith,” the prisoner replies. The vizier turns to the linguistics professor from the University of Alexandria. “Now you’ve heard it. Whenever we ask him a...

Why the SanctionsKill Campaign Supports BDS

The SanctionsKill campaign was formed in 2019 to raise awareness of the human cost of the “sanctions”—actually economic coercive measures—imposed by the United States and its allies on over 40 countries, in which one-third of humanity lives. Our coalition of...

Turbulencia

Turbulencia

Entre incursiones de drones en Polonia, ciberataques, crisis internas y declaraciones respecto al despliegue de tropas en Ucrania, septiembre no le da respiro a Europa.

Matones militares

Matones militares

Los asesinatos ordenados por Trump en aguas del Caribe son delitos federales, no actos de guerra. No sorprendería que simulara un “ataque” para justificar una invasión de Venezuela.

The Economic, Political, and Cultural History of Menswear

The Economic, Political, and Cultural History of Menswear

Menswear expert Derek Guy talks to Jacobin about where Western men’s clothing traditions came from, how they have evolved, and how they're being continually reinterpreted. Four men model the latest two-button suits of 1963 in front of a crowded Paris restaurant....

What Americans Think of Democratic Socialism

Since Bernie Sanders’s insurgent bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, democratic socialism has migrated from the margins of American politics to a visible and popular current. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) now boasts candidates with...

The New Defense Bill Could Further Privatize Border Control

The New Defense Bill Could Further Privatize Border Control

This year’s congressional defense spending bill would further entrench the military’s role at the US border and, for the first time, allow the Department of Defense to outsource border security work to private contractors. Personnel from various agencies reinforce...

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...

Columnist Karen Attiah fired at The Washington Post

Columnist Karen Attiah fired at The Washington Post

According to Attiah, she was the last full-time Black opinion columnist at The Post, where she was employed for 11 years. Other Black Washington Post staffers in senior positions who have recently departed, via the recent buyout round, include Monica Norton and...

The Many Difficulties with Legal AI Chatbots

The Many Difficulties with Legal AI Chatbots

When it comes to the law, the lesson is clear: AI-generated legal responses must be treated with caution as they can be confidently wrong. But what is behind AI chatbots’ confounding struggle in the legal domain?

Uma radiografia dos impasses no campo

Uma radiografia dos impasses no campo

Foto: Agência Pará 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! As primeiras políticas dirigidas ao...

Butler vê-se presa na rede kafkiana de Trump

Butler vê-se presa na rede kafkiana de Trump

Imagem: Elliott Verdier/The New York Times 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! Por Judith...

Wikifavelas: O dilema de uma plataforma atacada por robôs

Wikifavelas: O dilema de uma plataforma atacada por robôs

Introdução 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! No primeiro semestre de 2025, a plataforma...

Are We Having a God Problem?

Are We Having a God Problem?

Is God not the ultimate human creation? The gods we inherited were designed for small populations, scattered across the earth, with narrow horizons. They concerned themselves with intimate details—how we ate, dressed, or made love. Each was tied to a specific culture...

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...

A Ascensão do Fascismo

++ #edição 43 • Inverno — Primavera • 2025 • A Ascensão do Fascismo  • A Ascensão do Fascismo do Fim dos Tempos • Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor • Sobre o Fascismo Tardio • Alberto Toscano em conversa com Evan Calder Williams • Chega: sociologia de um destino • Pedro...

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...

High art, low ceilings: remaking Social Club culture

Jerry Iles speaks to Geoff Kirkwood about how a Tyneside Social Club became a cultural beacon – driven by cutting edge DJs, bingo nights, experimental orchestras and ‘open-minded collectivism’. Now, it's reclaiming culture for everyone The post High art, low ceilings:...

Cymunedoli: The glue that binds

Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write Beth Winter and Leanne Wood The post Cymunedoli: The glue that binds appeared first on Red Pepper.

Comunismo básico

Reseña del libro The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World de David Graeber, Nika Dubrovsky (ed.), Allen Lane, 2024, 356 pp., £25.Cuando David Graeber dejó el mundo académico en 2005, no tenía intención de volver.

La MAGAnomía no está funcionando

Un informe de empleo desalentador confirma las advertencias anteriores sobre el impacto económico de los aranceles, las restricciones migratorias y los despidos impulsados por DOGE de Donald Trump.A principios de la semana pasada, vi cómo un gran buque de carga...

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...

Wings Against Trump

Wings Against Trump

Maia Lorian Public intervention. New York City, August 2025. Photos by @roycer700_. The post Wings Against Trump appeared first on The Nation.

Jimmy Kimmel’s Bosses Sold Us All Out

Jimmy Kimmel’s Bosses Sold Us All Out

Jeet Heer Mainstream media is complicit in the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era. Kimmel’s suspension is just the latest proof. The post Jimmy Kimmel’s Bosses Sold Us All Out appeared first on The Nation.

A Gaza è genocidio

La Commissione indipendente delle Nazioni Unite istituita per indagare sulle violazioni del diritto internazionale umanitario e sugli abusi del diritto internazionale dei diritti umani nei territori palestinesi ha concluso che lo Stato di Israele è responsabile di...

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...