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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,...

Greve geral na Bélgica foi a maior dos últimos 40 anos

Ao longo de três dias, os sindicatos belgas organizaram iniciativas contra a intenção do Governo de impor cortes drásticos nas pensões, benefícios sociais, saúde, educação e cultura, além de novos ataques aos migrantes. Os trabalhadores na Bélgica participaram esta...

Repenser les flux de déchets au-delà des oppositions binaires

Près de trente-cinq ans après la signature de la Convention de Bâle visant à réduire les flux transfrontaliers de déchets dangereux, les déplacements internationaux de tous types de déchets continuent à croître et demeurent un enjeu majeur, à la fois éthique,...

Les dessous des déchets

Les déchets saturent notre planète. Tandis que les discours dominants pointent la consommation individuelle et glorifient le recyclage, ils occultent les responsabilités industrielles, les inégalités sociales et les ravages environnementaux. Repenser les déchets,...

La spirale toxique de la pollution plastique au Mexique

L'approche dominante de la pollution plastique prêche pour l'adoption de solutions marchandes et techniques en vue de « valoriser » les déchets, sans remettre en cause la logique de surproduction de plastique. Et donc en ignorant les pollutions émises aux autres...

Nuevo ataque de Trump  a Venezuela y también a Colombia

Nuevo ataque de Trump a Venezuela y también a Colombia

Mirko C. Trudeau El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump reiteró este martes su amenaza de lanzar ataques militares contra cualquier país que envíe drogas a Estados Unidos, defendió el bombardeo de embarcaciones perpetrado bajo el argumento de que transportaban...

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...

Public Debilitation

Public Debilitation

Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.

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.

Casablanca’s Captain Renault Resurrected

Remember the famous line by Claude Rains as Captain Renault in Casablanca? After being told by his Nazi handlers to close Rick’s Cafe he relayed the ultimatum to Rick (played by Humphrey Bogart). Rick questioned why his cafe was being shutting? Renault simply...

Conditions Are Ripe for a Resistance Counter-Offensive

It’s been over ten long months that the forces of democracy have been on the defensive, doing our best to withstand the many and various assaults on us on issue after issue, but the tide is turning: -Trump’s polling numbers keep going down, at 36% positive and 60%...

The Magic Begging Bowl

‘One day a beggar knocked on the doors of a great king. By chance, the king himself opened the door. He saw the beggar: the beggar was not an ordinary beggar, he was almost luminous. He had such grace, such beauty, such a mysterious aura, that even the king felt...

La résolution Trump sera-t-elle appliquée ?

Vote à l’ONU : Trump a-t-il gagné ? Alger, Moscou, Pékin se sont-ils couchés ? La bataille de Gaza est-elle terminée ou est-ce juste une nouvelle phase ? Et qui […] The post La résolution Trump sera-t-elle appliquée ? appeared first on Investig'action.

“A House of Dynamite” Is the Wrong Metaphor for US Nukes

“A House of Dynamite” Is the Wrong Metaphor for US Nukes

Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, A House of Dynamite, captures the horror and insanity of nuclear war. But by portraying the US atomic arsenal as an inheritance from the past rather than a product of our own time, it lets our political leaders off the hook.Rebecca Ferguson...

ICE Is Expanding Its Detention Capacity

ICE Is Expanding Its Detention Capacity

Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a $30 million contract last week that moves to convert vacant warehouses into mega detention centers, increasing capacity in the Trump administration’s push to supercharge deportations.Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

New York City’s Forgotten Public Bank Plan

New York City’s Forgotten Public Bank Plan

In 1975, Wall Street declared war on New York, sending the city into a fiscal crisis. A forgotten public banking proposal in the state assembly could have stopped it — and put both the city and the country on the path to socialized finance.In 1975, the Speaker of the...

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...

Dez teses sobre Hannah Arendt, que partiu há meio século

Dez teses sobre Hannah Arendt, que partiu há meio século

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! O próximo dia 4 de dezembro marcará o 50º aniversário...

Um Brasil e duas planilhas de gastos públicos

Um Brasil e duas planilhas de gastos públicos

Arte: Getty Images 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! A área econômica da Esplanada dos...

The Filipino Diaspora Hopes for a Corruption-Free Homeland

The Filipino Diaspora Hopes for a Corruption-Free Homeland

by Maria Veronica “Vernie” G. Caparas* November 30 is Bonifacio Day in the Philippines and among many Filipinos in British Columbia, Canada. Andres Bonifacio, after whom the national celebration is held every year, is one of the Philippines’ heroes whose revolutionary...

Seoul City Awards 17 Foreign Nationals Honorary Citizenship

Seoul City Awards 17 Foreign Nationals Honorary Citizenship

On November 26, 2025, the Seoul Metropolitan Government awarded honorary citizenship to 17 foreign nationals from 16 countries in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the city. The ceremony, held at Seoul City Hall, was attended by Vice Mayor Kim...

O triunfo da iliteracia • António Bracinha Vieira

O triunfo da iliteracia • António Bracinha Vieira

Nós, humanos, sempre falámos, mas nem sempre escrevemos. A escrita, acontecimento recente, perto de 5.000 anos, lâmina quase sem espessura na nossa história evolutiva, marca o limiar da passagem da Pré-história para a História: e admitiremos que a perda da escrita...

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...

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...

Your party, our roots and branches

Whatever happens at the Your Party inaugural conference, its seeds are growing into roots across the UK. John Stephens reports on the branch members forging their own paths to action The post Your party, our roots and branches appeared first on Red Pepper.

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...

50 años después. Lo que pudo ser y no fue

El 25 de abril de 1974 se acababa la dictadura en Portugal y se iniciaba la que se conocería como la revolución de los claveles. El 24 de julio de 1974 caía la dictadura en Grecia. La siguiente tenía que ser la dictadura franquista. Franco murió en la cama, pero el...

Israel lanza una nueva operación militar en Cisjordania

Los soldados israelíes llevan a cabo una incursión entre Nablus y el norte del valle del Jordán, sitiando en particular la ciudad de Tubas. Esta ofensiva es una continuación de las llevadas a cabo en Jenin y Tulkarem, donde el ejército israelí está acusado de crímenes...

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...

Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder

Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder

Elie Mystal No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted. The post Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder appeared first on The Nation.

Muriel Spark’s Magnetic Pull

Muriel Spark’s Magnetic Pull

Charlie Tyson What made the Scottish novelist’s antic novels so appealing? The post Muriel Spark’s Magnetic Pull appeared first on The Nation.

Cow

Cow

Steve Brodner Invasion. The post Cow appeared first on The Nation.

La partecipazione politica in Italia

In Italia la partecipazione politica è in calo verticale, in generale e non solo nel momento del voto. Diminuisce il numero di chi si informa e parla di politica: soprattutto tra i giovanissimi e le donne, in modo particolare nelle regioni del Sud. Il maggior veicolo...

“La peggiore destra” e la sinistra senza voce

L’azione politica della sinistra è divenuta debole perché deboli, prima ancora della prassi, sono la cultura e la teoria. Per lottare contro “la peggiore destra” neofascista occorre saper cercare risposte nuove a problemi nuovi, attraverso un impegno nel campo della...

L’abitudine alla guerra

Guerra e violenza sono, da tempo, il nostro vissuto quotidiano: nelle parole e, ancor più, nelle immagini. Diverse le reazioni di ciascuno, resta il problema di trovare una spiegazione al loro perché. Un tentativo difficile e finora senza risposte appaganti. Ma è...

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...