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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...

Ingratitudes

Ingratitudes

David Brooks No hubo intermedio en el espectáculo político estadounidense durante el puente del Día de Acción de Gracias, el cual empezó con ese rito oficial donde el presidente del superpoder perdona la vida a un pavo, el cual, en esta ocasión, no expresó gratitud a...

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.

Donald Trump, Union Buster

Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor...

Assedio non dichiarato al Venezuela

Assedio non dichiarato al Venezuela

Dopo gli attacchi alle barche dei presunti narcotrafficanti e le accuse e gli ultimatum al presidente Nicolás Maduro, Washington ha annunciato che lo spazio aereo venezuelano è chiuso. Leggi

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.

US Journalists on Aid Flotillas Allege Israeli Soldier Abuse

US Journalists on Aid Flotillas Allege Israeli Soldier Abuse

A recent panel of three US journalists aboard the Gaza aid flotillas say they faced assault and threats from Israeli soldiers — and that the US government did little to help them.Three American captured and detained by Israel while covering the Gaza flotilla detailed...

Next Sohee Is Korean Cinema at Its Bleak and Brilliant Best

Next Sohee Is Korean Cinema at Its Bleak and Brilliant Best

Behind South Korea’s economic growth, there’s a system that grinds workers to the bone at every stage of the life cycle, from high school students to retirees. The film Next Sohee dramatizes the impact of that system to devastating effect.Still from Next Sohee. (Zurty...

The Rise of Chile’s Hard Right

The Rise of Chile’s Hard Right

The first round of voting in Chile’s general election in November saw the shocking rise of the far right and the collapse of the country’s new left. It’s a crushing but not total defeat for the movement helmed by President Gabriel Boric.Presidential candidate Jose...

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...

La negociación del salario mínimo en Colombia

La negociación del salario mínimo en Colombia

David Ricardo y Karl Marx advirtieron de los conflictos existentes entre clases sociales por obtener una mayor participación de ingreso en un sistema capitalista. La entrada La negociación del salario mínimo en <font color="#0ac600">Colombia</font> aparece...

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...

Argentina, país em estado de “falência crônica”

Argentina, país em estado de “falência crônica”

Foto: Brasil de Fato 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! MAIS:O texto a seguir integra o...

The Reason So Many Americans Distrust Elites (Part 1)

The Reason So Many Americans Distrust Elites (Part 1)

The Public’s Warranted Suspicion of Elites Over the course of the last two to three decades, Americans have become more and more distrusting of elites. This distrust has extended beyond the realm of the financial sector into a wariness of higher-ups within...

Kabylia: Towards Autonomy While Preserving National Unity

Kabylia: Towards Autonomy While Preserving National Unity

Kabylia is not merely a geographic region of Algeria. For several decades, it has embodied a strong aspiration for cultural, democratic, and social recognition within the framework of Algerian national unity. The Kabyles, educated and politically engaged, uphold...

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...

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...

Cow

Cow

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

I Still Feel a Tiny Bit Sorry for Olivia Nuzzi

I Still Feel a Tiny Bit Sorry for Olivia Nuzzi

Joan Walsh She violated every journalism ethics code. But her childhood set her up to fall for a string of incompetent daddy-figures too lame to protect her. The post I Still Feel a Tiny Bit Sorry for Olivia Nuzzi appeared first on The Nation.

L’altra faccia del lusso e della moda

Da indagini della Procura di Milano emerge che dietro il lusso made in Italy si nasconde spesso un sistema di sfruttamento attraverso fornitori e subfornitori privi di ogni controllo dislocati in paesi stranieri. Nonostante ciò sta per essere approvata una legge che...

“Pasolini conservatore” e la destra senza identità

Nel parlare di “Pasolini conservatore” la destra ha finito col parlare di se stessa, per proiettare fuori di sé e mascherare i limiti e le tare culturali che non vuole accettare, che non vuole vedere. Nessun convegno o libro può infatti rimediare a un dato cruciale e...

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...