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Aguas cautivas: hidropoder israelí en Palestina y Chile

"La tecnología, en este caso la tecnología hídrica, no es neutral. La tecnología es un artefacto político que materializa una forma de pensar y ordenar las dinámicas territoriales, además las tecnologías hídricas operan articuladas a modelos de gestión y regímenes de...

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 Floresta de Papel

Vários autores têm chamado a atenção para a responsabilidade das alterações climáticas na vaga de incêndios que assola a Europa. O principal factor incendiário seria a subida média das temperaturas e a secura. Este argumento, sem dúvida válido, suscita no entanto...

El bosque de papel

Varios autores han llamado la atención sobre la responsabilidad del cambio climático en la ola de incendios que asola Europa. El principal factor incendiario sería el aumento medio de las temperaturas y la sequía. Este argumento, sin duda válido, suscita sin embargo...

A miragem de um Estado palestino

O reconhecimento por um número crescente de países de uma entidade hipotética chamada “Estado da Palestina” é positivo em termos de impacto simbólico no que diz respeito ao reconhecimento do direito do povo palestino a um Estado, um direito negado pela maioria dos...

Maestra derrota, maestro fracaso

Maestra derrota, maestro fracaso

Javier Tolcachier Han sido varias las miradas en el sector progresista luego de la primera vuelta electoral en el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia. La mayoría de los analistas ha destacado la fragmentación del campo popular, indígena-campesino y de izquierda,...

Brasil: un mar de dudas sobre Bolsonaro

Brasil: un mar de dudas sobre Bolsonaro

Eric Nepomuceno El desequilibrado ultraderechista Jair Bolsonaro sigue detenido en su lujoso domicilio en Brasilia, cumpliendo determinación judicial. Quienes recibieron autorización para visitarlo –dirigentes políticos de su partido, uno de cada vez– dicen que está...

Camino al default: La Argentina en quiebra

Camino al default: La Argentina en quiebra

Horacio Rovelli Diana Mondino, la primera canciller del gobierno de Javier Milei, opinó sobre el Presidente en la cadena Al-Jazeera sobre el caso $Libra: “Hay dos posibilidades: o no es muy inteligente o es una suerte de corrupto. Elija usted. No sé”.   Darío Epstein...

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...

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content …

Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps

The Fourth Estate may not be in a good way, corrupted and compromised as it is, but in some instances, it remains the only light cast over the predations and ghastliness of power. For that precise reason, the state of Israel has been most cautious, to the point of...

An Ode to Those Trapped under the Rubble

An Ode to Those Trapped under the Rubble

Palestinians under the rubble after Israeli airstrike of homes in the Gaza Strip. © 2023 UNRWA Photo by Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 4.0  How can I describe this thing that happened to me? Was it a lucid dream? A vision? A trance of sorts? Whatever I can think to call it, I...

Compromisos concretos

Compromisos concretos

Los candidatos a legisladores deben explicar cómo cambiar la política económica de Milei para evitar que se prolongue el desastre en curso.

Pruebas de ADN

Pruebas de ADN

Cuentan que trabajan con chicos que no tienen papeles que digan cuál es su edad y que, por eso, les hacen pruebas para determinar cuántos años tienen.Temas principal: La vida y yaLeer artículo completo

Venezuela : l’ennemi dans le viseur

Le gouvernement Trump met la pression sur le Venezuela en accusant le président Maduro et d'autres responsables politiques de verser dans le narcotrafic. (I'A) Comme des coups de fouet du […] The post Venezuela : l’ennemi dans le viseur appeared first on...

CVS Strangled, Then Swallowed, Rite Aid

CVS Strangled, Then Swallowed, Rite Aid

First CVS bled Rite Aid dry with half a billion in retroactive fees, then it bought the corpse and called it consolidation. For consumers, the result is higher drug costs. Bankruptcy trustees say CVS Caremark imposed fraudulent fees that helped sink Rite Aid, then...

Meet Danielle Smith, Canada’s Ayn Rand in Cowboy Boots

Meet Danielle Smith, Canada’s Ayn Rand in Cowboy Boots

Danielle Smith, Alberta’s leader, is fusing libertarian dogma with oil-soaked grievance politics. It’s Canada’s version of the New Right, dressed up in provincial pride. Danielle Smith has turned the Canadian province Alberta into a testing ground for austerity...

Tipped Workers Don’t Need Tax Relief. They Need Real Wages.

Tipped Workers Don’t Need Tax Relief. They Need Real Wages.

Donald Trump’s No Tax on Tips policy is a major part of his appeal to working-class Americans. But tipping is itself a strange and flawed system invented to preserve inequality. Critics worry Trump’s policy will only intensify tipping culture. Americans think tipping...

“Novidade”: arqueologia de uma ideia tirânica

“Novidade”: arqueologia de uma ideia tirânica

Publicidade de produtos KitchenAid, a partir de manipulação de pintura de Gustav Klimt 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...

Mercado, a última parada do Ocidente patriarcal?

Mercado, a última parada do Ocidente patriarcal?

Arte: Mark Wagner 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! “Em todas as cosmogonias, três deuses...

Por que ler Albert Camus hoje?

Por que ler Albert Camus hoje?

Foto: Cecil Beaton/Condè Nast Archive/Corbis 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!...

Dealing with Bangladesh’s Bad Loan Crisis

Dealing with Bangladesh’s Bad Loan Crisis

Bangladesh’s banking sector is living with a problem everyone knows about but too many prefer to look away from: non-performing loans (NPLs). By the end of 2024, distressed assets such as loans that are defaulted, rescheduled, or written off had ballooned to around...

Chega: sociologia de um destino • Pedro Levi Bismarck

Chega: sociologia de um destino • Pedro Levi Bismarck

1. Santa Eulália Nas eleições legislativas de Maio de 2025, na freguesia do Bonfim, no Porto, o Chega teve 1760 votos (12%) e em Arroios teve 1752 (11%). Estas são duas das freguesias do país onde a imigração tem sido apresentada como um problema grave, desencadeando...

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...

Rising to Reform UK’s challenge in Durham

Reform is a byproduct of Thatcherism, Labour Party failures and left activists’ limited imaginations, argues Ben Sellers. Only a long-term strategy for deep community organising can reverse the right-wing course that appears to lie ahead The post Rising to Reform UK’s...

How to build a new left-party alliance

A left-led Green party and the new ‘Your Party’ are both vital to defeating the right – but we need cross-party collaboration and grassroots organising to forge real change, argues Labour-turned-Green councillor Liam Shrivastavia The post How to build a new left-party...

Cuba: Democracia y reforma. Entrevista a Rafael Hernández

Mariana Camejo, directora de la revista La Joven Cuba, entrevista para su polémico podcast "La Sobremesa" a uno de los intelectuales más respetados de Cuba, Rafael Hernández, director de la revista Temas.Mariana Camejo (MC): Hoy tenemos con nosotros al politólogo,...

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...

Per una Carta dei Diritti della Natura

La natura è oggetto di diffusa riscoperta, ma prevale un turismo mordi e fuggi che contribuisce a trasformarla in un grande luna park in cui è impossibile, per l’uomo, colloquiare con pietre, piante o animali. Per salvaguardarne un'autentica fruizione, a beneficio...

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...