¡Hagamos milpa agroecológica!
Familias campesinas de Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero, optan por la producción agroecológica de alimentos.
La mejor conservación es reconocer tierras a indígenas y afrodescendientes
El reconocimiento de los derechos de tenencia de los pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes en Colombia y Perú es la estrategia más efectiva para proteger la biodiversidad en la Amazonía. Así lo sostiene un estudio presentado por la coalición Rights and Resources...
“Tenemos que empujar hacia la construcción de una sociedad ecológica”
La Organización Ecologista Piuke tradujo y reeditó el libro de Murray Bookchin “La ecología de la libertad. El surgimiento y la disolución de la jerarquía”. Se trata de una edición autogestiva y ampliada del libro publicado de la década de 1980 y cuenta con prólogos...
Ukraine and Taiwan on the Biden-Xi chessboard
Read the full opinion published in Asia Times.
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,...
Putin’s War and the German Economic Model
Read the full piece published on Project Syndicate.
A fatura odiosa da independência
Em maio passado, o New York Times publicou uma pesquisa aprofundada sobre as raízes históricas da dívida haitiana. Em maio passado, o New York Times públicou uma série de artigos sobre a história amplamente desconhecida da emblemática «cobrança da independência» do...
«O canário na mina de carvão»: a crise do Sri Lanka é uma crônica anunciada
A crise econômica aguda, a inadimplência da dívida soberana do Sri Lanka e o levante de seu povo em 2022 chamaram a atenção do mundo inteiro. O Sri Lanka está sendo considerado como um «canário na mina de carvão», ou seja, um presságio de uma futura crise para outros...
México: Campanha nacional da coalizão para suspender o pagamento da dívida
A Promotora por la Suspensión del Pago de la Deuda Pública (PSPDP- Coletivo promotor para a suspenção do pagamento da dívida pública) deu início a campanha de petição dos cidadãos com várias coletivas de imprensa simultâneas na segunda-feira, 25 de julho de 2022, no...
Haïti : un an après l’assassinat de Jovenel Moïse, la crise est toujours là
Frédéric Thomas (CETRI) et Grégoire Deniau (directeur de la rédaction de TV5MONDE) analysent la situation en Haïti, un an après l'assassinat du président Jovenel Moïse, sur TV5 Monde. 29 août 2022, 7'56 minutes. - Le regard du CETRI / Le regard du CETRI, Le Sud en...
La mise en tourisme de la « Riviera maya » : à quel prix ?
Version écrite et augmentée (!) de l'entretien mené par la journaliste Caroline Chapeaux (LN24) avec Bernard Duterme (CETRI), coordinateur du livre La domination touristique. Entretien consacré à la touristification de la « Riviera maya » au Mexique, à ses coûts et à...
Chaos en Haïti
L'insécurité règne en Haïti : 80 blessés par balle en quatre jour dans un quartier, « nous ne voyons même pas cela dans des pays en guerre ». L'émission « Droit de suite », sur La Première (RTBF), avec les analyses de Frédéric Thomas. En 2011, un terrible tremblement...
Chile Rechaza
Álvaro Cuadra Cuando se produjo en Chile el llamado estallido social en octubre 2019 y, como un modo de detener dicha crisis se propuso al país un Acuerdo por la Paz Social y la nueva Constitución (15 Noviembre 2019). Conviene recordar estos antecedentes y plantear la...
El patíbulo de la democracia argentina
Aram Aharonian El fallido magnicidio de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner exhibe en tono dramático el grado de descomposición política alcanzado en Argentina gracias –en parte- a la permanente campaña de odio desatada por los partidos y diversos medios de comunicación de...
Petro pidió que Argentina, Chile y Venezuela se sumen a la Comunidad Andina
Mariana Álvarez Orellana El presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro propuso en la reunión del Consejo Presidencial de la Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN), que la organización sea ampliada con la integración de Venezuela, Chile y Argentina. Estos dos últimos son países...
Phillips’ Formula: The Art of Politicizing Noir on Page and Screen
Image courtesy of Soho. Scripts, comics, TV episodes and fiction flow from the prolific, protean pen and brain of Gary Phillips, who is now adding two more books to his already impressive oeuvre of 20-plus volumes. The Los Angeles-based auteur’s latest novel, One-Shot...
Nuclear Warning: A Scientist in Distress
Underground tank farm with 12 of the site's 177 waste storage tanks, photo United States Department of Energy. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, two US teams visited Russia to study Mayak, focusing on the Soviet's 1957 nuclear accident as well as on waste impacts on...
Investigating the Victim: On Abbas’ ‘Holocaust’ and the Depravity of Israeli Hasbara
“There was no Massacre in Jenin” was the title of a Haaretz editorial on April 19, 2002, one week after Israel ended its deadly onslaught on the besieged Palestinian refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The unwarranted conclusion by Haaretz, other Israeli media...
Destructive Myths
Romanticized stories about the Second World War are at the heart of American exceptionalism.
Know Your Enemy: A Low, Dishonest Decade, with Nicole Hemmer
A conversation about Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.
Belabored: Strippers Seek Justice at Work, with Velveeta
A group of strippers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood hopes to break new ground in organizing their field nationwide as part of the Actors’ Equity Association.
The Meaning of Happiness
The post The Meaning of Happiness first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Why didn’t KPFA defend its journalist?
Some newspapers defend their journalists, at least once in a while. When the charming prince of Saudi Arabia had Journalist Jamal Khashoggi sawed up into little pieces, the Washington Post expressed outrage, and the bad press cost the Saudis some embarrassment; for a...
The Simpson-Goldman Saga
The post The Simpson-Goldman Saga first appeared on Dissident Voice.
LAS MULTINACIONALES Y SU LEY
América Latina y el Caribe son desangradas por multinacionales que demandan a nuestros países por presuntos "incumplimientos" y la ley internacional —elaborada a su medida— falla en favor de los privados.
La educación mafiosa
Segunda parte del estudio de la psicología de los bandidos bajo la forma de los fundamentalismos.
PASOS GIGANTES
La pulseada entre militantes y policías frente al departamento de Cristina, musicalizada por Coltrane.
Un 61% del país rechaza la nueva Constitución chilena, Boric convocará un nuevo proceso constituyente
Casi ocho millones de chilenos han votado 'no' a la propuesta constitucional en Chile. Boric anuncia un nuevo proceso constituyente y cambios en su Gobierno.Temas: Global, ChileLeer artículo completo
Bill Gates se equivoca
Las ambiciones del multimillonario solo empeorarán el desastre climático.Temas: Actualidad, Energía nuclear, Centrales nucleares, Tecnología, EnergíaLeer artículo completo
La Parcería: “Queremos posicionar nuestra defensa de la diversidad en la ciudad”
En solo doce meses este centro cultural ha conquistado a un amplio público madrileño con una oferta político-artística auténtica y diversa. Su local, en el distrito de Arganzuela, es un hervidero de actividades durante toda la semana, y empieza nueva temporada con...
Ukraine, war and the British left
Anti*Capitalist Resistance activist Phil Hearse speaks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about debates on the British left over Ukraine and the rise of the Enough is Enough cost of living campaign.
From commune to capitalism: Chinas agricultural reforms
Chris Slee reviews Zhun Xu's book on the history of China's agricultural collectivisation.
Class action launched over police use of capsicum spray at IMARC blockade
The Victoria Police’s use of capsicum spray at the October 2019 blockade of the International Mining and Resources Conference is being challenged in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Leo Crnogorcevic reports.
Le notizie di scienza della settimana
Come funziona l’evoluzione del cervello dei mammiferi, scoperto il dinosauro più antico dell’Africa, il benessere vicino all’acqua, l’aggiornamento dei vaccini contro il covid: l’attualità scientifica. Leggi
La Francia vuole dialogare con tutti ma deve evitare gli equilibrismi
Parigi ritiene che l’Europa abbia tutto da perdere restando ai margini di un rapporto con Mosca, che prima o poi dovrà riallacciare. Per questo Macron è infastidito dai risultati che Erdoğan ha ottenuto nei negoziati con Putin. Leggi
Intanto nel mondo
La squadra dell’Aiea raggiunge la centrale di Zaporižžja, l’Australia aumenta il tetto massimo di immigrazione permanente, la stagione degli incendi colpisce duramente l’Amazzonia brasiliana, riprende la guerra tra le forze governative e i ribelli nel Tigrai....
Mort du liquidateur Gorbatchev
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev est décédé mardi en Russie à l’âge de 91 ans. Auteur du « Nouveau défi léniniste », Georges Gastaud revient sur la mort du dernier dirigeant soviétique. En Occident, beaucoup […]
Le suicide économique et social de l’Europe, provoqué par les États-Unis et favorisé par les dirigeants européens
« Les sanctions doivent avoir plus d’impact du côté russe que du côté européen, on n’est pas en guerre avec nous-mêmes », déclarait Alexander De Croo, le Premier ministre belge, en mars […]
Les entreprises israéliennes d’armement qui vont profiter de la dernière agression sur Gaza
Les fabricants d’armes et de surveillance ont intérêt à maintenir Gaza en terrain de jeu pour toute technologie qu’Israël souhaite tester sur les Palestiniens. L’attaque israélienne de 2014 sur la […]
Yes, the US Still Has a Child Poverty Problem
The New York Times released a big story this week declaring that child poverty has plummeted over the last thirty years. But their numbers are misleading: unlike social democratic countries, the US is still plagued by sky-high child poverty. The OECD relative child...
Indonesia’s Fuel Protests Are a Sign of Things to Come in the Global South
Street protests have rocked Indonesia’s main cities since the country’s president, Jokowi, announced a cut to gasoline subsidies. With global energy prices soaring, the Indonesian protests are sure to be repeated elsewhere in the months to come. Students rally against...
The Gonzo Weimar Germany of George Grosz
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the German painter George Grosz went from being Vladimir Lenin’s favorite modern artist to a bitter illustrator in American exile. In between, he drew some of the fiercest caricatures of capitalist society ever seen. Fairy Tale by...
Collective complaint against the Technopolice
Three years ago, La Quadrature du Net started an initiative called « Technopolice » to gather information relating to all technologies deployed by the police in our cities. Today, we have come to a point where the combination of these technologies creates a state of...
Help us rekindle the night, support La Quadrature du Net
Help us rekindle the night, support La Quadrature du Net Surveillance has invaded all the spaces in our lifes. Our connected computers are rife with advertising trackers, our phones are pocket spying devices, street cameras are starting to observe and analyse our...
AI Regulation: The EU should not give in to the surveillance industry lobbies
Although it claims to protect our liberties, the EU’s draft text on artificial intelligence (AI), presented by Margrethe Vestager, actually promotes the accelerated development of all aspects of AI, in particular for security purposes. Loaded with exceptions, resting...
When market fundamentalism overcomes common sense: Myth of electricity markets
The so-called electricity markets were created to help private capital, not people. It is time we wound up these bogus markets and returned public services to people, to be run cooperatively for their benefit
Sahra Wagenknecht, Die Linke member of Bundestag: Russia sanctions causing ’social and economic catastrophe’ in Germany
Former Die Linke co-chair Sahra Wagenknecht, among the German Left Party’s most famous politicians, has accused the government of causing a “social and economic catastrophe” through its sanctions on Russia.
While rail unions meet with Biden to avert strike, 500 railroaders attend meeting to organize rank-and-file opposition
With the specter of a national rail strike in the United States looming, two meetings took place on Wednesday night.
Equal Pay Day: Why Europe is Still Grappling with Gender Pay Gap
Even though the EU was founded on the principle of gender equality, nearly three decades later women in the bloc still earn on average 13% less than men. The answer lies in the unpaid care work done by women.
Roar of a US Warplane Over Civilian Irish Airport
The use of the airport as a US forward operating base began in 2002-2003, and this transformation “was, and still is, deeply offensive to the majority of Irish people,” according to a Shannonwatch report.
Evil Empire: Let Monarchy Die Along With Elizabeth
There is no good reason to allow the evil empire to retain any legitimacy as the British royal family papers over the pillage it continues to benefit from.
Bolivia, el país con menos inflación del mundo – Por Fernando Molina
Los conceptos vertidos en esta sección no reflejan necesariamente la línea editorial de NODAL. Consideramos importante que se conozcan porque contribuyen a tener una visión integral de la región. Bolivia, el país con menos inflación del mundo Fernando Molina* El país...
El declive de la corriente plurinacional- Por Raúl Zibechi
Los conceptos vertidos en esta sección no reflejan necesariamente la línea editorial de NODAL. Consideramos importante que se conozcan porque contribuyen a tener una visión integral de la región. El declive de la corriente plurinacional Raúl Zibechi* La propuesta de...
México | AMLO propondrá en la ONU un acuerdo para el fin de la guerra en Ucrania
AMLO arremete contra la ONU y su papel ante la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania Los primeros diez minutos de su discurso en el Desfile Militar el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador lo dedicó al llamado a la paz en el mundo y a la descalificación al trabajo de la...
Cinema: Faroeste alienígena e o poder da imagem
Por José Geraldo Couto, no Blog do Cinema do Instituto Moreira Salles De quando em quando surge um filme que revisita criativamente toda a história do cinema, questionando de quebra a natureza do meio ou, pelo menos, da sua indústria. É o caso de Não! Não olhe!, de...
Agroecologia: O que eu diria ao presidente Lula?
Faço parte de um grupo autointitulado “intelectuais progressistas orgânicos”, reunidos em uns 30 coletivos, coordenados pelo Fórum 21, o qual está organizando um encontro com o Lula. São mais de 500 inscritos para este encontro presencial e virtual, a ser realizado no...
Mobilidade: a ilusão das cidades sem atritos
Paris Marx em entrevista a Rafael Grohmann para o DigiLabour Paris Marx, escritor canadense e apresentador do podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, acaba de lançar seu primeiro livro, Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. A obra...
The Search for the Exceptional Women of Peace Award: A Reflection
by Genevieve Balance-Kupang On September 13, 2022, Pathways to Peace honored eight women peace awardees, the Exceptional Young Women of Peace [EYWP] and the Exceptional Women of Peace [EWP] to commemorate the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of...
EcoWaste Coalition Lauds Quezon City’s Action vs. Unauthorized Health Products
18 September 2022, Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition has complimented the government of Quezon City for its latest action to enforce laws and regulations aimed at protecting consumers from adulterated, unregistered, or misbranded health products, including...
Violence Against Indigenous Women Grows in Vancouver Amid ‘Apathy and Injustice’
Indigenous women and girls in Canada continue to face disproportionate levels of violence and insecurity rooted in colonialism. By Tanupriya Singh Violence against Indigenous women is “escalating like never before,” the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC)...
O nosso orgulho são os Direitos Humanos • Comissão Organizadora da 23ª Marcha do Orgulho LGBTI+ de Lisboa
Em Junho, celebra-se o mês do Orgulho. Um mês de celebração e luta pelas conquistas de Direitos LGBTI+, pelos Direitos Humanos (DH) e pela igualdade. Seria hipócrita permitir que Estados com políticas segregacionistas e de apartheid, de colonização e campanhas...
Ucrânia: o capital em guerra
++ • caderno #10 • Ucrânia: o capital em guerra • A Guerra dos Mundos • Franco “Bifo” Berardi • Para lá da Guerra e da Paz • Luhuna Carvalho • Notas provisórias sobre os recentes acontecimentos na Ucrânia • David Harvey • Guerra e Choque • Pedro Levi Bismarck • A...
O futuro realmente existente
++ #35 • Primavera 2022 • O futuro realmente existente artigos • Notas sobre Tafuri, militância e sindicalização • Marianela D’Aprile & Douglas Spencer • Bem-vindo ao futuro realmente existente • João Pedro Cachopo • Guerra e demência (senil) • Franco “Bifo”...
Cipayos: Baradel y Yasky se reunieron con el embajador de EE UU
“El rol de los sindicatos es crucial para proteger los derechos de los trabajadores y construir una economía sólida. Conversamos con Hugo Yasky y Roberto Baradel sobre avances y desafíos de los sindicatos hoy, y del trabajo conjunto de EE UU y la Argentina en materia...
El aumento del gasto militar
Este primer capitulo se centra en explicar el aumento de gasto militar, un debate que se ha intensificado a raíz de la invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia. Más información: https://www.lamarea.com/2022/04/11/ec…
Futuro incierto: ¿cuándo llega el socialismo?
“¿Puede sostenerse, hoy por hoy, la existencia de una clase obrera en ascenso, sobre la que caería la hermosa tarea de hacer parir una nueva sociedad? ¿No alcanzan los datos económicos para comprender que esta clase obrera -en el sentido marxista del término- tiende a...
Keir Starmer’s humiliation kink
I often wonder if Keir Starmer has a humiliation kink: whether he draws joy or pleasure from what one can only imagine is the sheer weight of humiliation and shame that must push itself down on his chest with every waking breath. It is, one might reasonably argue, the...
Sri Lanka: Trouble in paradise
Anti-government protestors in front of the Presidential Secretariat in Sri Lanka on 13 April 2022. Photo by AntanO (Wikimedia Commons) Sri Lanka, the ultimate island travel destination, has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. We are in the middle of our...
How the West scuppered Gorbachev’s reforms
The author, Jonathan Steele, and Mikhail Gorbachev after an interview in Moscow, 2011. For a few days after 30 August 2022 reports from Russia were not dominated by the latest bloodshed in Putin’s criminal war on Ukraine. The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last...
“Assata me enseñó”. Una conversación con Donna Murch y Naomi Murakawa
El último libro de Donna Murch se titula Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives. Naomi Murakawa habló con ella poco después de su publicación. Lo que sigue es una transcripción editada de esa conversación. El vídeo puede...
Reino de España: el mercadillo fiscal
Influir en la agenda pública a través de las noticias que difunden diariamente los medios de comunicación. Agenda Setting, como lo denominan las personas expertas en comunicación política. Prevea escenarios, dibuje el marco del relato, elija los canales y lance el...
¿Acuerdo para mejorar el trato a enfermos del amianto o negar su existencia?
En febrero pasado, Bingen Zupiria, portavoz del Gobierno Vasco, anunciaba en telediarios y prensa la firma de un Convenio con el Instituto de la Seguridad Social con el objetivo de valorar con criterios homogéneos el perjuicio causado por el amianto a quienes...
Russia Illegally Annexes Its Own Land and People, According to Western experts
The referendums set a dangerous precedent for the rulers of Western “democracies,” in addition to constituting a direct and serious non-military threat to the sustainability of their Ukrainian project. Yes, that is the unanimous refrain of Western opinion makers...
Tearing Down the Pantheon of Western Founders and Heroes
The Euro-élites were in desperate need of a Values System to fill the gap. The solution, however, was at hand. The advocates of American primacy within the United States always move with the times, relying on prevailing trends to reimagine justification for its’...
The Rift Between European Policymakers and Public Opinion
In 2022, the Central European nation of Slovakia has supported Ukraine with more than €154m in military aid. This includes S-300 air defense system, Mi-series military helicopters, self-propelled howitzers, and Grad multiple-rocket launcher rockets as well as tracked...
Sarah Palin’s Loss Is Democracy’s Gain
John Nichols How Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system freed the majority of voters to elect pro-choice, pro-labor Democrat Mary Peltola. The post Sarah Palin’s Loss Is Democracy’s Gain appeared first on The Nation.
Pakistan’s Floods Are a Wind From the West
Hasan Ali The devastating natural disaster could be just an early glimpse of the consequences of industrialization in the global north. The post Pakistan’s Floods Are a Wind From the West appeared first on The Nation.
Why We Don’t Say “Reform the Police”
Mariame Kaba, Andrea J. Ritchie Reforms that leave policing’s core functions in place will not prevent state violence against Black people. To build a better society, we must abolish policing altogether. The post Why We Don’t Say “Reform the Police” appeared first on...
Elections in Brazil
The beginnings The story of the PT begins at the end of the 70s with the mobilisations of a new trade unionism. Its epicenter was in the industrial regions of greater São Paulo. It rejected the old trade union structures. In one way or another they had yielded to the...
Extreme events are the new normal, and not just in the weather
September 21 is the day the dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in the Philippines. For 49 years, it has been a day of mourning for Filipinos. This year, the 50th anniversary of Martial Law will be taking place under the regime of his son, Ferdinand Marcos...
The challenges of the energy transition in fossil-fuel-exporting countries
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Appunti sul “fascismo storico” e quello attuale
La destra vittoriosa nelle recenti elezioni politiche non è la fotocopia del fascismo storico, ma nelle mutate condizioni sociali e politiche neppure Mussolini e Italo Balbo userebbero oggi la pratica violenta e la retorica nazionalista di cento anni fa. Restano gli...
Gli 80 anni di Altan e Volere la Luna
Da oltre 40 anni, mentre padri e madri si specchiano nelle battute fulminanti di Cipputi, i figli e le figlie crescono con le avventure della Pimpa. Così Altan ha segnato e segna la nostra cultura materiale degli ultimi decenni. Oggi, allo scoccare dei suoi 80 anni,...
Il buio oltre l’orizzonte
La situazione italiana si intreccia con quella internazionale. Noi sosteniamo la controffensiva ucraina che mira a sconfiggere la Russia; quest’ultima fa sapere che, se messa alle strette, userà l’arma nucleare; gli Stati Uniti annunciano che, se ciò accadrà,...
Leicester is not in India: Hindutva in India and beyond
Call it a taste of India. Specifically Modi ruled India. On the evening of Saturday, September 17 a mob of about 300 masked and balaclava wearing young Hindu men went on a violent rampage on the streets of Leicester, United Kingdom. They were armed with sticks...
Unravel the 8 year Ukraine War and USA’s Homicidal Pursuit of Dominion, that Sabotages us all to Rule. Let us Mature to Mutual Sustainable World.
Our pro Kyiv/USA propaganda needs to stop, we need to hear and stand with Ukrainian people on both sides of the post 2014 coup’s disastrous pursuit through their anti ethnic laws and violence this division of Ukraine’s peoples into a terrible 8 year war divide,...
What I Learned About Governments by Reading Classified Documents
Donald Trump’s illegal retention of classified U.S. government records reminded me that I have been reading these kinds of sensitive official files after their declassification―and learning from them―for decades. The reason is that I am a scholar of international...