Congreso de Salud Socioambiental «Salud, Cuerpos y Territorios en contextos de Pandemias y Sindemias»
Las crisis pandémicas que enfrentamos hoy como humanidad, evidencian los impactos de los modelos de producción y reproducción social que han destruido los territorios, generando la pérdida sin precedentes de diversidades biológicas, territoriales y culturales.
Agroecología en Chile: ¿puede una buena alimentación proteger la biodiversidad?
La agroecología —práctica de principios ecológicos en la agricultura— cobra vida en un rincón de Chile a través de diferentes caras y prácticas. Al igual que cada abeja, que trabaja por un objetivo común mayor, los practicantes de la agroecología suelen tener un...
Perú alcanza cifra de deforestación más alta en los últimos 20 años
De acuerdo con el monitoreo del Programa Nacional de Bosques del Ministerio del Ambiente Perú perdió 203 mil hectáreas de bosques en el año 2020. En un contexto marcado por la pandemia la pérdida de bosque de 2020 ha sido la más alta de las dos últimas décadas.
COP26: why carbon pricing is crucial to China’s climate change pledges
Read the full opinion piece published in the South China Morning Post.
Can the EU fiscal rules jump on the green bandwagon?
Read the full opinion as published on the View, Euronews.
Don’t let up – The EU needs to maintain high standards for its banking sector as the European economy emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic
This study was prepared for the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). The study is available on the European Parliament’s online database, ‘ThinkTank‘. Copyright remains with the European Parliament at all times. The European banking...
[Comunicado] Crise da dívida: uma cimeira inútil do G20
Como sempre acontece na véspera das assembleias anuais do Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI) e do Banco Mundial, a cimeira do G20 reuniu-se a 13 de outubro de 2021, em Washington (EUA). As potências industriais do Norte e as instituições internacionais estão mais...
Os bancos de desenvolvimento nada têm a ver com financiamento de agronegócios
Na véspera da reunião anual dos bancos públicos de desenvolvimento, em Roma, grupos de todo o mundo assinaram uma carta de denúncia do financiamento para expansão da agricultura industrial, destruição ambiental e controle do sistema alimentar por parte das empresas...
7 perguntas e respostas sobre a dívida africana e seu financiamento
Entrevistámos Milan Rivié, membro do CADTM que trabalha sobre a dívida dos países da África Subsariana, colocando-lhe uma série de questões sobre a dívida dos países da região e seu financiamento no contexto actual. Na versão francófona desta entrevista é possível...
Tenter d’unir la gauche en repensant son projet de société pour le XXIe siècle
Suivre la démarche analytique de K. Marx, mais en l'adaptant au capitalisme néolibéral d'aujourd'hui. Article de Guy Bajoit, président du CETRI. L'objet de cet article est de contribuer à la réflexion des forces sociales et politiques de la gauche, qui ont compris...
Haïti : les habitants en grève contre l’insécurité, au sommet de leurs problèmes
Dix-sept missionnaires nord-américains ont été enlevés par un gang ce 16 octobre en Haïti. Deux jours après, les Haïtiens entamaient une grève générale pour exprimer leur ras-le-bol de l'insécurité. Selon le spécialiste d'Haïti Frédéric Thomas (Centre tricontinental),...
Haïti : « Tant qu’on laissera l’impunité et l’insécurité se développer, aucune issue n’est possible »
Samedi 16 octobre en Haïti, un groupe de missionnaires, dont 16 Américains et un Canadien ont été enlevés avec leurs familles lors d'un kidnapping de masse, attribué au gang « 400 Mawozo ». C'est le dernier signe de la dégradation sécuritaire du pays depuis des...
¿Uruguay tiene futuro? Vivir y morir en la esquina sur
Nicolás Centurión| Uruguay no es un país que se caracterice por lo vertiginoso o lo impactante de sus noticias. Como todo país chico, y todavía en medio de dos gigantes, parece calmo. De igual manera el cambio de gobierno, la Ley de Urgente Consideración, los cambios...
La refundación de Chile ya comenzó
Pedro Brieger-Nodal Exactamente dos años después del estallido social del 18 de octubre de 2019 se comenzó a redactar una nueva constitución en Chile. Quienes venían reclamando casi en soledad la refundación del país sobre nuevas bases seguramente no imaginaban que...
Acuerdos de Uruguay con Amazon y Microsoft: ¿a qué se comprometió el gobierno?
Enrique Amestoy| Durante su gira por Estados Unidos el ministro de Industria, Energía y Minería (MIEM) del Uruguay signó memorandos de entendimiento con las multinacionales Amazon Inc. y Microsoft Corporation. En la información que se ha hecho pública por parte de...
Life and Death on the Fire Planet
Photo: US Forest Service. Fire is everywhere, nowadays. In the Arctic, Siberia, Australia, Canada, the American West, even in some rain forests. Terms like “fire tornado” have entered the vernacular, along with “heat dome,” which often, along with drought, set the...
On the Fascist Stench That Hangs Over this Still-Trumped Land
Image by Colin Lloyd. Next December readers will be able to purchase my next book This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberalism, and the Trumping of America, 2017-2021. Completed in June of this year, the volume ends on a somber note, quoting the centrist Atlantic...
China’s Winding Road Toward Capitalism
Image by Ezreal Zhang. There is perhaps no bigger controversy among partisans of the Left than the nature of China and its economy. Is it socialist? Capitalist? State capitalist? A hybrid? That so much debate swirls around this issue is its own proof that the question...
Belabored: Can the United Auto Workers Be Democratized? With Justin Mayhugh
For decades, the United Auto Workers has been controlled by a tight-knit group of insiders. Now members are voting in a historic referendum on how the union elects its central leadership.
The Problem with “Conflict Minerals”
In the early 2000s, activists began to campaign against the extraction of “conflict minerals.” Today, violence continues unabated in eastern Congo, underscoring the misguided frameworks governing transnational intervention.
The New Black Internationalism
The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world.
Racist Western Monopoly Media Ignore Colin Powell’s Horrendous War Crimes
File photo taken on 5 February 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell holds up a vial that he said was the size that could be used to hold anthrax as he addresses the UN Security Council in New York. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary / AFP)The pro-Apartheid Israel former...
The Julian Assange Case
Chris Hedges talks to documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist John Pilger about the upcoming appeals hearing in London for the Julian Assange case. On Sept. 26, Yahoo! News published “Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA’s secret...
Planet of the Living Dead (Halloween 2021)
The only thing we have to fear… (the dude who signed Executive Order 9066) Halloween is an odd holiday. The ostensible concept — as it has evolved to become — is to shock, startle, frighten, petrify, horrify, and/or terrify… all while consuming enough high fructose...
Retomando la senda
Con inversión del gobierno nacional, el Instituto Maiztegui retomó la producción de la vacuna contra la Fiebre Hemorrágica Argentina, interrumpida por el desfinanciamiento de Cambiemos. La entrada Retomando la senda se publicó primero en El Cohete a la Luna.
Al toro por los cuernos
Los Pandora Papers y la presencia argentina en el podio de fugadores de capitales. El fraude fiscal detrás de las offshore y la necesidad de una intervención política contundente. La entrada Al toro por los cuernos se publicó primero en El Cohete a la Luna.
De competitivos y favoritos
Declararon tres empresarios de la construcción en el juicio de Vialidad contra Lázaro Báez. La entrada De competitivos y favoritos se publicó primero en El Cohete a la Luna.
Miles de personas de todo el Estado alzan su voz en Madrid para reclamar un tren que vertebre el territorio y enfríe el planeta
El motivo de la marcha es reivindicar un medio de transporte "imprescindible para desarrollar los territorios y reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero del sector del transporte en España” Temas: Actualidad, Ferrocarril, Transporte público, Presupuestos...
Eduardo Santos: “Alguien que reconoce los hechos, el dolor causado y que manifiesta así su equivocación te está diciendo que jamás volvería a emprender el camino de la violencia”
Conversación sobre Justicia Restaurativa, políticas penitenciarias y encuentros entre víctimas y victimariosTemas: Actualidad, Euskal Herria, Cárceles, Ley Antiterrorista, Terrorismo, ETALeer artículo completo
Chabu, el exterminio de las voces del bosque
La vida de las últimas sociedades de cazadores recolectores en Etiopía y el este de África se ha visto gravemente afectada en los últimos años por el auge de la agricultura industrial y sus consecuencias.Temas: Global, Enfoques, Derechos Humanos, EtiopíaLeer artículo...
As COVID-19 spreads, protesters ramp up calls for refugees to be released from hotel detention
Protesters gathered outside the Park Hotel in Carlton to demand that the refugees be immediately released. Chloe DS reports.
West Papua activists call on Australia to stop joint exercises with the Indonesian military
While Indonesian soldiers are taking part in a joint training exercise with 150 Australian troops in the Northern Territory, West Papuan civilians are fleeing Indonesian military operations in the Maybrat region, reports Susan Price.
TWU workers continue struggle for fair agreement
Transport Workers Union members at StarTrack walked off the job for 24 hours following the company’s refusal to negotiate a fair enterprise agreement. Jim McIlroy reports.
Le notizie di scienza della settimana
Il costo umano della pandemia, gli effetti della crisi climatica in Africa e sulla salute, il nuoto degli anatroccoli: l’attualità scientifica. Leggi
Eterno mutamento
L’occhio dell’architetto Ludovico Quaroni dà vita a un libro inedito e sorprendente su Roma e sui cambiamenti urbanistici nell’epoca del boom economico. Leggi
Fabio Mollo racconta una scena di Anni da cane
“Questo piano sequenza descrive come la fantasia di Stella, la protagonista del film, riesce a trasformarsi in realtà”, dice il regista nel video. Leggi
Colin Powell : le « gentil homme » qui a contribué à détruire un pays
La première victime de la guerre, c’est la vérité. Cela n’a jamais été aussi évident que dans la vie de Colin Powell, ancien secrétaire d’État et ancien général en chef […]
Suffit-il de taxer les riches ?
La députée démocrate étasunienne Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (de l’État de New York) a été au cœur d’un vaste débat sur les réseaux sociaux à la suite de son apparition à l’événement […]
Altiplano
2019 et 2020 ont été, en Bolivie, deux années explosives. Dans un premier temps, du fait des accusations de fraude portées par la droite et l‘Organisation des Etats américains (OEA) […]
15 Minutes of Shame Has Nothing New to Say About Cancel Culture
To its credit, the new Monica Lewinsky–produced documentary about cancel culture takes the issue seriously without turning it into a cultural war bludgeon. But it can’t imagine a solution that isn’t dangerous, like tech censorship. “I was patient zero of having my...
Jeremy Corbyn: Socialists Are Rebuilding Bolivia
In 2019, a right-wing coup deposed Bolivia’s elected government. But the people fought back — and now the socialist government they elected in its place is more popular than ever. Bolivian president Luis Arce (L) and MAS party leader Evo Morales (R) honor the wiphala,...
Multilevel Marketing Scams Expose Capitalism’s Foundational Lie
Pyramid schemes aren’t a corruption of capitalism — they’re a microcosm of how the class system arbitrarily creates winners and losers while falsely promising opportunity for all. Mark and DeAnne Stidham, founders of multilevel marketing company LuLaRoe. (Amazon) Back...
Drones are back, so are we
On 20 July 2021, the government proposed a new security bill which will, among other things, authorize police drones, the same drones that our collective efforts managed to reject four times last year. The government is rushing to undermine our precious victories...
Amazon Fined 746 Million Euros Following Our Collective Legal Action
On July 16 2021, the Luxembourg Data Protection Agency finally rendered its opinion on the collective legal action we and 10 000 more people took in May 2018 against Amazon. This decision breaks a three-year silence which had started to make us expect the worst. The...
In memoriam Philippe Aigrain (1949-2021)
It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Philippe Aigrain on Sunday 10th of July, in the mountains, near his home in the French Pyrénées. Philippe was a computer scientist and a great humanist, a tireless activist, a researcher and an intellectual who...
Multimillionaire counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin’s new book ‘American Marxism’
Every thuggish movement needs its cover of respectability and even scholarly, theoretical pillars.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Militant journalism from behind enemy lines
Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent nearly 40 years unjustly imprisoned after he was framed and convicted of killing a white police officer in Philadelphia.
Cuba now part of China’s ‘Belt and Road Energy’ alliance
Cuba joined the Alliance for Energy of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a project to build an international mega-platform for cooperation and exchange under the principle of shared profit.
Mapping Faultlines: Lebanon’s Crisis Threatens to Reopen Old Wounds
In this episode of Mapping Faultlines, NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the continuing crisis in Lebanon in the context of the shooting of protesters in Beirut.
Rusty PV Sindhu Bows Out of Denmark Open Badminton
PV Sindhu, returning to action for the first time after her bronze-winning performance at Tokyo Olympics, lost in straight games to An Se-young of South Korea in the quarterfinals of the Denmark Open.
Tamil Nadu Fishermen Demand end to Dispute With Sri Lanka Navy
There has been a rise in incidents of Lankan naval personnel attacking Indian fishermen along the Gulf of Mannar.
La subversión del cansancio
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. Estoy agotada. No soy una máquina. No puedo escribir. Alejandra...
Gobierno de Cuba rechaza nueva amenaza de EEUU y denuncia injerencia
Presidente Díaz-Canel exige fin de amenazas contra Cuba en EEUU l presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, exigió hoy el fin de las amenazas de Estados Unidos contra la isla y remarcó que la nación caribeña es soberana, ante recientes declaraciones de Washington con...
Ecuador | Gremios, organizaciones sociales e indígenas rechazan “paquetazo” económico y ratifican movilizaciones del próximo martes
Para FUT, Gobierno se burla del pueblo con congelamiento de precios de gasolinas Por Pamela Aguas Yánez El presidente del Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (FUT), Ángel Sánchez, cree que el anuncio de congelar los precios de los combustibles es “burlarse del pueblo”....
Seriam os QR Codes microespiões do capital?
No Lundi Matin De onde vêm os códigos QR [QR codes em inglês, cada vez mais onipresente?], símbolos misteriosos que nenhum de nós pode decifrar sem a ajuda de um leitor e que se tornaram um sinal de nossa modernidade comercial e conectada? Vamos examinar a história do...
A complexa relação entre os neoliberais e a dor
Por Eduardo Guimarães A dor, assim como o prazer, é um componente fundamental de qualquer doutrina moral. Quando Jesus enunciou a máxima “amarás o teu próximo como a ti mesmo”, não somente definia o maior mandamento de sua doutrina, mas também estabelecia o amor como...
Boaventura: o poder cru e o poder cozido
Por Boaventura de Sousa Santos Inspirando-me livremente num dos binarismos que subjazem às Mitológicas de Leví-Strauss, sugiro que as formas de poder que dominam nas sociedades tendem a ter uma versão cozida e uma versão crua. As duas versões implicam diferentes...
A pandemic diary
PERSONAL NARRATIVE by Agnes Prieto The clouds scudded on a pristine blue sky, almost a perfect day… except for a silence, too quiet. A leaden weight, a lockdown that would end of a flow. No hurry, there was… Pressenza IPA
Bangladesh, a country of all religious groups
Bengali culture/commentary By Pathik Hasan “Bangladesh finalizes agreement to build Buddhist monastery in Lumbini, Nepal” This was the headline of Hong Kong-based Global Buddhist Door’s news headline last October 11, 2021. Can anyone imagine that a Muslim country...
PPFA appreciates decision to approve Bhaskarabda for official use
INDIAN CULTURE Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) appreciates the decision of the Assam government to recognize Bhaskarabda, a period counted from the date of ascension by the greatest king of Kamrup, as an official calendar along with the Saka and...
(Não) desenhar importa? • atelier local
1. No seu livro sobre as origens da paisagem industrial parisiense, Guillerme, Lefort & Jigaudon estabelecem uma correlação fascinante entre uma transformação no entendimento político da paisagem e a invenção da geometria descritiva, em França, no final do...
A Universidade: neoliberalismo, digitalização, precariedade
++ #32 • Verão 2021 • A Universidade: neoliberalismo, digitalização, precariedade apresentação • A empolgante revolução digital da Universidade, recentemente anunciada pelo Ministro Manuel Heitor, que consuma a «deslocalização» das aulas teóricas para a esfera...
Meditações Medinianas • Pedro Levi Bismarck
Tanto comentador, tanto comentário político, e, no entanto, as análises à vitória de Carlos Moedas parecem um pouco frugais, entregues às habituais «leituras nacionais» e aos «cartões laranjas». É relativamente fácil encontrar razões para os votos que Fernando Medina...
Tribunal de Belmarsh enjuicia a EE.UU. por crímenes de guerra y exige liberación de Julian Assange
Más de 20 políticos, intelectuales y congresistas participan en sus sesiones y exigen la liberación del fundador de Wikileaks, Julian Assange. El Tribunal de Belmarsh, reunido en Westminster (Reino Unido), inició este viernes el enjuiciamiento de Estados Unidos...
UNRWA, la defensa incansable y real de los derechos de las personas refugiadas de Palestina
Estimados miembros de Rebelión, El artículo publicado por ustedes de Dani Lobato ataca deliberadamente a UNRWA, tergiversa la información y ofrece datos falsos. Ya publicó este artículo en infolibre y después el mismo medio publicó mi respuesta:...
Las elecciones nos arropan mientras el campesino sigue en sus sufrires
Al llegar las épocas de las elecciones la fiebre electoral parece dominar el excenario, unos tratando de consolidar los votos que ya tienen en sus alforjas y avanzar hacia nuevas conquistas. Otros un poco mas descuidados es apenas ahora que se aparecen tratando de...
Playing on the dark side: An interview with Dawn Ray’d
Dawn Ray’d playing live (Credit: Thomas Brooker) If horror is marked by a fascination with the dangerous and the macabre, then few forms of music embody that spirit like black metal – a controversial subgenre of heavy metal characterised by a raw, uncompromising...
The global spectres of ‘Asian horror’
Sadako Yamamura from Ringu (1998) (Credit: Toho) Though increasingly marketable since the turn of the millennium, ‘Asian horror’ is neither a homogeneous category nor a regionally inclusive label. The term ‘Asian horror cinema’ has been largely used to refer to scary...
#TWT21: Mobilising for collective action
(A Covid mutual aid group in London. Credit: Youth Deliver.) As Covid-19 hit the UK and we entered the apocalyptic scene- scape of bare supermarket shelves and boarded-up pubs, it was hard not to recognise that our economic system for organising society had failed....
Un Andreu Nin vivo
[El siguiente texto es un extracto del libro de Andreu Navarra La revolución imposible. Vida y muerte de Andreu Nin, Tusquets, 2021, págs. 325-331; el extracto fue publicado originalmente en Conversación sobre la historia]
Historiografía y marxismo. Una conversación entre Xavi Domènech y Julio Martínez-Cava
[Reproducimos a continuación una entrevista que realizó nuestro buen amigo Juan Delgado, de la revista Sociedad Futura, a Xavier Domènech - un reconocido investigador y profesor universitario con un compromiso muy activo con la política catalana y española- y a Julio...
Lo que no se dice de la crisis en la cadena de suministros
Si se leen las noticias de los medios de comunicación, todo el mundo se centra en los árboles y no ve el bosque. Los barcos están atascados, los puertos se encuentran al límite de su capacidad, no hay suficientes camioneros y la escasez se agrava a medida que los...
Public Health or Private Wealth? How Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way for Unprecedented Surveillance Capitalism
Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism By Jeremy LOFFREDO, Max BLUMENTHAL The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems...
Pandora Papers: Who Needs Exotic Tax Havens When the U.S. is Already a Big One?
Sam Pizzigati co-edits inequality.org which researches and highlights the growing wealth gap in the United States. The organization is widely respected as non-partisan, and has produced numerous papers and books on the subject which are used as critical resources by...
The Strategy Session. Episode 35
Strategic Podcast · E35 – 21.10.2021 – Brave New World Chung – AUDIO
To Build a Beautiful World, You First Have to Imagine It
Mary Annaïse Heglar Looking at the climate fight, it’s clear what we desperately need is more artists. The post To Build a Beautiful World, You First Have to Imagine It appeared first on The Nation.
Congress Escalates Pressure on the NFL to Release the Washington Football Team Report
Dave Zirin In a surprise move, two members of Congress are calling on the NFL to release a report many fear will be buried without public pressure. The post Congress Escalates Pressure on the NFL to Release the Washington Football Team Report appeared first on The...
The New Campaign to Smear Palestinian Human Rights Defenders as Terrorists
Mohammed El-Kurd In a move that has been condemned as an effort to discredit Palestinian rights organizations, the Israeli government has designated six as “terror organizations.” The post The New Campaign to Smear Palestinian Human Rights Defenders as Terrorists...
Susan George and contemporary anticapitalist struggles within and against the global food system
Susan George 1982 Events, movements and individuals.
An ignoble end to counter-terrorism
Photo credit MichaelGaida at Pixabay The early days:
Empire, Islamophobia and the War on Terror
They discuss how Arab and Muslim communities were racialised and targeted well before 9/11 and what interests this dehumanisation served. Deepa Kumar is the author of the recently published book, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: Twenty Years after 9/11. Arun...
Fernando Aramburu, I rondoni (Guanda editore, 2021)
Abbandonare “pezzi” della propria vita è ciò che fa Toni, professore di filosofia in un liceo di Madrid. Libri e altri oggetti vengono abbandonati sulle panchine durante le passeggiate che fa … L'articolo Fernando Aramburu, I rondoni (Guanda editore, 2021) proviene da...
La manovra di bilancio e il Patto di stabilità
Il Consiglio dei ministri ha approvato, con una scricchiolante unanimità, il Documento programmatico di bilancio. Di fronte al bivio se tirare il freno della spesa pubblica o, al contrario, giocare con coraggio la sfida di un incremento degli investimenti e dei...
Buone notizie dal fronte del porto
Era il luglio 2018 quando un rimorchiatore italiano operante nel Mediterraneo in appoggio a una piattaforma dell’ENI, raccolti in acque internazionali 101 migranti in difficoltà, li consegnò a una motovedetta libica. Tre anni dopo il Tribunale di Napoli ha condannato...
The Fate of Cassandra: Dire Predictions Go Unheeded
In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra was a priestess who was able to predict the future but unable to convince others to act upon her prophecies. The fate of Cassandra seems particularly relevant today, for there has been ample warning about three developments that...
Imagine a World with U.S.-China Cooperation
On September 10, 2021, during an important diplomatic meeting that occurred by telephone, U.S. President Joseph Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping affirmed the necessity of a better relationship between their two nations. According to the official Chinese...
Building Social Solidarity Across National Boundaries
Is it possible to build social solidarity beyond the state? It’s easy to conclude that it’s not. In 1915, as national governments produced the shocking carnage of World War I, Ralph Chaplin, an activist in the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote his stirring song,...