Marcos Salgado Donald Trump amenazó con imponer un arancel del 50% a las importaciones brasileñas. Una amenaza que, sabemos, no es nueva. Desde que el magnate llegó por segunda vez a la Casa Blanca, en enero apenas, utiliza casi a diario la amenaza de aranceles...
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Madre Naturaleza
Nieves y Miro Fuenzalida La sabiduría tradicional siempre ha contenido el mensaje que llama a confiar en la Madre Naturaleza porque es la base de nuestro ser y existencia y cualquier ruptura en esta relación no trae nada bueno. Las ideologías románticas, al parecer,...
Dejen entrar la luz: lo que realmente aportaron los BRICS en Río.
Pepe Escobar Una vez más, nos quitamos el sombrero ante la asombrosa imprevisibilidad del Ángel de la Historia. Justo cuando pensábamos que estábamos condenados, con una nueva y larga nube oscura cerniéndose sobre nosotros —véanse las convulsiones actuales del Imperio...
The Passing of a Teamster Rebel: Remembering Bennie Jackson
Bennie Jackson on the right confronting one of the old guard dinosaurs. Photographer unknown. Recently, I learned that my old union representative Bennie Jackson passed away seven months ago. He was a lifelong union militant at United Parcel Service (UPS) in Chicago...
Texas Flood Deaths Were Preventable
Area of “Flash Flood Alley” in Texas; the lighter curved region running from Dallas down through San Antonio. Image Source: Zhongyu Han and Hatim O. Sharif – CC BY 4.0 The tragedy unfolding in Central Texas is stark. As of writing, over 100 are dead or missing — the...
America’s 25 Year Tax Cutting and Fiscal Train Wreck
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Last week the US Congress passed the Trump Tax Cuts. The mainstream media and economists have been mostly reporting the details of the cuts—i.e. which taxes got cut in the 2025 Act, how much accrued to businesses and wealthy as...
Owning the Words: Lessons on Writing from Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and I at the South Dakota Festival of Books. Deadwood, South Dakota. October 4, 2019. No thinker has occupied as much space in my mind than Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Her writing could be sharp—sometimes biting—but always deeply principled. She once told...
Why Two Billion People Watch Cricket
Photo by Marcus Wallis ‘What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?’ famously wrote the Trinidadian historian C.L.R. James in Beyond a Boundary, exploring not just the beauty and psychology of the game, but the unspoken layers of class, race, and politics...
“Multipolarity? Maybe Sometime in the Future” An Interview with Vijay Prashad
Image by Ran Liwen. Although the global dominance of the US is crumbling and China is emerging as a rival, the unilateral world order remains intact, according to historian Vijay Prashad. In this interview, he explains why he considers NATO to be the most dangerous...
How Trump Betrayed Workers by Gutting the Inflation Reduction Act
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Federal officials, then-Governor of Indiana Eric Holcomb, union leaders, company representatives, and dozens of guests assembled at Heidelberg Materials in Mitchell, Indiana, last year to celebrate a milestone for North America’s...
Trump’s Tariffs and Price Gouging Restaurants
Red’s Java House, San Francisco waterfront. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair There is a simple problem professors sometimes challenge their intermediate econ students with on the first day of class. Popular restaurants often have long waits for tables, especially on weekend...
The Dark Side of Ecotourism
Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Ecotourism is often hailed as a sustainable alternative to traditional travel—an opportunity to explore unique environments while supporting local communities and conservation efforts. Yet beneath its...