Photograph Source: Isac Nóbrega/PR – CC BY 2.0 In one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of international trade, President Donald Trump this week announced that 50% tariffs would be imposed on Brazil—a country that has a trade surplus with the United States...
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Trump’s Cuba Memorandum Provokes Strong Criticism Amid New US Aggressiveness Abroad
Photograph Source: hakkun – CC BY-SA 3.0 The Trump administration on June 30 released its “National Security Presidential Memorandum 5” on U.S. plans for Cuba. Criticism from Cuba’s government and international commentators welled up, as if entirely new forms of...
Five Key Lessons from Mamdani’s Startling NYC Win
Photograph Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority – CC BY 2.0 In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. Early polls showed Mamdani starting his...
Trump Confuses Telling Blatant Lies With a Straight Face With Competence
Image Source: United States Government – Public Domain We all know and expect that a president’s top appointees are picked in large part because of their willingness to carry out a president’s agenda. But usually these are people with some experience in the areas that...
Cuba | La Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular rechazó el memorando presidencial emitido por el gobierno de EEUU
Parlamento de Cuba rechaza recrudecimiento de bloqueo de EEUU Diputados cubanos denunciaron el recrudecimiento de la guerra económica, comercial y financiera por parte de Estados Unidos La Habana, 16 jul (RHC) La Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de Cuba,...
Panamá | Representante de Tocumen denuncia represión policial en la protesta
Representante de Tocumen terminó golpeada y sufre una fractura tras protesta: diputados denuncian presión para que negara agresión Lo que comenzó como una protesta pacífica en el sector de Cabuya, Tocumen, se convirtió en una noche cargada de tensión, gritos y...
Colombia | Gustavo Petro anuncio buscar la libertad y la justicia ante la barbarie que ocurre con el genocidio en Franja de Gaza
“El carbón colombiano no se convertirá en armas para matar niños en Gaza»: presidente Petro En el marco de la Conferencia de emergencia sobre Palestina en Bogotá, el presidente Petro fue enfático en buscar la libertad y la justicia ante la barbarie que ocurre con el...
Ciencia pública, apropiación privada: la encrucijada del conocimiento en la nueva fase capitalista – Por Lina Merino y Hernán Sánchez
Ciencia pública, apropiación privada: la encrucijada del conocimiento en la nueva fase capitalista Por Lina Merino* y Hernán Sánchez** La historia de la innovación tecnológica contemporánea está marcada por una paradoja brutal: los Estados financian con dinero...
Donald Trump’s Greatest “Triumph”
The Now Time. Yes, he’s done quite a job so far and, in a way, it couldn’t be simpler to describe. Somehow, he’s managed to take the greatest looming threat to humanity and put it (excuse the all-too-appropriate image) on the back burner. I’m thinking, of course,...
The Remarkable Career of Jim Abbott: How a Kid Born Without a Right Hand Became One of the Best Major League Pitchers of His Generation
Jim Abbott pitching. Photo: John Traub / Albuquerque Isotopes Baseball Club. I watched a great sports documentary Sunday. “Southpaw. The Life and Legacy of Jim Abbott” on ESPN. I’ll sum it up first. If this film, which far transcends just sports, doesn’t get a Sports...
Should We Garden Our Forests?
Thinning is essentially “gardening” the forest–selecting which trees are winners and which are losers. Photo by George Wuerthner. A new study published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management “Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape,...
Trump’s “Consistent” Views on Federal Reserve Head Jerome Powell and the Wealth of the Wealthiest
Image by Morgan Housel. The head of the Federal Reserve Board has been viewed as the second most powerful person in the government. In theory, this person heads the body that oversees the country’s monetary policy with the power to set interest rates, which shapes the...