France: 3% deficit to free up 68,000 roundabouts?
- Fausto Giudice Фаусто Джудиче فاوستو جيوديشي
Experts quickly calculated the cost of the piecemeal measures announced by Macron on Monday 10 December: €10 billion, or 0.5% of GDP. These 10 billion will be paid by taxpayers and social security contributors, i.e. the same yellow vests they are ...
France: Why the elephant in the room is wearing a yellow vest
Open letter to whom it may concern
- Dominique Macabies
Mr. President,
Distinguished Ministers and members of Parliament, trade union leaders,
Yellow Vests "do not know what they want" because such a high degree of gross injustice has been reached that none of the traditional solutions can apply. ...
The old tale of corruption in Latin America
- Jorge Majfud
The political narrative that justifies any option as a way to end corruption is as old as politics and as old as narrative. In Latin America, it’s a classic genre. It’s only possible to repeat it generation after generation as if it were ...
November 11; the triumph of amnesia
- Fausto Giudice Фаусто Джудиче فاوستو جيوديشي
Thus, on this Sunday, November 11, 2018, 80 Heads of State and Government, invited by Emmanuel Macron, will celebrate the end of the Great War of 1914-18 at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Among those absent from the ceremony are the descendants ...
Why a neoliberal society can’t survive
- T.J. Coles
Humans are complicated creatures. We are both cooperative and sectarian. We tend to be cooperative within in-groups (e.g., a trade union) whilst competing against out-groups (e.g., a business confederation). But complex societies such as ours also ...
Caetano Veloso: dark times are coming for my country
- Caetano Veloso
In the late 1960s, the military dictatorship in Brazil arrested and imprisoned many artists and intellectuals for their political beliefs. I was one of them. The militarists are back.
RIO DE JANEIRO — “Brazil is not for beginners,” ...
How a homophobic, misogynist, racist ‘thing’ could be Brazil’s next president
- Eliane Brum
Jair Bolsonaro is the monstrous product of the country’s silence about the crimes committed by its former dictatorship
Jair Bolsonaro: ‘The content of what he says doesn’t matter – what matters is the act of saying it.’ ...
A year after her murder, where is the justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia?
- Margaret Atwood
The Maltese journalist reported on government corruption, but no politician has been questioned about her murder, says novelist Margaret Atwood, writing on behalf of PEN International
Today marks one year since the brutal assassination of Daphne ...
Brazil: Manuel Castells' open letter to the world's intellectuals
- TLAXCALA ΤΛΑΞΚΑΛΑ ТЛАКСКАЛА تلاكسكالا 特拉科斯卡拉
The sociologist Manuel Castells has just published the following appeal on the Brazilian presidential election
Intellectual friends committed to democracy:
Brazil is in danger. And with Brazil the world. Because after Trump's election, the seizure ...
Hiding in plain sight: Why we cannot see the system destroying us
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.
We have well-known sayings about power: “Knowledge is power” ...
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