By Francesco Martone* “Power inferno”, this is the title Jean Baudrillard gave to one of his essays in the aftermath of the attack at the Twin Towers , paraphrasing the title of a catastrophic film that hit the billboards years earlier , A “Tower Inferno”. A hell of power.
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Automatic tumble dryers notwithstanding, most people in the world (women, most often than not) hang the wash on clotheslines made of metal, hemp rope, or wood. Tree branches can also be used as clotheslines.
The Economist Cynicism is gnawing at Western democracies Democracies are generally thought to die at the barrel of a gun, in coups and revolutions. These days, however, they are more likely to be strangled slowly in the name of the people.
By Raoni Metuktire * – The Guardian You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change For many years we, the indigenous leaders and peoples of the Amazon, have been warning you, our brothers who have brought so…
The Economist The outside world is right to worry, but must show finesse in its dealings with Brazil PICTURES OF FIRES raging in the rainforest. A social-media storm in which #AmazonIsBurning dominated what passes for the global conversation. A war of words in which Emmanuel…
THE ECONOMIST His achievements are bad for Hungarian liberty—and an object lesson in what is possible for would-be autocrats elsewhere BUDAPEST AND DEBRECEN, Aug 29th 2019. “Aking”, Bruce Springsteen has pointed out, “ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.” It was to thwart…
By Carol Pires – The New Yorker As fires have surged in the Amazon, the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s disdain for environmental-protection measures has drawn international attention. In January, 2012, Jair Bolsonaro, who was then a retired military officer and colorful…
Editorial Brazil’s far-right populist president has encouraged the wanton destruction of the world’s greatest forest. He has been humbled but not stopped As Donald Trump’s America retreats from global leadership, coalitions of like-minded nations are attempting to limit the…
By Mario Osava* RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 2019 (IPS) – August is the month of major political crises in Brazil, but no one suspected that an environmental issue would be the trigger for the storms threatening the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, just eight months into his…
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times Are Democrats hexing the Trump boom with bad thoughts? For voodoo economics isn’t just a doctrine based on magical thinking. It’s the ultimate policy zombie, a belief that seemingly can’t be killed by evidence.
