The Best Thing About Brexit is the Resulting Chaos
As a result of the Brexit vote, millions of people will get a respite from the US meddling in their lives
The Sociopathic Founder of the United States
The recent success on Broadway of the musical "Hamilton" has reopened the understanding of the facts by showing aspects of the dark side of Jefferson which had not been widely known.
Brexit Comes to the Caribbean
"Once Britain finally leaves the European Union, the twelve Caribbean countries will lose the commercial relationship structured through trade with the British market,” said the Bahama Tribune.
The Body as a Canvas: Images of the World Bodypainting Festival
Images from the World Bodypainting Festival, Australia, 2016
Politics as Marketing Campaign
"Mr. Trump: a country is not a company. You have turned US politics (where intellectuals have never been abundant) into a perfect commercial marketing campaign whose main slogan against immigrants has not been a good choice."
Bernie Sanders and the New Times
The "political revolution" that Sanders’ campaign introduced into the US lexicon made possible the emergence –in the imagination of ordinary citizens—of the prospect of building a powerful movement capable of ending oligarchic control of national life.
The New Neo-Liberal “Plan Condor”
“Today, Latin America is living through an non-conventional coup plan against its progressive governments. It’s a new Plan Condor aiming to reinstate neo-liberalism, not by military dictatorships, but through the combined power of the mass media, national entrepreneurs, right-wing political parties and governments of the great powers,”
The Southern Giant Will Have to Fight
"Now the poor, the excluded, the landless and the homeless, who had hoped to reach happiness, will have to seek other party associations –or forge new political tools– based on ethics, the elimination of the causes of social inequalities and the search for another possible Brazil", writes Frei Betto.
Capitalism is Almost the Opposite of Democracy
History records the existence of a supposed democracy with slaves in Greece, and today the capitalists have tried to appropriate the term as if it were unique to their socio-economic system.