“Se Gaia também é um mundo vivo e plural, (…) não se trata porém de um mundo harmonioso e equilibrado, e muito menos dependente, para sua persistência, da exclusão da humanidade, como se esta fosse um invasor extraterrestre chegado para estragar um idílio pastoril. (…) Gaia é antes de...

Publicado em: 07/11/14

NOAM CHOMSKY  Fateful Triangle – The United States, Israel & the Palestinians (South End Press Classics, 1999, 600 pgs) Foreword by Edward W. Said Download e-book (PDF, 2 mb): http://bit.ly/1rJLGK1 SHARE ON FACEBOOK or TUMBLR “Fateful Triangle may be the most ambitious book ever attempted on the conflict between Zionism and...

Publicado em: 27/07/14

I’m deeply saddened and worried by the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza. One of the most densely populated areas in the planet, home for 1.8 million people, 56% of them under the age of 18, what’s happening in Gaza right now is a heartbreaking historical tragedy unfolding before our eyes.  According...

Publicado em: 24/07/14

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science booksThe Third Chimpanzee (1991), Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize), Collapse (2005) and The World Until Yesterday (2012). Originally trained in physiology, Diamond’s work is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary...

Publicado em: 26/06/14

THE BLACK JACOBINS by C.R.L. James (1901-1989) From the author’s preface: “In 1789 the French West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied 2/3 of the overseas trade of France and was the greatest individual market for the European slave-trade. It was an integral part of the economic life of...

Publicado em: 04/04/14

“The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away. To define force – it is that X that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to...

Publicado em: 19/03/14