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A Desumanidade Humana: Novos Ensaios Sobre a Cegueira (por Eduardo Carli de Moraes)
A Humanidade como Fraternidade permanece no horizonte das utopias. A cada passo em sua direção que damos, para relembrar um célebre dito de Galeano, a utopia dá dez passos para trás. Como se fugisse do abraço. Como se quisesse forçar-nos a ser camelos no deserto, em busca de oásis incerto,...
Publicado em: 05/08/14
Shaking Hands with Other People’s Pain
“Nous n’avons pas toujours assez de force pour supporter les maux d’autrui.” LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (1613 – 1680) Here’s the trouble with solidarity, altruism, compassion, brotherhood and other values we often pay lip service to, while practising them so shabbily: it isn’t always easy or pleasant to join in a...
Publicado em: 01/08/14
A FELICIDADE É POESIA – As reflexões sobre sabedoria do filósofo Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier, 1858-1951)
I. BUCÉFALO E SUA SOMBRA “Quando Bucéfalo, cavalo ilustre, foi apresentado ao jovem Alexandre, nenhum cavaleiro conseguia se manter sobre o lombo deste animal formidável. Sobre isto um homem vulgar dizia: “Este é um cavalo malvado.” Alexandre, no entanto, procurou o X da questão, e logo encontrou, observando que...
Publicado em: 28/07/14
Noam Chomsky’s “Fateful Triangle – The United States, Israel & the Palestinians”
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
Bloodshed in Gaza – The Historical Roots of the Conflict
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
DOMÍNIO PÚBLICO – Os preparativos do Rio de Janeiro para os megaeventos (UPPs, Militarização, Especulação Imobiliária, Criminalização da Pobreza etc.)
DOMÍNIO PÚBLICO (2014, 98 min) Documentário completo Uma produção Paêbirú Realizações Cultivadas http://youtu.be/dKVjbopUTRs Entre 2011 e 2014, o documentário investigou as transformações no Rio de Janeiro por conta dos megaeventos: UPPs nas favelas, remoções forçadas, privatizações de espaços públicos e revoltas populares. Entrevistados: Deputado Federal Romário, Juca Kfouri, David Harvey,...
Publicado em: 16/06/14
Mix Instantâneo: Democracia Imperial (Compre Uma, Leve a Outra de Graça) – Por Arundhati Roy (inclui debate com Howard Zinn)
Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free) by Arundhati Roy https://vimeo.com/97881169 Presented in New York City at The Riverside Church May 13, 2003 Sponsored by the Center for Economic and Social Rights Also published by Outlook India In these times, when we have to...
Publicado em: 15/06/14
“Throw FIFA Out of the Game”, by Dave Zirin @ The New York Times. He’s the author of “Brazil’s Dance With The Devil” (Haymarket Books)
THROW FIFA OUT OF THE GAME Dave Zirin / The New York Times Most people associate FIFA, the organization that oversees international soccer, with the quadrennial joy of the World Cup. But as the 2014 tournament begins next week in Brazil, FIFA is plagued by levels of corruption, graft...
Publicado em: 07/06/14
O que aprendi com Noam Chomsky: Osama Bin Laden e George Bush são ambos terroristas (por Arundathi Roy)
“The one fact that shocked me was that Noam Chomsky had searched mainstream U.S. media for 22 years for a single reference to American aggression in South Vietnam, and had found none. (…) I’m still taken aback at the extent of indoctrination and propaganda in the United States. It...
Publicado em: 07/06/14
BROKEN REPUBLIC (Penguin Books, 2011) – The “World’s Biggest Democracy” according to Arundathi Roy
Photos from Arundhati Roy’s Broken Republic INDIA: THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DEMOCRACY? By E.C. Moraes @ Awestruck Wanderer 1998: while we were reaching the end of the 20th century, India was testing nuclear weapons. The civilization which gave to the world masters of wisdom such as Gandhi and Sidarta Gautama, Ambedkar and Tagore, was...
Publicado em: 05/06/14
