“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

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

THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF GROWTH Georges Monbiot / The Guardian UK Tradução: Arlandson Matheus Oliveira Imaginemos que em 3030 a.C. todas as posses da população do Egito ocupassem um metro cúbico. Suponhamos que essas posses crescessem 4,5% ao ano. Quão grandes elas estariam na Batalha de Ácio em 30 a.C.?...

Publicado em: 30/05/14

“Perhaps there is nothing which offers to the eye and the mind a more complete and more sorrowful representation of the world than the sea. In the first place, it is a picture of force in its wildest and most unconquerable form; it is a display, a luxury of...

Publicado em: 06/05/14

McDonaldization Of World Food “Globalization has created the McDonaldization of world food, resulting in the destruction of sustainable food systems. It attempts to create a uniform food culture of hamburgers. The mad-cow-disease epidemic tells us something of the costs hidden in this food culture and food economy. In 1994,...

Publicado em: 04/04/14

“What Is It Like To Be A Bat?” by Eduardo Carli de Moraes In one of the greatest essays in his book Mortal Questions, Thomas Nagel invites us to reflect in a daring and innovative way, as awe-inspiring as the best Science Fiction films or novels. Forget about mankind for a while and...

Publicado em: 31/03/14

“To kill oblivion with a little memory, we cover our chests with lead and hope.” SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN). In: ‘Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings’, Foreword: José Saramago (Nobel Prize In Literature) Published by Seven Stories Press (New York, 2003, Pg. 100.) PART I...

Publicado em: 28/03/14

CHAPTER III – THE CLASH BETWEEN OBLIVION AND MEMORY “…there once was a man named Zapata who rose up with his people and sang out: ‘Land and Freedom!’ The campesinos say that Zapata didn’t die, that he must return… They say that hope is also planted and harvested. They also...

Publicado em: 28/03/14

Viveiros de Castro: “Houve uma espécie de opção política forçada do PT, segundo a qual a única maneira de melhorar a renda dos pobres é não mexer na renda dos ricos. Ou seja, vamos ter que tirar o dinheiro de outro lugar. E de onde é que eles estão...

Publicado em: 19/03/14

“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