The threats of the economy of excess
The threats of the economy of excess
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: The economy of excess is at the root of the diseases that kill the most in the world, with ultra-processed foods and the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in animal farming as the main culprits
Letter on the survival of humanity
Letter on the survival of humanity
By ASSEMBLY OF NOBEL PRIZES FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR: Statement issued after a three-day meeting in Chicago with some 20 Nobel laureates and some 60 leading nuclear experts
Did Bolsonaro's strategy backfire?
Did Bolsonaro's strategy backfire?
By MARCELO AITH: The STF, according to Alexandre de Moraes' vote, will never tolerate attempts to subject its decisions to the scrutiny of foreign nations, highlighting the constitutional duty to protect sovereignty and the rule of law.
Donald Trump's gross intervention
Donald Trump's gross intervention
By LUIZ SERGIO CANÁRIO: The growing influence of BRICS on the global stage and the defense of the market for bigtechs are factors that motivate Trump's intervention, aiming to weaken the bloc and maintain US hegemony.
Broad Front to fight fascism
Broad Front to fight fascism
By FLAVIO AGUIARBerlin teaches: Nazism won when communists and liberals refused to speak to each other. Porto Alegre responds: a broad front is the antidote. While Trump threatens and big tech presses, Brazil has a choice – unite or repeat the fatal mistakes of the 20th century.
Mr. Trump: the pix is ours!
Mr. Trump: the pix is ours!
By LISZT VIEIRA: Pix, a Brazilian innovation that offers free transfers, challenges the neoliberal capitalism championed by Trump, who sees free payments as a threat to the profits of large American companies.
The money gang (or mob)
The money gang (or mob)
By PAULO NOGUEIRA BATISTA JR.: Bankers, rentiers, and servile economists: the perverse machinery that destabilizes economies and corrodes democracies. If money has no homeland, why should it have free passage?
The wish fulfilled
The wish fulfilled
By MARCELO GUIMARÃES LIMA: The Brazilian business elite's burning desire to integrate into the global economic system as junior partners has resulted in intensified plunder, where economic dependence now threatens their very survival.
Donald Trump's attack
Donald Trump's attack
By LEONARDO GRANATO & DANIEL EMMANUEL: The aggressive stance of the United States under Trump reflects an attempt to safeguard its primacy in the international system in the face of Chinese advances, in addition to representing a clear attack on national sovereignty.
exhaust valve
exhaust valve
By ANTONIO BARSCH GIMENEZ: Modern war, devoid of glory and ethics, emerges as an escape valve for the contradictions of capitalism, transforming devastation into an opportunity for profit and expansion
The reproduction of inequalities in Brazil
The reproduction of inequalities in Brazil
By EDERSON DUDA: Inequality in Brazil is not an accident, but a design: the regressive tax system and the exploitation of labor reveal that the wealth of the few is fed by the time and blood of the many. While capital disguises its origins, the class struggle persists.
Depoliticized fatigue
Depoliticized fatigue
By BRUNO FARIAS: Depoliticized fatigue is a contemporary state of exhaustion that accumulates in the soul and bodies, but does not convert into confrontation, reflecting the precariousness of material living conditions and the depoliticization of everyday life.
The great ambition
The great ambition
By MARCO MONDAINI: Considerations on the film directed by Andrea Segre
Machado de Assis and surroundings
Machado de Assis and surroundings
By LOUIS AUGUSTO FISCHER: Preface to the new edition – revised and expanded –, recently released, of Homero Vizeu Araújo's book
Carried away by the tides
Carried away by the tides
By FRANCISCO FOOT HARDMAN: Considerations on Jia Zhangke's film, currently showing in theaters
Everyday, the song
Everyday, the song
By GUTO LEITE, PEDRO BAUMBACH MANICA & VINICIUS PRUSCH: Considerations on the music of Chico Buarque de Hollanda
First Congress of Soviet Writers
First Congress of Soviet Writers
By CELSO FREDERICO: The First Congress of Soviet Writers echoed as a paradox: a song of artistic freedom under the shadow of socialist realism. Bukharin, with his defense of plurality, and Gorky, with his revolutionary romanticism, symbolized the tension between creation and control.
Jean-Claude Bernardet (1936-2025)
Jean-Claude Bernardet (1936-2025)
By MANUFACTURING MARIAROSARIA: Tribute to the recently deceased film critic, writer, actor and filmmaker
Dreams
Dreams
By JOSÉ GERALDO COUTO: Commentary on the film directed by Dag Johan Haugerud
The 2016 coup in cartoons
The 2016 coup in cartoons
By LUCYANE DE MORAES: Comment on Edmilson Barros' article
Three great cities rebuilt
Three great cities rebuilt
By ADELTO GONÇALVES: Recent work by English historian Kenneth Maxwell recovers the history of the reconstruction that London, Lisbon and Paris underwent
Regis Bonvicino (1955-2025)
Regis Bonvicino (1955-2025)
By TALES AB'SÁBER: Tribute to the recently deceased poet
Stalin’s “Cultural Revolution”
Stalin’s “Cultural Revolution”
By CELSO FREDERICO: Under Stalin, Soviet literature underwent a metamorphosis, where artistic creation was directed to serve the construction of socialism, resulting in a literary production marked by monotony and political propaganda.
Gay slum
Gay slum
By FRANCISCO DE OLIVEIRA BARROS JUNIOR: Commentary on the film directed by Rodrigo Felha
The threats of the economy of excess
The threats of the economy of excess
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: The economy of excess is at the root of the diseases that kill the most in the world, with ultra-processed foods and the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in animal farming as the main culprits
Letter on the survival of humanity
Letter on the survival of humanity
By ASSEMBLY OF NOBEL PRIZES FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR: Statement issued after a three-day meeting in Chicago with some 20 Nobel laureates and some 60 leading nuclear experts
Did Bolsonaro's strategy backfire?
Did Bolsonaro's strategy backfire?
By MARCELO AITH: The STF, according to Alexandre de Moraes' vote, will never tolerate attempts to subject its decisions to the scrutiny of foreign nations, highlighting the constitutional duty to protect sovereignty and the rule of law.
Donald Trump's gross intervention
Donald Trump's gross intervention
By LUIZ SERGIO CANÁRIO: The growing influence of BRICS on the global stage and the defense of the market for bigtechs are factors that motivate Trump's intervention, aiming to weaken the bloc and maintain US hegemony.
Broad Front to fight fascism
Broad Front to fight fascism
By FLAVIO AGUIARBerlin teaches: Nazism won when communists and liberals refused to speak to each other. Porto Alegre responds: a broad front is the antidote. While Trump threatens and big tech presses, Brazil has a choice – unite or repeat the fatal mistakes of the 20th century.
Mr. Trump: the pix is ours!
Mr. Trump: the pix is ours!
By LISZT VIEIRA: Pix, a Brazilian innovation that offers free transfers, challenges the neoliberal capitalism championed by Trump, who sees free payments as a threat to the profits of large American companies.
The money gang (or mob)
The money gang (or mob)
By PAULO NOGUEIRA BATISTA JR.: Bankers, rentiers, and servile economists: the perverse machinery that destabilizes economies and corrodes democracies. If money has no homeland, why should it have free passage?
The wish fulfilled
The wish fulfilled
By MARCELO GUIMARÃES LIMA: The Brazilian business elite's burning desire to integrate into the global economic system as junior partners has resulted in intensified plunder, where economic dependence now threatens their very survival.
Donald Trump's attack
Donald Trump's attack
By LEONARDO GRANATO & DANIEL EMMANUEL: The aggressive stance of the United States under Trump reflects an attempt to safeguard its primacy in the international system in the face of Chinese advances, in addition to representing a clear attack on national sovereignty.
exhaust valve
exhaust valve
By ANTONIO BARSCH GIMENEZ: Modern war, devoid of glory and ethics, emerges as an escape valve for the contradictions of capitalism, transforming devastation into an opportunity for profit and expansion
The reproduction of inequalities in Brazil
The reproduction of inequalities in Brazil
By EDERSON DUDA: Inequality in Brazil is not an accident, but a design: the regressive tax system and the exploitation of labor reveal that the wealth of the few is fed by the time and blood of the many. While capital disguises its origins, the class struggle persists.
Depoliticized fatigue
Depoliticized fatigue
By BRUNO FARIAS: Depoliticized fatigue is a contemporary state of exhaustion that accumulates in the soul and bodies, but does not convert into confrontation, reflecting the precariousness of material living conditions and the depoliticization of everyday life.
The great ambition
The great ambition
By MARCO MONDAINI: Considerations on the film directed by Andrea Segre
Machado de Assis and surroundings
Machado de Assis and surroundings
By LOUIS AUGUSTO FISCHER: Preface to the new edition – revised and expanded –, recently released, of Homero Vizeu Araújo's book
Carried away by the tides
Carried away by the tides
By FRANCISCO FOOT HARDMAN: Considerations on Jia Zhangke's film, currently showing in theaters
Everyday, the song
Everyday, the song
By GUTO LEITE, PEDRO BAUMBACH MANICA & VINICIUS PRUSCH: Considerations on the music of Chico Buarque de Hollanda
First Congress of Soviet Writers
First Congress of Soviet Writers
By CELSO FREDERICO: The First Congress of Soviet Writers echoed as a paradox: a song of artistic freedom under the shadow of socialist realism. Bukharin, with his defense of plurality, and Gorky, with his revolutionary romanticism, symbolized the tension between creation and control.
Jean-Claude Bernardet (1936-2025)
Jean-Claude Bernardet (1936-2025)
By MANUFACTURING MARIAROSARIA: Tribute to the recently deceased film critic, writer, actor and filmmaker
Dreams
Dreams
By JOSÉ GERALDO COUTO: Commentary on the film directed by Dag Johan Haugerud
The 2016 coup in cartoons
The 2016 coup in cartoons
By LUCYANE DE MORAES: Comment on Edmilson Barros' article
Three great cities rebuilt
Three great cities rebuilt
By ADELTO GONÇALVES: Recent work by English historian Kenneth Maxwell recovers the history of the reconstruction that London, Lisbon and Paris underwent
Regis Bonvicino (1955-2025)
Regis Bonvicino (1955-2025)
By TALES AB'SÁBER: Tribute to the recently deceased poet
Stalin’s “Cultural Revolution”
Stalin’s “Cultural Revolution”
By CELSO FREDERICO: Under Stalin, Soviet literature underwent a metamorphosis, where artistic creation was directed to serve the construction of socialism, resulting in a literary production marked by monotony and political propaganda.
Gay slum
Gay slum
By FRANCISCO DE OLIVEIRA BARROS JUNIOR: Commentary on the film directed by Rodrigo Felha

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The G7 meeting in Kanaskis
The G7 meeting in Kanaskis
By JOSÉ LUÍS FIORI: The G7, once the 'central committee' of the Western order, sees its decline accelerated in the face of the rise of the BRICS, the political incoherence of its leaders and European subservience to an increasingly unilateral and unpredictable US
License to kill
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By LUIZ CÉSAR MARQUES FILHO: The Brazilian Congress signs the country's death warrant by approving the Devastation Bill. While agribusiness celebrates, the thermometer reads 44°C—and the future is already here: droughts, floods, and arson are just the beginning.
The inhuman reason
The inhuman reason
By EUGENIO BUCCI: Author's foreword to the newly released book
Petra Costa's cinema
Petra Costa's cinema
By AB´SABER TALES: Petra Costa transforms Brasília into a broken mirror of Brazil: it reflects both the modernist dream of democracy and the cracks of evangelical authoritarianism. Her films are an act of resistance, not only against the destruction of the left's political project, but against the erasure of the very idea of a just country.
Israel exterminates; Donald Trump and NATO bless
Israel exterminates; Donald Trump and NATO bless
By JOÃO QUARTIM DE MORAES: Netanyahu inherits Begin's legacy, Trump finances the massacre, and NATO legitimizes barbarity. The Palestinian genocide is not a deviation from history—it is its rawest face, exposed by the hypocrisy of power.
From Burroso to Barroso
From Burroso to Barroso
By JORGE LUIZ SOUTO MAIOR: If the Burroso of the 80s was a comic character, the Barroso of the 20s is a legal tragedy. His nonsense is no longer on the radio, but in the courts – and this time, the joke ends not with laughter, but with rights torn up and workers left unprotected. The farce has become doctrine.
Claude Monet's studio
Claude Monet's studio
By AFRANIO CATANI: Commentary on Jean-Philippe Toussaint's book
Harvard University and water fluoridation
Harvard University and water fluoridation
By PAULO CAPEL NARVAI: Neither Harvard University, nor the University of Queensland, nor any “top medical journal” endorse the flat-earther health adventures implemented, under Donald Trump’s command, by the US government.
Russia and its geopolitical shift
Russia and its geopolitical shift
By CARLOS EDUARDO MARTINS: The Primakov Doctrine discarded the idea of ​​superpowers and stated that the development and integration of the world economy made the international system a complex space that could only be managed in a multipolar way, implying the reconstruction of international and regional organizations
Donald Trump attacks Brazil
Donald Trump attacks Brazil
By VALERIO ARCARY: Brazil's response to Trump's offensive must be firm and public, raising awareness of the growing dangers on the international stage.
Public policies in the digital age
Public policies in the digital age
By MARCIO POCHMANNFrom the Peace of Westphalia to SINGED (National System of Geosciences, Statistics, and Data), history shows that data is power. If censuses once shaped nation states, today statistical sovereignty is threatened by big tech.
Catching up or falling behind?
Catching up or falling behind?
By ELEUTÉRIO FS PRADO: Uneven development is not an accident, but a structure: while capitalism promises convergence, its logic reproduces hierarchies. Latin America, between false miracles and neoliberal traps, continues to export value and import dependence

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The G7 meeting in Kanaskis
The G7 meeting in Kanaskis
By JOSÉ LUÍS FIORI: The G7, once the 'central committee' of the Western order, sees its decline accelerated in the face of the rise of the BRICS, the political incoherence of its leaders and European subservience to an increasingly unilateral and unpredictable US
License to kill
License to kill
By LUIZ CÉSAR MARQUES FILHO: The Brazilian Congress signs the country's death warrant by approving the Devastation Bill. While agribusiness celebrates, the thermometer reads 44°C—and the future is already here: droughts, floods, and arson are just the beginning.
The inhuman reason
The inhuman reason
By EUGENIO BUCCI: Author's foreword to the newly released book
Petra Costa's cinema
Petra Costa's cinema
By AB´SABER TALES: Petra Costa transforms Brasília into a broken mirror of Brazil: it reflects both the modernist dream of democracy and the cracks of evangelical authoritarianism. Her films are an act of resistance, not only against the destruction of the left's political project, but against the erasure of the very idea of a just country.
Israel exterminates; Donald Trump and NATO bless
Israel exterminates; Donald Trump and NATO bless
By JOÃO QUARTIM DE MORAES: Netanyahu inherits Begin's legacy, Trump finances the massacre, and NATO legitimizes barbarity. The Palestinian genocide is not a deviation from history—it is its rawest face, exposed by the hypocrisy of power.
From Burroso to Barroso
From Burroso to Barroso
By JORGE LUIZ SOUTO MAIOR: If the Burroso of the 80s was a comic character, the Barroso of the 20s is a legal tragedy. His nonsense is no longer on the radio, but in the courts – and this time, the joke ends not with laughter, but with rights torn up and workers left unprotected. The farce has become doctrine.
Claude Monet's studio
Claude Monet's studio
By AFRANIO CATANI: Commentary on Jean-Philippe Toussaint's book
Harvard University and water fluoridation
Harvard University and water fluoridation
By PAULO CAPEL NARVAI: Neither Harvard University, nor the University of Queensland, nor any “top medical journal” endorse the flat-earther health adventures implemented, under Donald Trump’s command, by the US government.
Russia and its geopolitical shift
Russia and its geopolitical shift
By CARLOS EDUARDO MARTINS: The Primakov Doctrine discarded the idea of ​​superpowers and stated that the development and integration of the world economy made the international system a complex space that could only be managed in a multipolar way, implying the reconstruction of international and regional organizations
Donald Trump attacks Brazil
Donald Trump attacks Brazil
By VALERIO ARCARY: Brazil's response to Trump's offensive must be firm and public, raising awareness of the growing dangers on the international stage.
Public policies in the digital age
Public policies in the digital age
By MARCIO POCHMANNFrom the Peace of Westphalia to SINGED (National System of Geosciences, Statistics, and Data), history shows that data is power. If censuses once shaped nation states, today statistical sovereignty is threatened by big tech.
Catching up or falling behind?
Catching up or falling behind?
By ELEUTÉRIO FS PRADO: Uneven development is not an accident, but a structure: while capitalism promises convergence, its logic reproduces hierarchies. Latin America, between false miracles and neoliberal traps, continues to export value and import dependence

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