Universal justice?
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS: There was no arrest warrant against Bush Jr., but there is now against Putin
03/04/2023
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS: There was no arrest warrant against Bush Jr., but there is now against Putin
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS: The apology of fascism is made in the name of democracy; the apology of war, in the name of peace
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Without Russia, Europe is half of itself, economically and culturally.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Brazil will not go back to what it was before Jair Bolsonaro, at least for a few years
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
It is to be expected that the intention is to create a situation of ungovernability that will make President Lula's performance as difficult as possible.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
President Lula has to do everything not to lose the people who elected him
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
With Lula's victory, Brazilian democracy survived this new phase of the continued coup d'état. And now? What are the next steps?
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
The dynamic continuity of colonial relations is based on the permanence of three main modes of domination: capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Colonialism is not a condition of the past, it is a condition of the present
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
In recent decades left-wing politicians have been the main targets of political violence. Everything suggests that we are entering a new wave
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Limits and tensions of liberal democracy
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
The growing integration of Europe into the US ideological universe has many other dimensions at the cultural and political level.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
It is just as difficult to imagine the West as a subaltern space as it is to imagine it in an egalitarian and peaceful relationship with other geopolitical spaces.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Eurocentrism makes a degrading caricature of the rest of the world
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
How is Europe with the new configurations triggered by the war in Ukraine
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Legitimate condemnation of the illegal invasion of Ukraine is legitimizing the orientalization of Russia
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
The war in Ukraine brought almost total erosion between facts and the manipulation of emotions and perceptions, between hypotheses or conjectures and unassailable truths.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Russia's war of military aggression against Ukraine is the most visible, but it is neither the only nor the most serious for the future of the world.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Today, Europe is a corner of the world, and the war in Ukraine will make it even smaller.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
European democracies have just proved that they govern without the people
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS: There was no arrest warrant against Bush Jr., but there is now against Putin
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS: The apology of fascism is made in the name of democracy; the apology of war, in the name of peace
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Without Russia, Europe is half of itself, economically and culturally.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Brazil will not go back to what it was before Jair Bolsonaro, at least for a few years
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
It is to be expected that the intention is to create a situation of ungovernability that will make President Lula's performance as difficult as possible.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
President Lula has to do everything not to lose the people who elected him
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
With Lula's victory, Brazilian democracy survived this new phase of the continued coup d'état. And now? What are the next steps?
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
The dynamic continuity of colonial relations is based on the permanence of three main modes of domination: capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Colonialism is not a condition of the past, it is a condition of the present
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
In recent decades left-wing politicians have been the main targets of political violence. Everything suggests that we are entering a new wave
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Limits and tensions of liberal democracy
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
The growing integration of Europe into the US ideological universe has many other dimensions at the cultural and political level.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
It is just as difficult to imagine the West as a subaltern space as it is to imagine it in an egalitarian and peaceful relationship with other geopolitical spaces.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Eurocentrism makes a degrading caricature of the rest of the world
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
How is Europe with the new configurations triggered by the war in Ukraine
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Legitimate condemnation of the illegal invasion of Ukraine is legitimizing the orientalization of Russia
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
The war in Ukraine brought almost total erosion between facts and the manipulation of emotions and perceptions, between hypotheses or conjectures and unassailable truths.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Russia's war of military aggression against Ukraine is the most visible, but it is neither the only nor the most serious for the future of the world.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
Today, Europe is a corner of the world, and the war in Ukraine will make it even smaller.
By BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS:
European democracies have just proved that they govern without the people