I find fodder for op-eds in some of the strangest places. I came across this video (“Politics is NOT a zero-sum game,” by Shai Davidai) in a HIT posted on Amazon Mechanical Turk by Davidai — an academic study in which he gauged viewers’ reactions to it. (For those who don’t know, Mechanical Turk is…

Por Kevin Carson. Artigo original: The Weird Correlation Between “Understanding Economics” and Payola, de 6 de outubro 2024. Traduzido para o português por Ruan L. Desde antes de nascermos, os textos defensores da tese segundo a qual “o aumento do salário mínimo causa desemprego” vêm sendo o cigarro Hollywood diário nos sites propagandistas do libertarianismo…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 6 ottobre 2024 con il titolo The Weird Correlation Between “Understanding Economics” and Payola. Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. Molti di voi non erano neanche nati quando siti propagandistici libertari di destra come Foundation for Economic Education quasi hanno cominciato a pubblicare sviolinate quotidiane a base di numeri…

For more years than most of us have been alive, by-the-numbers “minimum wage increases cause unemployment” puff pieces have been an almost daily staple at right-libertarian propaganda sites like Foundation for Economic Education. As I remark every time I see one — more than once in written commentary — these people demonstrate a lack of…

De Alex Aragona. Artículo original: The Beauty of Nationalism, publicado el 3 de octubre de 2020. Traducción al español por Vince Cerberus. Todos tenemos prejuicios, y para muchas personas el nacionalismo (incluso el grado más pequeño) es uno de ellos. Sin embargo, si su objetivo es entender el mundo, los sentimientos nacionalistas no le darán la…

Alex Aragona. Artículo original: Domination, Hierarchy, Authority, Rules, “Justification,” and The Burden of Proof, del 14 de octubre de 2022. Traducido al español por Camila Figueroa. Noam Chomsky, autodenominado anarquista, presenta el anarquismo como: Principalmente [una] tendencia que sospecha y es escéptica de la dominación, la autoridad y la jerarquía. Busca estructuras de jerarquía y…

Noam Chomsky, a self-described anarchist, presents anarchism as:  Primarily [a] tendency that is suspicious and skeptical of domination, authority, and hierarchy. It seeks structures of hierarchy and domination in human life over the whole range, extending from, say, patriarchal families to, say, imperial systems, and it asks whether those systems are justified. It assumes that…

De Eric Fleischmann. Artículo original: Scaling Across and Capitalism’s False Promises, del 16 de mayo de 2022. Traducción al español de Camila Figueroa. El libro Walk Out Walk On de Margaret Wheatley y Deborah Frieze: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now es un fantástico estudio de proyectos anticapitalistas descentralizados en…

We all have biases, and for many people nationalism (even the smallest degree of it) is one of them. However, if your goal is to understand the world, nationalist sentiments won’t give you the sturdiest foundation to do so. Nationalism shortcuts our thinking about the world. It awards a disproportionate amount of virtue points to…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale: Victims of Capitalism Day, pubblicato il 10 maggio 2020. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Su Reason Ilya Somin, secondo una sua pratica annuale iniziata nel 2007, ha scelto il primo maggio, festa dei lavoratori, per commemorare la “Giornata delle Vittime del Comunismo”. Somin parla di 80-100 milioni di vittime nel ventesimo secolo…

At Reason Ilya Somin, in keeping with his annual practice since 2007, has chosen May 1 — May Day — as his date for  observing “Victims of Communism Day.” Somin cites the “authoritative” Black Book of Communism as his source for a death toll of 80-100 million in the 20th century. To put that “authoritative”…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 19 dicembre 2018 con il titolo In Memoriam: William Blunt (1933-2018). Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. All’inizio della sua vita adulta, William Blum era un liberal anticomunista che lavorava come funzionario tecnico presso il Dipartimento di Stato. Finché, deluso dalla guerra in Vietnam, cominciò una carriera come giornalista di estrema…

William Blum began his adult life as an anti-communist liberal working as a technical functionary in the US State Department, until he became disillusioned by the Vietnam War and went on to a career in radical journalism. Among other things, he covered the Pinochet coup from Chile and worked with renegade CIA officer Philip Agee…

Rami G. Khouri discusses the GCC intervention in Yemen. Robert Parry discusses whether neocons are an existential threat. Alfred McCoy discusses Obama’s policy towards China. Nick Turse discusses the meaning of assassination. Vijay Prashad discusses rogue states and diplomacy with Noam Chomsky. Yves Engler discusses the Canadian contribution to British colonialism. Glenn Greenwald discusses a…

September 11th is the anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City. This terrorist attack was carried out by Al-Qaeda. An organization that has long waged war on the U.S. And whose head, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed. This hasn’t stopped the American government from pointing to its remnants…

Ao discursar nas Nações Unidas em 2006, Hugo Chávez chamou o ex-presidente americano George W. Bush de “diabo”. Chávez acenava com uma cópia do livro de Noam Chomsky O Império Americano – Hegemonia ou Sobrevivência, catapultando a obra à lista de best-sellers do site Amazon. De sua parte, Chomsky repetidamente afirmou que Chávez conduziu a…