A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal by Melissa Teixeira
How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” between laissez-faire capitalism and communism.
Melissa Teixeira's A Third Path is out now in #paperback.
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"The reality is that the AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs. They want to replace workers."
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We will never forget Eldorado dos Carajas.
Did this die again?
We need more historians and art historians because examining past written, oral, visual, and material evidence, interpreting these sources and writing about them allow us to understand and transform our present and build a better future in which beauty and peace are valued. @acls1919.bsky.social
Cover for the much, much waited new English translation of Grande Sertão: Veredas by Alison Entrekin. Out January 2027.
Many states don’t report losses from data center tax breaks, study says
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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Brazil has created the South Atlantic’s largest marine protected area, spanning about one million hectares. Supported by Conservation International, the reserve—roughly the size of Jamaica—aims to safeguard biodiversity, fisheries, and critical ocean ecosystems.
Brazil’s former spy chief who fled country arrested by ICE agents in US
Alexandre Ramagem fled country after he was sentenced to 16 years for his role in plotting military coup in Brazil
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Several excellent contributions to this @theguardian.com panel on the Hungarian election. I particularly like the one by Zsuzsa Szelény.
“Removing Orbán from office is one thing. Dismantling Orbánism is quite another.”
Apparently he was pulled over for a traffic issue. They checked his passport and discovered that it was invalid, since his diplomatic status was revoked back in December.
Not mentioned in this article, but I think he also had a false driver's license.
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It’s happening.
77 people with a Google Classroom link downloaded this episode today.
It was my secret hope when Isabel Bartholomew and I were working to adapt “The Jameson Tapes” from 47-year-old cassettes into listenable podcast episodes that people would start teaching with them.
Any anti-corruption strategy against the global far-right will involve dealing with cryptocurrency.
#Opinião | Celso Rocha de Barros
📝Haddad foi um bom ministro; mesmo assim, boa parte da esquerda o chama de neoliberal
Chatbots make it far easier than traditional internet use for a struggling person to move from violent thoughts toward action.
"Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum.
The landmark policy will unify a fragmented and unequal system that has left many unable to receive care..."
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#AcessoLivre | [opinião] “As manifestações na Argentina mostram que a voz de Milei não é a única”. Leia no ensaio de Federico Finchelstein e Emmanuel Guerisoli para o Latinoamérica21.
Produção fotografica de Lázaro Roberto, Aldemar Marques e Raimundo Monteiro, sobre a história do movimento social negro de Salvador, vira exposição e livro
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Right-leaning caucuses now hold a majority among Democrats in the House of Representatives.
The dominance of centrist economic policy in the congressional party puts it increasingly out of step with Democratic voters.
Poster for book talk at Boston University on April 13 at 2pm
I'm so excited to return to my old stomping grounds next Monday to give a talk about The Fate of the Americas. If you're in the Boston area, it would be great to see you there! #History 🗃️
"It is community. It is friendship. It is transcending the barriers that we have between the left and the right through music, being able to bring people together — for not only the joy of music, but also the joy of community."
Petro reage aos EUA e pede a Lula que leve o Pix à Colômbia: O presidente da Colômbia, Gustavo Petro, pediu a Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva que leve o Pix ao mercado colombiano e transformou o sistema brasileiro em novo ponto de atrito regional com os Estados Unidos. A declaração foi… #revistafórum
To fully digitize its archives, the Newberry Library is tapping people who can decipher a foreign language: cursive.
LA — I’ll be doing a book talk on Solidarity with Children next Saturday at 7pm. Would love to see you there.
Thanks so much to Public School LA and the LA Tenants Union for hosting me!
These stories are 7 years apart. It not only illustrates Marx’s theory of capital as a “vampire” (literally), but also how it progressively erodes working-class life:
“Accumulation of wealth at one pole is…at the same time accumulation of misery…at the opposite pole.”
'paints a nuanced picture of Hoxha’s psychological, ideological and political worlds, illuminating a lesser-known story of the Cold War, and enriching our understanding of the nature of authoritarianism and dictatorship.' Enver Hoxha is one of Daunt's books of the week!
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In its latest acquisition, Globe Pequot has purchased the Fresno, Calif.–based press and its 275-title backlist, which includes titles on woodworking and arts & crafts as well as general nonfiction and some fiction.
Good Damien Ma piece on Xi Jinping's efforts to shift the Chinese economy from extensive growth (generate growth by increasing labor, capital and resource inputs) to intensive growth (generate growth by using labor, capital and resource inputs more efficiently).
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