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Washington, let’s talk about reparations
President Joe Biden has announced his intention to exclude Cuba and Venezuela from the Summit of the Americas scheduled for June 22. Under Secretary of State, Brian Nichols explained that non-democratic countries should not be invited. Deciding which countries can attend a regional summit is not considered authoritarian by a country that is historically responsible…
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Eternal return of the Nazis
Like a century ago, the Nazis continue to gain ground based on their own frustrations. Frustrations, not only for realizing, alarmed, that they are not a superior race but only pathologies of evolution. Frustrations, not to notice but to feel the inevitable decline in well-being that arises from the loss of vampiric power, that power…
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The far right and the extreme rights
One specialty of a dominant power is its ability to hijack the achievements and merits of others, from material progress to social progress. Thus, capitalism, neoliberalism, and the new radical ideology of business (whereby even the small and long-suffering businessmen and entrepreneurs believe they are members of the same union as Elon Musk, the Walton…
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The Latin American Migration Crisis Was Born Out of Greed and Myths About Race
published on Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Common Dreams In Unwanted People, historian Aviva Chomsky’s essays explore the roots of this violent history. by Sarah E. Parker, Jorge Majfud For more than a century, Latin American governments have promoted a model of national development based on land privatization and privileging the interests of foreign investors rather than the rights of…
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The Slow Suicide of the West
The content discusses the internal struggle within the West, emphasizing the need to protect its virtues such as tolerance and diversity from both external threats and self-destructive tendencies. It critiques the notion of Western superiority, highlighting the rich cultural influences that shaped Western civilization, while warning against repeating historical atrocities through prejudice and authoritarianism.
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Why the Government’s Hunt for the Migrant Poor Is a Perfect Distraction From the Real Problems of Our Time
Published on Thursday, August 15, 2019 by Common Dreams This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. The powerful old men who rule the world have an existential advantage, which is that they won’t live to see the fruits of their hate and greed. by Jorge Majfud Immigrants not only don’t vote but likewise their…
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Immigration, History, Politics, and the Latino Vote
2019 Lectures IMMIGRATION AND THE LATINO VOTE January 30, 2019 4:30 pm McKee 113 WCU Humanities Initiative WCU welcomes Uruguayan-American scholar and author Jorge Majfud. In the first event, Dr. Majfud will join Dr. Benjamin Francis-Fallon (WCU History) in a panel about Immigration and the evolution of the Latino Voting Bloc in the US. Join…
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War of the Pigs and tribal politics
La guerre au cochon et la politique tribale La guerra de los cerdos y la política tribal Jorge Majfud Translated by Fausto Giudice Фаусто Джудиче فاوستو جيوديشي To distract attention from the global assault by 0.1 percent of the world’s population, we have a growing War of the Pig (Diary of the War of the Pig, novel by…
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The old tale of corruption
The political narrative that justifies any option as a way to end corruption is as old as politics and as old as narrative. In Latin America, it’s a classic genre. It’s only possible to repeat it generation after generation as if it were a novelty thanks to the short memory of the people. But this…
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The old tale of corruption
The political narrative that justifies any option as a way to end corruption is as old as politics and as old as narrative. In Latin America, it’s a classic genre. It’s only possible to repeat it generation after generation as if it were a novelty thanks to the short memory of the people. But this…
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Brazil: The Eternal Country of the Future Trapped in Its Colonial Past
Days before the elections in Brazil, a young Brazilian approached me and said, «God willing, Bolsonaro to win. He is a military man and will end corruption.” I did not want to answer. I esteem this boy as a good person, maybe too young to be anything else. But these two brief sentences summed up…
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Psychopolitics of the scarecrow
Jorge Majfud Translated by Fausto Giudice Фаусто Джудиче فاوستو جيوديشي President Donald Trump has just announced that, to answer the endless list of books that criticize him (especially books written by his former friends and trusted men, who by now are almost all of them), the White House will publish «a real book». Obviously, he…
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Do we really owe modernity to capitalism?
El capitalismo no inventó la modernidad: la secuestró. Majfud desmonta el mito de que le debemos el internet, la Luna y el progreso a un sistema que capitalizó siglos de ciencia pre-capitalista.
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Capotean Interview
by Toni Montesinos (originally published in Spanish here >>) In 1972, Truman Capote published an original text that became the autobiography that has never been written. He titled it «Self-portrait» (in The Dogs Bark, 1973), and in it he gave himself with cunning and brilliance. Those questions that serve to proclaim his frustrations, desires, and customs,…
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An Open Letter to Donald Trump
An open letter to Donald Trump from Uruguayan-American writer Jorge Majfud: on Latinos, Mexicans, business ethics, and what America actually stands for.
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10 George Orwell Quotes that Predicted Life in 2014
Jorge Majfud’s books at Amazon>> George Orwell ranks among the most profound social critics of the modern era. Some of his quotations, more than a half a century old, show the depth of understanding an enlightened mind can have about the future. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’…
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What good is culture?
What Good Is Culture, Anyway? Spanish: «¿Para qué sirve la cultura?» It is understandable that in times of crisis, all sectors of a society suffer budget cuts and reduced profits. It is not totally comprehensible, but it is easy to understand that the first casualty of these cuts is culture. We accept that if we do…
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Eduardo Galeano
“The Hoariest of Latin American Conspiracy Theorists” Although I would say that the article “The Land of Too Many Summits” by Christopher Sabatini (Foreign Affairs, April 12, 2012) is right on some points, it nonetheless fails to give little more than unproved opinions on other matters — or as Karl Popper would say, certain…
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Another conservative paradox
Politicians who are the champions of private businesses as the only motor of the American (or any) economy and the best social organizers (forget F.D. Roosevelt, the 4 term “socialist” president who saved and refunded the country) always blame the government for not doing better in the economy. That is why they want to take…
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The patriotism of the rich
US Politics and Economics: the patriotism of the rich Almost nowhere in the world do the rich emigrate. They rarely form part of the armies that they send off to wars, and that they then cover with honours and applause, and they curse the state that sucks their blood. When the economy is doing well,…
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