Etiqueta: Middle East

  • Millionaires Control 39% of the World’s Wealth

    By Robert Frank Last year was another good year for millionaires – though their pace of growth is slowing. According to a new report by Boston Consulting Group out today, the number of millionaire households in the world grew by 12.2% in 2010, to 12.5 million. (BCG defines millionaires as those with $1 million or more in…

  • The Repressed History of the United States

    La historia reprimida de Estados Unidos (Spanish)   The Repressed History of the United States Revolution, Egalitarianism and Anti-imperialism By Jorge Majfud   Taking advantage of another anniversary of the birth of George Washington, president George W. Bush used the occasion to compare the American Revolution of the 18th century with the war in Iraq. …

  • Fear of Freedom: On the Left and the Right

    El miedo a la libertad, Sobre izquierdas y derechas (Spanish)   Fear of Freedom: On the Left and the Right   Jorge Majfud   Generally, an historical phenomenon is naturalized thanks to an absence of memory (hence the political value of neutrality and forgetting). Obviously not always for political reasons: it was once assumed that…

  • The Fragments of the Latin American Union

    Los fragmentos de la desunión latinoamericana (Spanish) The Past Hurts But Does Not Condemn The Fragments of the Latin American Union Jorge Majfud Lincoln University 1. In Latin America, in the absence of a social revolution at the moment of national independence there were plenty of rebellions and political revolts. Less frequently these were popular…

  • Ο δεκάλογος κατά του ανθρωπισμού

    Diez azotes contra el humanismo (Spanish) Monthly Review MR II Ο δεκάλογος κατά του ανθρωπισμού Translated by Eleni Alexopoulou του ΧΟΡΧΕ ΜΑΧΦΟΥΝΤ* Χόρχε Μαχφούντ Τεύχος Νο 30 Αρχική Δημοσίευση: MRZine, 6 Μαρτίου 2007 Μετάφραση: Νίκος Παπαπολύζος Μια δευτερεύουσα παράδοση στη συντηρητική σκέψη είναι ο ορισμός του διαλεκτικού αντιπάλου ως πνευματικά ανεπαρκούς και ηθικά επιλήψιμου. Καθώς…