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Em setembro deste ano, será realizado o Plebiscito Popular pelo limite da terra que visa pressionar o Congresso Nacional para limitar o tamanho máximo da propriedade e uso dela por estrangeiros. Em entrevista à IHU On-Line, realizada por telefone, Gilberto Portes, do Fórum Nacional pela Reforma (…)

"La amenaza te cambia toda la dinámica de vida", dice Jade Ramírez Cuevas, una periodista que vive hace meses con ese yugo que cada día atenaza a un grupo mayor de profesionales de la comunicación en México.
"Adquieres protocolos de seguridad a los que no estabas acostumbrada, te sabes (…)

A lo largo del periodo de la posguerra los Estados Unidos han jugado el papel indiscutido de hegemonía en el mundo occidental. Dicho poder emana no solo de la posibilidad de proyectar sus fuerzas militares en la mayor parte del globo, sino también de su capacidad de extraer excedentes económicos (…)

June 26 may have been the last day of the U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit, but it might very well be the emergence of a more powerful antiwar movement in this country.
We can’t address the economic crisis blighting neighborhoods throughout the United States without moving money away from (…)

Nearly 20 years ago, a querulous Madeleine Albright demanded to know: “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Today, an altogether different question deserves our attention: What’s the point of constantly using our superb military if (…)

Twenty-seven-year-old Maria Puscariu is about to complete her MA in philosophy at a Belgian university. The Moldovan has been working for over five years as a domestic worker in Western Europe in order to support herself and finance her studies. Read more

It’s a big win for Internet-based, indie media that WikiLeaks.org posted its "Afghan War Diary," based on 90,000 leaked US military records detailing a failing war in which US and allied forces have repeatedly killed innocent civilians. This on-the-ground material is vaster than the Daniel (…)

As success in Afghanistan becomes more uncertain, Conn Hallinan argues that the problem is not Afghanistan, but the entire concept of counterinsurgency. Read more

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern traveled with Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela to Chile, Peru, and Ecuador last week, to discuss climate change with his government counterparts and civil society. Deepening bilateral and multilateral (…)

Why have American women become so active in the right wing Tea Party movement? Could it be that they are drawn to the new conservative Christian feminism publicized by Sarah Palin? Without its grassroots female supporters, the Tea Party would have far less appeal to voters who are frightened by (…)

Ignored orphan crops from the developing world may be the White Knight that rescues the Green Revolution from the Red Queen. Read more

Has Big Food already run out of customers in cities and other locales that are more readily accessible by land? Nestle Stoops to New Low, Launches Barge to Peddle Junk Food on the Amazon River to Brazil’s Poor. Read more

Hindus are docile, peace-loving, non-violent people. India is a land of unity in diversity. This is, after all, the country that produced Mahatma Gandhi. Terrorists are always Muslims. What of the so-called Maoist terrorists? Oh, they are tribals and their leaders are communists. They are not (…)

You could easily overlook this story about cyberspace. It seldom gets told, and is often buried amidst the contested claims that the US military actually created the internet.
But read on and you’d quickly realise how a small group of progressive change-seekers managed to significantly shape (…)

Unemployment in the United States currently hovers at 10 percent, and more than 17 percent if involuntary part-time and discouraged job-seekers are included. And according to most forecasts, it is likely to remain above pre-crisis levels for at least three years. In good times, the economy might (…)

Xenophobia is not contained to Europe’s extremist fringes but part of the political mainstream, writes the Forum of Concerned Citizens of Europe in an open letter to Europe’s leaders. Quick-fix political solutions appealing to a mythical Europe of homogenous communities must be replaced by a (…)

Mujeres siguen teniendo menos acceso a educación.
Tan diversas y dispersas son las cerca de 40 lenguas que se hablan en Bolivia, como dispares han sido los intentos de aplicar programas de educación intercultural bilingüe, los que han tenido algunos logros, pero también muchos fracasos. (…)

Ce texte, publié originellement en anglais par The Daily Beast, a été traduit par Anne Le Meur, traductrice bénévole pour rinoceros.
« Nous avons gagné ! » : c’est ce qu’a pu croire un soldat en voyant la dernière brigade de combat quitter l’Irak fin août 2010. Mais pas un seul général (…)

Esse texto foi publicado em francês no site Pambazuka e foi traduzido por Mariana Arroteia, tradutora voluntária do site rinoceros.
Este mês os países africanos francófonos vão celebrar o 50º aniversário da sua independência e dos laços que eles mantêm com a França. Terão eles apenas boas (…)

Os fuzileiros estão enfrentando um problema que sempre espreitou os conquistadores, e que é muito familiar para os Estados Unidos, desde o Vietnã. Em 1969, Douglas Pike, o mais importante acadêmico governamental nos assuntos do Vietnã lamentou que o inimigo – a Frente de Libertação Nacional (…)