Teoría de la Utilización Progresiva (PROUT)

NOTA DE LOS EDITORES A medida que se agudiza la crisis, la humanidad busca más y más soluciones estructurales al problema del capitalismo global que envenena el planeta. Cyrano’s Journal cree y practica el socialismo, pero ahora han surgido visiones mixtas como el “Proutismo” con raíces en India, y en el cual se combinan planteamnientos [...]

TRAFFIC JAM ON THE HIGHWAY TO HELL

Worst president ever for the American people—and we’ve had some doozies—but the best presidential front corporate America could have wished for. By Sheila Samples “When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is [...]

Federico Fellini – Author of Cinema

By Gaither Stewart Fellini in his signature rakish hat. Some called it the sartorial affectation of a genius; others simply dismissed it as the droit du realisateur. FEDERICO FELLINI’S favorite interview technique was to explain while denying he was explaining, or not explaining anything while claiming he was explaining all. The symbolist poet – film [...]

TERRORISM, RESISTANCE AND TENSION STRATEGY

By Gaither Stewart Hezbollah martyrs billboard. Almost always polluted by propaganda, the distinction between “terrorist” and “resistance fighter” is extremely slippery, loaded with passionate subjectivism, and only an honest understanding of history can start to sort out the moral contents of such labels. Let us not forget that not too long ago American Minute Men [...]

Why the Council on Foreign Relations Hates Putin

And Why Murdoch’s Journal Loves Kasparov (And not only Murdoch lapdogs; add to the tendentious brew TIME-Warner (CNN), CBS, NBC, and the whole rest of the pack.) A point counterpoint on Putin’s role in today’s Russia and the world By Mike Whitney ||| On Sunday, Putin’s party, United Russia, stormed to victory in the country’s [...]

European Union: A Clique of Multinationals or a Union of Peoples?

By Gaither Stewart The European system, pretty soon spanning a continent inching closer in size to the US. In a disturbing cartoon, security inspectors at a US entry point welcome a neatly dressed, probably European foreign passenger. Expeditiously they isolate him, efficiently fingerprint him and record his eyes, then medically they pore into his every [...]

Are biofuels a hoax or the answer? Three critical views

Biofuels, BP-Berkeley, and the New Ecological Imperialism By Hannah Holleman and Rebecca Clausen || Originally at MRZINE, Monthly Review’s blog, and a fraternal organization British Petroleum, Beyond Petroleum . . . Biofuel Promoter, Biosphere Plunderer. Regardless of what the BP abbreviation actually stands for, one thing is clear: this oil giant knows a good deal [...]

More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States

BY MICHAEL D. YATES || Monthly Review November 2007 Introduction The glaring increase in economic inequality evident in the United States over the past thirty years has finally made it into the pages of the major media. In the past three years, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times [...]

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