La gran diferencia entre un pensamiento idealista y uno materialista es que el primero, de una forma o de otra, procura reducir la realidad a la unidad de un sentido, mientras que el segundo acepta la radical diferencia entre lo real y el sentido. Para el idealismo lo real es un [...]

“Nec sic incipies, ut scriptor cyclicus olim: “Fortunam Priami cantabo et nobile bellum”. Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.” Horacio, Arte poética (Ni tu exordio ha de ser tan retumbante como el de cierto autor necio y pedante: “De Príamo en su propia infausta tierra la suerte cantó y una noble [...]

El gobierno de Fernando Lugo se encuentra seriamente amenazado y las probabilidades de un “golpe institucional”, pérfida invención para sacarse de encima presidentes molestos como Zelaya en Honduras, se potenciaron en días recientes. La grave enfermedad que lo afecta y el riguroso tratamiento a que se verá sometido sirven en bandeja al desprestigiado Congreso paraguayo el pretexto para destituirlo “legalmente”. Si esto finalmente se concreta se produciría una gravísima regresión política que pondría abrupto fin a la primavera democrática vivida en los últimos dos años.

What's happening in the Gulf -- now spreading into the Atlantic -- isn't funny at all. Indeed, war hardly ever is, and that's what we've got on our collective hands here, in one form or another. Cherished ideals, future generations, hopefulness, the earth itself -- all are among war's many casualties. The sooner we recognize the sense of pervasive warfare in our midst, embedded in the flow of our everyday lives, the sooner we can intentionally turn that essential corner toward peace. Waking up to war may in fact be the first genuine step toward peace, both among ourselves and with the environment.

Source: ZNet by Farooq Sulehria January 3, 2010 When reasoning ends, believing begins. In case, religion does not offer self-serving explanations, fantastic conspiracy theories come in handy. Like religion, conspiracy theories by over-simplifying complex political questions, save you the mental labour. Why, for instance, strain one’s nerves to understand Marx’s dull essays on economy to understand the current [...]

Source: The Guardian by Bob Ward November 20, 2009 Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, with the hacking of email messages between some of the world’s leading researchers on global temperature trends. But as usually happens in the blogosphere, this episode is generating more heat than light and is [...]

Pakistán, la otra guerra de Obama por Tariq Alí 23 de julio, 2009 Junio nunca es un buen mes en las llanuras. Se llegó a 46 grados centígrados en la fortaleza de Islamabad hace dos semanas. Los centenares de guardias de seguridad de la dotación del control de carreteras y de barreras languidecían con el sudor bajando a [...]

by Jason Leopold September 27, 2009 In recent days, The Washington Post, The New York Times and other major news outlets have recounted the “troubled” history of the poor people’s advocacy group ACORN, but left out the five-year anti-ACORN campaign led by White House adviser Karl Rove and other Republican operatives. Dropped down the memory hole is the [...]

by Thomas Harrington August 19, 2009 WASHINGTON – Yesterday, a group of high-profile dignitaries from across the political spectrum celebrated the launch of the Society for the Management of Historical Reason (SMHR) in the nation’s capital. The all-day seminar took place in the headquarters of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and featured speeches by Secretary of Defense [...]

By Chip Berlet June 10, 2009 The alleged shooter at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum today has an online book excerpt revealing his deep roots in historic White Supremacy and antisemitic conspiracy theories, including references to the hoax document The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. His website includes links to White Supremacist and Holocaust denial sites.