
Donald Trump and predatory capitalism
The action in Venezuela exposes the transition from liberal capitalism to predatory capitalism, where brute force supplants international law.

Liszt Vieira is a retired sociology professor from PUC-Rio. He was a congressman (PT-RJ) and coordinator of the Global Forum of the Rio 92 Conference.
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The underlying question is whether "chemistry" was the stratagem used by Trump to negotiate with Lula and Brazil, abandoning Bolsonaro to his own fate.
Despite the decline of US unilateral hegemony, its financial power still imposes decrees with extra-legal global effect.
The Israeli government cannot survive without war. Netanyahu knows he will fall if and when the war ends. He will continue fighting until he dominates the Middle East.
Fragments on the religious and cultural origins of the genocide in Gaza
To promote the achievements of the government, or to criticize the absence or poor achievements of opposing governments, is to speak of the past without offering hope.
The current government is not confronting the culture war and has not yet offered a message of hope. It has no utopia to present, no defining mark of its government.
The government is at a crossroads. Either it allows itself to be absorbed by the right wing due to a failing governability, or it decides to move forward with the progressive agenda.
Between bullets and injustice: when state violence becomes the norm.
"There can be no agreement or amnesty for the coup plotters. There can be no freedom for the enemies of freedom."
The strengthening of the PT (Workers' Party) in the presidential election is accompanied by its weakening at the regional level.
In Venezuela, although repressed, the right-wing opposition is tolerated and runs in the presidential election, but I wouldn't vouch for one or the other.