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Günter Grass Merits a Second Nobel, the Peace Prize
09/04/2012The aforementioned German novelist and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989, is being attacked, principally in Germany — and, of course, by the Israeli government and its global ramifications —, because on 4-4-12...Leia mais
Ear versus elbow in “Ultimate Fighting”
29/03/2012I take the liberty of speaking about a subject which is less intellectual but of a somehow public interest, considering how sports have a reasonable role in the moral education of citizens in general. They help in strengthening...Leia mais
The Era of Mediocrity - Part I
22/02/2012If I pinched myself every time that I felt myself to be a stranger on the planet, I would certainly end up being mistaken for an alien, or an earthling with a repugnant skin disease. On a corporal level, the purplish-blue color and swollen...Leia mais
Silly intuitions or bullseye predictions
14/02/2012Intuition has always intrigued scholars and philosophers, both the deep and the superficial ones, because it offers material to all of them - after all, its “hints” lack rigueur and scientific respectability. Leia mais
Politically incorrect conclusions extracted from Kadhafi´s death
16/11/2011Mohammad Gadhafi was undoubtedly an unpleasant despot — there are a few tyrants who are “nice” — , vengeful, not in the least enlightened. When I was a kid, in my History classes, I used to find the expression...Leia mais
Timely Initiative of a Newspaper
10/10/2011On page A18 of the “O Estado de S.Paulo” newspaper dated 25-9-11, there is a short text that can be considered an innovation to be followed — or amplified, if such a practice already exists — by all newspapers not exclusively destined for readers...Leia mais
Kadhafi´s warrant of arrest and the Rome Statute
25/07/2011The International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked all countries for the imprisonment of Muamar Kadhafi, accusing him of crimes against humanity. With all due respect, either the Court should alter its procedural rules or its prestige will keep...Leia mais
The “theatrics” of Netanyahu: smart but deceiving
24/05/2011Yesterday I watched on television Benjamin Netanyahu´s speech at the American Congress – which was witnessed by congressmen and senators from both main political parties. Barack Obama was away on a trip overseas; luck...Leia mais
Everything points to a false accusation against Strauss-Kahn
15/05/2011Brazilian newspaper “O Estado de S. Paulo”, on its May 15th, 2011 issue, page A20, tells us of the alleged sexual abuse, of which I insistently do not believe, committed by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, director of the International Monetary...Leia mais
WikiLeaks
06/12/2010The disclosure of cables and other records of American embassies, revealing what high-ranking employees really thought about foreign leaders and secret intentions and “agreements” between countries, was one of the most...Leia mais
There is nothing to fear in the aging of the world population
05/11/2010In the national and international media, it is ever more frequently possible to read and hear of the “danger” that threatens the future of humanity in the form of a progressive increase in numbers of the elderly and low birth rates in developed...Leia mais
Faith, Politics, Science: prickly liaisons
10/09/2010Traditional wisdom recommends that one should not discuss, compare, prognosticate and much less criticize - this would be the horror of horrors! - such topics as religion, politics and even football.Leia mais
The UN Security Council has become a Chamber of Commerce
29/06/2010The title is not simply a catchphrase. It is the harsh reality of a troubled world, led by grown-up “children” who are already mature or even old. Frightened “children” who are, at the same time...Leia mais
“Freedom Flotilla”. Who is Right?
09/06/2010An intellectualized humorist once supposed that the Law is like the handle of a teacup: you can hold it with the right or the left hand, according to the individual taste of...Leia mais
What now, Messrs. Wolves?
28/05/2010For those of you who do not remember how La Fontaine, in his fable “The Wolf and the Lamb”, portrayed the constant prevalence of the arguments of the strongest party, I will repeat it here, with discreet embellishments...Leia mais
Salvation lies in the atom
15/03/2010I’ll go further than this: for both peaceful and military purposes. If the above statement seems to be almost criminal, or just used for effect, it merely...Leia mais
Mental dishonesty + arrogance = condemnation of Iran
02/03/2010Whoever takes the time to study, even if not in depth, the astute international campaign that is underway against the development of nuclear...Leia mais
Summary of the distorted “Iranian impasse"
23/02/2010Before going any further, an explanation: generically speaking, I have nothing against “Jews”, irrespective of whether they are seen as a “race” or religion.Leia mais
Obama is a statesman. It is essential to support him. Banks, etc.
03/02/2010The difference between a “mere” president of a republic and a statesman is that the former is solely concerned with surveys of public opinion and how to...Leia mais
USA in Afghanistan: relentless persistence
29/01/2010An alternative title would be: “What is the USA doing in Afghanistan?” And the reply would be: erring more than getting things right, despite good intentions. Leia mais
Ahmadinejad and the global nuclear issue
30/11/2009There was agitation in the media with the brief stay of the president of Iran in Brazil. Obviously, the national and international Jewish community did...Leia mais
Grave diggers of Capitalism
16/10/2009According to newspapers, the managing director of IIF – Institute of International Finances, which represents world’s major banks, during an...Leia mais
Wouldn’t the equivalent of a Brazilian “Sorbonne” be useful?
21/09/2009Our esteemed President Lula intends to acquire 36 Rafale fighter aircraft, 4 submarines, the hull (how?!) of a nuclear submarine and 50 helicopters...Leia mais
Was there misconduct on the part of banks that gave rise to the crisis?
05/08/2009Something that intrigues me, in times such as ours - when “hunting down the offender” is almost an obsession, even extending to topics of minimal...Leia mais
What should be done with Kim Jong Il? Nothing.
02/06/2009The ambitious, intelligent and persuasive global arms industry should be extremely excited with the challenges or “follies” (what else to call them?) of Kim Jong Il, the North-Korean dictator.Leia mais
Racism, Obama and World Government
08/04/2009If there is a politician I respect, it is Barack Obama. Not only due to the fact that he attained, in an honorable manner, the presidency of the most powerful nation in the world...Leia mais
Congratulations, Gordon Brown!
03/03/2009On sitting down to write these lines, I feel myself to be thirty percent sad and seventy percent happy. The percentage of sadness is due to the fact that...Leia mais
Radovan Karadzic and the trouble he is going to cause...
11/10/2008The aforementioned Serbian psychiatrist, under the guise of a poet, a politician giving rise to significant local repercussions, a bearded fugitive and, finally, a defendant at the International Criminal...Leia mais
Dialogue and terrorism
15/03/2008Today, as I was reading the text of a Jane Kinninmont interview with Moazzam Begg on the website www.opendemocracy.net, I felt myself tentatively returning once again to a topic already discussed in some of my modest articles.... Leia mais
“Hot-head” Governors and Pins
14/02/2008An immensely fascinating and rather enjoyable intellectual sport is that of speculating on the effects of pure chance. In fact, “chance” is a term that is only commodious...Leia mais
Dick Cheney criticizes Russia
08/02/2008“Trying to understand Cheney” would also be an appropriate title. Leia mais
Testosterone and its influence on politics
30/10/2007Even anyone who is only minimally curious regarding the role of biological factors in the behavior of human beings knows that testosterone...Leia mais
The disturbing side of religions
18/10/2007One cannot deny the beneficial side of religions. It is, one may say, the “light”, at an intimate, subjective level. A source of hope and comfort in desperate situations....Leia mais
A Great “Slip-Up” by the European Parliament
07/05/2007If there were already good reason to praise Mario Vargas Llosa, not only for his writing talents, but also for the moral stances he assumes...Leia mais
World Government – necessary and inevitable
23/04/2007he title of the present essay might provoke skeptical laughter in the arena of International Public Law and among experienced scholars of international relations. But they are intellectuals...Leia mais
The International Court of Justice has Blundered
01/03/2007Nobody could be more anxious than the undersigned for our planet to proceed in a rational manner in the resolution of conflicts between States. Leia mais
Does anyone still doubt the need for a World Government?
15/02/2007The Middle East is currently one of the best arguments for this imperative. There are others, such as the quasi-collapse of the WTO (nothing more logical, natural, without laying specific blame on any particular government)Leia mais
The Hanging of Saddam
19/01/2007What exactly is the “seriousness” of our feelings and reasoning? Almost nil. In our opinions, we are influenced by every change in the wind. And here one is not merely dealing with volubility of character.Leia mais
Crimes and sovereignty
04/12/2006I have highly illustrious precursors, including Kant, when I never tire of insisting that, to an ever greater extent, nations need to renounce large portions of their sovereignty in favor of a global democratic federation...Leia mais
“CRYONICS”: A POLEMYC PLUNGE INTO THE FUTURE
04/05/2006When Alberto Santos Dumont, on October 23rd, 1906, in the fields of Bagatelle, Paris, got to raise in the air his phantasmagoric and awkward “14-Bis”,...Leia mais
Internationalists: accompany the Bush-Iran dialogue very closely
23/03/2006Discussion regarding agreement between the six world powers and the recently elected government of Iran is the order of the day.Leia mais
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