The colonial affects of environmental racism

In recent years, international agencies such as the World Bank have begun to fund parenting interventions to improve young children’s brain development in Global South countries. But who decides on the standards for good parenting? And what are the consequences to argue that pove ...  Afficher plus

The hegemony of the bourgeoisie, its culture and its values, is a central feature of our colonial and capitalist present. But what does it feel like to be a bourgeois subject and what structures of feeling enable the dominant class of the colonial world order to function? Today, ...  Afficher plus

Featuring Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into a world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination and unequal exchange. Haddad is Finance Minister of Brazil. He served as mayor of São Paulo and in 2018 was the Workers’ Party ( ...  Afficher plus

The reality of a second, more emboldened term for President-elect Donald Trump is sinking in. Leaders from across the globe are flooding him with congratulations and trying to get his ear on issues from the Middle East to Ukraine, to wide-ranging tariffs, and of course, the clima ...  Afficher plus

Deepening conflict between the US and Brazil over the prosecution of former president Jair Bolsonaro. US President Trump threatens 50 percent tariffs, unacceptable blackmail, says Brazil's President Lula da Silva. So what's next? And who stands to win or lose? In this episode: Gr ...  Afficher plus

By narrowly beating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro for the presidency of Brazil, the man who goes simply by Lula has staged a stunning political resurrection. Now the country transitions from Bolsonaro' s far-right authoritarian presidency, back to Lula’s worker party socialism. But Bo ...  Afficher plus