sexta-feira, 18 de julho de 2025

Avebarna Fridays for Future


The Guardian 15-07-2025
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/15/climate-groups-call-uk-wealth-tax-make-super-rich-fund-sustainable-economy
A growing number of climate groups are campaigning for the introduction of a wealth tax to ensure the transition to a sustainable economy is not done “on the backs of the poor”. Last week campaigners from Green New Deal Rising staged a sit-in outside the Reform UK party’s London headquarters as part of a wave of protests targeting the offices, shops and private clubs of the super-rich across the UK.


The Pay Up Campaign – backed by more than 20 civil society groups including Friends of the Earth, the National Education Union and Tax Justice UK – is calling on the government to bring in a series of wealth taxes as an alternative to spending cuts. It is one of a number of campaign initiatives focused on overhauling the tax regime being run by climate groups who say the revenue from the ultra-rich could fund investment, restore crumbling public services and help tackle the climate emergency.

2025-07-18

domingo, 13 de julho de 2025

Anais do capitalismo mais-que-tardio


O Globo 09-07-2025
https://oglobo.globo.com/


(1) Custo a entender o motivo pelo qual a campanha contra os “inimigos do povo” encastelados no Congresso Nacional, que recém inundou o facebook por conta da recusa em elevar o IOF, cessou como por encanto após o anúncio das tarifas trumpianas em retaliação explícita ao processo contra Bolsonaro e à regulamentação das Big Techs. Pois não seria justamente o momento de levar a voto no Congresso, em regime de urgência, uma moção extraída do editorial do Estadão -  por quê não - de repúdio a essa odiosa agressão à soberania nacional? E obrigar os picaretas-chantagistas-entreguistas a arcar com as consequências de seus votos? Não nos iludamos: este Congresso está morto como instituição democrática desde o impeachment de Dilma Rousseff. Só falta enterrá-lo, até porque o fedor está insuportável. Precisamos de um novo Congresso, eleito sob regras que impeçam a compra direta ou indireta das cadeiras parlamentares, a venda de votos mediante mensalões e emendas secretas, a farta distribuição de benesses aos parlamentares e seus apaniguados etc.

(2) Os Bolsonaro não são culpados pelas tarifas de Trump. Eles não têm esse poder. Trump é o responsável pela agressão que escolheu perpetrar contra a soberania do Brasil e os Bolsonaro por conspirar em seu favor - portanto contra a soberania nacional - antes, durante e depois do anúncio. E me parece ingenuidade levar ao pé da letra as razões explicitadas, isto é, as tarifas como chantagem para resgatar Bolsonaro; Trump está usando Bolsonaro, um mero capitão do mato a quem despreza como a uma barata, como peão em sua campanha pela colonização das Américas - da Groenlândia à Terra do Fogo - uma espécie de Doutrina Monroe do século XXI
para a qual a participação do Brasil nos BRICs é intolerável. Outras agressões virão, com ou sem o concurso dos Bolsonaro.

(3) E por falar em BRICS, o governo brasileiro precisa decidir se os BRICS são uma aliança econômica de Estados nacionais ou um puxadinho da Internacional Bonapartista tão cara aos quadros do PT. Se a Rússia de Putin pode, por quê não a Venezuela de Maduro? Porque Lula se emputeceu com Maduro por ter fraudado a própria eleição?

2025-07-13

sexta-feira, 11 de julho de 2025

Avebarna Fridays for Future


The Guardian 26-06-2-25
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/26/tippping-points-amazon-rainforest-climate-scientist-carlos-nobre

For more than three decades, Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre has warned that deforestation of the Amazon could push this globally important ecosystem past the point of no return. Working first at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research and more recently at the University of São Paulo, he is a global authority on tropical forests and how they could be restored. In this interview, he explains the triple threat posed by the climate crisis, agribusiness and organised crime.

2025-07-11

terça-feira, 8 de julho de 2025

Aviso de incêndio: democracia planetária


Al Jazeera 30-06-2025
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/30/what-are-serbias-protesters-demanding-and-whats-next

Imagem: https://balkaninsight.com/2025/06/29/dozens-arrested-over-clashes-after-mass-protest-in-serbia/
Montagem: Avebarna

Antigovernment protests started in November, after a renovated rail station canopy in the northern city of Novi Sad collapsed, killing 16 people. Many in Serbia blamed the tragedy on corruption-fuelled negligence in state infrastructure projects. (..)

The student-led protests have since focused their demands on the need for snap elections instead of regular elections planned for 2027. In advance of Saturday’s protest, organisers had issued an “ultimatum” for Vucic to announce a new vote by 9pm (19:00 GMT) that day – a demand he rejected.

Protesters are also stressing the need to ensure that elections are free and fair through several reforms, including a review of voter records, equal access to media for all participants in political life and measures to prevent vote-buying.

Other requests also include reforming the education system, recognising student bodies – known as plenums – as legal entities, ensuring fair wages for all education sector workers, and respecting the autonomy of universities.


2025-07-08

domingo, 6 de julho de 2025

Anais do capitalismo mais-que-tardio


Substack 30-06-2025, por Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-all-rats-now

“ (..) The fact is that the Trump administration already contains a number of figures with strong ties to antisemitic extremists. The Great Replacement Theory, which has de facto become part of MAGA’s ideology, doesn’t just say that there’s a conspiracy to replace whites with people of color; it says that it’s a Jewish conspiracy.

So I’m definitely scared of what the many antisemites inside or with close ties to the Trump administration may eventually do. And no, I’m not frightened at all by the prospect that New York may soon have a somewhat leftist Muslim mayor.

Anyway, my personal fears are beside the point. Everyone who cares about keeping America America needs to take a stand against the resurgence of bigotry. Because the truth is that we’re all rats now.”


2025-07-06

sexta-feira, 4 de julho de 2025

Avebarna Fridays for Future

The Guardian 30-06-2025
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/30/un-expert-urges-criminalizing-fossil-fuel-disinformation-banning-lobbying


A leading UN expert is calling for criminal penalties against those peddling disinformation about the climate crisis and a total ban on fossil fuel industry lobbying and advertising, as part of a radical shake-up to safeguard human rights and curtail planetary catastrophe. Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change who presents her damning new report to the general assembly in Geneva on Monday, argues that the US, UK, Canada, Australia and other wealthy fossil fuel nations are legally obliged under international law to fully phase out oil, gas and coal by 2030 – and compensate communities for harms caused. (..)

2025-07-04

domingo, 29 de junho de 2025

Anais do capitalismo mais-que-tardio


The Guardian 27-06-2025
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/trump-tax-bill-ai-climate-emissions


US Republicans are pushing to pass a major spending bill that includes provisions to prevent states from enacting regulations on artificial intelligence. Such untamed growth in AI will take a heavy toll upon the world’s dangerously overheating climate, experts have warned. About 1bn tons of planet-heating carbon dioxide are set to be emitted in the US just from AI over the next decade if no restraints are placed on the industry’s enormous electricity consumption, according to estimates by researchers at Harvard University and provided to the Guardian. (..)

2025-06-29

sexta-feira, 20 de junho de 2025

Avebarna Fridays for Future


The Guardian 18-06-2025
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis

The planet’s remaining carbon budget to meet the international target of 1.5C has just two years left at the current rate of emissions, scientists have warned, showing how deep into the climate crisis the world has fallen. Breaching the target would ramp up the extreme weather already devastating communities around the world. It would also require carbon dioxide to be sucked from the atmosphere in future to restore the stable climate in which the whole of civilisation developed over the past 10,000 years.


2025-06-20

quinta-feira, 5 de junho de 2025

Avebarna Herald: True love


L A Times 05-06-2025

Montagem: Avebarna
"(..) Musk had been criticizing the Trump administration over its signature legislation, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” for its projected impact on the national debt throughout last week. But his calls to “kill the bill” on Wednesday prompted Trump, speaking to media from the Oval Office, to respond in kind.

“Elon and I had a great relationship, I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump said Thursday. “And he hasn’t said bad things about me personally, but I’m sure that’ll be next. But I’m very disappointed in Elon.” (..)"

2025-06-05