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What if the end of democracy doesn’t come from the people or the government? Big Tech and the capture of the American state

Opinion article

What if the end of democracy doesn’t come from the people or the government? Big Tech and the capture of the American state
_{I recently published an international politics analysis for the Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik, in which I explored the possibility of an autocracy emerging not from executive aggrandizement, military coup, or even through revolution, but from the capture of the state by Big Tech—a group of hyper-elite economic actors, mostly American, that controls an alarming...}

Artificial intelligence as an update of the capitalist machinery described by Marx

Opinion article

Artificial intelligence as an update of the capitalist machinery described by Marx
_{Under the promise of innovation, algorithmic systems deepen familiar forms of domination and exploitation of labor. Artificial intelligence does not usher in a new historical stage of capitalism. It updates, in digital form, the function that Marx attributed to machines: reorganizing work to increase value extraction. If industrial machinery disciplined manual labor, AI commands cognitive...}

Brazil between blocs and rifts: reforming multilateralism in times of fragmentation

Opinion article

Brazil between blocs and rifts: reforming multilateralism in times of fragmentation
_{Brazil’s external positioning in recent years can be interpreted as both as a bid to build a new global hegemony and as a strategy for acting amid the decline of multilateralism. In other words, it is not a question of defending the international order as it was, but of disputing its direction as it loses...}

Education between inheritance and choice

Opinion article

Education between inheritance and choice
_{In the column “What to Do When They Vote Against Your Right to Vote,” I described a cold morning in Vienna, a train bound for Budapest, and a lecture that dismantled some of the most comfortable certainties we tend to hold about democracy, the electorate, and education. There, in light of the evidence presented by...}

Is Iran the new Iraq? Despite previous criticism of American interventions in the Middle East, Trump is betting on regime change in Iran

Is Iran the new Iraq? Despite previous criticism of American interventions in the Middle East, Trump is betting on regime change in Iran
_{Iran is a country located in the Middle East. Formerly known as Persia, the country is home to 92 million people of different ethnicities, but mostly Persian. Its strategic location—the great plateau of Iran is a land bridge linking Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Caucasus—combined with its valuable natural resources such as oil,...}

Issue #6 – 2025/1

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A Cursed Inheritance

A Cursed Inheritance

31 January 2026 Opinion article

The Mercosur–EU Agreement: Impasses and Promises of Economic Growth for the Region

The Mercosur–EU Agreement: Impasses and Promises of Economic Growth for the Region

31 January 2026 Opinion article,Public utility

Milei’s Imperialism and the Sacrifice of Argentine Glaciers

Milei’s Imperialism and the Sacrifice of Argentine Glaciers

22 January 2026 Opinion article

Interventions, oil, and power: the U.S. imperialism in Latin America

Interventions, oil, and power: the U.S. imperialism in Latin America

20 January 2026 Academic life,Opinion article,Public utility

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