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After all, why did Trump nearly blow up the transatlantic relationship?

Opinion article

After all, why did Trump nearly blow up the transatlantic relationship?
_{“It is the plague of our times that the blind are led by the mad.” The line from the fourth act of King Lear appears strangely contemporary in light of the most recent episode of a latent political crisis that threatens to sink transatlantic relations for no apparent reason. Within the span of a single...}

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

Opinion article

The Mercosur–EU Agreement: Impasses and Promises of Economic Growth for the Region
_{Diplomatic negotiations for the signing of the trade agreement between the economic blocs of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the European Union officially began in 1999, representing an agreement with a long history of negotiations toward its regulation. The greatest economic potential of the agreement lies in the creation of the largest free trade...}

A Cursed Inheritance

Opinion article

A Cursed Inheritance
_{My maternal grandfather, a man endowed with singular historical knowledge and a sharp curiosity about domestic and global politics, began almost all of our encounters with the same warning: one had to be careful when “criticizing the military.” The quotation marks were never gratuitous. My criticisms, from an early age, were directed at the military...}

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...}

From the Monroe Doctrine to the Trump Corollary

From the Monroe Doctrine to the Trump Corollary
_{Following the analysis presented in the column “Operation Absolute Resolution and the American internal conflict,” we will take as our starting point the operation that took place on January 3, 2026. This episode was responsible not for a rupture, but for an important strategic repositioning of the United States on the geopolitical chessboard of the...}

Issue #6 – 2025/1

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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

Black Gold, New Blood: The Re-edition of Colonialism in the 21st Century

Black Gold, New Blood: The Re-edition of Colonialism in the 21st Century

15 January 2026 Opinion article

Ends, means and drones: The use of kamikaze drones in Operation Absolute Resolve

Ends, means and drones: The use of kamikaze drones in Operation Absolute Resolve

13 January 2026 Commented news,Opinion article

Energy transition: between climate-crisis mitigation and the logic of capital accumulation

Energy transition: between climate-crisis mitigation and the logic of capital accumulation

8 January 2026 Opinion article

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