One of the essential items of the Gramscian menu that now regulates the Brazilian mental diet is information control, which entails the suppression of all facts that could bring harm to the Communist revolutionary project. It took forty years of “occupation of spaces” (a Gramscian technical term) in newspapers editorial departments, publishing houses, and cultural…
China at Walmart
To find out to what extent Brazilian intelligentzia is in the dark about what goes on in the world, just go to Walmart in any small American town. Seventy percent of the products sold there are Chinese. The data are from China Business Weekly magazine. "If Walmart were a country" - writes Ted C. Fishman…
The Shoes of the Stupid Fisherman
Do you remember Morris West’s international bestseller, “The Shoes of the Fisherman," which was later turned into a film with Anthony Quinn as the main character? I am sure most of you have never heard of it. The past vanishes from the public memory faster than ever, making it so that each of us, in…