Month December 2021

“A vice-coupist won’t help Lula win the election”

In this week’s edition of the printed weekly Causa Operária, number 1,193, Brazil’s most traditional left-wing newspaper returns, as usual, with the most fundamental political issues of the week. As always, several controversies are highlighted, to undo the confusion within…

Alckmin: Electoral calculus or renal calculus?

Those who defend Lula’s ticket with Alckmin say that an electoral calculus must be made, that Alckmin could articulate supports to bring votes to Lula. All supporters of this policy, whether left or right, want to deceive the population by…

The year the American right made me laugh

In today’s column I’m going to take off my programmer’s hat and wear the one of editor of the international pages of the newspaper Causa Operária. We won’t deal with technology. I make this exception because this topic would never make…

Monopolies stand on handful of developers

Just over a week ago, a security vulnerability was discovered in the log4j2 library, used by the vast majority of programs written in the Java programming language. According to publications in the area, such as IEEE Spectrum, Java is the…

Philanthropy: What is it like to fight it?

Imperialism is above all a political regime based on the establishment of force. For this force to be established, it is necessary to concentrate production in international monopolies/oligopolies; establish financial capital as the dominant instrument of economic power; export capital…

When the CIA itself belies the White House

During the Wall Street Journal’s annual Council of CEOs meeting in early December, CIA chief William Burns stated, without mincing words, that “the US has no evidence that Iran has taken over the decision to arm its nuclear program”, adding…