Dear friends,  Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 1 October, US Representative Michael McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued a statement urging US President Joe Biden to ‘place maximum pressure on Iran and its proxies, rather than pressure Israel for a ceasefire. We need to expedite […]

The assassination of the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital Tehran added more sadness to the atmosphere of the Gaza Strip. Mr. Haniyeh was killed less than a day after Israel carried out a separate strike on a Hezbollah commander in a suburb of […]

The neoliberal program provides for the privatization of companies and public assets in several sectors, including oil and gas, as well as the repeal of the hydrocarbons law. Jorge Rodríguez, the campaign manager for the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, denounced on Monday a government program aimed at the destruction of the country that was presented […]

El actual sistema dominante o establishment de las sociedades occidentales utilizaría la dictadura invisible del consumismo compulsivo de bienes materiales para anular los ideales del individuo primigenio y transformarlo en un ser acrítico, miedoso y conformista que pasará a engrosar ineludiblemente las filas de una sociedad homogénea, uniforme y fácilmente manipulable mediante las técnicas de […]

Wright Mills, en su libro “The Power Elite” (1956), indica que la clave para entender la inquietud norteamericana se encontraría en la sobre-organización de su sociedad. Así, establishment sería “el grupo élite formado por la unión de las sub-élites política, militar, económica, universitaria y mass media de EEUU”. Dichos lobbys de presión estarían interconectadas mediante […]