Marco Fonseca

Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board

Mamdami should be careful with Obama. Obama's claim that he's impressed with his campaign and his offer to help Mamdani deliver on his agenda of affordability for NYC can easily translate into watered-down politics, more of the same but with the usual smiles. OJO!

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San Pablo: Una mirada refrescada y desde abajo A 50 años del asesinato de Pier Paolo Pasolini

San Pablo: Una mirada refrescada y desde abajo
A 50 años del asesinato de Pier Paolo Pasolini

El ímpetu emprendedor del inmigrante latino en Canadá | RCI El mes de octubre, que celebra la Herencia Latinoamericana en Canadá, es una ocasión para destacar el aporte emprendedor de las comunidades latinoamericanas.

La CBC de Canadá celebra octubre, mes de la Herencia Latinoamericana en Canadá, trayendo la atención de sus lectores/as hacia "el aporte emprendedor de las comunidades latinoamericanas". Pero debemos recordarle a la CBC el más largo, profundo y crítico aporte activista de la gente latinoamericana.

What’s with the sponcon slop in Nobody Wants This? Netflix, nobody wants this | Alaina Demopoulos Season two of the Adam Brody and Kristen Bell-starring show feels like a long infomercial thanks to endless product placement

Art in the age of totalitarian commodification or how "Nobody Wants This" became a sponcon slop. "While the show encourages us to reflect on our own belief system", it becomes difficult, if not impossible, when the show is ramming ads, ads + ads down your throat.
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U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say | CBC News The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News

How do some people react when they have their own words, their own historical truths, rubbed on their faces?

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And over them all, the financial kings:
Wall Street, BlackRock, the eternal oligarchy of capital.
They don’t need crowns. Their rule is quiet, algorithmic, and total.
The republic is a stage. The kings still reign.
#NoKings

And then there are the carceral kings.
The defense contractors, private prisons, and security firms who profit from fear. They discipline and punish globally.
They build walls, sell weapons, and surveil everyone.
Locking up the poor, arming the state, fuelling wars and calling it “freedom.”
#NoKings

The digital kings control our attention.
Meta, Google, Amazon, Palantir, they are platform monarchies feeding on our data, shaping our desires, deciding what we see and what we ignore.
Feudalism (if you follow Varoufakis) never ended; it just got Wi-Fi. Or is it techofascism?
#NoKings

Then comes the food empire.
Agribusiness dictates what we eat, what we grow, and who goes hungry.
Subsidies flow to corn and soy, not to the poor. Farmers vanish. Diabetes grows. The land is poisoned, but the kings profit.
#NoKings

But the kingdom doesn’t end there.
Big Pharma rules the body.
You can’t live without insulin or antibiotics, and you can’t buy them without bowing to the price. A human right turned into a market privilege.
#NoKings

Millions Face Soaring Health Insurance Premiums as GOP Refuses to Extend Obamacare Subsidies The central fight in the U.S. federal government shutdown has been over healthcare costs, with Democrats demanding that Republicans agree to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act set to expire ...

Who says there are no kings in the USA?
The throne just changed shape.
Today, it’s the private insurance company, sovereign over life and death. Premiums for the “Affordable” Care Act rise again. People pay… or they die.
#NoKings
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40 Years in Canada / 40 años en Canadá

CANG se suma y alerta de una ruptura constitucional tras las nuevas acciones del MP y el juez Orellana CANG se suma y alerta de una ruptura constitucional tras las nuevas acciones del MP de Porras y el juez Orellana

Lo mínimo que debe hacer el CANG en Guatemala ahorita es cancelar de inmediato las colegiaturas de Consuelo Porras y Fredy Orellana. ¿Qué esperan? ¿Que consuman su golpe de Estado?

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Jeremy Scahill on Gaza “Ceasefire,” Talking to Hamas & Israel’s Doctrine of Dehumanizing Palestinians Israel has carried out repeated attacks in Gaza and killed about 100 Palestinians over the past two weeks since the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect. Jeremy Scahill, co-founder o...

"For 77 years, the Israelis are constantly assassinating any Palestinian that is willing to make a deal. And people around the world should be asking why."
Brilliant interview with @jeremyscahill.com on @democracynow.org
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William I. Robinson, Sociologist "La Crisis Civilizatoria del Capitalismo Global," repaso por Marco Fonseca de mi nuevo libro (publicado en inglés), Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism:

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Trump administration won’t use contingency fund to pay November food stamp benefits | CNN Politics The US Department of Agriculture says it will not tap into its $6 billion contingency fund to cover food stamp benefits next month, according to an agency memo obtained by CNN. That means that roughly...

Low empathy, NPD or worse? It's worse. It's to do with bullying, vindictiveness and real hate for working and poor people who rely on government help ("Democrat programs"). It's to do with revenge by an emotionally stunted psychopath who gets off on punishment.
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Marco Rubio warns Israel not to annex West Bank after Knesset vote in favour US secretary of state says preliminary move to apply Israeli law in occupied land is ‘counterproductive’ and a threat to peace

Israel makes these illegal, provocative and violent moves all the time and then they unleash a genocide on the occupied and captive Palestinians when they rise up in resistance. Warnings are far from enough. Israel must be kicked out of all occupied territories.
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Inside one Conservative MP’s ‘Restore the North’ tour, a Canadian take on Charlie Kirk’s movement | CBC News By asking how to 'restore the North,' Conservative MP Jamil Jivani hopes to expand Charlie Kirk's U.S. campus tour movement — and ignite a national conversation here in Canada.

Nip it in the bud! The language of the extreme right and the politics of "restoration" must be contested everywhere and every time. One way to move forward in the 'north' is by extinguishing the Conservative Party once and for all.

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US ‘Night Stalkers’ seen in Caribbean as fears of regime change rise in Venezuela Elite helicopter unit’s part in military deployment comes as Donald Trump ramps up pressure on Nicolás Maduro

An absolutely shameful behaviour from the rest of Latin America and the world. Instead of closing ranks and saying "an attack on one is an attack on all" and unreservedly condemning Trump's criminal extrajudicial executions, they all remain quiet. Shame!!!
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A proportional representation system so the seat count more accurately reflects the overall vote. Guaranteed representation for Indigenous peoples because Canada’s democracy must include those whose land we’re on. Guaranteed representation for women because equality/parity still hasn’t arrived.

Under FPTP, it’s not surprising that one vote might decide an election. The surprise would be if it didn’t. If you don’t like that, don’t just complain about the “single vote” effect: demand a system change. Proportional representation + Indigenous & women’s guarantees is the answer.

The real problem is the system itself. We deserve proportional representation and guaranteed seats/voice for Indigenous folks & women.

Case of a single vote that decided a federal election in Canada sparks uproar Legal teams are midway through a hearing over whether one vote truly swayed an election in a Montreal suburb

If someone in Canada (yes, Quebec included) is complaining that just one vote tipped a federal election under FPTP, they’re missing the point: that’s exactly how FPTP works: winner-take-all, margin often razor-thin.

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Arévalo solicita intervención (“apoyo”) de Estados Unidos Y recibe apoyo de una Autoridad Ancestral

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'Trump must go': Large crowds join 'No Kings' protests across U.S. | CBC News Protesting the direction of the U.S. under President Donald Trump, people have begun gathering in the nation's capital and communities across the country for "No Kings" demonstrations — what the presi...

#NoKings

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The truth behind your clothing’s ‘made in Guatemala’ label | CNN Guatemalan textile workers describe brutal conditions inside the factories making clothes for some of the biggest brands in the US.

The truth behind your clothing’s ‘made in #Guatemala’ label.

#sweatshops #maquiladoras #textileindustry #capitalism #exploitation #labor

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Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against Trump: ‘You need a voice to have freedom’ More than 2,600 events are planned across the US to dissent against Trump’s policies. Organizer James Phipps, 75, says: ‘Protest is all I’ve done all my life’

"Recovery from a recent surgery for colon cancer will not stop James Phipps, 75, from attending Saturday’s #NoKings demonstration in #Chicago, Illinois. “I have a burning desire to be a part of the #protest.” he said, “because that’s all I’ve done all my life.”"
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Millions expected across all 50 US states to march in No Kings protests against Trump Events scheduled in more than 2,700 locations, from small towns to large cities, aligning behind message that the US is sliding into authoritarianism

#NoKings

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Ni el Nobel de la Guerra, pero tampoco la corrupción de Maduro La concesión del Premio Nobel de la Paz 2025 a María Corina Machado ha sido presentada por los grandes medios como una apoteosis democrática.

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Urgent calls for debt relief as study shows health and education cuts in developing world Influential economists want replenishment of funds and new ways to define countries in need before this week’s IMF and World Bank meetings

Today’s “urgent calls” for the IMF / World Bank to “replenish the coffers” only renew that same cycle of punishment. Mainstream economists begging the financial punisher of the Global North to save the Global South is like asking the arsonist to fund the fire brigade.