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Doutorando em economia - UFBA - Brasil.

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Pedágio de Freitas quer que você pague para os amigos empresários dele quando for trabalhar, estudar e fazer as compras do mês. É um absurdo! Não aos pedágios na Raposo Tavares e nas outras mais de 50 regiões do estado!

13.10.2025 06:08 — 👍 238    🔁 118    💬 9    📌 7
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Qual Saúde Digital o Brasil constrói? | Outras Palavras Ana Estela Haddad, secretária do Ministério da Saúde que comanda a transformação digital do SUS, fala sobre seu trabalho e os próximos planos

Ana Estela Haddad, secretária do Ministério da Saúde que comanda a transformação digital do SUS, fala sobre seu trabalho e os próximos planos – que incluem a unificação de prontuários, a segurança dos dados e tentativas de diminuir a dependência das Big Tech

13.10.2025 11:58 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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"The people in Gaza, including me, lost everything."

As Israel and Hamas exchange captives amid a U.S.-backed ceasefire, writer Ahmed Abu Artema slams Western double standards that privilege Israeli lives over those of Palestinians.

13.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 240    🔁 78    💬 7    📌 4
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War, Climate Crisis and the Economy: Transition Security Project Launch A collaboration between Common Wealth and Climate & Community Institute to investigate the US and UK military industrial complexes.

Sign up to attend the event on Zoom at the link below, and be sure to follow @transitionsec.bsky.social for more updates.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-climat...

13.10.2025 09:48 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion Abstract. Liberals claim that globalization has led to fragmentation and decentralized networks of power relations. This does not explain how states increasingly “weaponize interdependence” by leverag...

6/These transnational moves are linked to weaponized interdependence. Right wing factions are looking to the US state to enforce their interests -- threatening sanctions/tariffs to put pressure on other governments to increase political space for their interests.
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

13.10.2025 12:04 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report. The report from scientists and conservationists warns the world is also “on the brink” of reaching other tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the collapse of major ocean currents and the loss of ice sheets. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

12.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 163    🔁 96    💬 12    📌 15
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Efeito Lula: indústria volta a crescer em agosto Depois de quatro meses em ritmo negativo, setor volta a crescer e registra ritmo 2,9% acima do patamar pré-pandemia

Depois de quatro meses em ritmo negativo, setor volta a crescer e registra ritmo 2,9% acima do patamar pré-pandemia

12.10.2025 23:30 — 👍 87    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 0
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Abaixo-assinado denuncia ação do MPF contra Breno Altman Manifesto reúne jornalistas, intelectuais e personalidades em repúdio à denúncia apresentada pelo procurador Maurício Fabretti

Abaixo-assinado denuncia ação do MPF contra Breno Altman
www.brasil247.com/brasil/abaix...

12.10.2025 23:38 — 👍 68    🔁 28    💬 2    📌 1
Picture of Prem Sikka, Baron Sikka, next to a quote from Left Foot Forward:
"Water privatisation has failed. Public monopolies in private hands always lead to abuses and the water industry has shown that in abundance."

Picture of Prem Sikka, Baron Sikka, next to a quote from Left Foot Forward: "Water privatisation has failed. Public monopolies in private hands always lead to abuses and the water industry has shown that in abundance."

11.10.2025 08:28 — 👍 114    🔁 57    💬 0    📌 1
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JUST IN 🚨: U.S. Treasury just bought back $2 Billion of its own debt 🤯

10.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 1
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A social dumping disaster? EU’s ‘ 28th Regime’ plans could help corporations bypass member state rules | Corporate Europe Observatory In the name of competitiveness, corporate lobby groups are promoting a radical plan to create an EU-level ‘28th regime’ of parallel, weaker rules. This could help corporations to avoid stricter member...

🚫 Lately, Allied for Startups has lobbied for the so-called '28th regime', a set of weaker EU rules on taxation and labour rights - a social dumping disaster in the making.

EU policy-makers should close the door to Big Tech’s shady lobbying tactics

www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...

10.10.2025 11:11 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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New book: In Pursuit of Marx's Theory of Crisis, by Samezō Kuruma
amzn.to/46WZrhN

10.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Firms Are Capitalizing on White House, Trump Ties to Go Public From a data center startup with one customer to special purpose acquisition companies helping form hoarders of speculative crypto tokens, firms raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the equity market are increasingly touting their links to President Donald Trump.

Firms raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the equity market are increasingly touting their links to President Trump

10.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 20    🔁 13    💬 7    📌 5
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Private Equity Multi-Family Housing Tracker PESP’s analysis of private equity buyouts in apartment housing reveals that PE firms own 10% of all US apartment units

Private equity is all-in on the housing market, with 10% of all U.S. apartments owned by a private equity landlord. Meanwhile, more and more Americans are struggling with the rising cost of housing. Check out PESP's Multi-Family Housing Tracker to see if PE is in your neighborhood ➡️

09.10.2025 21:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Rússia desenvolverá plano para criação da 'bolsa dos BRICS' até julho de 2026 O objetivo é criar uma plataforma de negociação que estimule o comércio entre os países do grupo.

🌐 Rússia desenvolverá plano para criação da 'bolsa dos BRICS' até julho de 2026

O objetivo é criar uma plataforma de negociação que estimule o comércio entre os países do grupo.

Mais detalhes ⤵️ s.rtbrasil.com/fpg

09.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.

OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore

09.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Visa $V admits "Pix scaled", "now a core part of the Brazilian payments infrastructure"

But Brazil also V's 2nd largest Tap to Phone market
V "providing VAS on Pix transactions & utilizing Pix infrastructure to deliver VAS"
Also targets affluent segment (85% of X-border volume)

09.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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With the US now seemingly unwilling to buy European export goods as it did in the past, and with China’s import growth slowing, Europe must refocus on domestic growth drivers. Public investment may play a crucial role in this.

Link to paper: wiiw.ac.at/achieving-ge...

08.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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New book: From Value to Uneven Development: Selected Writings by John Weeks in the Marxist Tradition, edited by Ben Fine, Simon Mohun and Alfredo Saad-Filho
amzn.to/4h1Bv1C

09.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Stop the export of toxic pesticides to African countries - Online petition ! If you don't have a zip code, please use the code 1234xx Some pesticides are carcinogenic, hormone-disrupting or impair fertility. Others are harmful to aquatic organisms, bees and pollinators or ha...

Let’s stop this toxic trade together!
👉 Sign the petitions:
www.foodwatch.org/en/stop-the-...
www.openpetition.eu/petition/onl...

#StopToxicExport #EndDoubleStandards #PeopleBeforeProfits

09.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Why Blackstone is buying rental homes in the U.S. Blackstone sees opportunities ahead for its rental housing portfolio, particularly in the growing U.S. Sun Belt and coastal cities.

The lack of houses isn't a mysterious conspiracy.

It's the financialization of mid-range homes by private equity.

10.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 29    🔁 7    💬 6    📌 2
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Home - Forests & Finance The banks and investors exposed to deforestation risks in Southeast Asia

None of these banks have robust No Deforestation policies or effective due diligence procedures on high-risk supply chains. They should adopt strong policies and processes immediately.
📊 Data: @forestsandfinance | forestsandfinance.org
#BankingOnDestruction #Minerva #Deforestation #ClimateCrisis

07.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Brasil ganha mercado com a China quase zerando importações de soja dos EUA - Money Report Com a mudança, brasileiros se consolidam como principais fornecedores do grão, com 68 milhões de toneladas embarcadas em 2025 A decisão da China de interromper as compras de soja dos Estados Unidos fe...

Brasil ganha mercado com a China quase zerando importações de soja dos EUA

Com a mudança, brasileiros se consolidam como principais fornecedores do grão, com 68 milhões de toneladas embarcadas em 2025

www.moneyreport.com.br/economia/bra...

07.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Homeowners Can Protect Themselves From 'Zombie' Mortgages A surge in debt collection tied to old second mortgages is exposing the cracks in America’s housing safeguards.

Old debt, new crisis: Forgotten second mortgages are resurfacing across America and the cost could be your house

07.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Un nouveau séminaire d'introduction à la théorie sociale à l'université de Genève.

07.10.2025 11:26 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sometimes I like to visualize things to make them seem less alien, because when things seem less alien, your ability to act increases

Rather than the financial sector appearing as an obscure and complex realm of shadows, it becomes a space you can mess with www.asomo.co/p/the-ten-la...

07.10.2025 08:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Milton Hatoum pode levar Nobel, mas Brasil já teve nomes próximos do prêmio Conheça os cientistas e escritores brasileiros que já foram indicados ao Prêmio Nobel e chegaram perto da consagração internacional em suas áreas.

Milton Hatoum pode levar Nobel, mas Brasil já teve nomes próximos do prêmio - www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/milton-hatou...

06.10.2025 11:26 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Filme histórico sobre a escravidão no Brasil, Antônio Pitanga fez um filme primoroso, não deixem de assistir!

04.10.2025 02:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems far earlier than psychologists had believed.

Young children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems without any instruction, contradicting long-held assumptions about cognitive development, according to a psychologist
buff.ly/226VzMZ 🧪

03.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 92    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 6
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Women-led organisations are vital in humanitarian crises but remain underfunded and excluded from decision-making.
New @odi.global report: buff.ly/r2YA6GD)

03.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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