Marco Fonseca
@marcofonseca.bsky.social
I blog at marcofonseca.substack.com. My books include Gramsci’s Critique of Civil Society: Towards a New Concept of Hegemony (Routledge 2016); La articulación posible. Principios gramscianos para una nueva política democrática (F&G Editores 2024).
When you turn the Dark Night into Odysseus, you know it's all gone to crap.
And that's how stupid they are in every possible way.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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I have published my #memoir, Growing Up Guatemalan, a story of childhood, family, dictatorship, political awakening, and exile. But it is not simply the story of one individual life. 🧵 1/8
Estados Unidos quiere hacer con #Cuba lo que Israel ha hecho con #Gaza. Y la mayor parte del mundo se queda con los brazos cruzados y en completo silencio.
EEUU bloquea el envío de más de 7 000 contenedores con alimentos y medicinas hacia Cuba, denuncia vice primer ministro
La carga retenida contiene mercancía que incluye desde alimentos hasta medicinas, compradas legalmente por el Gobierno de Cuba conforme a las normas del come...
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Outrageous. Reflect Orbital’s plan to sell “sunlight on demand” through orbital mirrors is inherently incompatible with protecting dark skies. Night is not unused commercial space. It is a shared ecological, scientific and cultural commons—not something a corporation has the right to privatize.
ANALYSIS | U.S. FCC approves giant space mirror to deliver 'sunlight on demand,' but what are the legal implications? | CBC News
Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine light roughly five kilometres wide, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light. W...
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#Technofascism in #Canada. #Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke is supporting an electoral system of "weighted voting proportional to the amount of income tax you pay," from zero votes for people who don't pay income tax to five votes for anyone paying $500,000 or more. And ... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Netanyahu has been sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza since Nov. 21, 2024, when the ICC issued an arrest warrant for murder, persecution and using starvation as a method of warfare. But #Canada is helping him evade the law.
Israel says it asked Canada for permission for Netanyahu to use Canadian airspace | CBC News
The Israeli government has told CBC News that it requested permission for wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to overfly Newfoundland and Nova Scotia on Monday en route to a meeting with ...
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#RefundaciónYa Substack aparece ahora en el puesto 89 entre los Substack “emergentes”. En el universo saturado de plataformas, algoritmos, publicaciones instantáneas y contenidos diseñados para desaparecer al día siguiente, este pequeño reconocimiento tiene algún significado.
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Un reconocimiento oportuno #RefundaciónYa Substack aparece ahora en el puesto 89 entre los Substack “emergentes”. En el universo saturado de plataformas, algoritmos, publicaciones instantáneas y cont...
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Don't we all foreigners or immigrants get told the exact same thing by those whose country we now inhabit and those who's country we left behind? I do seriously thank Zeus for Homer.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2w agoThe people who commented that most of LA isn’t like this, and that I, an ignorant British / East Coaster, know nothing about the city, are quite right. I will only add that Homer almost certainly knew nothing first hand about Ithaca. It was all hearsay and tropes.
"But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script." A brilliant critique of Christopher Nolan's #TheOdyssey by Emily Wilson @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social.
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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"If we want to reduce our temperature, if we want to reduce our fire risk, the first thing we have to do is reduce our emissions. The U.S. has steadfastly refused to do, its current admin, in any case. And unfortunately, Canada is following suit actively expanding its fossil fuel operations."
“Frontlines of a Burning World”: Climate Change-Fueled “Megafires” Sweep Europe & North America
France and Spain are battling catastrophic wildfires that have forced more than 350,000 people to evacuate their homes. The fires began in the southwest of France on Wednesday before spreading to Spai...
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Brilliant interview with Catherine Liu @bureaucat.bsky.social on Marx, Trump, and identity politics. This is a critique of the culture of trauma and identity politics I find absolutely compellling.
How liberals monetized trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and identity politics
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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Canadians need to realize that Danielle Smith is the Trumpian 5th column within Canadian politics. She's totally willing to sacrifice Canada's best interest in favour of Alberta's fossil fuels and would be happy to let Trump screw the country if that means keeping dirty tarsands' oil flowing south.
From keeping booze boycotts to withholding energy, premiers talk how to hit back at Trump | CBC News
As U.S. President Donald Trump takes another swing to Canada's economy, the country's premiers are musing about whether retaliatory measures are needed to, as Ontario's Doug Ford put it, "hit him back...
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See why Trump's melting down, irrationally and capriciously lashing out domestically and internationally, and desperately trying to rig the mid-term elections.
Democratic Socialists Outpoll MAGA Candidates Among Voters
Additional polling has revealed that most Americans back many of the basic tenets that democratic socialists promote.
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Still think that the media and journalists are neutral observers of "facts" and "figures"? Dream on.
Politico Owner Axel Springer Gives Prize to Far Right Billionaire Peter Thiel
The award ceremony is slated to include remarks from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
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How the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship in #Nicaragua has finally and completely decreed the hijacking of popular sovereighty. @versobooks.bsky.social @diario.red @elsaltodiario.com @elobservadorgt.bsky.social @thenation.com @noticiasnodal.bsky.social @truthout.org @commondreams.org.web.brid.gy
Ortega-Murillo and the hijacking of popular sovereignty in Nicaragua
Extensive Series - Political Conjuncture
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Doug Ford's "Protect Ontario" (sometimes called "Safer Ontario") ad campaign is a series of contentious, taxpayer-funded commercials promoting a guns + more jails approach to deeply-rooted, socially-driven problems. Meanwhile, those who really need security are totally forgotten or abandoned.
First Nations groups devastated by Canada’s wildfires say government did not help
Chiefs in Ontario say they were left to self-evacuate before homes burned to ground, after being told there was no imminent threat
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Ortega le ha puesto fin a la soberanía popular.
Ortega-Murillo y el secuestro de la soberanía popular
Serie Extensa - Coyuntura Política
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A full-out trade war with the US wouldn't be too bad. The popularity of the troglo running the WH has plunged so low already, he's lashing out both domestically (ICE) and internationally (Iran) in desperation. Seeing the writing on the wall, he's rigging the mid-terms. Another trade war..he's toast!
Rubio wants to now criminalize social antagonism itself and wants governments to deal with social protest in the same way that Fascists deal with their enemies: as threats against "civilization" itself. We must say NO!
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Rubio and the Criminalization of Social Antagonism In Marco Rubio's discourse on the supposed "resurgence of far-left political terrorism" (see https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokespers...
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Who was the 1st ever "leftwing globalist" in history? Very possibly Kant with his ideas of cosmopolitanism and universal hospitality. If he were in the US today, the Enlightenment would be banned, all the ideas that led to the American Revolution would be labeled "woke", Thomas Paine would be iced.
Conservatives around world at war against ‘leftwing globalists’, Bridget McKenzie tells CPAC London event
Nationals senator echoes comments by Pauline Hanson as Labor criticises One Nation leader’s divisive stance
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Why are we having such terrible #wildfires in #Canada? "Canada is warming much faster than the global average. The country is warming at twice the global rate, while the Canadian Arctic is warming at nearly four times the global rate, raising concerns around thawing permafrost in northern regions."
'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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Miliband, Starmer, Burnham. It's all musical chairs for the "soft left", i.e. the extreme centrist left within Labour and UK politics. Don't expect anything radically different from this cotton ball. It's all about attempting to quell the specter of a bigger rupture within Labour + losing gov.
Andy Burnham becomes Labour leader in final step towards becoming UK PM
Former Greater Manchester mayor says he is ready to beat the ‘new right’ and give power back to ‘the place where you live’
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And that's how the terrain is prepared for claims of election rigging and fraud when they know, for sure, they're going to lose bigly.
Trump makes unverified claims of China ‘election meddling’ as critics fear ploy to challenge midterm results
Opponents say president’s address about 2020 election loss is attempt to sow confusion ahead of midterms that could deliver big losses for Republicans
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