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Caio
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Historian (the Cold War, Latin America, and Brazil)
Former Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).
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We published our "Top 40" declassified documents to celebrate 40 years of the National Security Archive! (Click below to read them.) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
“Heroic Excavators of Government Secrets”
Washington, D.C., December 10, 2025 - Almost 40 years ago, as White House aide Lt. Col. Oliver North was secretly running the Reagan administration’s Iran-Contra operations, he became concerned about ...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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nsarchive.bsky.social
Here's one that made the cut: Secretary of State Kissinger giving a "green light" to the "dirty war" abuses in Argentina: "[O]ur basic attitude is that we would like you to succeed...The quicker you succeed the better.”
A memcon quotes Kissinger.
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Well...
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Save 30% on #NewBook "The Invention of Order," in which Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its lasting impact on modern structures of knowledge, power, race, and gender. #LatinAmStudies #PostcolonialTheory buff.ly/G60iAfG
Cover of The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space by Don Thomas Deere. The central image is a sculpture composed of irregular, interlocking dark wooden panels, some inscribed with words such as “FORTIA,” “ABSTRACTO,” and “CONCRETO.” The book title is superimposed in white serif type across the lower panels of the sculpture.
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
fbcaio.bsky.social
Unfortunately, another one.
December 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
fbcaio.bsky.social
While the politics of memory are advancing in Angola, Brazil still has very few museums dedicated to the theme of the Atlantic slave trade.
www.cnn.com/travel/angol...
Angola’s slavery museum confronts the darkest horrors of the trade — and honors those who fought back | CNN
Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens archives that may reconnect families across continents.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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camarotedacpi.bsky.social
🗳 COMO VOTOU A CÂMARA

PCdoB, Rede e PSOL são os únicos partidos votando 100% contra a Anistia da Madrugada; PT e PV tiveram ausências.

PDT e PSB tiveram 1 voto a favor cada.

Novo e PRD votaram 100% a favor da anistia para os golpistas.
O gráfico mostra o percentual de deputados de cada partido que votaram "Sim" (verde) ou "Não" (vermelho) ao PL 2162/23, que reduz penas para envolvidos nos atos golpistas de 8 de Janeiro, incluindo generais e Jair Bolsonaro. Partidos com maior apoio (verde) ao projeto: Novo e PRD: 100% votaram Sim. PL: 88% Sim. Podemos: 82% Sim. União Brasil e Solidariedade: 80% Sim. Progressistas: 78% Sim. PSDB: 77% Sim. Cidadania e Avante: 75% Sim. Republicanos: 71% Sim. MDB: 60% Sim. PSD: 51% Sim. Partidos com maior rejeição (vermelho) ao projeto: PCdoB, PSOL e Rede: 100% votaram Não. PT: 97% Não. PV: 75% Não. PDT: 81% Não. PSB: 75% Não.
December 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
fbcaio.bsky.social
Brazil: The attempt by the president of Congress and Bolsonaro's supporters to grant amnesty to the coup plotters of January 8th is absurd. Enough of impunity.
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Honduras president alleges ‘electoral coup’ under way amid Trump ‘interference’

Xiomara Castro alleges US manipulation and blackmail as preliminary count shows two rightwing candidates closely tied

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Honduras president alleges ‘electoral coup’ under way amid Trump ‘interference’
Xiomara Castro alleges US manipulation and blackmail as preliminary count shows two rightwing candidates closely tied
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December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Transcript of @danieldenvir.bsky.social’s interview with Brazilian finance minister/philosopher/dialectician, Fernando Haddad.

www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/b...
Brazil and the World System
An interview with Brazil's Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad
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December 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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#CfP Call for Papers

Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick:

Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today

Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026

Submit to [email protected]
Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today We invite papers for a workshop entitled “Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History Today”, to be held at the University of Warwick on 26-27 June 2026. This workshop will seek to bring together historians of labour to collectively reflect on a large historiographical shift that has taken place over the last two decades, from the social history of labour (in national contexts) to global and trans-national labour history. The social history of labour “from below” is a tradition initiated by E.P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963), and extended over several decades by a robust tradition of politically engaged left-wing historical studies of the working classes: a tradition most powerfully entrenched in British historiography (but with many imprints elsewhere, ranging from the United States to Brazil to South Africa to India). The global history of labour, which revised and questioned many of the features of “Thompsonian” history-writing, has sought to overcome “methodological nationalism” in the writing of labour history, to investigate specific labour histories within a global frame, and to enable trans-national histories of workers and work. It has emerged as an increasingly dominant frame of reference for contemporary studies of labour around the world. This workshop seeks to place these two historiographical traditions in conversation with each other, to examine the stakes of the passage from the older, “Thompsonian” tradition to the “global turn”, and to think about the changed meanings of “doing labour history” today. Participants are urged to explicitly reflect on the methodological and conceptual issues at stake in the practice of labour history. We would like to invite submissions that address (but are not necessarily limited to) the following themes: 1. To what extent has the global labour history tradition that has flourished over the last 20 years drawn upon or rejected the methodological and conceptual approaches of Thompsonian social/labour history? What other methodologies and concepts have been deployed and proven fruitful? 2. How do we address the burgeoning critique of Thompsonian social/labour history as parochial and Anglocentric (Bressey, 2015; Satia, 2020), and how have historians responded to this challenge and reshaped British labour history accordingly? What can historians of British labour learn from broader global trajectories of workforce formation and labour movements? 3. How might integrating histories of consumption, environment, and reproduction enrich our understanding of labour and its global entanglements? 4. In what ways can collaboration between historians of Britain and the global south generate new analytical frameworks or unsettle established narratives of class, race, and empire? 5. What kinds of politically-engaged global social and labour history can best respond to the contemporary challenges of rising global inequality and the appropriation of class politics by some sections of the populist right? 6. The legitimacy of 'radical' forms of labour-history writing initially arose from politics, from the apparently established centrality of the industrial working class both in society and in projects of social emancipation. That centrality has now been in precipitous decline for a long time. In this context, how might we think about what the ‘politics of doing labour history’ actually implies today? 7. What has been gained and what has been lost in the shift from a labour history dominated by “history from below” to one dominated by global history? Please send abstracts to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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cedricdurand.bsky.social
Reply to @evgenymorozov.bsky.social:"Far from “capitalism doing what capitalism does best,” in the era of late capitalism competitive dynamics bring a systemic mutation marked by extreme centralisation, pivoting on the forces of knowledge."
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social
Where is Digital Technology Taking Us?
In its August 2025 issue, Le Monde Diplomatique published an article by Evgeny Morozov offering a scathing critique of the concept of “techno-feudalism”, as proposed by economist Cédric Durand. This c...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Today is the 4 year anniversary of our first union victory! Since then, we've won over 650 union elections.

It's been 4 years without a contract, and 4 years of union busting. That's why we're on day 26 of our national ULP strike - and we won't back down.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/b...
Starbucks workers are still without a labor deal four years after their first union win. Here’s why | CNN Business
The Starbucks union organizing campaign has been one of the biggest successes in the American labor movement over the past few years. But despite momentum, there is still no first labor contract, a ke...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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jhideas.bsky.social
In a new piece for the JHI Forum on political economy, Lotte Liste critically situates Reinhart Koselleck's concept of the Sattelzeit with Adam Smith's philosophy of history. @lottelist.bsky.social
Economy and History in the Sattelzeit: On Adam Smith’s Alleged Sobriety
by Lotte List This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
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December 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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trevondlogan.bsky.social
Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The most violent U.S. regions — Appalachia, the Deep South and the old frontier states — are still deeply marked by a Wild West, stand-your-ground ethos, says a new study co-authored at UC Berkeley. news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/02/w...
When Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them - Berkeley News
The most violent U.S. regions — Appalachia, the Deep South and the old frontier states — are still deeply marked by a Wild West, stand-your-ground ethos, says a new study co-authored at UC Berkeley.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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What has the Roman military ever done for Britain and for cats? 🐱 Well, a lot, it seems. Romans roads are excellent routes for carrying soldiers, disease, ideas, and felines.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Roman military helped bring cats to Europe
Military roads helped the felines domesticate about 2,000 years ago.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Love seeing decolonial frameworks applied to Punic & Roman antiquity. In this new OA article by Mauro Puddu & Peter van Dommelen, they examine Sardinia from the 5thC BCE- 5thC CE, applying Antonio Gramsci’s subalternity theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... & pleiades.stoa.org/places/981548
Contact Help Personal tools Log in Skip to content. | Skip to navigation Pleiades Navigation HomePlacesCreditsParticipateBlogDocumentationDownloads Search Advanced Search… Linked Data ? Wikidata Corsica and Sardinia JSON version Photos This place has no portrait photo. One from the list of related photos could be suggested for the Pleiades Places group on Flickr. 0 other related photos... Use this tag in Flickr to mark depictions of this place's site(s): pleiades:depicts=981548 or this one to mark objects found here: pleiades:findspot=981548 You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Sardinia et Corsica (Roman province) Skip to content. | Skip to navigation Sardinia et Corsica (Roman province) a Pleiades place resource Creators: J.J. Wilkes, S.T. Parker, R.S. Bagnall, W.V. Harris, A.S. Esmonde-Cleary, C.M. Wells, J.F. Drinkwater, R.C. Knapp, S. Mitchell Contributors: Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Mary E. Downs, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by). Last modified Oct 26, 2024 08:51 PM — History The province of Sardinia et Corsica was the second Roman province and came under Roman control after the First Punic War. 50 km No location accuracy information available Show place in Google Earth. Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap. Canonical URI for this page: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/981548 Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude): 39.214886, 9.109522 Locations: None Names: Geographic Names: Sardinia et Corsica (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300) Sardinia et Corsica (Latin, modern) Sardinia et Corsica (Roman province) makes connections with: None Sardinia et Corsica (Roman province) receives connections from: Caralis capital of Sardinia et Corsica (Roman province) (330 BC - AD 300) Corsica/Kyrnos (island) part of (administrative) Sardinia et Corsica (Roman province) (unspecified date range) Sardinia…
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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What is the “right” age to get your child a smartphone? New study findings strengthen the case for holding off.
Having a Cellphone at Younger Than 12 Could Carry Health Risks, Study Says
Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep and obesity among tweens who had early access to a cellphone.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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🪦🗺 #20N INTERACTIVO | Un cento de fosas comúns: o mapa do terror franquista en Galicia

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November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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neatoday.bsky.social
Twenty-six states have implemented law or policies in place to limit cellphone use in K–12 classrooms. While many of these changes are still new and long-term outcomes will take time to measure, early signs point to more focused classrooms and stronger learning environments for students.
Do School Cellphone Bans Work? This Teacher Says Yes. | NEA
“Was it this easy the whole time?” Teacher Jonathan Buchwalter goes viral on TikTok talking about the positive impact of a cellphone-free classroom.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Vômito de dinossauro revela nova espécie de pterossauro do Brasil
Nomeado boca-de-pente, em homenagem aos povos Kariri, o réptil voador é a primeira espécie de organismo fóssil descrita a partir de restos encontrados em um regurgito fossilizado
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November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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The fact that Jimmy Carter was so often framed as a human rights hero is pretty wild given how much blood of tortured Salvadorean activists he was directly responsible for. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Jimmy Carter's Dark Legacy in El Salvador
Carter’s administration rejected Saint Óscar Romero’s pleas not to provide military aid to the Salvadoran junta before he was assassinated.
www.rollingstone.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM