Temas de relações internacionais, de política externa e de diplomacia brasileira, com ênfase em políticas econômicas, em viagens, livros e cultura em geral. Um quilombo de resistência intelectual em defesa da racionalidade, da inteligência e das liberdades democráticas.
O que é este blog?
Este blog trata basicamente de ideias, se possível inteligentes, para pessoas inteligentes. Ele também se ocupa de ideias aplicadas à política, em especial à política econômica. Ele constitui uma tentativa de manter um pensamento crítico e independente sobre livros, sobre questões culturais em geral, focando numa discussão bem informada sobre temas de relações internacionais e de política externa do Brasil. Para meus livros e ensaios ver o website: www.pralmeida.org. Para a maior parte de meus textos, ver minha página na plataforma Academia.edu, link: https://itamaraty.academia.edu/PauloRobertodeAlmeida.
sexta-feira, 4 de abril de 2014
1964: como a imprensa brasileira refletiu a crise que levou a queda de Goulart e o comeco do novo regime
Venezuela: mais um motivo para sentir vergonha pelo pais
quinta-feira, 3 de abril de 2014
Will Durant and his last book: a synthesis; only in December 2014...
Will Durant’s Lost Final Book to Be Published
JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
The New York Times, April 3, 2014
And now, in December, 33 years after the Durants died within weeks of each other in 1981, Simon & Schuster will be bringing out Will Durant’s lost final book, “Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War and God.”
Durant mentioned it several times in interviews in the 1970s, once calling it “a not very serious book which answers the questions of what I think about government, life, death, God.” But the whereabouts of the manuscript were unknown before it was found in a box in his granddaughter’s attic last year.
In their heyday the Durants, who were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1968 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, won praise for their sweeping, highly readable distillation of 110 centuries of human thought and endeavor, even as some academic historians dismissed them as presenting a simplified, overly sunny great-man view.
“The Story of Civilization” remains in print only in e-book form. But Thomas LeBien, a vice president and senior editor who acquired the book for Simon & Schuster, said in an interview that “Fallen Leaves” offered the same pleasures he recalled from dipping into those volumes as a child. “Durant remains relevant precisely because history as a guide to past and present remains as relevant as ever,” he said.
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Book Description
From 1968 to 1978, Will Durant made four public allusions to the existence of Fallen Leaves. One, in 1975, hinted at its contents: “a not very serious book that answers the questions of what I think about government, life, death, and God.” And in 1975: “I propose…to answer all the important questions, simply, fairly, and imperfectly.” Even into his nineties, he worked on the book daily, writing it out on legal notepads. On his death in 1981, no one, not even the Durant heirs, knew if he had completed it, or even if it still existed. Thirty-two years later, in a granddaughter’s attic trunk, the manuscript was discovered.
Fallen Leaves is Will Durant’s most personal book. It is precisely as he described: twenty-two short chapters on everything from youth and old age, religion and morals, to sex, war, politics, and art. The culmination of Will Durant’s sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of a gifted scholar with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. In its preface Durant mentions that over the course of his career he received letters from “curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate.” With Fallen Leaves he accepted their challenge. It contains strong opinions, elegant prose, and deep insights into the human condition as only Will Durant could provide, as well as his revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species.
Venezuela-Brasil: existem os que denunciam, e os que apoiam ditaduras...
Venezuela protestas
Machado recibe apoyo de oposición brasileña y críticas de la base de Rousseff
Brasilia, 3 de abril de 2014
- La dirigente opositora pidió a Brasil que "no cierre los ojos" frente a la "represión que el pueblo venezolano" sufre "en las calles" y denunció la "ilegalidad" que supuso su destitución como diputada, refrendada esta semana por la Corte Suprema venezolana.
- Grazziotin inquirió a Machado sobre su negativa a participar en conferencias de paz convocadas por Maduro y aseguró que el objetivo de una protesta "no puede ser nunca" derrocar a un Gobierno electo en las urnas.
03 Apr 2014 05:20 AM PDT
Publicado em 02/04/2014
Visite: www.canalntn24.com
La opositora venezolana María Corina Machado, destituida recientemente de su cargo de diputada, pidió el miércoles en el Senado de Brasil una mayor implicación y apoyo de los "demócratas" de América Latina ante las protestas que ya han dejado 39 muertos en Venezuela.
"¿Cuántas más violaciones a los derechos humanos, cuántos más venezolanos asesinados, perseguidos, torturados, qué más tiene que pasar en Venezuela para que los demócratas del hemisferio escuchen nuestra voz?", cuestionó Machado en una audiencia en la comisión de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado.
Es "incomprensible que países que fueron tan activos en crisis políticas planteadas en Paraguay y Honduras, frente a lo ocurrido en Venezuela nos dan la espalda", dijo Machado en una alusión tácita a Brasil y otras naciones.
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Itamaraty: concluidos os dialogos sobre politica externa para compor Livro Branco
Itamaraty conclui debates que vão compor o Livro Branco da Política Externa
, 2/04/2014
Portal das Eleicoes Brasil 2014 - Brazil Institute, Wilson Center
Brazil and the World: Strategy and Foreign Policy - City College of New York (April 25, 2014, 4PM )
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O regime militar e o Brasil: resposta a Frank D. McCann - Jorge Alberto Forrer Garcia
Recebo agora do historiador militar Jorge Alberto Forrer Garcia os comentários abaixo que se referem a trechos, afirmações, argumentos, do dito historiador, especialmente na parte final de sua entrevista.
Quem desejar ler primeiro a entrevista, siga este link:
http://diplomatizzando.blogspot.com/2014/04/frank-d-mccann-tentando-entender-os.html
Mas, recomendo a leitura atenta, e a reflexão sobre as palavras que vão abaixo transcritas.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
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