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.
domingo, 21 de julho de 2013
Martin Wolf: austerity failed! Ah bom: o desperdicio e a gastanca seriam a solucao?
Bolivia parte em guerra contra a Alianca do Pacifico, por enquantoverbal...
Bolivia acusó a la Alianza del Pacífico de militarizar la región
Clarín (Argentina), 19/07/2013, AFP Y EFE
Brasil: una vision lusitana, imperial - Sergio Abreu (ex-chanceleruruguaio)
"Paraguay debe encarar una negociación firme a favor del derecho y la estabilidad"
Por Adrián Cattivelli
Ultima Hora (Paraguai), 19/07/2013
Mercosur: to be or not to be: drama hamletiano no Paraguai (sobrandopara o Brasil)
Fuertes críticas al Mercosur y al Brasil en panel debate
Brasil-Argentina: rusgas comerciais, desentendimentos presidenciais(Noticias Argentinas)
Tensión Argentina-Brasil: El mal momento de Dilma y Cristina en Montevideo
A espia que veio do frio: Christine Granville, alias Willing (book review)
By BEN MACINTYRE
Ainda o caso dos avioes violados pela Bolivia (que alguns pretendiammanter secreto)
Reclamo desprestigiado
Los Tiempos (Bolívia), 19/07/2013
O caso bizarro dos 100.000 reais do deputado que passeavam soltos por ai...
Câmara dos Deputados
Alves diz que R$ 100 mil roubados eram dele e que assunto é “privado”
Presidente da Câmara afirma que valor roubado de um de seus assessores seria usado para pagar parcela de apartamento comprado de outro deputado
Czeslaw Milosz e a mente cativa da Polonia socialista: uma selecao da NYRBooks
Czesław Miłosz: Intelligence and Ecstasy
Poet Power
NOVEMBER 7, 1968
My belief is that poets should not add to the general confusion by using words in an irresponsible way. A joke should not be presented as a credo. Because of my European background I consider a search for salvation through racial myths, tribal structures, high natural herbs etc. dangerous nonsense.The Nobel Lecture
MARCH 5, 1981
Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.Preparation
SEPTEMBER 26, 1985
Still one more year of preparationTomorrow at the latest I’ll start working on a great book
In which my century will appear as it really was.
The sun will rise over the righteous and the wicked.
Springs and autumns will unerringly return,
In a wet thicket a thrush will build his nest lined with clay
And foxes will learn their foxy natures.
An Interview with Czesław Miłosz
FEBRUARY 27, 1986
Do we have a truthful way of thinking, of judging good or evil in the West?Miłosz: Yes, but under the condition that intellectuals and writers do not insist on forcing nihilism in their descriptions of the world as the only valid image from the point of view of the literary establishment. Of course, every period has its fashions. To break away from fads is extremely difficult. Nihilistic presentation of the world is a fad today.
Tireless Messenger
Helen VendlerAUGUST 13, 1992
Miłosz’s genius is for the very small and the very large—the intensely sensual detail and the bleak interstellar spaces. His eye, at once microscopic and telescopic, has almost no middle range; it is this peculiar cast of vision that identifies a poem as his. It causes the fundamental contrast in his poetry between the tenderness of an eerily precise recollection and the wintriness of philosophical irony. When you read him, it becomes impossible to live in any comfortable middle distance yourself.An Honest Description of Myself with a Glass of Whiskey at An Airport, Let Us Say, in Minneapolis
DECEMBER 20, 2001
My ears catch less and less of conversations, and my eyes have weakened, though they are still insatiable.Captive Minds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
Tony JudtOne hundred years after his birth, fifty-seven years after the publication of his seminal essay, Miłosz’s indictment of the servile intellectual rings truer than ever: “his chief characteristic is his fear of thinking for himself.”