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About Juan Bordera

Juan Bordera is a journalist, screenwriter and activist.
  • CLIMA SUPERCOMPUTADO

    How the corporate interests and political elites watered down the world’s most important climate report

    Juan Bordera

    The IPCC scientist in Working Group III in charge of proposing a concrete mitigation plan, that is, to reduce emissions and seek viable solutions (technological, economic, and social) to the biggest crisis ever faced by humankind. The science has never been clearer: we must drastically reduce emissions to have a chance of maintaining the climate stability that allows us to live on this planet.

  • Satellite image showing smoke from Siberian forest fires reaching the North Pole August 3, 2021

    Leaked report of the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable

    Originally published: CTXT (Contexto y Acción) on August 22, 2021 (more by CTXT (Contexto y Acción))

    Another leak of the UN report warns that the only known way to avert climate breakdown is to avoid any model which is based on perpetual growth.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democratic Public Finance
    Juan Bordera

    Billy Saas and Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance” (DPF). According to this paradigm, money is public credit, a capacious tool for mobilizing everyone’s capacities to meet our needs and build a desirable future.

  • The Activist Humanist w/ Caroline Levine
    Juan Bordera

    We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (Princeton University Press, 2023). Building on the theory developed in her award-winning book, Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network, Levine’s The Activist […]

  • Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
    Juan Bordera

    Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution. According to DPF, money is public credit, a capacious tool for mobilizing everyone’s capacities to meet our needs and […]

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  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogol's play The Government Inspector, showing audience members in the foreground, and actors on stage in the background.

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

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    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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