Decentralized and internally diverse, the Global Justice Movement (GJM) is thought to be influenced by its use of the internet. Operating in an environment characterized by the conditions of globalization and late modernity, the movement strives to be a collective that accommodates individual difference. Focusing on the organizing process of the European Social Forum, this article examines the ...

The TRUTH of our existence has not been detected by science so far. Why does theoretical physics know nothing about the essence of space, matter, energy and time? How can we come to the true knowledge about our existence? Let us look at the reason of critical situation in contemporary theoretical physics and show how critical logical thinking and reasoning can open the door to the truth. I am s...

Indirect taxes on transportation activities that pollute can correct externalities and close the gaps between private and social costs. However, policy makers often find such Pigou taxes difficult to implement because of political resistance due to possibly adverse affects on equity. For this reason it is important to assess the distributional aspects of environmental levies. This article estim...

The concept of promotion of health is one of the main axes of current health policies in Brazil. The adoption of this concept implies a change in the care model involving valuing a greater autonomy of subjects to work improving their conditions of life. From this perspective, several elements of health practices have to be reviewed, sexuality among them. Thus, we aimed at producing sexuality co...

It has appeared that the currently dominant identifications of the ha-BI-ru as a social class of one sort or another are inadequate. They fail to discover a common denominator for all the ha-BI-ru (and the ha-BI-ru alone) that will satisfy all the known documents. The investigation must turn to other possibilities. Was ethnic unity the peculiar stamp of the ha-BI-ru? Was their hallmark the prac...