Climate Crisis
Carbon Brief – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
A breakdown of what was actually agreed at Cop 30: Not an impressive list at all. Read the article HERE.
Brazil
Fake News
Brian Mier – Inside Brazil’s X Ban: How Elon Musk Started – and lost – a Fight With Brazil’s Judiciary
Elon Musk’s battle with the Brazilian judiciary appears to have less to do with free speech than it does corporate power. Brian Mier is a native Chicagoan who has lived in Brazil for 25 years. […]
Inequality
Sam Pizzigati – A Practical Prescription for Taxing Our World’s Richest
Brazil appears to be genuinely interested in a global billionaire tax, but it won’t work unless the global north – where most billionaires are – come on board. Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for the […]
Climate Crisis
Jake Spring: Rainforest countries form pact to demand conservation cash from rich nations
‘A dozen rainforest countries formed a pact on Wednesday at a summit in Brazil to demand developed countries pay to help poorer nations combat climate change and preserve biodiversity.’ In Yahoo News. Read the article […]
Uncategorized
Julia Felmanas: Lula is Challenging Western Dominance
Lula da Silva used his state visit to Britain to champion the interests of the Global South, urge diplomacy over militarism and condemn the persecution of Julian Assange – a sign of Brazil’s new role […]
Uncategorized
Rafael R. Ioris – Democracy under attack in Brazil: 5 questions about the storming of Congress and the role of the military
Some of the fundamentals about the storming of the Brazilian Congress by the far-right on 8 January explained. Cross-posted from The Conversation UK Who was behind the storming of the Brazilian Congress? What we saw […]
Environment
Benny Wanda, Jean Wyllys, Julie Wark – Manifesto For a Rainforest Defenders International
The ‘Green state vision’ for West Papua could be the basis for a real rainforest international, based not on states and corporations but on peoples Cross-posted from Counterpunch Why a manifesto? In the terrible state […]
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Vijay Prashad: The most important elections in the Americas is in Brazil
Brazil’s 2 October election will have ramifications across the globe This article was produced by Globetrotter Former Brazilian President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) runs about on stage at the Latin America […]