Can You Buy America for $5 Million? Ask JBS, Inc.
By Jim Hightower Photos: Jim Hightower\YouTube Screenshots News flash: One of the president’s media handlers has inadvertently issued a political statement that’s actually true! She didn’t mean to.…
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Tamborism: Drum and Poetry
By Paulo Mileno Photos:Paulo Mileno Exu is an African God responsible for communication between the sky (Orún) and earth (Ayê). This red drum was of Red Hot Chili…
Brazilian Blacks Face Police Murder like Blacks in America
BBC: "Fourteen-year-old João Pedro Mattos Pinto was killed while playing with friends during a botched police operation in a favela in Rio de Janeiro." Photo: YouTube João Pedro…
Brazil’s Black Domestic Workers Fight for Change after Boy’s Death
Time: "On July 14 Pernambuco’s public prosecutor announced he was charging Corte with “abandonment of a vulnerable person resulting in death”—a crime punishable by 4 to 12 years…
Brazil: Bolsonaro Mismanaging COVID-19, Destroying Amazon Through Deforestation
CNN: "There is no telling how grim things might get for Brazilians left largely unprotected by their President, Jair Bolsonaro...the far-right populist sometimes known as 'Tropical Trump' also…
For Black Brazilians, Like African-Americans, COVID-19 is Deadly
The Conversation: "The Brazilian Health Ministry had already flagged high COVID-19 death rates among Afro-Brazilians, a category that includes people who identify as “Black” or “Brown” in the…
Donald Trump: A President Who Doesn’t Believe In Science on Covid-19 and Climate Change
Donald Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore For decades after WWII, the U.S. stood across the world as a mighty colossus. We were the richest and strongest nation, and our…
COVID-19, America, and Donald Trump: The Fire This Time
Donald Trump. Dangrous POTUS in era of pandemic. Photo: Gage Skidmore Here’s how James Baldwin put it in Down At The Cross in 1963, “Time catches up with…
SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA TRAVELS TO BRAZIL FOR 11TH BRICS SUMMIT
BRICS is an association of five major emerging countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - which together represent about 42% of the global population, 23%…
Climate Disasters Destroys All — Youth Shouldn’t Lay Blame on the World’s Older Generation
Photo source: European Environment Agency Who is responsible for environmental degradation, climate change and global warming? Between 1965 and 1971, I studied and graduated in geography, demography and…