Dispatches from the now-now.
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REDD+, carbon credits, and the Anthropocene are reshaping the Amazon—but not in the ways glossy sustainability campaigns would have you believe. This is not about saving nature. It’s about surviving the collapse.
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No tradition should survive just because it sparkles—especially when it leaves suffering in its wake.
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In 1974, the Amazon Was Sacrificed for Progress. In 2025, the Ritual Continues.
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On Fortune, Fairness, and the Duty to Contribute.
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The mothers of Complexo do Alemão are building more than safe rooms. They’re building a new definition of public safety.
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Cloud colonialism is extracting data and labor from the Global South to power AI systems that enrich Silicon Valley—and the Portuguese-speaking world is ground zero.
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Big tech's billion-dollar land grab exploits climate disasters and bypasses communities in a textbook case of digital colonialism.
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No justice, no pride—why Lisbons EuroPride 2025 is under fire from within the queer community.
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The Radical Ecology of Dr. Walker
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Angola rolled out the red carpet for Congo’s warring sides. The rebels bailed, the bullets didn’t, and TikTok teens are quitting vapes in protest.