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Private Forests, Public Flames: Portugal's Deadly Fire Cycle
How decades of forest policy turned private profit into public catastrophe.
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Dispatches from the now-now.
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COP30: Recycling the Rhetoric, Dumping the People
While world leaders rehearse speeches about saving the Amazon, Brazil is quietly preparing to bury its climate shame—literally—on top of quilombola communities. Welcome to COP30. Don’t forget your biodegradable lanyard.
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Racing Toward the Abyss: Climate Fiction or Contemporary Reality?
In Ignácio de Loyola Brandão’s "And Still the Earth," Brazil’s descent into environmental and social ruin was fiction in 1981. Now, it reads like an accelerated prophecy of the Anthropocene.
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Angola's Revolution Ate Its Own Kids and Now They're Pissed
How Africa's oil-rich liberation heroes became the villains of their own story.
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Love Kills: Why Brazil's women are safer on the streets than at home
How a country with progressive laws became a graveyard for women.
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Brazilian Karen Tries to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Democracy, Gets Arrested Instead
./run_coup.sh: permission denied
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Evangelism by Drone: The Covert War for the Amazon’s Indigenous Souls
Welcome to the future of evangelism: solar-powered Jesus phones and surveillance drones targeting the world's most isolated communities.
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Volkswagen: Built on Labor, Fueled by Denial
How a forgotten Amazon ranch reveals the machinery of corporate amnesia.
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Kafka in Porto: The Legal Worker Imprisoned for Being a Migrant
The case of Singh, a legally contracted immigrant detained in a police-run facility, exposes the dark absurdity of Portugal’s migration system.
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Beyond the Green Mirage: Climate Politics, Suffering, and the New Amazonian Order
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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The Glitter of Tradition, the Shadow of Cruelty: Bullfighting in Portugal
No tradition should survive just because it sparkles—especially when it leaves suffering in its wake.
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The Road to Nowhere: Revisiting Iracema – Uma Transa Amazônica in an Age of Climate Collapse
In 1974, the Amazon Was Sacrificed for Progress. In 2025, the Ritual Continues.