Saturday, 11 January , 2025

Brazil

Brazil’s Reckless COVID Response Threatens Indigenous Survival

May 26, 2020 As Brazil sees more than 800 deaths in 24 hours and nearly 400,000 confirmed cases, we look at COVID-19’s devastating impact on...

The human toll of COVID-19 in Brazil

The corona crisis has also brought to the forefront the crisis in Brazil’s healthcare system. The Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS -, Brazil’s...

Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher

New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned...

Magic and Voodoo Versus Science and Medicine

By Wayne Madsen May 20, 2020 © Photo: Reuters/Bing Guan Across the globe, as scientists and doctors are working a breakneck speed to develop safe vaccines and...

Why has Brazil been so badly hit by coronavirus? – video...

By Tom Phillips, Maheen Sadiq and Nikhita Chulani, 22 May 2020  The spread of coronavirus has been catastrophic in Brazil, with the country now ranking...

The rise of Asia and the polarisation of Global Forces: Western...

(Read Part I) G7 and E7, OLDEFOS and NEFOS Those forecasts reveal interesting points, at least two for the purpose of this essay: 1) The grouping of...

The rise of Asia and the polarisation of Global Forces: Western...

A sketch of ideas for a global future PART 1 “That Asia has ‘risen' in the world economy since at least 1960, and especially since 2000,...

Deadly US policy on Covid-19 will split the world in two...

By John Ross 12 May, 2020 The Donald Trump administration’s failure to take the coronavirus seriously won’t only cause thousands of unnecessary deaths, it could change...

Israel’s dance with far-right movements across the world

The current far-right agenda has more to do with Islamophobia than anti-Semitism, but both sentiments are on the rise across the West. So why...

Zapatero, Correa, Rousseff and Samper ask for debt forgiveness in Latin...

The letter also has the support of the Vice President of Bolivia, Álvaro García Linera; the former Argentine minister, Jorge Taiana; the Brazilian Celso...