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Danger escalates for Indigenous aid workers in Amazonia
June 30, 2022Messages like the one transcribed in the title above are routine for FUNAI employees in the area where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed.
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U.S. gas monopolies get wish as Germany moves to nationalize Russian pipeline
June 29, 2022Unlike cheap Russian gas, U.S. natural gas is expensive to produce, given that it comes mostly from fracking and has to be turned into liquefied natural gas (LNG) and shipped across the ocean on massive tankers.
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Peace forces mobilize as NATO summit plans for war
June 28, 2022NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg says there’s “a new security reality.” That new reality includes a 750% increase in the size of the alliance’s standing military force.
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Philippines ruling class debates anti-communist ‘red tagging,’ raising repression fears
June 27, 2022Despite critical statements by officials in the current and incoming presidencies on red tagging, land defenders and activists have raised concerns about the possibility of greater state repression.
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Peter Lownds explains how and why he translated a recent Brazilian novel
June 27, 2022International Publishers has just released Never-Ending Youth, a recent novel by Northeast Brazilian writer Urariano Mota, in Peter Lownds’s translation.
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