Sperm Whales Have Culture Too: Strong Evidence That Clans, Culture, and Dialects Are Not Unique to Humans
By Hal Whitehead Author Bio: Hal Whitehead has been studying sperm whales for 40 years, tracking their groups at sea from a 40-foot sailing boat and trying to understand their social and cultural lives. He is a professor at Dalhousie University…
Wildfires aren’t just a threat to people—they’re killing off Earth’s biodiversity
Cataclysmic wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency due to climate change.
A criminal attack on democracy: Why Brazil’s fascists should not get amnesty
By Gabriel Rocha Gaspar Source: Globetrotter From all the excited cries echoing from the red tide that took over Brasília during Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s (known as Lula) inauguration as the Brazilian President on January 1, 2023, the most…
The Brazilian hard right are already a political cliché
By Vijay Prashad Source: Globetrotter On January 8, 2023, large crowds of people—dressed in colors of the Brazilian flag—descended on the country’s capital, Brasília. They invaded the federal building and Supreme Court and vandalized public property. This attack by the…
Could China help Brazil to overcome its economic crisis?
By Marco Fernandes Author Bio: This article was produced by Globetrotter. Marco Fernandes is a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the co-editor of Dongsheng. He is a member of the No Cold War collective. He lives…
The wide role Brazil’s military has played in the destruction of the Amazon
By Pedro Marin / Globetrotter In the Brazilian Amazon, as deforestation reaches record levels and rivers are increasingly polluted, the illegal gold mining contributing to these problems continues largely unabated. The response of the government has been to increase military action to curb environmental crimes…
Why U.S. political scientists are arguing that Evo Morales should be the President of Bolivia
By Vijay Prashad and Manuel Bertoldi / Independent Media Institute Three political scientists from the United States closely studied allegations of fraud in the Bolivian election of 2019 and found that there was no fraud. These scholars—from the University of Pennsylvania and…
