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Supporters of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrate after he left the Federal Police Headquarters, where he was serving a sentence for corruption and money laundering, in Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil, on November 8, 2019. (Henry Milleo/AFP via Getty Images)

"An extraordinary day"

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
Glenn Greenwald and Augusto Nunes got into an altercation during a live broadcast (Jovem Pan News)

Glenn Greenwald attacked on live TV

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
(Ivan Pisarenko/AFP via Getty Images)

Defend farmers or protect corporations?

Karine Eliane Peschard - The Conversation
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is surrounded by reporters as she arrives to meet with her caucus the morning after declaring she will launch a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lessons from Latin America

Rachel E. Bowen - The Conversation
President Donald Trump holds a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2019 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Was Trump ready for prime time at U.N.?

Evelyn Leopold - Independent Media Institute
This satellite image provided by NASA on Aug. 13, 2019 shows several fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon forest. (NASA via AP)

The worst fires are likely still to come

Robert T. Walker - The Conversation
This satellite image provided by NASA on Aug. 13, 2019 shows several fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon forest. (NASA via AP)

From Trump's trade war to the Amazon

Cassie Freund - Massive Science
US singer Ariana Grande attends Billboard's 13th Annual Women In Music event at Pier 36 in New York City (ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images)

Celebrities are the new CNN

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A banana plantation in the village of San Jose, in the province Mindanao. Hundreds of families from the tribe of Manobo-Higaonon were displaced when their houses were demolished in July 2018 by local security men following a court order in favor of a businessman occupying 307 hectares of their ancestral domain. (Jeoffrey Maitem / Global Witness)

The toll of agribusiness

Greta Moran - Civil Eats
(Getty/Salon)

Back at work, killing the planet

Igor Derysh
(Getty/Salon)

New world disorder: Hong Kong to Amazon

Andrew O'Hehir
NEW YORK, NY - JULY 18: Mohammad Javad Zarif (R), the foreign minister of Iran, smiles as he arrives for a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at United Nations headquarters, July 18, 2019 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The G7 countries look feeble

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, French President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron (Getty/Evaristo Sa/Gerard Julien)

Brazil president insults Macron's wife

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Our "essential nation" is now a joke

Heather Digby Parton
Aerial view of the Transamazonica Road (BR-230) near Medicilandia, Para State, Brazil on March 13, 2019. - According to the NGO Imazon, deforestation in the Amazonia increased in a 54% in January, 2019 (Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images)

Deforestation in the Amazon, explained

Catesby Holmes - The Conversation
This satellite image provided by NASA on Aug. 13, 2019 shows several fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon forest. (NASA via AP)

Can we survive without rainforests?

Nicole Karlis
(Shutterstock / sima)

Mexico will go elsewhere for soybeans

Brad Reed - Raw Story
FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2011 file photo, signs are displayed at the Cargill plant in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File) (AP)

Is Cargill really ending deforestation?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Jair Bolsonaro (Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/agência Brasil/Wikimedia Commons)

Bolsonaro's approval rating is the worst

Helder Ferreira do Vale - The Conversation
FILE - This June, 28, 2012, file photo shows hogs at a farm in Buckhart, Ill. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File) (AP)

The U.S. pays meatpackers to foul river

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, center, leads the seventh anniversary celebration of the Bolivarian Militia, in front of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, April 17, 2017. Officially known as the Venezuelan National Bolivarian Militia, it is a branch of the National Armed Forces of Venezuela created by the late President Hugo Chavez. The anniversary celebration took place with unrest spreading in Venezuela as confrontations between opposition demonstrators and authorities continue. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) (AP)

Brazil and Venezuela clashed over issues

Robert Muggah, Adriana Abdenur - The Conversation
(Getty/PeopleImages)

40 years ago, I fled South America

Karen Keilt
(Getty/Natalie Ruffing)

Brazil’s urban scorpions

Hamilton Coimbra Carvalho - The Conversation
In this Oct. 11, 2016 photo, Lazimar Caliari pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with gallons of well water, in Colatina, Brazil. The 53-year-old musician is concerned about the quality of the water in the Doce River a year after a dam of mine waste broke, sending metal-laden mud into the Doce. "The mayor doesn't drink the water form the Doce River, so why should I have to drink it too?" asks Caliari. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) (AP)

Disaster capitalism in Brazil

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
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