Julian Cola is a translator (Brazilian-Portuguese to English). A former staff writer at the pan-Latin American news outlet, teleSUR, his articles and essays also appear in Africa is a Country, Black Agenda Report, Truthout, Counterpunch and elsewhere.
teleSUR采访了Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz，Thandisizwe Chimurenga，Konrad Aderer，Ron Gochez和Ameena Qazi，以收集他们对美国假期的看法。
On the 4th of July, the United States – a nation in the midst of doing all it can to preserve its hegemony and waning global dominance – gears up to celebrate its independence from former empire Britain. Ambitions on such a day, even for a country whose political class routinely touts self-indulgent precepts of “exceptionalism,” run high.
军队对里约热内卢的干预已经进行了30天，而且情况显然已经恶化。军事行动集中在贫民窟，加剧了对贫穷的黑人人口的镇压。如此多的美丽生命丧命。
RIO DE JANEIRO (Interview) -- Brazil’s federal government, led by President Michel Temer, gave the green light for a military takeover of all police duties in the state of Rio de Janeiro on February 16. His justification for the move? The restoration of law and order. Criminal gangs and violence had, in his words, “virtually taken over,” and
An estimated 80 percent of Black-owned farmland in the south had disappeared since 1969.
“It was almost as if the earth was opening up and swallowing Black farmers.” This passage is from Pete Daniel's book titled “Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights.” It alludes to the untold acres of land seized from Black farmers and rural landowners over the last century. Though
