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EU Fast-Tracks 4 Lithium, Copper Projects in Portugal
(From European Commission website) For the first time, the European Commission has adopted a list of strategic projects to boost domestic...

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Apr 157 min read
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"Resist," Says Tribal Elder Leonard Peltier Freed After 49 Years
"Today I am finally free! They may have imprisoned me, but they never took my spirit! Thank you to all my supporters throughout the world...

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Apr 817 min read
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T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" ("A Terra Desolada")
A U.K. first edition, hand-set by Virginia Woolf for Hogarth Press, which she and her husband, Leonard, had created to publish her...

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Apr 21 min read
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Belize Mourns Garifuna Icon, Aurelio MartÃnez, The Last of the Three Kings
Aurelio: "I know I must continue the culture of my grandparents, of my ancestors, and find new ways to express it. Few people know about...

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Mar 237 min read
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"Playbook of Authoritarians" in Arrest of Columbia University Student, Half of House Democrats Accuse U.S.
As part of a national day of action on March 15, hundreds in Times Square, New York, demanded the release of pro-Palestinian student...

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Mar 185 min read
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"It's Cal Worthington and His Dog, Spot", on the Trump White House Lawn
To the tune of a catchy jingle, a blaring "Cal Worthington and his dog, Spot" would introduce the car dealer's zany late-night television...

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Mar 142 min read
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Provocative Portuguese Poet AdÃlia Lopes
"My poetry is an epic of a lesser life. It is not the discovery of a sea route to India. It is the path of the hallway in my house...

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Mar 89 min read
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In These Uncertain Times, Belize, CARICOM Deepening Ties With Allies
Front row center, from left to right: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of Germany (sky blue blazer); CARICOM Chair,...

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Feb 267 min read
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Spain's Ex-Football Boss Convicted of Sexual Assault Over World Cup Kiss
Luis Rubiales, the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting the footballer...

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Feb 204 min read
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How to Win Against Bullies: Maria Teresa Horta (1937-2025), The Last of Portugal's "Three Marias"
"The Three Marias" became an international cause célèbre. Maria Velho da Costa, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Isabel Barrreno co-wrote ...

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Feb 199 min read
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In U.S. Trump Chaos, Belizeans Offered Incentives to Return Home
U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, whose adoptive mother is Belizean, receives the keys of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, in Belize in 2016....

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Feb 127 min read
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Portugal: Injunction Suspends Savannah Lithium's Work
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations recognized the Barroso region as a Globally Important Agricultural...

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Feb 73 min read
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Unauthorized U.S. Immigrants: Dos and Don'ts
Red "Know Your Rights" cards have been distributed at Los Angeles Unified School District and throughout the country. They advise people...

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Feb 311 min read
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From "Burn, Baby, Burn" (Watts) to "Drill, Baby, Drill" (Trump)
The Watts Rebellion in 1965 (Photo from the Socialist Worker , August 11, 2015) It was an August evening so hot that you...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jan 278 min read
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Crisis of Imagination Will Deepen Under Musk
An integrated circuit is a set of electronic components and their interconnections. Pictured above is detail of part of a chip through...

@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
Jan 182 min read
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Atypical Santa Ana Winds Fan Catastrophic L.A. Fires
The fires are spreading and more are igniting in Los Angeles County. (From USA Today  and other publications on January 8) I first felt...

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Jan 93 min read
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Coimbra Show: Artist Daniela Guerreiro Reveals Women in Their Private Spaces
Daniela Guerreiro's Petunia (2023), oil on canvas At day's end, women, who share nothing else but their gender, arrive home. In their...

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Jan 73 min read
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A Black American Emigrant's Road to Portugal
The author in the Norman castle of Aci Castello, Catania, Sicily, in 1994 I am an immigrant. "This must be distinctly understood, or...

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Dec 31, 20248 min read
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Lisbon Police Action Shocks Ex-Parliament Head, Assures Prime Minister
The PSP police lined up dozens of people, who faced and held the wall with outstretched arms, unable to move for more than an hour while...

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Dec 21, 20247 min read
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Portugal's "Cante Alentejano" Voices Grow Stronger in 10 Years of UNESCO Tribute
No Alentejo eu trabalho, Cultivando a dura terra, Vou fumando o meu cigarro, Vou cumprindo o meu horário, Lancando a semente a terra; é...

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Dec 18, 20243 min read
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