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Rondonization: World Bank, Dictatorship and the Amazon
The development philosophy behind the fires in the Amazon is based on the World Bank funded, Dictatorship era Polonoroeste project, which killed thousands and …
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Aiding and Abetting: Anglo Media and Lava Jato
Journalism, according to the American Press Institute, is “the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information”. In the case of Anglo …
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How to navigate Anglo media’s Amazon doublespeak
By Brian Mier I spent last week in the Brazilian Amazon in Porto Velho, Rondonia, on the edge of what is called the arco do …
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Amazon in flames: on the ground in Porto Velho
By Brian Mier I arrived in Porto Velho yesterday and could see plumes of smoke billowing in the distance as the plane descended into …
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11 Questions Congress is asking the DOJ about Lava Jato
As the Amazon burns, 13 progressive Democratic Members of Congress request clarification on the US Department of Justice’s role in Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to …
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US Congress members demand answers on DOJ/Lava Jato partnership
In letter signed by 13 members of Congress, US Attorney General is asked to “describe the full extent of DOJ’s engagement with Judge Sergio …
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The day the sky went out
On Monday afternoon a giant smoke cloud emanating from burning rainforest over 1000 kilometers away engulfed São Paulo in darkness. By Brian Mier On …
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Lula’s political imprisonment reaches 500 days
Everyone who cared about Democracy who was paying attention to what was happening in Brazil knew, from day one, that Lula’s arrest was a …
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Anti-austerity protests: Students and Unions paralyze 200 cities
3rd “Education Tsunami” shut down schools and traffic in the downtown areas of cities in all 26 Brazilian states, but was whitewashed in the …
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Dilma: Argentina election, “light at end of tunnel”
On Twitter, Dilma Rousseff, the former Brazilian President who was deposed in the 2016 Coup, called the electoral victory of the Alberto Fernández/Christina Kirchner …
