It is simply the most important geopolitical story of recent times. Documents leaked to the Intercept have led to the exposure of ostensible anti-corruption Operation Lava Jato (Carwash) as a means to rig Brazil’s 2018 election, and worse still, which was carried out in conjunction with the United States Government. And this is only the […]
By Bryan Pitts. Ever since the Obama administration’s silence in 2016 when Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was removed in a legally-spurious impeachment that constituted a congressional coup, the question of the role of the United States in that process has been the elephant in the room. Even a casual student of history knows that the […]
The Intercept’s revelation that the Operation Car Wash team sabotaged the 2018 presidential elections shows what everyone already knew but couldn’t prove concretely: that the Lula conviction was a gigantic legal farce. In any nation that was even minimally civilized the case against Lula, as well as a good part of Operation Car Wash in […]
In São Paulo, funk singer MC Reaça, who composed misogynistic jingles for Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign, attempts to beat pregnant girlfriend to death then kills himself. Cynara Menezes writes that, to Bolsonaro and his minions, MC Reaça represented an ideal image of masculinity. By Cynara Menezes Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had a masculine ideal of the […]
Far right President Jair Bolsonaro’s Education Minister Abraham Weintraub calls on population to snitch on teachers who took part in protests. After the massive demonstrations on May 15, when one million people took to the streets in Brazil to protest against the education budget cuts announced by the far-right Jair Bolsonaro administration, students and professors […]
Some media voices played off the calls for shutting down Congress and the Supreme Court as protests against old fashioned politics but the core of the demonstrations was antidemocratic. Under the excuse of fighting old fashioned politics and “corruption”, their goal was to abolish or starve all democratic institutions and establish a police state. by […]
Sunday 26th May saw demonstrations in 52 cities around Brazil, in support of the beleaguered Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro. After five months his is now considered the worst start for any President of the modern era, with record public disapproval at this early stage. Having run on a platform sold as market friendly, investor confidence […]
US linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, political activist, and social critic, Noam Chomsky, has recently spoken out on the role of tech giants Google and Facebook in the manipulation of democratic elections, drawing parallels between recent outcomes in Germany and in Brazil. Chomsky described the patterns of manipulation and fraud around Brazil’s 2018 election, in particular the use […]
How could a president elected by more than 50 million votes be so incapable of running a country? Simply because the only goal of the right in last year’s elections was to block PT from returning to power. By Emir Sader* As quickly as it set up the monstrous fraud operation that delivered the Brazilian […]
On March 15 2019, a nationwide education strike became the platform for the biggest anti-government protests since Bolsonaro took power. With over 1 million demonstrators on the streets nationwide (some estimating up to 2 million), it was the coming together of unions, professors, teachers, students, campaign groups, political parties and other diverse factions – the […]