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Eduardo Bolsonaro, Caligula and the Brazilian embassy

Roman emperor Caligula once appointed his horse to the Roman Senate but Jair Bolsonaro’s nomination of his son as Ambassador to the US has a potential to cause more damage.  In “The Life of the Twelve Caesars” the Roman historian Suetonius says that Emperor Caligula, known for his balance and temperance, had a deep, paternal […]

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Sergio Moro: imperialist pawn of the DOJ

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 […]

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After the protests – It’s time to isolate fascism

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 […]

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Bolsonaro, Trump and trance diplomacy

Bolsonaro arrives in Washington with Brazilian diplomacy in a political, administrative and mystical trance. By Marcelo Zero One can best understand Ernesto Araujo – our vibrant, pre-Enlightenment Foreign Relations Minister – as a spiritual being who is detached from materialism. He recently said, for example, that Brazil should not betray its soul and its values […]

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SOUTHCOM: Bolsonaro barks for his master

Admiral Craig Faller announces an unprecedented joint military operation with Brazil to the US Senate Armed Services Committee. What does it mean for national sovereignty? By Marcelo Zero Brazil’s participation in US SOUTHCOM is part of a broader process that began with the coup of 2016. The aggression against our sovereignty is much more serious […]

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Bolsonaro will not step down from his soapbox

Do not expect rationality and political pragmatism from a government based on Christian fundamentalism and neofascism. Do not expect democratic governability and republicanism from those who promise to exterminate their opponents. by Marcelo Zero It is touching to see the anxious expectation with which the press and certain political sectors expect some conciliatory, republican gesture […]

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Bolsonaro, foreign meddling and the destruction of Brazilian democracy

After the coup, Brazil took a favorable position towards North American geopolitical interests  and transformed itself, once again, into a geopolitical satellite of the USA. by Marcelo Zero The fall of egalitarian and sovereign Brazilian democracy At the moment that I write this article (October 2018), Brazil is about to elect Jair Bolsonaro as President […]

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Round Two: How To Beat Bolsonaro

History will not not forgive the cowards and the fence sitters. by Marcelo Zero The results of the first round, although shocking to some due to the last minute surge of the fascist candidates, is not that surprising if we take some basic factors into consideration: 1) The main candidate became a political prisoner and was barred […]

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The CIA finger in Brasil’s Elections

by Marcelo Zero. The growth of Bolsonarian fascism in the final stretch of the election campaign, turbo charged by an avalanche of fake news disseminated on the internet, is not surprising. It is an old tactic developed by American and British intelligence agencies, with the goal of manipulating public opinion and influencing political processes and […]