“Jair Rousseff”: Tone-deaf Folha and the pernicious myth of a broke Brazil
On Friday 21 August, Folha de S.Paulo, one of Brazil’s biggest and most influential newspapers, ran an editorial entitled “Jair Rousseff”. It provoked an …
Supreme Court: US-backed Judge Moro interfered in 2018 election to elect Bolsonaro
On a day of important victories for former President Lula at Brazil’s Supreme Court, it was concluded that disgraced “anti-corruption hero” and former Bolsonaro …
Britain and Brazil’s Dictatorship
By John McEvoy and Daniel Hunt Exclusive. Recently declassified documents reveal Britain’s enthusiastic support for Brazil’s 1964-85 dictatorship. Racist and colonial in tone, the files …
Western Media Rehabilitate Brazil’s Criminal Ex-Justice Minister for Presidential Run
By Lucas Koerner. This article originally appeared at FAIR. Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro resigned from his post in the far-right Bolsonaro government on …
Paralysis of the present: How Western media confines US imperialism to the past
Using Venezuela as an example, journalist John McEvoy explores the Western media tendency to ignore and erase US imperialism in the present day, only …
Sociopathic Neoliberalism Is Brazil’s Biggest Obstacle In Fight Against Pandemic
It is not just the Brazilian President and his followers’ flat-earthism that prevents Brazil overcoming the pandemic and the crisis it has generated. Sociopathic …