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Lava Jato: Sergio Moro’s 7 Crimes of Judicial Bias

Update 23/6/21: Brazil’s Supreme Court has re-confirmed its March 2021 ruling that Sergio Moro acted with bias in his prosecution of Lula as part of the US-orchestrated Lava Jato investigation. by Brian Mier The Brazilian Supreme Court just released its March, 2021, 411 page ruling that reverses all Lava Jato related convictions against former President […]

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US Lawmakers Demand Answers on DOJ role in Lava Jato

By Brian Mier US involvement in Brazil’s fraudulent Lava Jato “anti-corruption” investigation has been a matter of public record for years, since the Department of Justice and SEC began levying billions of dollars of fines on companies in key sectors of the Workers Party’s national development strategy in the southern New York court district. Initially […]

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White House admits CIA involvement in “War on Corruption” which jailed Lula and elected Bolsonaro

In a White House ‘Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the Fight Against Corruption’, a Biden administration official admitted that the CIA and other parts of the U.S. intelligence apparatus were involved in assisting the “War on Corruption” which jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and elected Jair Bolsonaro. Read the […]

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South America’s ‘Business Friendly’ Bloodbath

International Business and Banking support for the most repressive regimes in Latin America is even more evident than it was during the original cold war. Now, Wall Streetʼs three main men in South America all face charges of crimes against humanity, even genocide, at the International Criminal Court.  Whilst the anglosphere regularly attacks governments of […]

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How The US Taught Judge Moro To “Take Down” Lula

How a US State Department official taught illegal tactics to Brazilian judges and prosecutors that went on to be used to remove Lula from the 2018 presidential race by Joaquim de Carvalho In November 2009, the Brazilian Federal Police Agents Association held its fourth congress in Fortaleza, Ceará, to discuss corruption, impunity and security at […]

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Brazil is ground-zero for the genocidal logic of U.S. vaccine diplomacy

Whilst the United States rushes to complete the vaccination of its own people, Brazil witnesses massive loss of life. Reduced to pawns in the latest geopolitical game of the new cold war, Brazilians have been viewed by the United States as expendable, to prevent growth of Russian and Chinese diplomatic influence in Latin America. U.S. […]

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With 400,000 Dead, Brazil Regulator Slammed For “Political” Veto Of Russian Vaccine

Brazilian states attempting to buy Russia’s Sputnik V, and its manufacturer, both denounce regulatory agency Anvisa’s “political decision” to block the vaccine’s importation to Brazil. On March 15th 2021 Brasil Wire revealed in an exclusive that the United States had pressured Brazil’s government to refuse offers of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, which was the […]

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James Green On The U.S. And Brazil’s 2022 Elections

U.S. historian James N. Green is a Professor of Modern Latin American History and Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University, Rhode Island, and National Co-Coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil. Author of four books on Brazil: Beyond Carnival, We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military, Exile Within […]

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Inspired by Trump, Bolsonaro is far worse

U.S. anthropologist Maxine L. Margolis looks at the similarities between the far right leaders Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, and how the Brazilian has gone beyond the chaos wrought by his North American idol. By Maxine L. Margolis “Disdain for women’s bodies and disdain for the earth are deeply connected. Both remind idiotic baby men […]

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Sérgio Moro Joins Secret US-Brazil Negotiations Over Amazon

Disgraced Lava Jato judge and former Bolsonaro Justice Minister Sérgio Moro’s presence at private bilateral US-Brazil meeting over the Amazon rainforest is cause for further concern. Holding no disclosed position with the US or Brazilian government, whose interests is he representing? Behind-closed-doors negotiations between the Joe Biden administration and the Bolsonaro regime are facing fierce […]