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DEMOCRACY EDITORIAL FOREIGN POLICY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA LAWFARE MEDIA UNITED STATES

Collapsing Narrative – The Week The World Noticed Brasil’s Coup

A momentous week in Brasil was also one where the dominant international narrative shifted from widespread depiction of a “Heroic Impartial Anti-Corruption Campaign” (If you question the method you’re defending thieves) & “Spontaneous, Popular, Patriotic Anti-Government Uprising” (If you question mass media incitement & foreign funding you’re denying agency) to one which described that what […]

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DEMOCRACY FOREIGN POLICY MEDIA Português

O Colapso Da Narrativa – A Semana Em Que O Mundo Percebeu O Golpe

A última semana foi crucial na cobertura da imprensa internacional sobre a crise política no Brasil. O discurso sobre a “heroica e imparcial campanha contra a corrupção” (afinal de contas, questionar o combate à corrupção é defender ladrões) e em “manifestações espontâneas, populares e patrióticas contra o governo” (falar na convocação feita pela mídia dominante […]

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DEMOCRACY EDITORIAL FOREIGN POLICY LAVA JATO LAWFARE POLITICS UNDERSTANDING BRASIL UNITED STATES

Brasil’s Black Wednesday

The situation in Brasil at the time of publication is extremely complicated & fluid but to better understand it, it needs to be broken down into its related component parts. This article will be updated with significant developments. 1. Elections At the core of this unrest is that the losing side never properly accepted defeat at […]

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DEMOCRACY EDITORIAL OPINION

13/3 Protest: Much, much, more of the same

At the March 13 Anti-Government protest, PSDB Opposition Politicians, São Paulo State Governor Geraldo Alckmin & defeated 2014 Presidential Candidate Aécio Neves, can surely only have expected a heroes welcome on Avenida Paulista. Their actually hostile reception from some demonstrators is a sign that the popular anti-corruption movement their side helped create & sought to […]

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DEMOCRACY ECONOMY FOREIGN POLICY LAWFARE PETROBRAS RESOURCES UNITED STATES

Leaks: The United States and Brasil’s Oil

In mid-2013, just before large street demonstrations rattled São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities, news broke of Edward Snowden’s leak of secret internal documents from the NSA, GCHQ and allied FVEY surveillance services. Early observers in Brazil paid particular attention to a map which measured the intensity of surveillance in the ‘Boundless Informant‘ programme. On this map, […]