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AUTHORITARIANISM DEMOCRACY ECONOMY SOVEREIGNTY UNITED STATES

Lula speaks of U.S. power behind Bolsonaro in new documentary

In an interview for a new documentary, former Brazil president Lula explains how the United States government and corporations benefited from anti-corruption operation Lava Jato, while damaging the sovereignty of Brazil and lives of ordinary Brazilians. The new film ‘Dismantling Brazil: Bolsonaro’s Neoliberal Agenda’, was produced by Brasil Wire co-editor Brian Mier and US journalist […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM FASCISM FOREIGN POLICY LATIN AMERICA PROTEST

Bolsonaro’s Brazil aided repression of Chile’s 2019 protests, documents show

After conspiring in favour of the coup against Bolivia’s Evo Morales, aiding its protagonists, and making unprovoked attacks on the governments of Argentina and Venezuela, newly disclosed documents have revealed that Jair Bolsonaro’s government was also assisting Chilean security forces in their attempts to crush the wave of protests which swept the country in late […]

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CITIES DEMOCRACY POLITICS SOCIAL INCLUSION

Interview: Curitiba City Councilor Carol Dartora

“We view the state of Parana as a laboratory for all of Bolsonaro’s worst ideas,” says Dartora, who is the first Afro-Brazilian woman elected in the 327 year history of the Curitiba City Council.  With Brian Mier Curitiba, center of the US DOJ and FBI-backed Lava Jato investigation, has a reputation as a very conservative […]

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IMPERIALISM LAVA JATO LAWFARE POLITICS UNITED STATES

Sérgio Moro’s strange new job

The Lava Jato judge and former Bolsonaro administration Justice Minister will now work with former NSA, DOJ and FBI officials in a consulting firm that has already collected R$17 million for helping rebuild the companies he destroyed in 2015 during the lead up to the coup against Dilma Rousseff. by Vivaldo Barbosa* It is very […]

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IMPERIALISM LAVA JATO OPINION POLITICS

On Obama, Lula and Tammany Hall

In his new book, Barack Obama, who is the husband of Chicago machine Mayor Richard M. Daley’s former Assistant Planning Commissioner,  compares Lula to a Tammany Hall style machine boss by Brian Mier On Tuesday, November 17, former US President Barack Obama, whose government engaged in spying against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the US […]

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ARMED FORCES COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS DEMOCRACY UNITED STATES

Temer Reveals Military Hand In Brazil’s 2016 Coup

A new ghostwritten book by Michel Temer reveals that the then Vice President held a series of previously undisclosed meetings with Brazilian Military chiefs during the year or more leading up to Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment. Temer recounts that Armed Forces top brass, worried about the direction of the country, sought behind closed doors discussions with the former […]

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DEMOCRACY EDITORIAL ELECTION LAVA JATO LAWFARE

“Political Midas” João Santana, forgotten casualty of the coup, breaks silence

Former journalist and rock musician João Santana ascended to become one of Brazil’s most influential people, a high profile political strategist with his unique talents in demand at home and abroad. He then became a target. One of the forgotten victims of Operation Lava Jato, he has finally broken silence, eighteen months since his release from […]

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CENSORSHIP

BTG-Pactual bank acquires another public database (Censored)

The Brazilian Ministry of Economy pushes a discount buyers club on government workers In an unconstitutional act of censorship, on August 28th a Rio de Janeiro court ordered the independent Brazilian news portal, GGN, to pull down 11 articles about the relationship between right wing politicians and big data mining operations. The ruling was made […]

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CENSORSHIP MEDIA SÃO PAULO

The Silence Of The Media (Censored)

On August 28th, answering a complaint from BTG-Pactual, the financial services corporation founded by Jair Bolsonaro’s Finance Minister Paulo Guedes, the independent media site GGN was ordered to pull down 11 investigative stories about the connection between right wing politicians and big data mining operations. In solidarity with GGN, it’s editor, Luis Nassif, and journalist Patricia […]

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FOREIGN POLICY IMPERIALISM LAVA JATO LAWFARE PETROBRAS SOVEREIGNTY UNITED STATES

Lula: US suppression of Brazil’s sovereignty “is not a theory, it is a fact”

In an interview on Brasil 247 on the morning of 11th of August, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gave one of his strongest denunciations yet of United States interference in his country, and the suppression of its sovereignty. I asked the former president several questions, the following excerpt will be of particular […]