Brazil

Last month I published a short post I entitled “What I like to listen to when I miss my beloved Argentina?” featuring a beautiful Argentinian zamba interpreted by Pedro Aznar

As deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reaches the highest level in a decade, the rainforest’s indigenous peoples and their supporters have called for action against the political and business interests they blame for a spike in illegal logging and other resource extraction.

The Intercept‘s bombshell about Brazilian corruption is being ludicrously spun by the country’s media and military as a “Russian conspiracy,” writes Pepe Escobar By Pepe Escobar in Paris Special to Consortium News It was a leak, not a hack. Yes: Brazilgate,…Read more →

Clarity emerges around the political persecution of Lula, Brazil’s former president. But what is still blurry for many is the actual case against him, writes Vijay Prashad. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula…Read more →

Press TV – June 10, 2019 Leaked documents reveal that the Brazilian justice minister has, in collaboration with prosecutors, fabricated a case against ex-president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and convicted him of corruption in a scheme meant to prevent the popular politician from running for the 2018 presidential election. The Intercept website, citing the […]

Michel Temer entered the presidency vowing to slash spending but he ended his presidency having failed to push pension reforms through Brazil’s Congress [PPIO]
Despite severe criticism in Brazil against the controversial pension reform plan, the government says it is confident the measure will pass in Congress and save the country one trillion reais, or $262 billion dollars over the next 10 years.
The government says that the reform plan, which was a core policy of the former cabinet led by Michel Temer, is necessary to boost growth.

“EXIT NATO!”  was the glaring title on a huge screen greeting the several hundred participants of the Anti-NATO Conference in Florence, Italy, on 7 April 2019. Officially it was called The International Conference on the 70th Anniversary of NATO, sponsored by Global Research of Canada and the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW). I had the privilege to attend this important forum.

During a radio interview, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he is working with the US government to sow dissent within the Venezuelan Army in order to incite a military revolt against Venezuelan President Maduro.

In a legally dubious attempt to legitimize Juan Guaido’s shadow regime, the US pushed to install a neoliberal operative implicated…
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(Transcript) —This video was produced as part of a MintPress News and Grayzone collaboration —  World domination: it’s a funny concept. We can imagine old dudes with messy hair and thick glasses taking over the world or the caricature of a humanoid villain that wears a skull and crossbones, but what about applying it to the real world? Who’s closest to taking over the world we live in? Do I even need to say it?