Carlos Latuff gained widespread fame during the Arab Spring when his cartoons helped fuel revolutions across the region. Reuters called him a “hero” of the movement while The Guardian described him as the “unlikely star” of the revolt.
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This story is one of those that has always been perfectly obvious to me, living in Moscow, Russia, but, what with the news streams from around the world so focused this last year on the US, Donald Trump and COVID-19, this very visceral trend sort of got ignored. This trend is the extreme level of […]
By Noah Carl • Lockdown Sceptics • May 28, 2021 Back in April, I wrote about a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which found that Dutch students made “made little or no progress while learning from home”. Now researchers have reported a similar finding in Brazil. As in the Dutch study, the researchers used rigorous methods […]
Researchers found that remote learning was associated with large increases in school dropout and learning losses in Brazil. They conclude that "the societal costs of keeping schools closed ... are very large".
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Lula da Silva has confirmed that he wants to be a presidential candidate in Brazil’s 2022 election. This was expected. After being freed from a process of lawfare intended to curtail his political career, Lula has reemerged on the national scene with full force. The Datafolha Institute has published a poll according to which Lula […]
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Tiger Tateishi (Japan), Samurai, the Watcher (Koya no Yojinbo), 1965. Ugliness defines the mood of state violence from Cali (Colombia) to Durban (South Africa), each context different and the depth of the violence particular to the location. Images of security forces cracking down on people trying to express their political rights have become commonplace. It […]
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Indigenous protest, Brazil April 2018. “By painting the streets red, we’re showing how much blood has already been shed in the struggle to protect indigenous territories” – Sônia Guajajara, a spokeswoman for APIB (Brazilian indigenous organization). © Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil The land rights of the Xokleng, a tribe that was violently expelled from its territory […]
We're publishing a third postcard from our Brazilian correspondent today in which he explains that infections are declining across Brazil in spite of President Bolsonaro's stubborn refusal to lockdown.
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Brazil’s Parliamentary Enquiry is probing the way the Bolsonaro-led government handled the pandemic leading to the deaths of 4,00,000 Brazilians. Jail Bolsonaro, the far right President of Brazil, is a worried man these days. The next round of elections for the post of President is merely a year away and there is a strong possibility … Continue reading covid-19 mismanagement : Can india ‘do’ a brazil ? →
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture Early in the “coronavirus-19” — subsequently called “Covid-19” — pandemic, Denmark and Sweden were often being compared with one-another because both are Scandinavian countries, but on 13 March 2020, Denmark had started a lockdown and imposed strict recommendations for businesses and personal behavior, whereas Sweden did nothing of […]
