Brazil
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What Will Lula Do?
What is now described as the Banestado leaks and CC5gate is straight out of vintage WikiLeaks: a list, published for the first time in full, naming names and detailing what is one of the biggest corruption and money laundering cases in the world for the past three decades. Continue reading
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Car Wash Case: Brazil’s Authorities and FBI Colluded Illegally
The Workers’ Party (PT) denounced in the Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office the illegal cooperation agreement signed between the Car Wash (CW) task force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Continue reading
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Brazil Aims to Criminalize Glenn Greenwald’s Journalism
New York Times: “Federal prosecutors in Brazil have brought charges against US journalist Glenn Greenwald for reporting on leaked cellphone messages showing widespread corruption of Brazilian public officials. Greenwald is accused of being part of a “criminal organization” that hacked into the cellphones of several prosecutors and other officials to obtain the messages.” Continue reading
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Brazil News Links 16-18 November 2019
18 November 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Russia Hopes Expert Groups for BRICS Energy Platform to Be Formed in 2019 http://infobrics.org/post/29783/ Brazil: Lula Is Free https://popularresistance.org/brazil-lula-is-free/ Continue reading
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As Lula Emerges From Prison, US Media Ignore How Washington Helped Put Him There
The Brazilian Supreme Court reversed a 2018 ruling on November 7, upholding the principle of innocent until proven guilty in the 1988 Constitution and declaring it illegal to jail defendants before their appeals processes have been exhausted. Within 24 hours, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was released to an adoring crowd of hundreds… Continue reading
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Released Lula in for greatest fight of his life
Only two days after his release from a federal prison in Curitiba, southern Brazil, following a narrow 6×5 decision by the Supreme Court, former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva delivered a fiery, 45-minute long speech in front of the Metal Workers Union in Sao Bernardo, outside of Sao Paulo, and drawing on his unparalleled… Continue reading
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Brazil News Links 10 November 2019
10 November 2019 — The New Dark Age Brazilians March Against Bolsonaro And His Ties To Murder Of Activist https://popularresistance.org/brazilians-march-against-bolsonaro-and-his-ties-to-murder-of-activist/ Lula Promises to Help “Free Brazil from the Insanity” https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/lula-promises-to-help-free-brazil-from-the-insanity/ Continue reading
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Genetically-modified mosquito apocalypse plan BACKFIRES spectacularly in Brazil
An experimental trial to reduce the mosquito population in Brazil through the deliberate release of 450,000 genetically modified mosquitoes has failed miserably and may have even created a genetic hybrid super species. Continue reading
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Amazonian Fake News
Just before the opening of the Biarritz G7, an intense disinformation campaign was launched in the international press with the complicity of French President, Emmanuel Macron and the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. It aims to allow Europeans to control the Amazon, its minerals, its pharmaceutical treasures and its precious woods. Continue reading
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The scandal-stricken company taking over UK chicken
After six months of investigation, the Bureau can reveal how a Brazilian meat producer that had to pay record fines for corruption is still buying beef from a company that illegally grazes cattle on felled areas of Amazon rainforest — and has quietly taken over huge swathes of UK chicken production. Continue reading
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Report Shows Corporations and Bolsonaro Teaming Up to Destroy the Amazon By Joe Catron
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. Continue reading
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The Political Earthquake in Brazil Caused by Ongoing Intercept Exposés
Last Sunday, the Intercept and the Intercept Brasil published a series of exposés that has created a major political earthquake in Brazil that has only grown and intensified throughout the week. In less than a week, the once-revered Justice Minister of President Bolsonaro’s government, Sergio Moro, now faces widespread calls to resign from the same… Continue reading
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Brazil: general strike highlights Bolsonaro’s weakness By Jorge Martin
Millions participated in the general strike in Brazil on 14 June, with demonstrations in 380 cities across the country. The strike had been called to reject the proposed counter-reform of the pension system by the Bolsonaro government, but also reflected opposition to education cuts, which had already brought millions onto the streets on 15 and… Continue reading
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Leaked Messages Confirm: Imprisonment of Brazil’s Lula da Silva was Politically Motivated
The website The Intercept received a massive archive of communications between prosecutors and judges, involving Brazil’s corruption cases. Initial analysis reveals that former president Lula da Silva’s prosecution and conviction were politically motivated. Mike Fox discusses the ramifications Inc. transcript). Continue reading
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Brazil: leaked conversations reveal legal stitch-up against Lula
Yesterday, The Intercept Brazil news site published a number of correspondences between former judge Sergio Moro, and the Lava Jato (“Car Wash”) prosecutors, led by Federal Public Ministry of Brazil attorney, Deltan Dallagnol. The Operation Car Wash corruption case led to the arrest and imprisonment of (among others) former PT president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva… Continue reading
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Triggered by Carnaval Protests, Bolsonaro Commits an Impeachable Offense By Brian Mier
After 5 days of ridicule at the hands of Carnaval goers, right wing extremist President makes homophobic rant and tweets porn video to 3 million followers, including thousands of children. Continue reading
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Insights on the Iran deal, BRICS and handling a crisis in Venezuela By Pepe Escobar
An exclusive interview with former Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim on how BRICS came into being, how the nuclear deal was done with Tehran and how the South dealt with Chavez Continue reading
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro sings a song of human folly at Davos By Pepe Escobar
No Xi, no Putin, no Modi. No Trump, no Macron, no May. Merkel could hardly be billed as a chart-topper. Facing no competition, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the former paratrooper gleefully adopted by Western media as “the Trump of the tropics”, could not possibly be upstaged at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos as… Continue reading
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The United States are preparing a war between Latin-American states by Thierry Meyssan
Little by little, the partisans of the Cebrowski doctrine are advancing their pawns. If they must cease creating wars in the Greater Middle East, they’ll just turn around and inflame the Caribbean Basin. Above all, the Pentagon is planning to assassinate an elected head of state, ruin his country, and undermine the unity of Latin-America. Continue reading
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Netanuyahu’s courting of Bolsonaro is the latest of Israel’s alliances with far-right figures By Jonathan Cook
The victory of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election last week has won Israel a passionate new friend on the international stage. The world’s fifth-most populous nation will now be “coloured in blue and white”, an Israeli official said, referring to the colours of Israel’s flag. Continue reading
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