Brazil
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Wikileaks Newslinks 15-16 August 2011
16 August 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: US and Brazil Vie for Power in Peru Huffington Post That, at least, is the unmistakable impression that one is left with by reading US cables recently disclosed by whistle-blowing outfit WikiLeaks, and it’s a topic about which I have written widely in recent months. Yet, with President Hugo Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 May 2011: Obama Killing Spree / Brazil in Haiti / Obama Needs Birthers
4 May 2011 — BAR – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Osama, Obama and Bush: Apt Comparisons, Missed Opportunities by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Illustration by Leon Kuhn. More of his work at http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk/ This weekend the White House announced the extrajudicial killing of Osama Bin Laden, and the secret disposal Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 31 March – 1 April 2011
1 April 2011 — creative-i.info 1 April 2011 Consortium News: Into the Shifting Sands of Libya Consortium News: Warriors of the Mainstream Media Mathaba News: Fidel Castro on Libya and Gadhafi: Nato, war, lies and business Morning Star: Caat: Last thing the Libyans need is more guns Dissident Voice: Achieving Social Justice Dissident Voice: Obama Continue reading
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Green Light for the Return of Aristide | Feu vert au retour d'Aristide
The Haitian government said Monday it would not oppose the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Continue reading
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Aristide Should Be Allowed to Return to Haiti By Mark Weisbrot
Haiti’s infamous dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier, returned to his country this week, while the country’s first elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is kept out. These two facts really say everything about Washington’s policy toward Haiti and our government’s respect for democracy in that country and in the region. Continue reading
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Emerging Powers: Allies or Rivals?
Part of the “Global Crisis and Hegemonic Dilemmas” conference. Continue reading
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BA_Report 18 November, 2010: Top 10 Reasons Black Leaders Are Silent on Social Security Attacks — BA Report
18 November, 2010 — BAR Black Agenda Report News, analysis and commentary from the black left Top Ten Reasons Why Black Leaders Are Ignoring President Obama’s Good Cop-Bad Cop Attack on Social Security After a decades-long drumbeat led by the Peterson Foundation, corporate media, Wall Street and their minions of both parties, Social Security, Medicaid Continue reading
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New from Strategic Culture Foundation 30 October – 5 November, 2010
5 November, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation The echo of the past war 05.11.2010 | 21:27 | MEDEN Natalia In Germany the reaction on the plan of David Cameron’s Cabinet to withdraw the British troops from Germany by 2020 (not by 2035) in order to save money for the state budget was quite controversial… Here Continue reading
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Lenine – Todas Elas Juntas Num Só Ser – concert video
From Brazil Lenine is one of my favourite composer/performers. 1st collector for Lenine – Todas Elas Juntas Num Só Ser – concert… Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Russia-US-Iran: Nuclear juggling By Eric Walberg
The Iranian government is “surprised” Russia signed on to a US proposal for a tighter embargo to punish the Islamic republic for its nuclear programme, Special Ambassador Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi told reporters in Moscow last week. Indeed, Iran’s sensational last-minute agreement to a proposal by Turkey and Brazil – virtually identical to one proposed seven… Continue reading
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Robert Naiman, "It's 'Golllllll!' for Lula against Western Push for Iran Sanctions"
If I were in Washington this morning, I would run down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to Congress with a big Brazilian flag, as the young Brazilians run down the Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo during the ‘football’ match, shouting ‘Golllllll!’ Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 9-15 May, 2010
2010-05-10 Nil NIKANDROV The Mossad in South America “…The Mossad’s number one adversary and target in Latin America is Hugo Chavez, the political leader condemning Israel’s attempts to resolve conflicts in the Middle East by force… Shimon Peres addressed a thinly veiled threat to Chavez by saying that “Chavez will soon disappear”… TV commentator and Continue reading
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New on nacla.org 15 April, 2010
North American Congress on Latin America A Short Talk With Fernando Henrique Cardoso by Samantha Eyler Reid Brazil’s former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso visited Cornell University on April 7 to give a lecture, talk to the press, and receive yet another academic award. The onetime Marxist sociologist, now the political leader of the centrist Brazilian Continue reading
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New on nacla.org 25 March, 2010: Brazil, Peru, Honduras
North American Congress on Latin America The Brazilian Two-Step: Strategic Politics in the Lula Administration by Samantha Eyler Reid In March, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva controversially called for an end to the hunger strike by Cuban dissident and political prisoner Guillermo Fariñas, asking him and other prisoners to respect the course of Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, Number 77: The American Elite By William Blum
6 January, 2010 — www.killinghope.org Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar, "Luladinejad"
Brazil enriches uranium for its own nuclear energy program. No one is accusing Brazil of building a nuclear bomb. Brazil has been strongly against unilateral sanctions on Iran. In Lula’s own words, and again I quote: “It’s simple. What we advocate for us, we advocate for others as well.” Continue reading
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