Brazil’s Movement against Temer: 150,000 People Filled the Enormous Copacabana Beach Demanding “Direct Elections Now!”

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By Fania Rodrigues and Mariana Pitasse Global Research, May 31, 2017 The Dawn News 28 May 2017 A sea of people participated in the pro-direct elections act at Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro – Credit of the Photographs : Direct Now Movement 150,000 people participated this Sunday in a historical act for direct elections, at […]

The General Strike in Brazil. History and Analysis

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By Luísa Monteiro Global Research, May 03, 2017 April 28th will be a date to remember. Even though some of the great media claim that there were only demonstrations around the country, it is to assume that, by a consensus or not, what happened here was a strike. A general strike, the first in 20 […]

35 Million-Strong Strike Against Temer’s Neoliberal Reforms Brings Brazil to a Halt

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By Telesur Global Research, April 30, 2017 teleSUR Amid record levels of unemployment and a terribly unpopular government, unions and citizens from all walks of life are taking part in one of Brazil’s biggest ever strikes.  Since early Friday morning, more than 35 million people in Brazil have been taking part in one of biggest […]

The ‘Worker President’ and the Banker Regime: Brazil under Lula Da Silva 2003-2010

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By Prof. James Petras Global Research, November 28, 2016 Introduction Leftwing academics, writers and journalists have written tendentious articles where they manage to transform reactionary political leaders into working class heroes and present their dreadful policies as progressive advances. Recently, leftist pundits throughout US and Latin America have plagued the reading public with gross distortions […]

Brazil: The Billion Dollar Coup

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By James Petras October 13, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was removed from office through a well-organized, carefully planned operation among the corrupt Brazilian political elite, closely linked to the stock-market, financial institutions and foreign energy companies. This ‘legislative coup d’état ’eliminated the democratically-elected ‘political intermediaries’ and installed a regime directly […]

Why Brazil Under President Michel Temer Risks Becoming ‘Lebanized’

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By Andre Vltchek September 07, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “RT” –  Btaaboura is a tiny village in the mountains of northern Lebanon. It is connected to the main motorway by a narrow winding road. It could be just anywhere in the Christian part of this country: white stone houses, olive groves, wine grapes, bare […]

Brazil’s Parliamentary Coup and the “Progressive Media”

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By Peter Koenig Transcript of Interview with Sputnik September 02, 2016 “Information Clearing House”  Sputnik What is your view on the parliamentary impeachment of Dilma Rousseff? PK What happened in Brazil is just the most horrifying and flagrant illegal foreign-led parliamentary coup that has happened in Latin America since a similar coup, also foreign-led, deposed […]

Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff: Brazil’s Parliamentary Coup and the “Progressive Media”

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Interview with Sputnik By Peter Koenig Global Research, September 02, 2016 Sputnik News Transcript of Interview with Sputnik Sputnik What is your view on the parliamentary impeachment of Dilma Rousseff? PK What happened in Brazil is just the most horrifying and flagrant illegal foreign-led parliamentary coup that has happened in Latin America since a similar […]

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, a Woman of Honor, Confronts Senate of Scoundrels

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By Pepe Escobar September 01, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “RT” –  Dilma Rousseff entered the Senate and calmly stared down her accusers. She left with her head held high after exhorting those Senators to vote with their conscience. Most of those politicians present probably had no idea what conscience means; they’re no more than […]

Wall Street Behind Brazil Coup d’Etat. The Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff

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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, September 01, 2016 This article was first published in June 2016. Dilma’s  impeachment was ordered by Wall Street. It is important to reflect upon the actors behind Brazil’s coup d’Etat and the insidious role of  Michel Temer’s finance minister Henrique Campos Meirelles.  (Image) Wall Street Mastermind Henrique de Campos […]

The Real Reason Brazil’s Democratically Elected Dilma Rousseff Was Impeached. Money and Power…

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By Graham Vanbergen Global Research, September 01, 2016 TruePublica 1 September 2016 The real reason for the democratically elected leader of the largest country in South America being ‘impeached’ was not alleged corruption by its socialist president Dilma Rousseff, but more about Brazil’s elite power class and their media oligarchs who have failed time and time again to […]

Brazil’s Impeachment and the Fall of the Workers Party

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By Bill Van Auken Global Research, September 01, 2016 World Socialist Web Site 14 May 2016 Thursday’s vote by the Brazilian Senate to initiate the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff on trumped-up charges of budgetary improprieties has effectively ended 13 years of rule by the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores—PT) over Latin America’s largest country, […]

The Brazilian Economic Collapse Reaches Unprecedented Proportions

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By Tyler Durden Global Research, September 01, 2016 Zero Hedge 31 August 2016 While the mainstream media was focused on today’s primetime Brazilian spectacle, namely Dilma Rouseff’s impeachment vote in the Senate, which passed as expected with a substantial majority permanently removing Rouseff from office and assuring that her replacement, Michel Temer rules until at least 2018 […]

American party in Rio: There’s no sin below the equator

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AP photo This heartbreaking story made headlines in all American newspapers and television channels. When American swimmers were robbed at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro, the reports about the incident appeared as “breaking news” in most of US publications. It has been recently revealed, however, that the Americans initiated the robbery and accused […]

Team USA Cheapens Olympics With Cold War-style Behavior

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By Finian Cunningham August 15, 2013 “Information Clearing House” – “SCF” – The public humiliation of Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova by American rivals was an ugly, chauvinistic display of self-righteousness. It was also a disturbing expression of Washington’s belligerent geopolitics by athletes who should be celebrating common humanity. Team USA, led by 23 gold-medal record […]

US Launches Olympic-Sized Spying Operation at Rio 2016

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By Telesur Global Research, August 07, 2016 Telesur 5 August 2016 Washington has sent more than 1,000 intelligence agents to Rio in an effort to protect the 2016 Olympic Games, NBC News reports after reviewing a classified intelligence report on U.S. security efforts. According to the report, the spies are already on the ground in […]

Olympic Chaos: The Rio Games in World of Global Sporting Corruption

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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, August 01, 2016 Wounds have opened; recriminations are all around. The Rio Olympic Games, even before the first act, has already shown how it will be one of the more interesting ones for all the wrong reasons. (Eventually, such wrong reasons tend to seem right.) A glaring feature of […]

Ban of Russian Olympic Team – Cold War at Its ‘Best’!

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By Andre Vltchek July 29, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – The Empire is becoming thoroughly unpredictable. It is attacking on all fronts. It lost all its shame and decency. New Cold War is now in full swing and the West is using both old and new tactics, in order to demonize and discredit all of […]

Selected Articles: Cults of Security and Terror: Fear Ahead of the Rio Olympic Games

By Global Research News Global Research, July 28, 2016 Cults of Security and Terror: Fear Ahead of the Rio Olympic Games By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 28 2016 The Olympics remains a black hole of needless expenditure, sucking services into it with impending and merciless doom. Unused stadia, tracks left to moulder, services supposedly linked to […]

‘Yes, It Was a Coup:’ International Tribunal ‘Rules’ on Brazil’s Democracy

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By Telesur Global Research, July 22, 2016 Telesur 21 July 2016 The International Tribunal for Democracy convened this week in Rio de Janeiro for a mock trial that found that Brazil is in the throes of a coup and the impeachment process against suspended President Dilma Rousseff should be called off. The panel of international jurists unanimously found that the removal of Rousseff from office “violates all the principles of […]

Brazil: Most Dangerous Country for Environmental Activists in 2015. Agribusiness, Mining Projects in the Amazon

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By Marcio Astrini Global Research, June 30, 2016 Greenpeace 27 June 2016 Last year was the worst year on record for the murder of environmental activists, and more killings took place in Brazil than in any other country in the world. Activists across the globe are facing increasing violence as they stand up for the […]

Brazil’s Temer Government Implicated in Political Corruption, Another Cabinet Minister Could Resign

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By Telesur Global Research, June 19, 2016 teleSUR 18 June 2016 Brazil’s current Minister of Education is the latest public official in the Michel Temer administration to be implicated in the country’s political corruption scandal.  Brazil’s coup imposed Education Minister Mendonca Filho is being investigated for allegedly receiving an illegal bribe of US$29,000 for the purpose […]

Seventy Percent of Brazilian Food Contaminated by Agrochemicals

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Report By Telesur Global Research, June 18, 2016 teleSUR 17 June 2016   A proposed law in Brazil would replace the word “pesticide” on food labels with “plant health protection.” Around 70 percent of food consumed by Brazilians is contaminated by agrochemicals, researcher Karen Friederich of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health said Thursday. Friederich […]

Counter-Revolution in Brazil and United States Imperialism

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By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research, June 09, 2016 President Dilma Rousseff of the Brazil Worker’s Party (PT) was suspended from office on May 12, 2016 amid an impeachment proceeding in the national parliament. Rousseff is the first woman president of this vast and heavily populated South American country where a legacy of slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism […]

There Has Been A Coup In Brazil

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By Paul Craig Roberts May 30, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – In Brazil the country’s largest newspaper has published a transcript of a secret recording leaked to the newspaper. The words recorded are the plot by the rich Brazilian elite, involving both the US-corrupted Brazilian military and Supreme Court, to remove the democratically elected president […]

Brazil: The Provisional Banana Scoundrel Republic

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By Pepe Escobar Global Research, May 26, 2016 Sputnik News 24 May 2015 Every political junkie on the planet has to be glued to the ongoing Brazilian House of Cards, consistently offering an unparalleled feast of cheap thrills. The latest cliffhanger was the leak of a conversation between one of the key operators involved in the oil giant Petrobras […]

Brazil: The Provisional Banana Scoundrel Republic

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By Pepe Escobar May 25, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Sputnik” – Every political junkie on the planet has to be glued to the ongoing Brazilian House of Cards, consistently offering an unparalleled feast of cheap thrills. The latest cliffhanger was the leak of a conversation between one of the key operators involved in the oil giant Petrobras corruption […]

Brazil Coup Is an Assault on Democracy

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British Member of Parliament By Diane Abbott Global Research, May 25, 2016 Left Foot Forward The recent coup against Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is extraordinary and has received relatively little attention in the British media. The startling fact is that, while more than 50 million Brazilians voted to re-elect Dilma Rousseff as their president in […]

Dilma Rousseff: “Old Brazilian Oligarchy behind ‘Coup’”, Interview

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By Dilma Rousseff and RT Global Research, May 20, 2016 RT 19 May 2016 Unseated Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has spoken to RT in her first TV interview since being suspended from office by the country’s Senate. She says that the old Brazilian oligarchy is behind the impeachment process, and vows to fight the “coup.” […]

Hybrid War Hyenas Tearing Brazil Apart

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By Pepe Escobar May 17, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “RT” – The gloomy and repulsive night when the female president of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy. By 367 votes […]

Brazil’s Acting President Michel Temer Used to Be US Intelligence Informant: WikiLeaks

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By RT Global Research, May 16, 2016 RT Brazil’s new interim president, Michel Temer, was an embassy informant for US intelligence, WikiLeaks has revealed. According to the whistleblowing website, Temer communicated with the US embassy in Brazil via telegram, and such content would be classified as ”sensitive” and ”for official use only.”  Two cables were released, dated January 11, […]

Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) Statement on the Suspension of President Dilma Rousseff

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By MST – Landless Workers Movement of Brazil Global Research, May 16, 2016 Liberation News 12 May 2016 This is an institutional and anti-democratic coup that disrespects the will of 54 million voters. The Landless Workers Movement (MST) publicly expresses its disgust and dissatisfaction regarding the decision of the Senate, this Thursday (May 12), in admitting the […]

Dilma Rousseff Calls for Mobilizations to Overturn Coup

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By teleSur May 13, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “teleSur” – Ousted Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday called on Brazilians to defend their country’s democracy and mobilize against the coup that saw her suspended from office. “I call for the people to remain mobilized, together, in peace … It is a fight we are going to […]

Brazil: Neoliberalism with a “Human Face”

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Replicating Argentina, Brazil’s Macro-economic Policy under the Control of Wall Street creditors By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, May 12, 2016 Global Research 25 April 2003 Author’s Introduction The article below was first published by Global Research thirteen years ago on April 25, 2003. It is important to reflect on how Brazil’s PT government was […]

Brazil: The Brain and the Brawn of the Coup is abroad

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The former president of the Bar Association, Marcello Lavenère, who was one of the lawyers who signed the document on request of impeachment against former president Fernando Collor, said on Tuesday (3) that the “brain” of the move to frame President Dilma, without any crime, is from out of the country Impeachment comes from abroad […]

Brazilian Senators about to Vote on Impeaching President Dilma Rousseff Face Corruption Charges

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By Telesur Global Research, May 06, 2016 TeleSUR 5 May 2016 Twelve of the 21 members of a special committee recommending Rousseff’s impeachment to the Senate face charges of corruption and other crimes. Brazil’s Senate is expected to soon give the green light to theimpeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff, paving the way for a […]

Brazil: Dilma – Don’t Let Go! Open Letter to President Dilma Rousseff. “A New Sort of ‘Coups’ is being Invented – Less blood, More fraud”

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By Peter Koenig Global Research, April 28, 2016 Dear President Rousseff, Please do not let go! Don’t let the corrupt neoliberal right wing with the help – no, at the instigation of Washington steal your country – take away Brazil from the Brazilians, rip-off and destroy all you and Lula have achieved in the last […]

To See the Real Story in Brazil, Look at Who Is Being Installed as President — and Finance Chiefs

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By Glenn Greenwald April 24, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “The Intercept“-   It’s not easy for outsiders to sort through all the competing claims about Brazil’s political crisis and the ongoing effort to oust its president, Dilma Rousseff, who won re-election a mere 18 months ago with 54 million votes. But the most important means for […]

“Neoliberal Restoration”: Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart

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By Pepe Escobar Global Research, April 19, 2016 Russia Insider The gloomy and repulsive night when the female President of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.  By 367 votes for and 137 […]

Brazilian congress votes to impeach PT President Rousseff

By Miguel Andrade 18 April 2016 After more than six hours of role-call voting, the lower house of the Brazilian congress Sunday approved, by more than a two-thirds majority, the impeachment of Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores—PT) President Dilma Rousseff. Now the Senate has a maximum of ten sessions, or roughly two weeks, to deliver […]

Brazil Forces Israel to Withdraw Settler Extremist Ambassador

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By Telesur Global Research, March 30, 2016 TeleSur 28 March 2016 The Israeli prime minister announced the reassignment of the settler leader to a U.S. post after Brazil rejected his nomination for ambassador. Israel bowed to Brazilian pressure and reassigned Monday its pick for ambassador to Brazil Dani Dayan to a U.S. position, months after […]