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Brazil’s former president Lula, speaks out about Police, Moro, Operation car wash and calls Bolsonaro a liar – Collecting experiencies
Minutes after being released from jail, on Friday, November 8th, the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva did a persuasive speech against the Operation Car Wash and Judiciary Committee. Lula was released under Federal Judge Danilo Pereira Junior’s determination. … Continue reading
Lima Duarte: ″ It’s Sinhozinho Malta in the Presidency and Porcine Widow in Culture ″ — archyde
Brazilian actor Lima Duarte compared the likely future Secretary of Culture, Regina Duarte, and Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, to the famous couple he and the actress starred in the soap opera Roque Santeiro (1985): “It is perfect for today’s Brazil: … Continue reading
Disaster Capitalism Won’t Save Us
Can we buy our way out of a warming planet? Probably not, but advertisers will still try to sell Californians respirator masks as they flee historic wildfires. In this episode of The Idea File, Atlantic staff writer Alexis Madrigal explains … Continue reading
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Esquerda Online: Fighting back is the only way out of Bolsonaro’s Brazil — No Borders
Brazil dominates Latin America’s economy. And although the coup in Bolivia, uprisings in Chile, Ecuador, and Columbia, Trump’s threats against Iran, Australian megafires, mass strikes in India and France, anti-government protests in Lebanon, and the British elections have pushed Brazil … Continue reading
Bolsonaro Is and Isn’t
If Americans hear about Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro at all, he’s usually described as a “Brazilian Donald Trump.” But on this week’s CloseUp, we step out of the American bubble, and look at who Bolsonaro is, who his targets are, … Continue reading
Australia, we need to talk | Cally Jetta | TEDxPerth
Is reconciliation between Australia’s Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples possible? Cally Jetta maintains that it is not. Instead, she proposes that to build a harmonious future, we need to think differently and address our nation’s history honestly. Cally Jetta is passionate … Continue reading
This Hare Krishna Monk Turned Police Chief Battles Brutality in Rio | OZY
Orlando Zaccone is trying to foster a left-wing movement within Brazilian law enforcement. For a socialist, pro-drug-legalization, Hare Krishna police chief in the polarized and hardly ever reasonable Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro, Orlando Zaccone seems strangely at ease. As … Continue reading
Google and Amazon are now in the oil business
Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are teaming up with Big Oil to squeeze more oil and gas out of the ground using machine learning technology.
Modern slavery uncovered in Brazilian coffee industry – FreedomUnited.org
Slave labor is pervasive in the world’s largest coffee industry, a six-month Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has revealed. Evidence from public records, interviews, and other data shows that a significant and growing portion of Brazil’s coffee exports are produced using … Continue reading
Why a great education means engaging with controversy – Big Think
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