by TD Daniell | May 27, 2016 | Current News
Mark Weisbrot The World in Transition (CEPR) It is clear that the executive branch of the U.S. government favors the coup underway in Brazil, even though they have been careful to avoid any explicit endorsement of it. Exhibit A was the meeting between Tom Shannon, the...
by TD Daniell | May 19, 2016 | Current News
Jim Naureckas Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) The effort to oust twice-elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been big news in the United States. Since December 2015, when Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies began animpeachment process over Rousseff’s...
by TD Daniell | March 25, 2016 | Current News
Sonali Kolhatkar TruthDig Brazil, the world’s fifth-largest country in terms of population and Latin America’s most expansive state, is in political turmoil. The left-leaning Workers Party, PT (as it is known by its Portuguese acronym), is facing an existential crisis...
by TD Daniell | March 31, 2014 | Current News
Dave Zirin The Nation http://www.thenation.com/blog/179077/brazils-world-cup-gentrification-through-barrel-gun In traveling to Brazil to write a book about Brazil and the 2014 World Cup, I learned one thing if nothing else: a favela is not a slum. That is why the...
by PPJC Admin2 | January 6, 2014 | Current News
By Joe Nocera New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — When I visited China in June, my trip happened to coincide with the discovery that Edward Snowden was hiding out in Hong Kong. By then, Snowden’s revelations about the...
