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O Colapso de Credibilidade de Michel Temer – Agora Inelegível Por Oito Anos

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Desde o começo, ficou evidente que o processo de impeachment da presidente eleita, Dilma Rousseff, tinha como objetivo principal o fortalecimento dos verdadeiros ladrões de Brasília, permitindo assim que impeçam, obstruam e ponham fim às investigações da Operação Lava Jato (além de imporem uma agenda neoliberal de privatizações e austeridade extrema). Apenas 20 dias após assumir o poder, provas irrefutáveis do envolvimento do...

Credibility of Brazil’s Interim President Collapses as He Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office

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It has been obvious from the start that acore objective of theimpeachment of Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was to empower the actual thieves in Brasilia and enable them to impede, obstruct, and ultimately kill the ongoing Car Wash investigation (as well as to impose a neoliberal agenda of privatization and radical austerity). A mere 20 days into the seizure of power by the corruption-implicated “interim” President Miche...

The New York Times’s (and Clinton Campaign’s) Abject Cowardice on Israel

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In January, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon delivered a speech to the Security Council about, as he put it, violence “in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory,” noting that “Palestinian frustration is growing under the weight of a half century of occupation” and that “it is human nature to react to occupation.” His use of the word “occupation” was not remotely controversial because multiple U.N. Security Resolutions,such as 446 (adopted unanimously in 1979 with 3 a...

Novo Abalo Político no Brasil: é Hora da Mídia Começar a Dizer “Golpe”?

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O país acordou hoje com a notícia das secretas e chocantes conversas envolvendo um importante ministro do recém-instalado governo brasileiro, que acendem uma luz a respeito dos reais motivos e agentes do impeachment da presidente democraticamente eleita, Dilma Rousseff. As transcrições foram publicadas pelo maior jornal do país, a Folha de São Paulo, e revelam conversas privadas que aconteceram em março, apenas semanas antes da votaçã...

New Political Earthquake in Brazil: Is It Now Time for Media Outlets to Call This a “Coup”?

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Brazil today awoke to stunning news of secret, genuinely shockingconversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual motives and participants drivingthe impeachment of the country’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff. The transcripts were published by the country’s largest newspaper,Folha de São Paulo, and reveal secret conversations thattook place in M...

Assista: Primeira Entrevista Com a Presidente Dilma Rousseff Depois de Sua Suspensão

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Na quinta-feira passada, o Senado votou por 55 a 22 pelo afastamento da Presidenta Dilma Rousseff para apreciação de seu impeachment por supostas pedaladas fiscais para fins de maquiagem da dívida pública, conforme aprovado pela Câmara dos Deputados. Embora Dilma permaneça no cargo e continue a residir no Palácio da Alvorada, em Brasília, o Vice-presidente Michel Temer assume o comando do país interinamente acompanha...

Watch: First Interview With Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff Since the Senate’s Impeachment Vote

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Last Thursday, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was suspended from the presidency when the Senate voted, 55-22, to try her on the impeachment charges, approved by the lower house, involving alleged budgetary maneuvers (“pedaladas”) designed to obscure the size of public debt. Although she nominally remains the president and continues to reside in Brasília’s presidential palace, her duties are being carried out by...

The Intercept Is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why

From the time we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, wesought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts the documents in context and makes them digestible to the public, and that the welfareand reputations of innocent people be safeguarded. As time has gone on, The Intercept has sought outnew ways to get documents fromthe arc...

Interview With BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti: Banned by Israel From Traveling, Threatened With Worse

Despite having lived in Israel for 22 years with no criminal record of any kind, Omar Barghouti (above) was this weekdenied the right to travel outside the country. As one of the pioneersof the increasingly powerful movement to impose boycotts, sanctions and divestment measures (BDS) on Israel,Barghouti, an articulate, English-speaking activist, has frequently traveled around the world advocating his position. The Israeli government’s refusal to allow him totravel is obviously intended to sup...

A Democracia Brasileira Sofrerá um Duro Revés com a Posse de um Inelegível e Corrupto Neoliberal

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Em 2002, o Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), de centro-esquerda, chegou à presidência depois da expressiva vitória de Lula da Silva sobre o candidato de centro-direita do PSDB (ao longo do ano de 2002, os “mercados” ficaram indignados com a mera possibilidade de vitória do PT). O PT permaneceu no poder quando Lula, em 2006, foi reeleito com outra expressiva vitória contra um candidato diferente, também do PSDB. Os inimigos do PT...