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Watch: Our New Weekly Video Commentary and Interview Program, System Update, Debuts Today

Im very excited about the launch of the new video interview program Im hosting, called System Update. The show will air each week on Wednesday on The Intercepts YouTube channel, and will typically explore one topic in as in-depth and critical manner as possible.

This program was one that we had been developing prior to the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. and Latin America, with the intention to produce two separate shows â one in English for our U.S. audience, the other in...

Como Eduardo confirmou à Fox News e depois mentiu sobre o resultado positivo do teste de coronavirus de seu pai

Deputado Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL SP) na terça-feira, 22 de outubro, no plenÃrio da Câmara.

Foto: Mateus Bonomi/AGIF via AP

Na manhã de sexta-feira, um colunista do jornal carioca O Dia publicou um artigo afirmando que fontes no PalÃcio do Planalto confirmaram que o primeiro teste de coronavÃrus feito pelo presidente Jair Bolsonaro foi positivo, indicando que o presidente estaria infectado com o vÃrus.

Nos estúdios da Fox News em Nova Iorque e em Washington, produtores, repórteres e...

How Jair Bolsonaro's Son, Eduardo, Confirmed His Father's Positive Coronavirus Test to Fox News, Then Lied About It

President Donald Trump shakes hands before a dinner with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla on March 7, 2020.

Credit: Alex Brandon/AP

On Friday morning, at roughly 9:30 a.m. EST, a columnist with the large Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Dia published an article reporting that sources inside Brazils presidential palace had confirmed that the first coronavirus test administered to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had been returned and indicated the...

How Jair Bolsonaro’s Son, Eduardo, Confirmed His Father’s Positive Coronavirus Test to Fox News, Then Lied About It

President Donald Trump shakes hands before a dinner with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla on March 7, 2020.

Credit: Alex Brandon/AP

On Friday morning, at roughly 9:30 a.m. EST, a columnist with the large Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Dia published an article reporting that sources inside Brazils presidential palace had confirmed that the first coronavirus test administered to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had been returned and indicated the...

Democrats and Their Media Allies Impugned Biden’s Cognitive Fitness. Now They Feign Outrage.

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Kansas City, Mo., on March 7, 2020.

Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP

It is virtually required in Democratic Party politics to periodically express revulsion about the bigoted political attacksÂwielded for years against former President Barack Obama: images designed to emphasize his African roots, false claimsÂhe was Muslim, the campaign of de-legitimacy based in the racist allegation that he was born in Kenya.

But thatÂmandated...

Democrats Craving a Brokered Convention — Including Elizabeth Warren — Should Learn the Lessons of 1968

Republican presidential nominee Richard Nixon, right, raises his arms in victory after accepting his party’s nomination at the Republican Convention in Miami on Aug. 8, 1968; on the left is House Republican Leader Gerald Ford.

Photo: AP

For four years, Democratic officialshave insisted that Donald Trump is an unprecedented threat to the republic, a fascist and racist dictator whose removal from power is the paramount, if not the only,political priority. Yet the strategy on which they are...

Bolsonaro, Under Fire, Dismisses His Culture Minister for Giving a Nazi Speech, but It Is Still Representative of Brazil’s Governing Ethos

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, under severe pressure from multiple corners, on Friday fired his culture minister,ÂRoberto Alvim, for recording and publishing what can only be described â with no hyperbole â as a Nazi speech about Brazilian art. Indeed, the speech, published by Alvim on Thursday, plagiarized Adolf Hitler’s Minister of Culture and Communications Joseph Goebbels and deliberately copied his style and aesthetic when decreeing what Brazilian art must be in the years to come:

“...

Bolsonaro, Under Fire, Dismisses His Culture Minister For Giving a Nazi Speech, But It Is Still Representative of Brazil’s Governing Ethos

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, under severe pressure from multiple corners, on Friday fired his Culture Minister,ÂRoberto Alvim, for recording and publishing what can only be described — with no hyperbole — as a Nazi speech about Brazilian art. Indeed, the speech, published by Alvim on Thursday, plagiarized Hitler’s Minister of Culture and Communications Joseph Goebbels and deliberately copied his style and aesthetic when decreeing what Brazilian art must be in the years to come:

“The...

Watch: Glenn Greenwald’s Exclusive Interview With Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Who Was Deposed in a Coup

On November 10, Evo Morales, who served as president of Bolivia for 13 years and presided over extraordinary economic growth and a reduction of inequality praised even by his critics, announced that he was resigning the presidency under duress, with implicit threats from the Bolivian military. Morales later made clear that he viewed these events as a classic right-wing military coup of the kind that has plagued the continent for decades, explaining that he was removed from his position by...