Brics Was Created as a Tool of Attack: Lula

August 31, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/31/brics-was-created-as-a-tool-of-attack-lula/

Former Brazilian leader Lula speaks from a room in a prison in southern Brazil. Photo: Editora Brasil 247

Pepe ESCOBAR

Former Brazilian leader wishes emerging economies were closer, recalls Obama ‘crashing’ Copenhagen climate meet

In a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in Curitiba in southern Brazil, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more than 500 days in jail, and sent a clear message to the world.

Amid the 24/7 media frenzy of scripted sound bites and “fake news”, it’s virtually impossible to find a present or former head of state anywhere, in a conversation with journalists, willing to speak deep from his soul, to comment on all current political developments and relish telling stories about the corridors of power. And all that while still in prison.

The first part of this mini-series focused on the Amazon. Here, we will focus on Brazil’s relationship with BRICS and Beijing. BRICS is the grouping of major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – that formed

Mercosul/How Bolsonaro Is Maintaining Brazil’s Exploitation at Local and International Levels

August 5, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/05/how-bolsonaro-maintaining-brazils-exploitation-local-international-levels/

  

Ramona Wadi*

Despite pleas for protection against miners invading their territory, the indigenous tribes are unlikely to find recourse from the authorities. Bolsonaro has stated his decision to open natural reserves for exploitation as the reason behind what he terms “approximation with the United States.”

The constant declarations by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to open the Amazon for natural resources exploitation is putting both land and indigenous communities in peril. On Saturday, the Waiãpi indigenous reserve was invaded by a group of heavily armed miners. Earlier in the week, indigenous leader Emyra Waiãpi was stabbed to death. The indigenous tribes are pointing towards Bolsonaro as the instigator and enabler of violence targeting their people.

Despite pleas for protection against miners invading their territory, the indigenous tribes are unlikely to find recourse from the authorities. Bolsonaro has stated his decision to open natural reserves for exploitation as the reason behind what he terms “approximation with the United States.”

A recent study has attributed the destruction of Brazil’s environmental policy to Bolsonaro and the political power of the ruralists – an influential agribusiness association in Brazil which favours the dispossession of indigenous people from their land. Under Bolsonaro, ruralists and former generals

Mercosul, Brazil/‘Tropical Trump’ sparks unprecedented crisis for Brazilian science

01 August 2019, Update 02 August 2019, Nature (UK) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02353-6#correction-0

Jeff Tollefson

FOTO DESMATAMENTO A dispute over the rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon (pictured) is the latest sign of tension between the country's researchers and its president.Credit: Nacho Doce/Reuters

Tensions are rising as Jair Bolsonaro’s administration questions the work of government scientists and institutes debilitating cuts to research funding. 

A dispute over the rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon (pictured) is the latest sign of tension between the country's researchers and its president.Credit: Nacho Doce/Reuters

When neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro presented a preview of a report on the dire state of research in Brazil at a meeting of a major scientific society on 23 July, several government soldiers entered the room and began filming. Some in the audience took the soldiers’ actions as a show of intimidation.

“Maybe these guys were just soldiers who want to learn about science,” says Ribeiro, a researcher at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal. He coordinated the analysis on behalf of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC), which hosted the meeting and commissioned the report. But it didn’t look like they were there out of curiosity, Ribeiro says.

The incident is the latest example of the rising tensions between the country's scientists and President Jair Bolsonaro's administration. Since Bolsonaro took office in January, Brazil’s researchers have faced funding cuts and repeated attempts by the administration to roll back protections for

Brazil and the US – a Neoliberal Alliance Under Bolsonaro and Trump

July 19, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/07/19/brazil-and-us-neoliberal-alliance-under-bolsonaro-trump/

Ramona Wadi*

Brazil’s shift to the right-wing has been lauded by the US, which is still not over its penchant for foreign meddling in Latin America. Jair Bolsonaro, who has made news headlines for all the wrong reasons, notably disregard for climate change, indigenous rights and education, has altered the previous diplomacy by prioritising global investment over regional ties, thus facilitating the country’s exploitation.

For the US, of course, this is welcome news. An unnamed US official declared, “Even the friendliest of Brazilian governments was never really that friendly. Here we have now a government in Brazil we truly consider an ally.”

The tactics may have changed – there is enough history of US-backed dictatorships in Latin America to have fomented fractured societies, to the point than a shift to the right-wing through elections was only a matter of time. Brazil was no

Equador/IGNACIO RAMONET DEFENDE JULIAN ASSANGE COMO PALADINO DA LIBERDADE

21 junho 2016, Carta Maior http://cartamaior.com.br (Brasil)

Prensa Latina

Assange divulgou em seu portal 'wikileaks' milhares de documentos secretos da diplomacia norte-americana.

Julian Assange não é culpado de nada, é um paladino da liberdade desta época, segundo afirmou hoje, no Equador, o jornalista espanhol Ignacio Ramonet, após certificar o valor da informação divulgada por Wikileaks.

O site fundado pelo programador australiano é conhecido por publicar documentos vazados com conteúdo sensível e enorme interesse público.

Durante uma conferência realizada no Centro Internacional de Estudos Superiores para a América Latina (Ciespal), este catedrático de relevante trajetória considerou

Estados Unidos/AMAZON Y LA CIA FIRMAN CONTRATO PARA GESTIONAR DATOS DE LOS USUARIOS

6 de Agosto de 2013, TeleSUR http://www.telesurtv.net (Venezuela)

El organismo de inteligencia y la compañía Amazon firmaron un contrato para aplicar el programa computación en nube en el que la empresa prevee por 10 años tener cambios significativos en la adquisición y análisis de datos.

Una de las empresas de compra y venta de artículos por internet de Estados Unidos, Amazon, firmó un contrato con la Agencia Central de Inteligencia de Estados Unidos (CIA, por su sigla en inglés) por 600 millones de dólares con el objetivo de edificar una infraestructura privada que le ayudará a mantenerse actualizada.

La directora de información de la CIA, Jeanne Tisinger,