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segunda-feira, 2 de setembro de 2019

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

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terça-feira, 9 de julho de 2019

BRICS, Russia/Vladimir Putin Slams ‘Obsolete Liberalism.’ What Prevents Western Leaders From Doing the Same?

July 4, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/07/04/vladimir-putin-slams-obsolete-liberalism-what-prevents-western-leaders-from-doing-same/

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The Russian leader had some very candid comments about the state of Western democracies, bound as they are by the liberal idea, which Putin says has “outlived its purpose.”

Last week, on the eve of the G20 summit in Japan, Vladimir Putin sat down for a lengthy interview in the Kremlin with the Financial Times. Of the many issues touched upon, it was the frank discussion on liberalism that struck the loudest chord in the Western capitals.

In the course of making his case that the purpose of government is to build a “stable, normal, safe and predictable life for the people and to work towards a better future,” Putin compared that goal with liberalism in the West, which he argued “has outlived its purpose.”

Putin pointed to the disastrous

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