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Oct 21 2024 
Brazil, sliding away from BRICS
With thanks to our dear friend, Quantum Bird
Performance anxiety is characterized by the continuous search for the esteem of others and is closely related to the fear of not living up to a situation or task. Typically, the anxious person projects expectations that they do not feel, or know they are not, capable of meeting… Continue reading
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Sep 10 2024 
Brazil
Bolsonaro is mobilizing big crowds again, or is he? As Elon Musk and other foreign interests support him, we look into why Brazil is so important to them.
Bolsonaro is mobilizing big crowds again. As Elon Musk and other foreign interests support him, we look into why Brazil is so important to them. pic.twitter.com/SKbeiGbC2C
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Sep 03 2024 
How Elon Musk started – and lost – a fight with Brazil’s Judiciary
By Brian Mier on his substack: https://bmier.substack.com/p/inside-brazils-x-ban
Millions of Brazilians woke up on August 31 in a country without X, after the Supreme Court ordered the national telecommunications agency to block the social media platform. This move culminated over a year of X’s refusal to follow Brazil’s telecommunications laws, particularly those requiring deplatforming of suspects in… Continue reading
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Sep 02 2024 
The Brazilian Supreme Court Judges agree UPDATE
Update at the end.
This morning, on checking my usual X list which contains everything I want to see on the Latin American Countries, the Musk attempt to destabilize Brazil took over the headlines. He has a choir. It’s Musk and the moronic Magas on the way to do a little lawfare tactics in Brazil!
If there… Continue reading
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Aug 20 2024 
Brazil Must Choose: Sovereignty and the Multipolar World or Subordination to US Interests
Note: We are losing Brazil and it is disconcerting.
By Quantum Bird and first posted in translation at Internationalist 360°
Quantum Bird runs the Saker Latinoamérica outreach and hosts the old Saker material https://sakerlatam.blog
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According to S. Glazyev, in his seminal essay “Sanctions and Sovereignty”, didactically discussed in the excellent interviews here and here, the opportunity of the century would consist… Continue reading
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Apr 18 2023 
FM Lavrov’s visit to Brazil: Agenda and Transcript
On April 17, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1863973/) the Federative Republic of Brazil as part of his trip to Latin America.
During the visit, which was marked by the traditionally friendly atmosphere of the bilateral relations, Sergey Lavrov…
🤝 was received by President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva;
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Apr 17 2023 
Sanctions ‘undermine hegemony of dollar’, US Treasury admits
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted to CNN that Washington’s unilateral sanctions on countries around the world “could undermine the hegemony of the dollar”.
From Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy
The secretary of the US Treasury, Janet Yellen, has admitted that Washington’s imposition of unilateral sanctions on countries around the world could weaken the dominance of the dollar.
“There… Continue reading
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Brazil (Lula da Silva) + 240 representatives ✈
The Brazilian President will pay an official visit to China between March 26 and 31. “It is an extremely important trip, not only to guarantee the relationship Brazil has with China but also to expand our relationship with China,” Lula told Brasil TV 247. China is by far Brazil’s biggest trade partner.
The two countries will… Continue reading
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Brazil and Lula: Undeliverable Expectations
When Lula won the Brazilian elections, we all knew that it was going to be tough going, He inherited a government structure with budgets three years old, with most social support withdrawn from the population, and from the international arena, an almost incoherent program of destabilization from the US right, and a mixture of government… Continue reading
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Brazil attempted coup d’état
Situation report: Brazil at the start of 9 January.
1. A state of emergency is declared in the Brazilian capital until 30 January. Various citizens’ rights will be restricted in accordance with the law on emergencies.
2. Brazilian President Lula da Silva announces the start of an intervention of federal troops in the capital to suppress an… Continue reading
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Brazil with Lula: Significance for the world
Lula da Silva has returned as Brazil’s president. This will cause a major geopolitical shift. Meanwhile, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro fled to Florida
This is Ben Norton and Brian Meir who is Brazil-based about what Lula’s 3rd government means for the world.
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Dec 23 2022 
Can China help Brazil restart its global soft power?
Bolsonaro reduced Brazil to resources-exporter status; now Lula should follow Argentina’s lead into Belt and Road
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Asia Times
Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social… Continue reading
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Nov 28 2022 
We started with Brazil .. a discussion
Our commentator SoUtH started a discussion that soon became broader than what the space allowed us. So, we are opening the discussion here.
SoUtH made a comment that could be provocative, but it is not. Change My Mind! We are not in that business but we are in the business of in-depth discussion, so to the… Continue reading
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Nov 15 2022 
Lula: Travels to COP27
This is good for Lula. It is good that before he is even inaugurated, he gets to arrange bilateral meetings and that he gets to discuss planetary issues.
On Monday, Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva traveled to Egypt to take part in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27).
“Brazil, which was diplomatically isolated during the… Continue reading
