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Brazil’s Lula Reemerges in a Very Different Political World

11Oct

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Brazil

Brazil’s Lula Reemerges in a Very Different Political World

BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photograph Source: Valter Campanato/ABr – CC BY 3.0 br Brazil’s first round of elections, held on October 2, yielded a major victory for the man who held the presidency from 2003 to 2010, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Winning 48 percent of the vote in a multicandidate race, Lula now heads to a runoff against incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro, who won 43 percent. It’s the first chapter of a dramatic comeback for a leader who was once hailed as the epitome of Latin America’s resurgent left, who was then imprisoned on corruption charges by a politicized judiciary, eventually was released, and has now emerged onto the political scene in a very different nation than the one he once led. A founding member of Brazil’s Workers’ Party (P...

11Oct

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Yemen

Peace is a Fading Hope in Yemen

BY CHARLES PIERSON Photograph Source: Felton Davis – CC BY 2.0 Hope for peace in Yemen dimmed on October 2 when a truce between a Saudi-led coalition and Yemen’s Houthi rebels expired without being renewed. The truce had begun in April, was extended in June, and extended again in August. Since 2015, the US has been Saudi Arabia’s silent partner, providing the Saudi-led military coalition (“SLC”) with intelligence and targeting assistance, and (until November 2018) conducting in-flight refueling of coalition aircraft. Yemenis refer to the “Saudi-American war,” or, simply, the “American war.” Biden had promised to end US assistance to the coalition, both on the campaign trail and in his first major foreign policy speech as president o...

“Home of the “Hellhounds:” Whiteman AFB Drone Squadron ‘Most Lethal’ in US

11Oct

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USA

“Home of the “Hellhounds:” Whiteman AFB Drone Squadron ‘Most Lethal’ in US

BY BRIAN TERRELL Leading up to this protest there was discussion among organizers about the nature of drone operations here at Whiteman Air Force Base. Is this a training facility, or are Reaper drones engaged in lethal activities, are actual murders committed from this place, in real time in places far away by remote control? While the details of drone operations are shrouded in secrecy, broken only by courageous whistleblowers, the Air Force exposes enough of itself for us to know that crimes with global consequences are being committed in this very place. In September 2020, a press release saved on Whiteman’s website boasted, “The 20th Attack Squadron … located at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, was appointed General Atomics’ 2019 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (...

11Oct

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USA

The Long Arms of US Slavery

BY YOSEF BRODY Poster for the film Riotsville U.S.A. – Fair Use Two new films, Riotsville USA and The Chocolate War, offer valuable insight into mechanisms of economic and racial injustice in the US and West Africa The Chocolate War (directed by Miki Misrati, 2022; 80min) A look at the very bottom of the chocolate supply chain and the legality of contemporary child slavery If by chance your attention has been focused elsewhere recently, you may have missed the Supreme Court’s Big Chocolate decision. Laying down a meaningful landmark in the nation’s fraught history over the slavery economy, the Court in 2021 ruled 8-1 that US chocolate manufacturers cannot be held legally responsible for the exploitation of enslaved children, even if t...

Burning Books (or Rather Book Companies)

11Oct

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Literature

Burning Books (or Rather Book Companies)

BY TOM ENGELHARDT Photo by Freddy Kearney No one listened better than Studs. For those of you old enough to remember, that’s Studs Terkel, of course. The most notable thing about him in person, though, was this: the greatest interviewer of his moment, perhaps of any moment, never stopped talking, except, of course, when he was listening to produce one of his memorable bestselling oral histories — he essentially created the form — ranging from Working and Hard Times to The Good War. I still remember him calling my house. He was old, his hearing was going, and he couldn’t tell that my teenage son had rushed to answer the phone, hoping it was one of his friends. Instead, finding himself on with Studs talking a mile a minute, my son would begin...

11Oct

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USA

It’s Time to Do Away With Dark Money

BY BELLA DEVAAN More than $2 billion dollars. That’s how much dark money eclipsed the 2020 elections, OpenSecrets estimates– an increase of over $1.8 billion from just ten years prior. The 2010 Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision devastatingly altered U.S. campaigns and elections. By likening political spending groups to individual Americans entitled to First Amendment rights, Super PAC groups have flourished, offering a quick and easy way for donors to pour money into political advocacy while shielding their identities. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) first introduced the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act twelve years ago – hoping to at least cast light on the people behind booming political spending...

Why the Swedish Left Will Continue to Lose

11Oct

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Sweden

Why the Swedish Left Will Continue to Lose

BY JONATHAN FELDMAN Early sticker used by the Sweden Democrats with the slogan Bevara Sverige Svenskt (“Keep Sweden Swedish”) – Fair Use The Left’s Loss How did the Swedish Democrats (SD), a party with roots in the Nazi movement, become Sweden’s second largest political party? The Swedish left continues to fail in reinventing itself. The result is continuing failure. This trajectory has been apparent for at least twelve years, dating to the 2010 parliamentary election. A further reminder was provided four years later in the 2014 parliamentary election, but nothing was done then either. This essay explains how a comprehensive solution to problems of regional, uneven development could potentially help win over voters...

Four Straight Years of Nonstop Street Protest in Haiti

10Oct

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Haiti

Four Straight Years of Nonstop Street Protest in Haiti

BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Voice of America – Public Domain A cycle of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and—despite the pandemic—has carried on since then. The core reason for the protest in 2018 was that in March of that year the government of Venezuela—due to the illegal sanctions imposed by the United States—could no longer ship discounted oil to Haiti through the PetroCaribe scheme. Fuel prices soared by up to 50 percent. On August 14, 2018, filmmaker Gilbert Mirambeau Jr. tweeted a photograph of himself blindfolded and holding a sign that read, “Kot Kòb Petwo Karibe a???” (Where did the PetroCaribe money go?). He reflected the popular sentiment in the country that the money from the scheme had been looted by the ...

The GOP’s MAGA Campaigns Aren’t Going So Well

10Oct

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USA

The GOP’s MAGA Campaigns Aren’t Going So Well

BY GEORGE OCHENSKI Photograph Nathaniel St. Clair The state and nation’s voters are, as usual, deluged by a tidal wave of campaign promises from candidates as the November elections draw near. And as usual, we are being promised far more than these candidates can or will deliver should they attain the offices they seek. But after the absolute debacle of the Trump/MAGA/insurrection administration — and evidence of failing campaigns by those who followed, supported, or emulated those extreme positions — it appears voters have wised up to the fact that their promises are as phony as the inflated assets valuations that now have their grifter-in-chief sinking in a quicksand of legal woes. It’s telling that a desperate GOP is withdrawing tens of millions of dollars from p...

Humanity Will Eat Itself Through Violence, War, Hatred and Neglect

10Oct

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Human Rights

Humanity Will Eat Itself Through Violence, War, Hatred and Neglect

BY JOHN STANTON Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Even Seven Billion Simple Acts of Kindness will not Alter the Outcome Mutilation & Burning at the Stake: United States 1899 in the US State of Georgia: “Sam Hose was brought to a patch of land known as the old Troutman field. Newspapers reported that members of the mob used knives to sever Hose’s ears, fingers and genitals while others plunged knives repeatedly into his body, to cheers from the mob. Men and boys gathered kindling from the nearby woods to create a pyre. The skin from Hose’s face was removed, and he was doused with kerosene. He was then chained to a pine tree. Several matches were thrown onto the pyre by members of the mob, lighting it on fire and burning Hose alive. The heat from the fire caused Hose’s v...