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“It’s the people, it’s the citizenry of the world who are going toe to toe with the handful of politicians who are driving disastrous decisions for us.”
Focusing on what people, including those most harmed, are doing, along with what’s being done to them, could help move debate off an outdated dime.
The arguments presented in the New York Times have bolstered Trump’s justification for imposing tariffs on Brazilian goods.
The arguments advanced to justify banning coffee imports from Brazil to the US rely on outliers representing a tiny portion of the workforce, not the norm.
The New York Times has embraced a toxic narrative pushed by former President Jair Bolsonaro and allies like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson to discredit Brazil’s court system.
The New York Times has a long tradition of promoting fascists while crying censorship when a leftist government defends itself against coups.
“I know all of the cases that they cherry-picked their text fragments from. They stitched together excerpts.”
Elon Musk’s defiance of a Brazilian judge is a political campaign to use social media to reshape global politics in favor of the right.
US journalists remained silent about their government’s role in removing Brazil’s front-running presidential candidate in the 2018 elections.
The New York Times is traditionally soft on right-wing extremists while portraying leftist Latin American governments as authoritarian.
Western outlets will stop at no length to defend Washington’s agenda, even if that means reheating debunked narratives.
Two New York Times pieces may represent a troubling narrative shift in the newspaper of record’s Brazil coverage.
As US economic power continues to wane, the US and its allies in the media continue to try to assert imperial influence over Latin America.
“None of them would ever want a former labor union leader to become president of the US. That’s pretty obvious, right?”
It’s hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazil’s change of direction.
Anglo media are treating the Brazilian first-round presidential elections as if the Brazilian Workers Party suffered a crushing defeat.
Rise of the Bolsonaros tells the story of Brazil’s far-right president through sources like Steve Bannon and Bolsonaro’s son Flavio.
Janine Jackson interviewed Global Witness’s Jon Lloyd about Facebook disinformation for the August 19, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: Social media platforms’ role in shaping the sharing and fomenting of ideas that they purport to merely facilitate is a widely diagnosed concern. As with any kind of […]
We have some questions about the US government’s claim that this time, they’re really bringing stability and security to Central America.
Fox’s propaganda blitz preemptively sets the stage for the normalization of a possible military coup in Brazil this October.
