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Stand up for Democracy and Social Progress in Brazil
Why are Brazil’s political, social and environmental crises being ignored by so much of the international media, asks COLIN BURGON
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
BRAZIL has been going through tumultuous times since the elected president Dilma Rousseff was removed over 15 months ago by an illegitimate impeachment process that was widely condemned internationally as a coup.
But whether the crises are political, social or environmental, they always seem to be ignored by much media coverage on Latin America.
It seems that the media is more interested in backing up US President Donald Trump’s attempts to force regime change in countries with left-wing governments than the anti-democratic manoeuvres and hard-line neoliberal economics of much of the region’s right wing.
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