By Bill Blum for Truth Dig - The Trump presidency has been a boon for at least three groups of people: late-night comics who see him as a boundless source of hilarity; conspiracy theorists [...]
By Paul Street for Truth Dig - I am always darkly amused when I hear one of my fellow Americans call for a return from our current “deep state” plutocracy and empire to the supposedly benevolent [...]
By Hayley Miller for The Huffington Post - Some Twitter users called opening day at Nationals Park a win for the home team — and America. Protesters Hang Giant ‘Impeach Trump’ Banner At [...]
By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - A PRIMARY ARGUMENT MADE by opponents of impeaching Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was that removing her would immediately empower the truly corrupt [...]
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By Rachael Boothroyd Rojas for Venezuela Analysis - Caracas, October 23rd 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) - Violence erupted at Venezuela’s legislature on Sunday, after crowds of government [...]
By Staff of Tele Sur - Eduardo Cunha, long regarded as one of Brazil's most powerful, corrupt and unpopular politicians, faces multimillion-dollar fraud charges.
Federal authorities have [...]
By Staff of Tele Sur - Former president of the chamber of deputies and mastermind of President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, Eduardo Cunha, lost his seat in the lower house Monday night that had [...]
By Deirdre Fulton for Commondreams. Protests took place in multiple Brazilian cities on Sunday, in support of ousted president Dilma Rousseff and against the now-officially installed government [...]
By Jonathan Watts for The Guardian - Brazil’s first female president Dilma Rousseff has been thrown out of office by the country’s corruption-tainted senate after a gruelling impeachment trial [...]
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By Jonathan Watts and Donna Bowater for The Guardian - Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, put up a fight in keeping with her Marxist guerrilla background on Monday with a powerful [...]
By Mark Weisbrot for CEPR - Some press reports on the crisis in Brazil seem to imply that the removal of President Dilma Rousseff, re-elected in 2014 for a four-year term, is a done deal. Of [...]
By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - FROM THE START of the campaign to impeach Brazil’s democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff, the primary justification was that she used a budget [...]
By Staff of Tele Sur - Attorney General Eduardo Cardozo, the government's top lawyer, asked the Supreme Court to annul impeachment proceedings, his office said. Speaker Eduardo Maranhao on Monday [...]
By Fred Weston for In Defense of Marxism - Such were the passions on both sides that the authorities had to build a temporary two metre-high, one kilometer-long metal fence to keep apart the [...]
By Vincent Bevins for The Los Angeles Times - Efforts to impeach Brazil's president accelerated this month as the country fell into full-blown crisis. But the congressional commission that will [...]
