Tag: Bolsonaro
Climate Change: Still Time to Staunch the Blood-Dimmed Tide
It’s the year 2100. The nationalist ideology popularized by Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, and Boris Johnson has not only retained its hold on industrialized nations, but also expanded amid conditions of climate upheaval. Many of the world’s major powers have spent the last several decades focusing on themselves. Borders have closed. International investments in education and technology have declined.
Source: Climate Change: Still Time to Staunch the Blood-Dimmed Tide | Portside
The Amazon’s Neocolonial Problem
The 2019 G7 summit in Biarritz unnecessarily handed Brazil’s Neofascist Bolsonaro a propaganda coup with which to rally his dwindling support. With his approval falling to record lows and facing international attacks of unprecedented intensity, their colonial-sounding rhetoric allowed him to appear heroically nationalistic, a defender of Brazilian sovereignty over the Amazon, when in reality he and his government are fully geared to serve the interests of foreign capital in true comprador tradition.
Capitalist dementia
What Brazilian conservatives gain by letting the Amazon burn.
Source: Apocalypse Now | Boston Review
Capitalism as greek tragedy…
Rapacious capitalists are blazing a trail of staggering destruction across the Amazon rainforest — enabled by Brazil’s reactionary in chief, Jair Bolsonaro.
The War on Brazilian Democracy | Portside
It has been nearly five months since Jair Bolsonaro became president in Brazil. The changes are hard to characterize simply.
