Despite Bannon’s Role in Campaign, Bolsonaro is not Brazil’s Trump – He’s Far Worse

Bolsonaro is different from Trump in that – instead of planning to build a wall or enact an immigration ban – Bolsonaro believes in using military and police violence to purge Brazil of “undesirables.”

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Jair Bolsonaro Brazil

BRASILIA, BRAZIL -- The rise to prominence of Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has given many in Brazil and abroad cause for concern. Bolsonaro – once considered a “fringe” politician – has publicly proposed bringing back elements of the country’s former military dictatorship, which he has often promoted over his

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Steve Bannon Declares ‘War Rooms’ to Win European Elections – and That’s Not Meddling?

America has relentlessly meddled in scores of countries to determine election outcomes. Steve Bannon is but the latest brazen expression of US malign activity.

Finian Cunningham
By Finian Cunningham
Steve Bannon Elections

One trait of imperial decadence is untrammeled hubris. Given the increasingly arrant arrogance on display by United States’ officials, public figures and news media we can safely conclude that this empire is accelerating into decadence. A recent spectacular example comes with separate visits to Europe by US defense secretary James Mattis and

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Steve Bannon to Advise Brazil’s Far-Right Presidential Candidate

During his one-year stint as chief strategist for the Trump administration, Bannon pushed for tougher immigration policies, including the notorious “Trump Wall” and the “Muslim ban” as part of his white-economic-nationalist agenda.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon addresses members of the far right National Front party at the party congress in the northern French city of Lille, March 10, 2018. Photo | AP

Political strategist Steve Bannon, a founding member of the far right-wing news website Breitbart News and former chief advisor to United States President Donald Trump, will be an advisor to Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro for the upcoming elections in October. The announcement was made by Bolsonaro's son and congressman, Eduardo

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Author of Trump’s Iran Regime Change Blueprint is Actually a Right-Wing Troll

The white paper was produced by Jim Hanson, a self-proclaimed expert “practitioner of the art of war” who is virtually unknown in Washington. Hanson has a prolific presence on Twitter, where he operates under the handle, “Uncle Jimbo.”

Max Blumenthal
By Max Blumenthal
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, holds a flowchart of highway projects as he speaks to the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Aug. 15, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Donald Trump’s unilateral exit from the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA) has triggered a frenzied push inside the administration to support color revolution-style regime change operations in Iran. According to the neoconservative Free Beacon, National Security Director John Bolton has authorized the publication and

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Trump-Russia Probe ‘All About Money Laundering,’ Says Steve Bannon In Explosive New Book

Mueller’s investigation “goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner sh*t,” Bannon says. “They’re going to go right through that.”

Jake Johnson
By Jake Johnson
Steve Bannon, President Trump's chief strategist attends a listening session with manufacturing CEOs in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Photo:Olivier Douliery/CNP /MediaPunch/IPX)

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has never been shy about his contempt for Jared Kushner and other members of President Donald Trump's cabinet. But in interviews conducted for a new book set to be released next week, Bannon opened up in a way that reportedly shocked the White House, attacking Trump's eldest son as "treasonous" and

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White House Hires Billionaire War Profiteers To Aid In War Planning

Blackwater founder Erik Prince and billionaire Stephen Feinberg reportedly “recruited” for war planning.

Jake Johnson
By Jake Johnson
Blackwater founder Erik Prince testifies before a House committee examining the mission and performance of private military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, Oct. 2, 2007. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Two of President Donald Trump's closest aides have reportedly solicited advice from two wealthy private military contractors — Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, and Stephen Feinberg, the billionaire owner of DynCorp International—on how to proceed with the sixteen-year-long war in Afghanistan. According to the New York Times, White House Chief

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