Ideology

North Korean soldiers marching

Trying to Understand Brazilians’ Fascination with North Korea and Its Puzzling Regime

The headlines that usually catch Brazilians’ attention are various corruption scandals, acts of urban ...

Vitor Magalhães and Antônio Andrade dos Santos (first on the right and first on the left) among the detained

With FBI’s Help, Brazil Is Putting ISIS Terrorists Behind Bars

Eight Brazilians accused of promoting the Islamic State terrorist organization, as well as other ...

Lula hugs senator Gleisi Hoffmann just elected first woman president of the PT - Ricardo Stuckert/PT

Brazil’s PT Elects New Party Leader and Moves to Make Lula President Again

Brazil’s leader of the Workers Party (PT) in the Senate, Gleisi Hoffmann, from the ...

Protest against Temer at Museu da República in Brasília - Lula Marques/Agência PT

How the Neoliberal Elite Conspired to Destroy Brazil’s Workers Party. And How It Failed

The Brazilian Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) won the country’s presidential elections four ...

Brazilian congressman Jair Messias Bolsonaro - Antonio Cruz/ABr

Known as the Myth, Jair Bolsonaro Is Brazil’s Version of Donald Trump

On April 4, Christian Social Party congressman Jair Messias Bolsonaro gave a racially charged ...

Elections: A Far-Right Former Captain Surges as Brazil’s Donald Trump

Since the election victory of Donald Trump, many have tirelessly talked about populism. It ...

A Few Examples of How Societal Fascism Is Alive and Well in Brazil

In 1940 Walter Benjamin wrote his Theses on the Concept of History prompted by ...

How the New Regime in Brazil Uses Ideology in Effort to Legitimate the Coup

There is some similarity between the atomic age and the action of ideology. The ...

Chomsky, Oliver Stone, and 20 Other Celebrities Decry Coup Against Brazil’s President

Twenty-two international intellectuals, writers, actors, and activists sent a letter to the Brazilian government ...

Believe It or Not, Brazil’s Second in Line for Presidency Is a Communist

Master Gilberto Freire  was absolutely right when he remarked that Brazil was the country ...