Brazil

‘They’re killing us’: world’s most endangered tribe cries for help

by Attention to the Unseen 04.22.2012

The Observer reports: Trundling along the dirt roads of the Amazon, the giant logging lorry dwarfed the vehicle of the investigators following it. The trunks of nine huge trees were piled high on the back – incontrovertible proof of the continuing destruction of the world’s greatest rainforest and its most endangered tribe, the Awá. Yet [...]

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Israel progresses down the path to isolation

by News Sources 12.09.2010

Peter Beinart facetiously congratulates Benjamin Netanyahu now that he’s thwarted President Obama’s Middle East peace efforts. Now all you have to worry about is…Argentina. You see, Argentina just recognized a Palestinian state on 1967 borders. Brazil did so days earlier. Uruguay and Paraguay are expected to follow suit, and then Bolivia and Ecuador. Oh, and [...]

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Is Obama’s word worth anything?

by Paul Woodward 05.28.2010

President Obama is either a liar or he has lost control of his own administration. In a letter he sent to the president of Brazil in late April, Obama spelled out the terms on which the US would support a diplomatic initiative by Brazil and Turkey who hoped to revive a nuclear swap agreement that [...]

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Obama and Clinton’s choice: humility or humiliation?

by Paul Woodward 05.22.2010

This week the Obama administration made what may come to be seen as a blunder of historic proportions. At a moment when tactical agility was a must, it stayed on course because it lacked the diplomatic finesse to show or perhaps even recognize the difference between being resolute and being inflexible. The sanctions juggernaut plowed [...]

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“For the world has changed, and we must change with it.”

by Paul Woodward 05.20.2010

Back in the days when Barack Obama scored political points for setting the right tone and hitting the right notes, this was one of his best lines, it’s significance underlined by the fact that it came in his inauguration speech. … the world has changed, and we must change with it. From America the hyperpower [...]

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Lula’s new world order

by Paul Woodward 05.18.2010

In a world long dominated by Western powers, the global order has been one shaped by coercion. Although the twentieth century saw the end of formal colonialism — the most overt coercive system — the perpetuation of economic colonialism has meant that the United States and its allies still expect to have the final word [...]

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Lula and Erdogan demonstrate their diplomatic clout

by Paul Woodward 05.16.2010

If President Obama had accomplished what Brazil and Turkey are about to pull off — a deal through which Iran will exchange its stockpile of enriched uranium in return for fuel rods for a medical research reactor — then the US media would be hailing this as a diplomatic breakthrough. Instead, this is being described [...]

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Time for George Mitchell and the US to step aside

by Paul Woodward 03.12.2010

Among commentators unable to see beyond the bankrupt perspective that the United States has the indispensable role of mediating a Middle East peace agreement (if such an agreement is ever to be reached), much is being made about Joe Biden’s tough words “behind closed doors”. Laura Rozen quotes from a Yedioth Ahronoth report: People who [...]

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Brazil rebuff for Iran sanctions drive

by Paul Woodward 03.05.2010

The Financial Times reports: Brazil delivered a wounding blow to Washington’s hopes of international consensus for sanctions on Iran on Wednesday when its president declared his opposition to such measures hours before meeting Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state. In an indication of Brazil’s growing self-confidence on the international stage – and its effort to [...]

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Luladinejad

by Paul Woodward 11.29.2009

Luladinejad By Pepe Escobar, RealNews, November 24, 2009

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