A surprisingly harsh and direct article by Juliet Macur in the Times on the complete idiocy of stadium building for the World Cup. A lot of these new stadiums not only cost a ton of money, but they weren't even built in cities with functioning...
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It's not only in Qatar that workers are dying to build World Cup stadiums. It's also in Brazil, but unlike Qatar, which uses largely very poor migrant laborers, these are.
This is a guest post from Colin Snider of Americas South and North. As many by now know, the last 10 days have seen an incredible degree of social mobilization.
Like most countries through world history, Brazil is modernizing though the intensive mining of its natural resources. The United States did this. Russia/USSR did this. Australia, Canada, etc. Britain and France did so through mining the resources of their Asian and African colonies. China is...
Brazil received some pretty bad economic news yesterday. In my latest (exceedingly well timed) WPR piece, I talk a bit about how Brazil's apparent aspirations to influence don't fit very.
The Dutch defeat at the Second Battle of Guararapes now stands avenged.
This falls more in Randy and Mr. Trend's bailiwick, but is worth reading pending their commentary:President Richard M. Nixon discussed with Brazil’s president a cooperative effort to overthrow the government of Salvador Allende of Chile, according to recently declassified documents that reveal deep collaboration between...
The Brazilians may finally be getting some decent aircraft for the Sao Paulo:The Government of Brazil has requested proposals from several foreign suppliers, including the United States, to provide the.
Feng at ID highlights two new bits of data on China's aircraft carrier program. The first is that the Chinese have carried out significant work on the ex-Varyag, the Kuznetsov.
I think we can all agree that the progressive blogosphere has been pathetically remiss in the field of analysis of Brazilian military restructuring. Mr. Trend gets us off to a good start here:However, I find Lula's efforts to actually enforce military conscription for everybody to...
Mr. Trend talks a bit about the resumption of the Brazilian (civilian) nuclear power program:The power plant was originally decreed in the 1970s as part of the military dictatorship's demonstration.
Ronaldo picked up tranvestite hookers? Mr. Trend seems to think there are more important stories to talk about in Brazil. I'm unconvinced.