U.S. Taxpayers Are Funding Police Brutality in Brazil
With U.S.-supplied weapons and training, Brazil’s militarized police fuel a cycle of violence that claims thousands of lives each year while destabilizing the region.
With U.S.-supplied weapons and training, Brazil’s militarized police fuel a cycle of violence that claims thousands of lives each year while destabilizing the region.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva blames neoliberalism for the very problems it solves.
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Problematic deforestation continues, but the "lungs of the earth" are still breathing.
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Few boondoggles are bigger, more costly, and less permanent than Olympic infrastructure.
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Unsustainable and yet seemingly unstoppable
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