<nettime> Follow Glenn Greenwald on Brazil in The Intercept

[Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

Hiya,

Re: Brazil elections & politics, one could pbly do worse than following 
Glenn Greenwald's posts on TheIntercept:

https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/

like yesterday's :


https://theintercept.com/2018/10/10/watch-the-stunning-rise-of-brazils-far-right-and-what-it-shows-about-western-democracies/

Most Western news consumers are aware that, in Brazil, far-right 
presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, came close in Sunday’s national 
election to winning 50 percent of the vote needed to win without a 
runoff (he received 46.2 percent). Bolsonaro is now highly likely to 
prevail on October 28 against his opponent, the liberal Workers’ Party 
candidate Fernando Haddad, who finished a distant second with 29 
percent. That result, by itself, is stunning, given that Bolsonaro is an 
undiluted, explicit authoritarian in the model of the Philippines’s 
Rodrigo Duterte and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi — one could easily say 
“fascist” even using the most narrow and rigorous sense of that term — 
who had been a fringe figure in politics for decades, but is now poised 
to assume the presidency.

But the consequences of Sunday’s election extend far beyond Bolsonaro’s 
likely victory.

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