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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
