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Is Brazil the Next Cop on the Beat in Africa? The Pentagon Seems to Hope So

June 10, 2012

Tags: Africa, Brazil, WikiLeaks, Africom, Leon Panetta


Big al-Jazeera article today about Pentagon's desire to have Brazil play a more forceful role in Africa. To read the piece, click here.

Update: just concluded an interview with Capetown radio station Voice of the Cape which dealt with aforementioned article. The issue of Brazilian involvement in Africa is a new one, and I had the sense that Africans don't really know what to make of Brazil's rise on world stage. What are your thoughts? Write me and let me know what you think, particularly if you hail from Africa.

Talking Chile with Russians and Cubans

June 5, 2012

Tags: RT, Chile, Prensa Latina, Mapuche, U.S. foreign policy in Latin America


Check out Prensa Latina on my recent article about the U.S. military base in Chile, and my interview today with RT. At the risk of sounding rhetorical, why is it that, with the exception of anti-war radio,
Russian and Cuban media cover this important story, while American media chooses to remain silent?