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Chapo Trahouse • 1 week ago

Animal News | Chapo Trap House

"The Secret Agent": Kleber Mendonça Filho on His Oscar-Nominated Film & Brazil's Military Dictatorship
Democracy Now • 1 week ago

"The Secret Agent": Kleber Mendonça Filho on His Oscar-Nominated Film & Brazil's Military Dictatorship

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated film, The Secret Agent, and the history that inspired it. The film is set in the northern Brazilian city of Recife in the 1970s, during the country’s U.S.-backed military dictatorship. ”The Secret Agent is very much about the past, but it’s very much about the past repeating itself through amnesia,” says Mendonça, who draws a comparison between the Cold War-era dictatorship and Brazil’s later years under right-wing Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro. This is an excerpt of a longer interview with Mendonça you can watch here.

"Utter Disaster for All Involved": Is Trump's War on Iran Repeating Bush's "Forever War" in Iraq?
Democracy Now • 1 week ago

"Utter Disaster for All Involved": Is Trump's War on Iran Repeating Bush's "Forever War" in Iraq?

As Iranian missiles strike military, residential and economic targets in neighboring Gulf states, we speak to Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara in Doha, Qatar. Bishara says Iran’s targeting of U.S. allies in the region may be an Iranian calculation that there is “a cost to be paid for American interests” as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other regional powers are forced to respond to an “Israeli war of choice.” Meanwhile, says Bishara, the U.S. has learned “nothing” from its own history. Not only has the Trump administration “repeated every single false pretext the Bush administration carried or diffused to justify the war against Iraq,” but “this threatens to be a far worse war in its implication for American long-term security and for the stability in the region … It’s like the American government [is] addicted to international violence, to wars, to assassinations, to launching those hegemonic wars that they [cannot] end.”

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