Kathy Swart

Librarian, Adjunct Professor of Humanities, interested in critical, open, and inclusive pedagogy, mom, and writer.

[BrianMier @BrianMteleSUR]

I was interviewed by @AlanRMacLeod for his excellent new piece on how the US government is already meddling in this year's Brazilian presidential elections. I'll link to it below.

[BRASILWIRE @BRASILWIRE]

Brasil’s democracy is under attack by the United States.

As it was in 1954-1964, in 1989, and every election since.

But now they’re not even hiding it.

🇺🇸https://t.co/RY8Z5I0Hp3

[BRASILWIRE @BRASILWIRE]

Presidential hopeful Flávio Bolsonaro is publicly offering Brazil’s resources to the US in exchange for election, like his father did.

We published this series on Wall Street’s fascist-enabled recolonisation of Brazil in 2019.
More relevant than ever.

https://t.co/y6uYjW2lRg

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is one of the most extraordinary and illuminating passages in all journalism.

CNN frames Maduro as a paranoid liar for claiming the CIA is trying to overthrow him.

Yet in the very next sentence, it casually notes that the CIA did, in fact, overthrow him.

The level of cognitive dissonance and imperial brain rot you must have to write this, and then have it read by an editor and published, is truly breathtaking.

[Kathy Swart @Albatross_Ar]

@TheAstraAwards @WagnerMouraReal @WagnerMouraNews Marighella a “political thriller”? Not a film about a man fighting for the people of Brazil against the U.S.-backed dictatorship? Way to whitewash.

[BrianMier @BrianMteleSUR]

Read the full article "Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United States in Brazil’s Long Coup" by myself, Bryan Pitts, Kathy Swart Sean Mitchell and Rafael Ioris, online here: https://t.co/KuA53XQ4yC

[BRASILWIRE @BRASILWIRE]

Brazil’s Holy War:
Our 2018 exclusive on the United States’ implantation of Evangelical churches in Brazil and Latin America in order to control its politics, after Nixon administration identified Liberation theology as a threat to US national security.

https://t.co/TGRkttbDjT

[Kathy Swart @Albatross_Ar]

@AlanRMacLeod I can’t wait to see how they attempt to justify this.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

We desperately need alternative media.

[Kathy Swart @Albatross_Ar]

Important context to this great film at last.
https://t.co/kJI5En5GzO

[BRASILWIRE @BRASILWIRE]

Rubens Paiva, as depicted in Oscar-nominated movie ‘I’m still here’, was targeted by Brazil’s dictatorship because he had investigated US funding of early 60s coup efforts by David Rockefeller’s “Business Group” (Now @ascoa, @ericfarns @brazilbrian)

https://t.co/f5KnFkAbWv

[BRASILWIRE @BRASILWIRE]

FAIR: On the New York Times’ odd framing, strange omissions, and outright falsehoods in its minimal coverage of Bolsonaro’s bloody coup plot.

@jacknicas

https://t.co/d747hMJDgN

[Kathy Swart @Albatross_Ar]

@SenMarcoRubio Does “peace” mean throwing parliamentary coups in Latin America and continuing the spiteful embargo against Cuba? Or are your words empty?

[BRASILWIRE @BRASILWIRE]

“We have seen correspondence with Police Scotland in which officers acknowledged there is evidence of alleged domestic abuse in Nathalia’s case which they have confirmed will now be investigated.”

#JusticeForNathaliaUrban
#NathaliaUrbanPresente

https://t.co/LXpkeUMbDj

[BRASILWIRE @BRASILWIRE]

“Nathália’s family, friends and colleagues call for a full and proper police investigation into the events and circumstances that led to her death.”

#NathaliaUrbanPresente

https://t.co/n1R9xJJbhF

[BrianMier @BrianMteleSUR]

Brazil's President Lula criticized the US Department of Justice's collusion with the disgraced Operation Car Wash investigation last night during the announcement construction of a 2nd refinery at Petrobras' Abreu e Lima plant - a project put on hold after the 2016 coup+

[BrianMier @BrianMteleSUR]

The US DOJ role in Operation Car Wash is a matter of public record, as Bryan Pitts, Sean Mitchell, Kathy Swart, Rafael Ioris and I proved in this peer-reviewed article published in UCLA's Latin American Perspectives. https://t.co/KuA53XQ4yC

[Kathy Swart @Albatross_Ar]

@BrianMteleSUR 🤮

[BrianMier @BrianMteleSUR]

I've co-written an academic article on US role in Brazil's Long Coup, entitled, "Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United States in Brazil's Long Coup" which is coming out shortly in Latin American Perspectives. I'll post the abstract in this thread+

[BRASILWIRE @BRASILWIRE]

When you see how the Guardian has covered US-backed coups and coup attempts in Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and wonder how it got so bad:

Its Latin America correspondent is listed as an AS/COA speaker.

🇺🇸https://t.co/zhp23M3nwK