#1234 Neoliberalism and the fascism it breeds (Brazilian Election)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Air Date: 12/11/2018
Today we take a look at the election of a true neofascist to be president of Brazil and some of the economic and political realities that lead us to this point
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| 0:53.3 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of a left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:58.0 | about the election of a true neo-fascist to be president of Brazil and some of the economic |
| 1:03.9 | and political realities that led us to this point. |
| 1:07.1 | Clips today come from Counter-Spin, Radio Who What Why, Democracy Now, and a TED Talk from |
| 1:13.2 | Oneease Cabage. |
| 1:16.2 | Jair Bolsonaro, the new president of Brazil, has promised to unleash a wave of violence |
| 1:22.1 | on the working class, minorities, and the left. |
| 1:25.7 | An army officer during Brazil's fascist military dictatorship about which he maintains that |
| 1:31.3 | its only error was not killing enough people, Bolsonaro told his supporters to shoot |
| 1:37.0 | every worker's party supporter in Acre State in September. |
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