On Sunday, Brazilians headed the polls for the first round of voting in their presidential

election.

Former President Lula De Silva is surging in the polls, climbing over the 50 percent

he would need for a knockout first round win.

If those polls are accurate, he's likely to do significantly better than that even,

because a significant portion of voters remain undecided, and if they break his way, or

some portion of them break his way, he could even crack 60 percent.

In Comet President Jare Bolsonaro, who styles himself that Donald Trump of Brazil, has

signaled that he won't respect the result like that, arguing the polls are wrong, and

the election is being stolen.

The Biden administration, however, has sent signals it plans to recognize the results of

the election, putting the U.S. in a totally novel situation working to prevent a right-wing

coup in South America.

Weird times.

In Europe this week, the fascist adjacent Georgie Maloney won the Italian election for prime

minister, which came a few weeks after a surging right-wing took power in Sweden.

All of this, while a massive attack on the Nord Stream pipeline, has led to global finger-pointing

ahead of what could be one of the most pivotal winters in Europe in half a century or more.

To sort through all this, I'll be joined first by Art Goldhammer, one of the leading translators

of French work into English, including his work on the Seminal Translation of Thomas

Piccadys book Capital in the 21st century.

After that, I'll speak with Brazilian sociologist Sabrina Fernandez, who often tweets in English

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