Breaking Predatory Brazil Narratives from the Imperialist North / Brian Mier

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Today's episode features an interview with This Is Hell! regular Brian Mier. Brian updates Chuck on what the US corporate media has been getting wrong about Brazil. We also have the second of a two-part Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen. Brian Mier is a Chicagoan who immigrated to Brazil in the 1990s. He is a sociologist and geographer. He is also Brazil Correspondent for TeleSur English, co-host of Globalistas on TV 247, Brasilwire, FAIR, COHA, Truthdig, Geopolitical Economy Report, Carta Capital, Outras Palavras. Support This is Hell! on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Oh, I'm not. You're welcome Neil. Welcome, Neil. Welcome now.
0:58.9	This is hell. The only radio show Podcast, live stream where we give you a 100% guarantee that the guests are smarter than the host. This is hell and today that is definitely the case. I mean sure I know more about
1:04.8	Canadian football but seriously that's about it and any knowledge of the
1:08.8	CFL is a very very low bar back in the 20th century today's guest had written an article for
1:15.3	Chicago's lumping magazine and to be honest I can't even remember what the hell we
1:18.7	talked about that said we are going to try to find that interview in our archives and shared on
1:24.0	patreon this week at patreon.com slash this is hell. So if you want to hear the
1:29.0	very first interview we've ever done with today's guest, you can hear that on Patreon. Years later he would contact
1:36.0	us about his latest writing, but he was no longer in Chicago and living in Brazil. Our guest today
1:41.7	is listener favorite and our correspondent and contributor Brian Muir.
1:46.2	Brian is editor and contributor to Year of Lead,
1:50.3	Washington, Wall Street, The New Imperialism in Brazil.
1:53.2	He is co-editor of Brazil Wire, Brazil Correspondent for Telesur English's News Program
1:59.4	from the South, and co-host on Brazil 24-7.
2:03.0	Brian will be on to talk with us about his new sub-stack,
2:07.0	de-linking Brazil.
2:09.0	Support Brian's writing at B-M- I E R dot Substack.
2:15.6	It's a great place to find all of Brian's work
2:18.5	because he posts it so many different places.
2:21.3	It's a really great central location to find all of his
2:24.1	writing. At Substack Brian's been writing about and sharing reports on the
2:28.9	aftermath of the election of President Lula de Silva in the fall-up from January's failed coup by allies of the former
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