You raised two issues, President Lula, the media as prosecutor and the judge as prosecutor.

Can you talk about both? Start with the media.

Well, Amy, it's important that you come to Brazil to see what's happening with the Brazilian press.

I was president for eight years.

Dilma was president for four years and for twelve years

all the press did was to try to destroy my image and her image and the image of my party.

I have more negative subject matter about me in the leading television news program of Brazil than all of the presidents in the whole history of Brazil.

In other words, it's a daily attempt to massacre me, to tell untruths about Lula, about Lula's family and the only weapon that I have is to confront them.

And they're irritated because after they massacred me for four years, any opinion poll by any polling institute showed that Lula was going to win the elections in Brazil.

Now, second, the Attorney General and the Car Wash scandal, I respect very much the institution and I was a member of the Constitutional Assembly and I helped to strengthen the role of the Attorney General.

But it created a task force organized by a prosecutor, went to television to show a PowerPoint and said that the PT, the Workers' Party, was established to be a criminal organization, that the fact that Lula was the most important person in the PT meant that he was the head of a criminal organization.

Welcome to the Michael Brook show where back live everybody from Brooklyn, where left is best.

As of course, it is everywhere else, with super producer Matt Leck, head the Artician and freshly returned from a bond collector's convention, head the Artician, David Grishkum, feeling good.

I love it. Super producer David Slavic, he's in the digital sphere roaming the Michael Brook show universe and the world is large at large on today's program this week's program.

We're talking with Douglass Lane, he's a publisher at zero books, he's a host of the zero books podcast, we're talking about his new book, Bash Bash Revolution, getting into the world of science fiction and video games and alternative futures.

Why should the left care? Why should I care? Such an avowed non-nerd. I keep ending up talking about a lot of video games, a lot of smart people including Doug Lane, who also touch on the atrocious, the abominable Lindsey Sheppard and the quote unquote free speech racket.

Speaking of free speech racket, a certain self-public quasi-intellectual has made a mess and is going to end up in the pyramid.

Of course, we're going to dissect the Sam Harris melodrama with Ezra Klein, but the real question is after we do all that is Ezra Klein paroled from the pyramid and then crew Jean Bajlan, he is in studio all the way from whole from the UK, from Kurdistan, Iraq and from most importantly of course Springfield, Mazar, where he is a professor at Missouri State.

We're talking about Kurdish solidarity, the atrocities in Gaza and the why of the Jeremy Corbin anti-Semitism smear campaign and the broader truth that it does reveal about the UK politics and the British left.

But first, we're going to start in Brazil where there is a actual deep state coup through the judiciary that has been taking place since 2014 when Dilma Rousseff was removed from office on what was frankly a technicality on budget maneuvering.

It would be frankly analogous to the Tea Party Congress getting enough votes to remove President Obama from office for using an accounting method that they didn't like in an administration budget.

Dilma was removed, she had just won re-election after several terms of Lula, she had won two terms, she was removed.

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