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Luiz Felipe de Alencastro is a Brazilian academic. He is professor of Brazilian History at University of Paris Sorbonne . He also worked at Andrew W. Mellon Senior Research and John Carter Brown Library. He is a colluminst of the celebrity Brazilian magazine called Veja. On October 30, 2002 in Washington, DC he participated as speaker on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The topic under discussion was: “BRAZIL: Political and Economic Challenges Facing the President-elect and the Implications for U.S. Policy in Latin America”. http://www.cfr.org/pub5190/cfr/brazil_political_and_economic_challenges_facing_the_presidentelect_and_the_implications_for_us_policy_in_latin_america.php During the discussion someone among the audience inquired Professor Alencastro about the South-American organization...

A list of 240,000 names of Polish secret agents, informers, secret service employees, and victims of persecution was leaked on the internet in the last days and became an instant hit. The search for "lista Wildsteina" (Wildstein's list) sky-rocketed to 300,000 per day in the second most popular search engine in Poland (onet.pl) outperforming "sex" (former top query) by more than 30 times. The list appeared on many web sites, p2p networks, and was made into a searchable database. There are worries the list might contain names of active security agents, still working abroad. Google news has more coverage. The...

2005 World Social Forum-Brazil Coverture Third Day The Brazilian writer and former Catholic priest Leornado Boff said the colonialism, the inheritance of the slavery and the transformation of the country in a great multinational company are the biggest problems (he called:"the three wounds") Brazilian society has to face up to. According to him the Catholic Church can't have the right to talk about dignity because it is seated in the blood of millions. He still defended that the first right is the right to the life and that ,other freedoms must come later, including the right of going and coming,...

No, it is not Osama, neither Saddam. The most dangerous enemies of America are: the stupidity and the Americans (like Chomsky, Ted Turner and Moore).

The World Social Forum Party in Porto Alegre, Brazil would not be complete without the traditional and acclaimed burn of the American flag.

In 1939, Hitler and Stalin signed a not-aggression pact. The Communists feel safe and protected against a German attack. However Hitler wanted to take all the Europe and invaded the Soviet Union, in 1941. Nowadays after a long time the left avenges of Hitler and demands the fulfilment of this pact. The fact of a young prince to be dressed as a nazi in a harmless party of teenagers (a bad joke, we must admit) caused an immense furor on the international media. World Social Forum 2005 - Brazil. However, thousands of people marching for the streets of a great...

It was opened on January 26 the Fifth Edition of the World Social Forum in Brazil. The event congregates thousand of activists of all world.

The Communism won, at least this round. The USA is the most hated nation of the world, socialists and communists dominated the media and Fidel Castro extends his power through Latin America. Latin American citizens are being indoctrinated about Communism, hating the USA and loving Cuba and China. It is not by accident this year the Academy Awards will have two Latin American highly celebrated movies. One of these movies is a biography of Che Guevara and the other tells the heroic saga of a Jew young woman KGB agent in Latin America. Are all the Americans sleeping?

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