[Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #424 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

I wrote:
> Lula's interview with The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald
> Transcript: 
> https://theintercept.com/2019/05/22/lula-brazil-ex-president-prison-interview/
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93MgeyNqc_k
> 
> Brazil’s Top Prosecutors Who Indicted Lula Schemed in Secret Messages to 
> Prevent His Party From Winning 2018 Election
> https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-car-wash-prosecutors-workers-party-lula/ 
> 
> 
> Leaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula 
> Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over Evidence
> https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-lula-operation-car-wash-sergio-moro/ 
> 
> 
> Related:
> How and Why The Intercept is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About 
> Brazil's "Operation Car Wash" and Justice Minister Sergio Moro
> https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-archive-operation-car-wash/

The following was just published:

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/15/watch-glenn-greenwald-explains-the-political-earthquake-in-brazil-caused-by-our-ongoing-exposes/ 
is a followup to all of this summarizing who's involved, what has occurred 
so far, and what's at stake locally and worldwide.

If you're looking for an introduction to what's going on in this developing 
story, please read this article and watch 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCnSJ5yDv1g which is the 14m44s video of 
Glenn Greenwald explaining this in plain, easily understood language.

The corruption is not only compelling in its own right, but in light of 
what resources are at stake (the Amazon, oil resources), and how fragile 
democratic governments are even against massive public support for an 
elected official (such as is the case for former Brazilian president Lula 
who was railroaded into prison on bogus charges with bogus evidence by a 
group that may very well have never had the authority to do so). It 
certainly looks like no country is safe from this when journalists are 
either not engaged to do investigative work or blocked from doing 
investigations (hence a clear connection to Assange & Manning's respective 
persecutions). The documents The Intercept's source provided are still 
being reviewed and published. There's certainly more to say on this as this 
work proceeds.