Estratégia e Análise

The economic journalism as the financial capital spokesperson

Porto Alegre, 22 of july, 2010 From the south of Brazil, by Bruno Lima Rocha (political scientist and journalist, phd) and Marcelo Grisa (student of journalism) We recognize not to be something new when a researcher or a scholar, makes the critic of the media performance supposedly specialized in economy. I also recognize that the theme is something redundant and exactly for that we see this importance. Neither is treated as an innovation the use of euphemisms and the "technical" jargon as form of disguising the economical agents´ factual situations and maneuvers. It goes worse when we talk about great investors big shots in speculation - buying, selling and reviewing financial products, many of the times corporate media hides the occurrence of criminal actions. In this text, we approached that crossing variables: when the sense production generated through the economy news section, it naturalizes or chews the lethality of the speculators´ in different orders of greatness premeditated actions and the effects that cause in the day by of entire populations. Nowadays, this is the case of more than 10 million Greek citizens. At the present time, the fight among the effects of that complicity between the financial casino players and media industry, and, on the other side of the barricade, a common hard blue collar working class andtheir youth, is materialized in a battlefield in streets and squares of Greece.

They are neither left nor terrorists: the absurdities in the campaign for president of Brasil

Friday, June 4, 2010, by Bruno Lima Rocha (political scientist and journalist) and Rafael Cavalcanti (student of journalist) We have the impression that with this text, we will be challenged by the campaign teams of all presidential candidates, including themselves. If this is the price of intellectual honesty, it comes up cheap. The issue is the conceptual definition of left and terrorism. We see with deep regret (the terms are different, but here they do not fit) the rating of terrorist circulates abundantly by the Brazilian Internet, targeting the 44 million voters-users of the network. The term, associated with economist Dilma Vana Rousseff (Minister of Civil House of the current government) is, at worst, a historical injustice. And the absurdity does not stop there.

The U.S. is the Country of the Tonton Macoutes

by Bruno Lima Rocha, Brazilian political scientist (phd)

It was proven that those that had nothing could have less on Tuesday January 12th. The earthquake in Haiti devastated the little reconstruction that was done by the U.N. forces which are still controlled by the regional power with global intentions: Brazil. At the moment the country is trying to survive between the pouring in of humanitarian aid, the dispute over the returning hegemony in the region by the U.S., the limited capacity to install anything but extreme poverty, corruption and violence. It should be noted that the tragedy caused by the seismic tremor only worsened what was already horrible. Other quakes struck the region, in El Salvador and Mexico, and did not cause societal collapse - much to the contrary. The social disintegration of the poorest country in the Americas is also the result of predatory behavior directly influenced by the U.S.

Ahmadinejad and his controversial visit to Brazil

November 27, by Bruno Lima Rocha (Bruno Baghliní) Arab Brazilian political scientist (Phd) On monday, November 23, the Latin America biggest country has received the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His presence in Brazil brought to the surface a series of controversies. Polemics concerns about the Aiatolah regime (integrist and Shiite) as also Lula´s foreign policy. Very respectful sectors of homosexuals and human rights movements, and the hegemony inside Brazilian Jewish community, protested against his visit in function of what Ahmadinejad and the government he commands do represent. In general I understand the critics as correct. It is right to affirm that the conservative government doesn´t respect the fundamental liberties, it attempts against the right of religious and sexual freedom and pursues minorities. What makes me frighten is the cynic silence coming from the mouth and microphones of the same public opinion leaders and media makers. They criticize Iranian chief of State and said nothing in relation to the previous visitor, Israel president, Shimon Peres president.

The Berlin Wall and the damned inheritance

On Monday November 09 they accomplish twenty years of the dropped of the Wall of Berlin, erect the hurries in 1961. The current generation of youths (between eighteen and twenty-five years) has little or any notion of those meanings for the contemporary politics. I affirm that based on my own recent experience in teaching in university; also working with specialization and academic master and phd. degree. The end of USSR came after the popular reaction to the last Stalinist sigh in the form of a military Coup d´État in August 1991. With the end of the Cold war, the defeat and the dissolution of the old Soviet Union (USSR), rendered between August and December of 1991, played in the common ditch the ideas of equality and during one decade, it was associated that liberal democracy as an only form of democratic regime. Starting from the defeat and subsequent dissolution of the old Soviet Union culminates a process where willfully it gets confused the platform of the equality with economical inefficiency and outdated ideas.