Viewed in 2026 about petismo and Lula's government 3

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about the Workers' Party (PT) and Lula's third term in 2026.

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Petismo and Lula's government 3

The Economist: Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company

The Economist: To halt Brazil’s decline, Lula needs to cut runaway public spending

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Viewed in 2026 about the Legislative, Judiciary, regional Executive branches and state bodies

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've read about the Legislative, Judiciary, regional Executives (excluding the federal level), and state agencies of Brazil in 2026.

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Martin G. B. Bittencourt

Regional executives

State bodies

Legislative

Judiciary

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Viewed in 2026 on international affairs

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about international affairs in 2026.

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Martin G. B. Bittencourt

America

United States

Instagram: Former CIA Brian Beckhorn on why the USA is not after Venezuela because of oil

The Economist: David Owen argues that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both too old to be president

Instagram: Trump's first year in numbers

The Economist: America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent, and illiberal

The Economist: Why affirmative action in American universities had to go

The Economist: Plenty of circumstantial evidence at Donald Trump’s trial

The Economist: America’s reckless borrowing is a danger to its economy—and the world’s

The Economist: The real theme of J.D. Vance’s and Donald Trump’s memoirs

The Economist: An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea

The Economist: America is becoming less “woke”

The Economist: Is Kamala Harris right to call Donald Trump a fascist?

The Economist: The Americans who think Trump is anointed by God

The Economist: Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents

The Economist: An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century

The Economist: Much of the damage from the LA fires could have been averted

The Economist: The new American imperialism

The Economist: Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth

The Economist: Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th

The Economist: Two presidents compete over the worst abuse of the pardon power

The Economist: How covid contributed to a crisis of trust in América

The Economist: The tariff madness of King Donald, explained

The Economist: America’s financial system came close to the brink

The Economist: Five crazy Trump tariffs you wouldn’t believe

The Economist: Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy

The Economist: Six charts show the impact of Obamacare

The Economist: Why so many children in America have ADHD

The Economist: Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy

The Economist: America has coped with worse things than Donald Trump

The Economist: Why overdose deaths are falling in America

The Economist: The radical honesty of Donald Trump

The Economist: America’s missing manufacturing renaissance 

Instagram: Analysis of the erosion of US democracy under Donald Trump's second term (Portuguese)

The Economist: Meet the brains who explain Trumpism

Others

The Economist: Gangsters in El Salvador are terrified of strongman Nayib Bukele

The Economist: Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro

The Economist: Nicolás Maduro’s sham election: the sequel

The Economist: Why the IMF should bail out a serial deadbeat

The Economist: El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure

The Economist: Cuba is heading for disaster, unless its regime changes drastically

Europe

The Economist: Belarus prepares for another fraudulent election

The Economist: The secret behind the world’s happiest country

The Economist: A short history of Russia and Ukraine

The Economist: Why France has made abortion a constitutional right

The Economist: Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president

The Economist: Why are Nordic companies so successful?

Asia

Middle East

The Economist: The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians

The Economist: The war-crimes case against the leaders of Israel and Hamas is flawed

The Economist: The world court says Israel’s occupation is illegal

The Economist: Is a Palestinian state a fantasy?

The Economist: A short history of Syria, in maps

Instagram: Karl Marx and his commentary on the presence and situation of Jews in Israel during his time (Portuguese)

Instagram: Professor comments on Jews going to Israel as refugees and not as colonizers

Others

The Economist: Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation

The Economist: A short history of India in eight maps

The Economist: Why Japan’s economy remains a warning to others

The Economist: Yamini Aiyar laments the damage done to Indian democracy under Narendra Modi

The Economist: Singapore has achieved astounding economic success

The Economist: Colin Huang, China’s richest man

The Economist: Why is Thai health care so good?

The Economist: A short history of Taiwan and China, in maps

The Economist: How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America

The Economist: Why India’s elite loves Narendra Modi

The Economist: How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation

The Economist: The unholy alliance of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin

The Economist: How to clean up India’s filthy cities

The Economist: How 1.4bn Indians are adapting to climate change

The Economist: How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party?

The Economist: How the persecution of sparrows killed 2m people

The Economist: India has undermined a popular myth about development

Africa

The Economist: Ugandan judges uphold a draconian anti-gay law

The Economist: Why Sudan’s catastrophic war is the world’s problem

The Economist: How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid

The Economist: The capitalist revolution Africa needs

The Economist: The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret

Oceania

The Economist: Why do Australians live so long?

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Viewed in 2026 on politics in general and economics

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about politics in general and the economy in 2026.

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Martin G. B. Bittencourt

Economics

The Economist: The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch

The Economist: Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich

The Economist: Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics

The Economist: Why inflation fell without a recession

The Economist: Vast government debts are riskier than they appear

The Economist: Working from home and the US-Europe divide

The Economist: The fallacious case for abolishing the rich

The Economist: Where is it actually cheaper to drive an electric car?

The Economist: How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch

The Economist: Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?

The Economist: An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail

The Economist: What the history of money tells you about crypto’s future

The Economist: Do tariffs raise inflation?

The Economist: Milei, Modi, Trump: an anti-red-tape revolution is under way

The Economist: What a refugee camp reveals about economics

The Economist: If you can’t find a place to rent, blame the government

The Economist: Why rents are rising too fast

The Economist: Adam Smith is misinterpreted and his influence overstated

The Economist: Economists get cold feet about high minimum wages

The Economist: Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble

The Economist: A clever idea that could help the world grow a lot more food

Instagram: Ronald Coase and the cost problems, which show why socialism will always be inferior to capitalism (Portuguese)

The Economist: Why the dollar may have much further to fall

Instagram: The Cantillon effect: How monetary expansion widens inequality

Politics and economics

Instagram: A study on inequality suggests that it does not generate social unrest (Portuguese)

The Economist: Is inflation morally wrong?

The Economist: How to tax billionaires—and how not to

The Economist: How the world’s poor stopped catching up

The Economist: Cronyism is a problem. But not always an economic one

The Economist: How to pay for the poor world to go green

The Economist: How to make immigration palatable in a populist age

The Economist: The pay gap between men and women won’t go away

The Economist: The new economics of immigration

The Economist: Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument

The Economist: The economics of regime change

The Economist: Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

Instagram: The problems with raising the minimum wage

Instagram: Instagram: Jamie Dimon and the need for society's automation to happen slowly

Brazilian politics outside the current governments

Instagram: Right-wing journalist comments on Jair Bolsonaro's actions to shield his family during his presidency (Portuguese)

Instagram: Jandira Feghali comments in a podcast on the episode of Flávio Bolsonaro fainting during the debate (Portuguese)

Instagram: A woman expresses belief that Lula is dead based on information from social media (Portuguese)

Politics in general

The Economist: Why young men and women are drifting apart

The Economist: How can democracies respond to rigged elections?

The Economist: Drug decriminalisation in Europe may be slowing down

The Economist: The liberal international order is slowly coming apart

The Economist: Yuval Noah Harari on how to prevent a new age of imperialism

The Economist: The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration

The Economist: What the left and right get wrong about imperialism

The Economist: What to read about modern feminism

The Economist: Anti-politics is eating the West

The Economist: Millions in the West want mandatory voting. Are they right?

The Economist: State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard

The Economist: In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can

YouTube: New Rule: Blind Trust | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Viewed in 2025 on politics in general and economics

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about politics in general and the economy in 2025.

I hope you find it useful!

Martin G. B. Bittencourt

Economics

Why GDP Is Overrated, And Nobody Should Care About It!

Brazil's level of industrial production compared to the world in recent decades (Portuguese)

The Slow Collapse of Long-Term Planning

Handelsbanken: The Swiss bank without central management

The Sherman Act and the origins of antitrust laws – who really benefits from them?

Politics and economics

The solution is a controversial Bible verse (rolls of men and women in society)

How a fact-checking agency unfairly harmed an economics profile

New Rule: Eat the Rich | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Pimentel's account of the inconsistency of some leftists regarding the use of extreme measures to achieve justice (Portuguese)

Pimentel's commentary on the origin of stray bullets in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese)

Pimentel's comments on the consequences of harsh prison sentences for criminals (Portuguese)

Explaining the Trump Tariff Equation

Why Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture)

Politics in general

5 factors that explain why the coup attempt to keep Bolsonaro in power failed

Are sentences of up to 17 years for those convicted on January 8th by the Supreme Federal Court excessive?

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Viewed in 2025 on international affairs

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about international affairs in 2025.

I hope you find it useful!

Martin G. B. Bittencourt

America

New Rule: Budget Avengers | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

What Your Teacher Didn’t Tell You About Native Americans

Chart showing statistics on the number of victims of military dictatorships in South America (Portuguese)

New Rule: Trump Devotion Syndrome | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Mr. Maher Goes to Washington | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

New Rule: End the Blame Game | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Europe

Asia

Why The Middle East Won’t Accept Palestinian Refugees

Former AP journalist comments on the submission of journalists in Palestine to Hamas

Africa

Bill Maher on the genocide of Christians in Nigeria

Oceania

Australia's Quiet Collapse

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Viewed in 2025 about the Legislative, Judiciary, regional Executive branches and state bodies

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've read about the Legislative, Judiciary, regional Executives (excluding the federal level), and state agencies of Brazil in 2025.

I hope you find it useful!

Martin G. B. Bittencourt

Regional executives

Rio police say 78 of the 99 identified dead had criminal records; 6 had arrest warrants in the operation

The decision that underpinned Operação Contenção cites a routine of torture and armed control in the Penha Complex

Rio government confirms 119 deaths during mega-operation against Comando Vermelho

State bodies

Legislative

PEC da Blindagem: What could change with the proposal to make criminal proceedings against parliamentarians more difficult?

Judiciary

The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) contributed to the chaotic public security situation in Rio de Janeiro

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Viewed in 2025 about petismo and Lula's government 3

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about the Workers' Party (PT) and Lula's third term in 2025.

I hope you find it useful!

Martin G. B. Bittencourt

Petismo and Lula's government 3

Igor Eckert on Lula's responsibility over 2024's Dengue cases (Portuguese)

Haddad wants to end benefits for the purchase of solar panels

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