Jair Bolsonaro: Robocop in the Tropics
- January 02, 2019
- by
- Matt
Not many people outside Brazil will be familiar with the name Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra. As commander at the Brazilian army’s Department of Information Operations, known as DOI-CODI, in São Paulo, from 1970 to 1974, the man known as ‘Colonel Ustra’ was one of the most notorious torturers under Brazil’s military dictatorship, which ruled the...
Hollywood Sniper
- January 28, 2015
- by
- Matt
I haven’t seen Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, and I probably won’t, because a film that essentially celebrates a man who boasted about his killing ability and regarded Iraqis as ‘savages’ is not something I am prepared to go to the cinema for. I’ve seen the UK trailer several times, and it hasn’t done...
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