US behind regime changes around the world

US behind regime changes around the world .


As Washington's overt support of brutal dictators became too much for Americans to stomach, it was replaced with a new concept for regime change called democracy promotion. US taxpayer's are bearing the burden, as taxpayer money has been widely used to overthrow governments around the world. Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar says in the past two or three months corporate press in Brazil has opposed Dilma Rousseff, Lula de Silva's protégé, indirectly supported by NED and Freedom House

The cost of your food: people's lives

The cost of your food: people's lives

The cheap imported food that you eat doesn't come without a cost. The rise of agribusiness has been uprooting the small indigenous farmers in countries like Brazil for decades. In Brazil, it's benefiting rich land owners and transnational corporations while small farmers have been forced off their land and into cities for hopeless lives in the favela, searching for jobs that never came. But a huge social movement with broad political support is helping some of these landless workers get their lives back. We go to a commune where they are growing their own food and living a sustainable socialist life, escaping the capitalism that has oppressed them.

Brazil's Silent Revolution

Brazil's Silent Revolution

In a country characterized by a a vast divide between the haves and have nots, the poor are making a comeback. Brazil's social program Bolsa Familia has helped lift millions out of poverty, narrowing the divide between rich and poor, fueling the rise of one of the fastest growing major economies in the world. What can the rest of the globe learn from the success of a once depressed and self-consious country?