It appears
that the dirty war of the neoliberal barbarism against Democracy and
the Leftist forces around the world culminates. Right after France
and previously in Greece, Venezuela, Argentina and elsewhere, the
plutocracy attacks in Brazil to dismantle the "dangerous"
Leftist perspective. As The
Intercept reports:
In 2002,
Brazil’s left-of-center Workers Party (PT) ascended to the
presidency when Lula da Silva won in a landslide over the
candidate of the center-right party PSDB (throughout 2002,
“markets” were indignant at the mere prospect of PT’s
victory). The PT remained in power when Lula, in 2006, was
re-elected in another landslide against a different PSDB
candidate. PT’s enemies thought they had their chance to get rid
of PT in 2010, when Lula was barred by term limits from running
again, but their hopes were crushed when Lula’s handpicked
successor, the previously unknown Dilma Rousseff, won by 12 points
over the same PSDB candidate who lost to Lula in 2002. In 2014,
PT’s enemies poured huge amounts of money and resources into
defeating her, believing she was vulnerable and that they had
finally found a star PSDB candidate, but they lost again, this
time narrowly, as Dilma was re-elected with 54 million votes.
In sum,
PT has won four straight national elections – the last one
occurring just 18 months ago. Its opponents have vigorously tried
– and failed – to defeat them at the ballot box, largely due
to PT’s support among Brazil’s poor and working classes.
So if
you’re a plutocrat with ownership of the nation’s largest and
most influential media outlets, what do you do? You dispense with
democracy altogether – after all, it keeps empowering candidates
and policies you dislike – by exploiting your media outlets to
incite unrest and then install a candidate who could never get
elected on his own, yet will faithfully serve your political
agenda and ideology.
That’s exactly what Brazil is
going to do today [11/5]. The Brazilian Senate will vote later
today to agree to a trial on the lower House’s impeachment
charges, which will automatically result in Dilma’s suspension
from the presidency pending the end of the trial.
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Meanwhile,
Ernesto Samper, secretary-general of the Union of South American
Nations, told teleSUR in an exclusive interview that Dilma Rousseff
remained "the legitimate leader" of the Brazilian people
and maintains "democratic legitimacy" by virtue of having
been reelected in 2014.
As telesSUR
reports:
During a press conference Thursday,
Samper said that the decision of the Brazilian Congress to
initiate an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff was
“compromising the democratic governability of the region in a
dangerous way.”
“What has happened in Brazil,
is a parliamentary political majority is challenging the citizens'
majority that expressed themselves in a clear way in favor of
Rousseff,” said Samper referring to the 2014 re-election of
President Rousseff.
[...]
The support of the Globo media
conglomerate was essential in stirring up support for impeachment,
providing disproportional coverage of corruption allegations
against members of the Workers' Party and granting widespread
media attention to right-wing rallies calling for Rousseff's
ouster.
Elements of the country's judiciary
— including Sergio Moro, the judge who is presiding over the
investigation into a corruption scandal — played a lead
political role, which Rousseff's supporters said were
inappropriate for a judge. The country's Supreme Court also
refrained from intervening and stopping the coup plot, despite the
fact that Rousseff was being put on trial without having been
found guilty of any crime.
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The US
imperialism has a long history of endless intervention in the US
backyard - Latin America. Apart from the Leftist governments that
refuse to implement the neoliberal policies in favor of plutocracy
and against the majority, the Washington neocons have an additional
serious reason to target Brazil and overthrow Rousseff, due to her
initiatives for Brazil's continuous and "dangerous"
approach with the Sino-Russian bloc, mainly through the BRICS.
This is a
reason which probably explains why Rousseff is being targeted now.
Apparently she came very close to Russia and China, the key countries
who try to form rapidly an independent bloc, especially in the
economic sector, to offer an alternative against the Western
neoliberal monopoly.
As Paul
Craig Roberts recently
wrote:
Washington
used a federal judge to order Argentina to sacrifice its debt
restructuring program in order to pay US vulture funds the full
value of defaulted Argentine bonds that the vulture funds had
bought for a few pennies on the dollar. These vultures were called
“creditors” who had made “loans” regardless of the fact
that they were not creditors and had made no loans. They were
opportunists after easy money and were used by Washington to get
rid of a reformist government.
President
Kirchner resisted and, thus, she had to go. Washington concocted a
story that Kirchner covered up an alleged Iranian bombing in
Buenos Aires in 1994. This implausible fantasy, for which there is
no evidence of Iranian involvement, was fed to one of Washington’s
agents in the state prosecutor’s office, and a dubious event of
22 years ago was used to clear Kirchner out of the way of the
American looting of Argentina.
In
Brazil, Washington has used corruption insinuations to get
President Rousseff impeached by the lower house. Evidence is not
necessary, just allegations. It is no different from “Iranian
nukes,” Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction,”
Assad’s “use of chemical weapons,” or in Rousseff’s case
merely insinuations. The Secretary General of the Organization of
American States, Luis Almagro, notes that Rousseff “hasn’t
been accused of anything.” The American-backed elites are simply
using impeachment to remove a president who they cannot defeat
electorally.
In short, this is Washington’s
move against the BRICS. Washington is moving to put into political
power a rightwing party that Washington controls in order to
terminate Brazil’s growing relationships with China and Russia.
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Other
analysts, from the first moment condemned the Brazilian coup. As Pepe
Escobar wrote:
This lowly farce should serve as a
wake-up call not only to the BRICS but to the whole Global South.
Who needs NATO, R2P (“responsibility to protect”) or “moderate
rebels” when you can get your regime change just by tweaking a
nation’s political/judicial system?
The Brazilian Supreme Court has not
analyzed the merit of the matter – at least not yet. There’s
no solid evidence anywhere Rousseff committed a “crime of
responsibility”; she did what every American President since
Reagan has done – not to mention leaders all across the world:
along with her vice-president, the lowly Brutus, Rousseff got
slightly creative with the federal budget’s numbers.
The coup has been sponsored by a
certified crook, president of the lower house Eduardo Cunha;
reportedly the holder of several illegal accounts in Switzerland,
listed in the Panama Papers and under investigation by the Supreme
Court. Instead of lording over near-illiterate hyenas in a racist,
largely crypto-fascist circus, he should be behind bars. It
beggars belief that the Supreme Court has not launched legal
action against Cunha. The secret of his power over the circus is a
gigantic corruption scheme lasting many years, featuring
corporations contributing to his and others’ campaign financing.
And that’s the beauty of a regime
change-light/color revolution of Hybrid War when staged in such a
dynamically creative nation such as Brazil. The hall of mirrors
yields a political simulacrum that would have driven
deconstructionists Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco, if alive,
green with envy; a Congress crammed with
fools/patsies/traitors/crooks, some of whom are already being
investigated for corruption, has conspired to depose a president
who is not under any formal corruption investigation – and has
not committed any “crime of responsibility”.
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It is
obvious that the global neoliberal establishment feels an increased
threat from various directions. Its mechanisms are using every means
to destroy any alternative. In their agony to secure the current
status quo, they proceed more and more frequently in rather clumsy
actions without keeping any pretexts. This is clearly a sign of
panic. For the first time, a mass movement is ready to bring a real change at the heart of the US imperial power. And this is
something that brings further anxiety to the global plutocracy.
Brazil:
Back in the clutches of Washington:
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