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There Has
Been A Coup In Brazil
By Paul Craig
Roberts
May 30,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- In Brazil the country’s largest newspaper has
published a transcript of a secret recording leaked
to the newspaper. The words recorded are the plot by
the rich Brazilian elite, involving both the
US-corrupted Brazilian military and Supreme Court,
to remove the democratically elected president of
Brazil under false charges in order to stop the
investigations of the corrupt elites who inhabit
Brazil’s senate and bring to an end Brazil’s
membership in BRICS. The Russian-Chinese attempt to
organize an economic bloc independent of Washington
has now lost 20% of its membership.
Democracy
has been overthrown in Brazil as in Ukraine,
Honduras—indeed, everywhere the dirty evil hand of
Washington falls, including the US itself.
Glenn
Greenwald reports on the extraordinary leak
of the 75-minute recording of the conversations
between Brazilian elites laying out the plot to
frame the President of Brazil in order to protect
themselves.
The
Government of President Dilma Rousseff was dealing
with the corrupt Brazilian elite in a legal, not a
revolutionary, way. This was a strategic error, as
neither the Brazilian elites nor their backers in
Washington care a hoot about legality. For them
power is the only effective force.
They used
their power to remove Rousseff from the presidency,
demonstrating to Brazilians that their votes are
powerless to determine the government.
The world
has seen this so many times. That is why the French
Revolution, Marx, Lenin, and Pol Pot concluded that
change was impossible unless the elites were
exterminated.
In Latin
America the populist governments that managed
against all odds to be elected bind their own hands
by extending the protection of the rule of law to
their bitter domestic enemies, who take advantage of
the protection afforded them to use their power to
overthrow the elected government.
It will
ever be so. Without a Lenin, there will be no change
in Latin America or anywhere in the corrupt and
elite-controlled Western world. In the Western world
voting is a waste of time. The election hype is
nothing but cover for elite control. Electorates,
always hopeful, never catch on.
Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of
the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for
Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and
Creators Syndicate. He has had many university
appointments. His internet columns have attracted a
worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are
The Failure
of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution
of the West,
How America
Was Lost,
and
The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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