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It has been obvious from the start that a core objective of the impeachment of Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was to empower the actual thieves in Brasilia and enable them to impede, obstruct, and ultimately kill the ongoing Car Wash investigation (as well as to impose a neoliberal agenda of privatization and radical austerity). A mere 20 days into the seizure of power by the corruption-implicated “interim” President Michel Temer, overwhelming evidence has emerged proving that to be true: Already, two of the interim ministers in Temer’s all-white-male cabinet, including his anti-corruption minister, have been forced to resign after the emergence of secret recordings showing them plotting to obstruct that investigation (an investigation in which they, along with one-third of his cabinet, are personally implicated).
But the oozing corruption of Temer’s ministers has sometimes served to obscure his own. He, too, is implicated in several corruption investigations. And now, he has been formally convicted of violating election laws and, as punishment, is banned from running for any political office for eight years. Yesterday, a regional election court in São Paulo, where he’s from, issued a formal decree finding him guilty and declaring him “ineligible” to run for any political office as a result of now having a “dirty record” in elections. Temer was found guilty of spending his own funds on his campaign in excess of what the law permits.
In the scope of the scheming, corruption, and illegality from this interim government, Temer’s law-breaking is not the most severe offense. But it potently symbolizes the anti-democratic scam that Brazilian elites have attempted to perpetrate. In the name of corruption, they have removed the country’s democratically elected leader and replaced her with someone who — though not legally barred from being installed — is now barred for eight years from running for the office he wants to occupy.
Just weeks ago, Dilma’s impeachment appeared inevitable. Brazil’s oligarchical media had effectively focused attention solely on her. But then, everyone started looking at who was engineering her impeachment, who would be empowered, what their motives were — and everything changed. Now her impeachment, though still likely, does not look nearly as inevitable: Last week, O Globo reported that two senators previously in favor were now re-considering in light of “new facts” (the revealed tapes of Temer’s ministers), and yesterday, Folha similarly reported that numerous senators are considering changing their minds. Notably, Brazilian media outlets stopped publishing polling data about the public’s views of Temer and Dilma’s impeachment.
Meanwhile, opposition grows to this attack on democracy both domestically and internationally. Protests aimed at Temer are becoming increasingly large and intense. Two dozen members of the British Parliament denounced impeachment as a coup. Three dozen members of the European Parliament urged termination of trade negotiations with Brazil’s interim government on the ground that it lacks legitimacy. The anti-corruption group Transparency International announced it was terminating dialogue with the new government until it purged corruption from its new ministries. The New York Times this week, reporting on the resignation of the anti-corruption minister only 20 days after he was installed, described it as “another blow to a government that seems to limp from one scandal to the next just weeks after Mr. Temer replaced Dilma Rousseff.”
Demonstrators run amid a cloud of tear gas during a protest organized by the Homeless Workers Movement, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 1, 2016.
Photo: Andre Penner/AP
But perhaps nothing quite captures the dangerous farce that Brazilian elites are attempting to perpetrate like the fact that their chosen leader is now literally banned from running for the office into which he has been installed because he has been convicted of breaking the law. This isn’t merely the destruction of democracy in the world’s fifth most populous country, nor the imposition of an agenda of privatization and attacks on the poor for the benefit of international plutocrats. It’s literally the empowerment of dirty, corrupt operators — outside of democratic norms — cynically undertaken in the name of combating corruption.
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Last night at an event in Rio de Janeiro, I was asked — as I always am at such events — about possible U.S. involvement in the change of government. Here are four minutes of my answer:
Now the thieving class is trying to say the Clinton cartel has won, before the votes are in! This does work to discourage the less informed to not bother voting, but perhaps this time it will backfire on them, and the clininostras will be the ones not to worry with their vote :)
Some people have taken time off work to call for Bernie to get the vite out in CA, I wish I could to, but this is one of my very long days, and work is not easy to find….
If you are the praying sort, please send us a prayer for Bernie, or do a visualization of him being sworn into office. When we have an honest president, our country may then be able to earn points for “plays well with others” in our global family.
The US citizens need advice from the Brazilians about how to oust the corrupt! How is it your citizens know the truth and aren’t stuffed blind by corporate media?
Here’s a good article on the Brazilian coup effort:
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2016-06-03/article/44541?headline=DISPATCHES-FROM-THE-EDGE-A-Very-Brazillian-Coup–Conn-Hallinan
As far as U.S. support for the Brazilian coup, just look at the statements of Bill Fitzpatrick, the U.S. State Department’s representive to the OAS, about how the coup has unfolded in Brazil:
“ . . . there is a clear respect for democratic institutions and a clear separation of powers. In Brazil it is clearly the law that prevails, coming up with peaceable solution to disputes. . . We don’t believe that this is an example of a ‘soft coup’ or, for that matter, a coup of any sort. What happened in Brazil complied perfectly with legal constitutional procedure and totally respected democratic norms.”
This is nonsense, for example where is the darling of the coup sponsors, Sergio Moro, on the rampant corruption in the new leadership? Where are his aggressive raids on minister’s homes, his release of transcripts of phone calls to the media, his high-profile investigations covered breathlessly in Globo? No, here’s Globo’s Jun 1 headline:
“Moro said that trusts Temer will not interfere with Lava – Jato
Judge says he hopes the government advances to prevent corruption”
Hilarious – but “clear separation of powers”, says Fitzpatrick. What kind of farcical BS is that? Obviously the U.S. is supporting the regime change effort; as to how exactly the whole business was orchestrated, that’s speculation, but I bet a lot of the NSA transcripts of the NSA surveillance efforts in Brazil made their way to Brazilian coup leaders via the U.S. State Department.
What you’ll also see, if the impeachment progresses, is an effort to block new elections by Temer and his corrupt allies; notice some similarities to Iraq in 2004, when Bremer’s occupation government did all it could to block new elections in Iraq? Neocolonial interests want puppet regimes, not free elections. I mean, “The U.S. government promotes democracy around the world?” – you have to be pretty far gone to believe that PR line, these days. Hillary Clinton & GW Bush are on the same page there, as is Barak Obama – slight disagreements about methods is the only difference.
Regardless, for future Brazilian leaders, there is an important lesson to be learned, from the top article:
“Brazil’s economy is in trouble, shrinking 3.7 percent last year. Commodity prices are down worldwide, in large part because of the downturn of China’s economy. Iron ore dropped from $155 to $55 a ton, soya went from $18 to $8 a bushel, and oil from $140 to less than $40 a barrel.”
That is how commodity booms and busts always go; so an economic plan based on future projections of continued high commodity prices will always end in disaster, which will be exploited by external neocolonial interests (with the collusion of your lazy incompetent corrupt elites) to keep your nation in perpetual debtor status, block social reforms like public education for the poor, all so you can be forced to serve as source of cheap commodities and cheaper labor for the benefit of Wall Street and other international financiers. As long as developing nations keep falling into this trap, they will never escape their second-class status.
[“This is nonsense, for example where is the darling of the coup sponsors, Sergio Moro, on the rampant corruption in the new leadership? Where are his aggressive raids on minister’s homes, his release of transcripts of phone calls to the media, his high-profile investigations covered breathlessly in Globo? No, here’s Globo’s Jun 1 headline:”]
Sergio Moro is a federal judge. He has no jurisdiction over politicians. In Brazil, for criminal and regular charges, politicians answers only to the Supreme Court.
When it comes to Lava-jato, the investigation of non politicians rely on Sergio Moro, and the investigation of politicians rely on Justice Teori Zavask of STF.
Moro didn’t do any raid on any minister’s home. He did on Lula, who wasn’t and isn’t in office or anyone’s cabinet. He’s a regular citizen who a federal judge have jurisdiction. All phone transcripts released were of regular citizens.
Photsymbiosis
“…….Hilarious – but “clear separation of powers”, says Fitzpatrick. What kind of farcical BS is that? Obviously the U.S. is supporting the regime change effort; as to how exactly the whole business was orchestrated, that’s speculation, but I bet a lot of the NSA transcripts of the NSA surveillance efforts in Brazil made their way to Brazilian coup leaders via the U.S. State Department……”
You continue to really reach on this issue. How many governments world-wide have condemned the “coup”? The US is willing to do business with the new Brazil government. That is really the norm world-wide. What countries have stated they are unwilling to work with the new Brazil government? China? Russia? And then your “I’ll bet…..” about the NSA is just worthless speculation.
“…….That is how commodity booms and busts always go; so an economic plan based on future projections of continued high commodity prices will always end in disaster, which will be exploited by external neocolonial interests…..”
That’s absolutely ridiculous. The so called neocolonialists have nothing to do with how incompetently the leftist governments run their economies. They obviously need help picking up the pieces. I wish them good luck.
You’re mixing your metaphors again, clutching at straws, and utterly failing to weave a coherent narrative.
Brezhnev is not happy! You’re heading for a demotion if you don’t get it back together.
so an economic plan based on future projections of continued high commodity prices will always end in disaster
ALWAYS.
The pretense of future value as applied by wallstreet is a fraud. The only security that wallstreet has is operating like a pawnshop to swindle americans into pledging public property that wallstreet will LOAN TO STEAL. Hellery is all about doing just that.
Hello Gleen…many thanks for your reports..I am always reading your articels….
I knew this…I told you so….those corrupt, well dressed white males-
raped the Brasil democracy..brasil interim govennment is illegal and I am hoping
the people of Brasil will take some actions to reastablish the democracy in this beautiful country:Brazil……
Glenn is appearing to be more CIA.
Why are you not releasing all the snowden files.
Snowden was duped.
You need to go back and look at what Snowden wanted – he didn’t want a mass dump of all files to Wikileaks; he could have done that himself. He wanted journalists with good track records to examine the files and write stories that exposed the unconstitutional activities of the NSA, as well as their international economic espionage games (see Brazil and Petrobras), which the NSA executives like Clapper and Alexander had denied engaging in – even under oath.
So if you want to attack Snowden for taking that route, go right ahead; but Greenwald is, I think, respecting the wishes and intent of his source.
However, I’m looking forward to NSA internal documents on their role in Iraq from late 2003 onwards under the direction of Keith Alexander; my guess is that the expansion of NSA activities from military intelligence to mass surveillance of the Iraq population was all about neocolonial control (the Bremer regime), and that the Iraqi mass surveillance project – aimed at undermining the anti-colonial political movement in Iraq – formed a model of mass surveillance that was later imported into the United States by Alexander and his cohort.
On that initial joint Sunni-Shia resistance to the occupation
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_archive.html
January 20, 2004:
“I watched the meeting today between some GC members, Bremer and Kofi Annan on CNN. They didn’t seem to come to any conclusion except that *maybe* Kofi would send a delegation to assess the situation in Iraq. Meanwhile, 100,000 Shi’a and Sunnis demonstrated in Baghdad today (although the Shi’a outnumbered the Sunnis by far on this occasion), holding up pictures of Sistani, Al-Sadr and some others. It wasn’t violent, but it was angry, forceful and frightening. This has been the largest demonstration since the war.”
Alexander and Miller, under Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush, then initiated the CIA-run torture program (imported from Gitmo) and the NSA-run surveillance program in an attempt to crush this popular resistance to their occupation program (which was all about gaining control of Iraqi oil production). NSA documents may illuminate more of the details of this history.
I hope I’ll not appear as an ugly American with what might seem a self absorbed question, but we are trying to get out and prevent corruption in our own government as we work to get the first honest president in office, i.e. Bernie Sanders. My question is, how may this corrupt government be linked to the Clinton machine? How does this coup benefit the US profiteers?
Although I’m concerned with my own government, I’m keenly aware of our government’s continuously ruinous manipulation of other countries to enrich and empower the corportocracy. Since we are all connected in this fragile envelope that holds this earth, what happens to one, happens to all.
ow may this corrupt government be linked to the Clinton machine?
here you go-
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/03/heather-podesta/
spread the word.
Thank you Barabbas, she is a truly disgusting person. I suppose that those are the kind of people that caused humans to imagine a hell.
I will pass this on to my friends.
How the USA benefits? Easy answer. Through Exxon receiving Brazil petroleum at their own terms. This is all about who will get the 1 million barrels a day from Petrobras. Brazil’s oil is likely the only chance for Brazil population to enjoy the benefits of a rich country: education, health access, end of poverty. But the worlds powers together with Brazilian traitors white oligarchs have no interest on this.
Our only hope: WE THE PEOPLE to trap the rats.
Wall St….
AIPAC…
Corporations…
all 3 of those entites are major players of a corrupt currency system.
The currency system the US has is a concoction by Mayer Amschel Rothschild who got his start by stealing $3M from his boss in the mid 1700’s. By design, it is a ponzi scheme base on “growth”. Without engulfing the entire planet eventually, the scheme collapses. You must determine for yourself whether to believe or not that; Lincoln was killed because he would not borrow from them and instead printed notes, JFK was killed because he ordered the US currency to be grounded in silver, or the the twin towers were attacked under a scharade organised and planned in connection with the mossad because growth had come to a predicatable death due to an inability to predictably raise federal (privately owned) interest rates and a war would restart the big loan process that is at the heart of the rothschild currency scheme.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/slavery.htm
picture by relationships
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/world_order/WorldCh01-1.htm#Monarchs
events in date sequence
http://www.rense.com/general88/hist.htm
be sure to bookmark your references that point negatively to the sceme because google is losing them because of a larger effort to eliminate this history and analysis by the same thieves who fund wars, crashed the US economy, stole american homes, and generally act like a giant payday loan scam to the US gov and America.
Bernie Sanders?
You libs are a sad depressing lot.
Socialism DOES NOT WORK. How many tragedies will you need to understand that?
Can’t you see what’s happening down here in south America?? Haven’t you heard about Venezuela?????
Any totalitarian government ends with a mix of civil war, famine, disease, mass murder by gvt officials; regardless of the regime label – socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism.
Labelling it “democratic socialism” won’t do any f****** difference.
We already have a party fond of this in Brazil already, PDT, with the hand and flower symbol and stuff… Authoritarian party..
The end must be near. Free world’s leading nation flirting with socialism.
You Americans,(lefties) just take for granted all the liberty and lifestyle you can enjoy… Maybe a season in third world socialist hell hole can give you some perspective. Grow up, get adult already.
“Any totalitarian government ends with a mix of civil war, famine, disease, mass murder by gvt officials; regardless of the regime label – socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism.”
You forgot to add crony capitalism to your screed.
You’re right.
But technically, crony capitalism is not a political regimen, but an economic policy adopted by said poticial regimens.
But sure, crony capitalism, corporatism, mercantilism, protecionism and all other must be avoided as fiercely as we should avoid totalitarism.
‘Socialism’ as Sanders supporters promote it is much less invasive than totalitarianism (inverted or otherwise) – consider nations like Sweden, Canada and even the UK, which have partly ‘socialist’ systems that provide many material and cultural benefits without impinging on liberty in the manner of America’s total surrender to corporatism, imperialism and militarism.
capitalism is the pooling of saved resources for a combined effort.
socialism is the guarantee of resources for life support
communism is ownership of life support resources
american capitalism is a misnomer pretending to be capitalism but which in practice is a pawnshop using a ponzi currency system invented by Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744-1812 who stole $3M from his employer and is the basis of the US zion currency scheme.
Bernie Sanders doesn’t fit the ‘socialist’ definition; his policy prescriptions are closest to those of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. For example:
FDR set up a refinance program for homeowners facing foreclosure; that’s what should have been done after the 2008 economic collapse – but instead, our corrupt Republicans and Democrats got together to bail out Wall Street – homeowners were kicked out of their homes, which were then bought up on the cheap by the likes of Goldman Sachs with bailout funds.
FDR used government funds to create government jobs and infrastructure projects all across the country that had long term-positive effects on the economy, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority that brought electricity to much of the rural South (and which later played a crucial role in manufacturing during the WWII effort to defeat the Wall Street-financed Nazi war machine).
Notice how many of those defeated Nazis fled to South America after the war? Where they were in line with the fascist right-wing regimes of Argentina, Chile, Brazil, etc., typically supported by the CIA under the guise of being ‘anti-communist.’ Ugly history, isn’t it?
Yet we now have a Democratic Party that appoints clowns like Larry Summers to key positions, who sneer about “the misguided policies of FDR”, and selects politicians in the pay of Wall Street to undermine middle class interests, like crooked Hillary and bait-and-switch Barak. Sanders is a great antidote to this trend.
If you think being honest is enough to be the man in charge ok. He seems legit and honest. But with really wrong planning.
Brazilian economic crisis is due government stimulus to prevent economic slowdown after 2008, since then up to nowadays. Then the stimulus overheated – rampant inflation – and now we have this badass hangover.
If you think government spending in infrastructure projects can boost the economy and creat jobs (the infamous multipkier effect), he’s your candidate.
But if you wanted a real economic growth with an honest candidate, Id say you missed the 2008 and 2012 elections with Ron Paul.
No, the Brazilian economic crisis is due to a lack of fiscal conservatism in relation to the commodity boom; rather than using that money to eliminate debt, it was squandered in various ways, a joint left-right move involving rampant corruption across the entire political spectrum, in a woefully repetitive developing world response to commodity booms – oil, iron ore, etc.
However, what is now planned for Brazil will be even worse – an IMF-style austerity program aimed at paying back the debt holders which will erase the gains made by the some 40 million Brazilians who’ve been lifted out of poverty – it all must go to the rich, to maintain their lifestyles, right?
Temer and his crooked cohort was installed in power to facilitate this – their small elite corrupt club will be allowed to continue their luxurious lifestyle, as long as the cooperate – consider Temer’s move to sell off the majority control of Petrobras to Wall Street funds (de facto privatization), as well as the installation of Blairo Maggi as Agriculture minister. Maggi is a soybean magnate who destroys mass areas of Amazon rainforest for cheap soybean production for export world markets; cheap labor is part of that model, and the Dilma-Lula efforts to increase minimum wages and educate the poor hurt his profits.
You keep promoting this BS model of ‘free-market capitalism’ but you can’t provide a single example of where it has worked as publicly predicted, can you? Electricity deregulation, NAFTA-style agreements, deregulation of commercial banking – all hyped by ‘free-market economists’, all disasters that only benefit a few elite con artists and aristocrats – as any honest actor would admit.
Free-market economists are dishonest shills, and they know it. Their personal success depends on their ability to keep a straight face while spewing BS to the public in corporate media outlets.
Regarding free markets, I already showed you. If you do not accept it, It’s not my problem.
If you are that stubborn, you really have no idea on what liberty is all about. You probably need the state to babysit you so it will choose what you can do with your money, your body, whom can you sleep with and marry, and so forth. Those central planners know better than you, thanks god, so you wont misbehave, and others wont misbehave towards you; and they will save the poor people because enterpreneurs only care about money, while government are always pure altruist saints.
You have absolut no idea on what’s happening here in Brazil. And you also don’t care about what’s happening here. You’re just a SJW who not only does not understand the role prices play in an economy, but also proudly exposes your ignorance on the subject while quoting “Dilma-Lula efforts to increase minimum wages” as if it would be beneficial for the less skilled and less fortunate. You simply ignore the thousands of jobs that are terminated everytime minimum wage is raised above his productivity. As any SWJ you probably want to tax the rich to redistribute wealth, but yourself most certainly never made private charity or voluntary work. Because the elite this, the rich that, bla bla bla. To love mankind is easy, what’s hard it to love your neighbour.
[“it all must go to the rich, to maintain their lifestyles, right?”]
Ask Dilma, Lula and his sons, who are billionaires. I wonder how can a president of any country can become billionaire after 8 years of presidential earnings. Also ask the Petrobras board, PT top figures. They are all millionaires now. But they fight for the average Joe, believe me.
[“made by the some 40 million Brazilians who’ve been lifted out of povert”]
not only this figure is hugely stretched, but also already shrunk a lot, by 40~50%.
Temer and his team are in office for a only month. Dilma stupid government by 5,5 years. Workers party by 14 years. Blaming this to the new government is as stupid as blaming the governments prior to PT era, back in 1990’s. From 15 years ago up to yesterday is to blame only in PT.
I know who Maggi is. He is not a soybean magnate, he is one of the biggest agricultural entrepreneur. If you dont like what he is doing in his property, buy it from him and do as you please. Otherwise, you dont get to tell how to handle our stuff, as we didnt with yours.
I wish we had a president with balls large enough to get rid of petrobras. crack it in dozens of smaller companies and sell for entrepreneurs (who will thrive or fail, but wont be after our taxdollars everytime an economic failure occurs), promote competition, and provide a free market price for gas, not government’s wishes of it. crude oil is just an hydrocarbon, when I fill my tank I couldnt care less about who provided it, if it was Petrobras, BP, Shell, Texaco, Exxon etc… But even Temer will not get rid of this dinosaur, unfortunatelly.
Hear ye, hear ye. We the people of planet earth- our one and only home- have and do recognized that real enemies of we the people and our planet are the right wingers, horders of wealth, privateers, greedsters, thieving bankers, racists, warmongers, land thieves and genocidal types, earth destroyers, and all their supporters. Let it be therefore that we the good, sharing and caring people of planet earth who want to enjoy our lives on our planet (without the need nor ambition to go to mars) do hereby declare that it is unlawful for these people to have any position of power or authority anywhere. So sayeth us one and all.
WE CAN DO THIS.
We are all at war and it is the US government and its financers and supporters at home and overseas that silently declared it. The people of Brazil should go out on the streets and show their numbers and then the henchmen and hirelings of these usurpers will have to decide whether they will impose the will of their corrupt masters, because without a strong arm to enforce their will, they have nothing of any real worth.
Good luck trying to get likeminded people.
Virtually nobody is against Dilma being ousted here… Keep barking to the foreign, maybe you will gain a bit of sympathy…
Acompanho a construção do golpe no impeachment de Dilma Roussef desde 2013. Após a visita do vice presidente dos Estados Unidos Dick Cheney , na sua tentativa de fazer com que a presidente mudasse o sistema de partilha do pré sal. Com a negativa da presidente Dilma e no seu insucesso , montou-se o esquema para desconstrução de seu governo. Após a chegada coincidentemente, de madame Liliana Ayalde embaixadora dos Estados Unidos aqui, começaram os protestos contra o aumento de passagens nos transportes coletivos, o não vai ter copa e outros atos do gênero, tudo organizado com sintonia aos acontecimentos anteriores. Neste momento, a avaliação do governo que era boa despenca. Estava pronto o cenário para estabelecer o confronto e mudança de poder nas eleições em 2014 . Montaram uma operação conhecida como Lava jato cujo maior propósito foi em atuar contra representantes do governo e seus aliados, tendo à sua frente um juiz treinado pelos norte americanos. Perderam, apesar de todas as tentativas e com o apoio de praticamente toda a mídia conservadora local as eleições de 2014. Restou promover o golpe, não apenas para salvar corruptos e ladrões, mas também para impor a agenda neoliberal, privatizar a Petrobrás, se apossarem do pré sal e colocar novamente o país no roll da vassalagem norte americana. A corrupção dentro da Petrobrás sempre existiu, bastaria dar uma olhada nos ocorridos à época de FHC, bastaria direcionar o foco para atingir quem se queria, tudo com o apoio de instituições corrompidas pelo corporativismo e por uma visão plutocrata. Este poderá ser o início do fim de uma promissora nação democrática, o Brasil.
Quando que sai esta obra prima da ficção científica nacional? Vai ser financiado pelo ministério da cultura, através do suor do contribuinte?
Vai ser um best-seller… Acho que no novo plano nacional de educação do ministério da Cultura teu livro pode virar bibliografia de história sobre o “golpe”.
Fora Yankees!! Fora Temer!! Fora golpistas!!
Yawn…… ZzzZZzzZz
DocHollywood
Great to hear from you Doc. Your recent absence has been noted and you have been greatly missed. I read your reply, but I must have missed the part where you brought forward new evidence of US complicity in the “coup” in Brazil. Until we actually have some real evidence, we should view Greenwald’s attempt to connect the US to the impeachment of Rousseff as nothing more than propaganda disguised as journalism. Do you agree?
Details aside, when you last posted I left you some of Mona’s posts and asked you to comment whether some or all of her posts crossed the line into anti-Jewish bigotry. You didn’t post a response last time so I’ll post them again so you can have another opportunity to respond:
“……..And altho Eichmann explicitly said, “I am a Zionist,” he didn’t mean it. Not according to the way Shalev defines “Zionism” and would prefer you to define it [Shalev is a liberal Jew]……To understand why Eichmann could be both a Zionist and also have committed the atrocities he did, one must understand a very critical thing about the man……..” my insert in brackets
“……..It’s a matter of the historical record that the Third Reich did, in fact, support Zionism. Other than Nazi symbols and flags, the blue-star flag of Zionism was the only other flag permitted to fly in Nazi German……”
“……..Zionists [Jews] have grossly exploited the Holocaust as their “permission slip” to commit vicious crimes themselves, primarily against Palestinians. Enough of that. The Holocaust was an abomination, but it is not the only crime against humanity, and I now advocate that it be removed from sacred status…….” My insertion in brackets
“……Money amplifies voices. If the people First Look is hiring are able to help shape the dominant narrative, I wouldn’t even care if they were funded by a Nazi — as long as said Nazi was as laissez-faire as Pierre says he will be.…..”
Mona (even) calling Mona an anti-Semite:
“…………Ten years ago, a Jewish friend told me that neoconservatives and the Israel Lobby were the most dangerous thing to arise for Jews in many decades. He noted that once Americans realize the U.S. is sending their sons and daughters into Middle Eastern wars desired by Israel and promoted by neoconservatives and the Israel Lobby at home, there will be rage. There will be fury about the billions we send Israel and the way our foreign policy and politics are warped by the Lobby. And it has come to pass — we are seeing that with the antisemitic Trumpites. They realize it all, and they are furious…….”
According to Wikipedia,
“………In 2002, [David] Duke traveled to Eastern Europe to promote his book, Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening on the Jewish Question in Russia in 2003. The book purports to “examine and document elements of ethnic supremacism that have existed in the Jewish community from historical to modern times.”[118]……”
Mona’s response (agreeing with David Duke)
“……..And about that, he has a great deal of truth on his side……”
“………When I claim Zionists are fascists, I am not calling names or waxing hyperbolic: I mean it literally, as a reasonably well-educated person would understand the term……”
What do you think Doc?
hello liar
just a few simple questions fer ya.
How many Palestians have you killed?
How many would you like to kill?
Palestinians are human beings. TRUE OR FALSE
What can you tell us about the following subjects?
USS LIBERTY
DEIR YASSIN
UN RESOLUTION 3379
NAKBA
POLLARD
ISRAEL REFUSES TO SIGN NPT
DR. HAJO MEYER
RABBIS OPPOSE ZION
do you know who killed these people
such a knowledgeable person like yourself with sooooooooo much to say. ought be pretty easy fer ya, eh?
let’s see how well you do. We’ll grade ya too, A – F.
ready set go.
The post lightly [edited] for accuracy
“Mr. Greenwald
I [ignore] evidence – any evidence – that the US government [is] impe[rial and] corrupt. The US [has a long history of pursuing its hegemonic goals in Latin America. These were explicitly acknowledged almost two] centur[ies] ago[, repeated many times in US National Security Council and other policy-planning documents since, and have been pursued with especially gruesome vigor in the past several decades. Naturally, I just ignore] the p[robability] that the US could be involved. That is incredibly [delusional] Mr. Greenwald. [But I] have absolutely no [interest in the documentary record nor] historical evidence for US involvement.
This, of course, has never been about [reality for me]. This was about [defending] neoliberal policies and “empire” [by pretending that they don’t exist]. If [I wasn’t delusional, by now] there might have been at least one [rational comment] by [me] at the Intercept. But no; I rant about: Venezuela. . .CHRIS KYLE. . .Al Jazeera. . .Syrian jails. . .the Intercept.”
What is amazing is how many [times I just ignore what] you have written, [and post incoherent ramblings about something else:] why pay attention to [me]?
“I’m your huckleberry.”
Nice editing.
… still americans wish to be and are not involving. Mmh… By the way it means perhaps the same shame, if a Lady in Europe says, I stay fully behind you.
Isn’t corrupt anyway? They named them always demo crazie. Cheerful for there own Character and still own benefits, legaly or legalized by corrupt people, backed up in democratically “methods” from another country?
Hopefully it will not be the sign which is underway in many countries in the world.
Mr. Greenwald
I listened attentively for evidence – any evidence – that the US government was involved in the impeachment process of the corrupt left wing government of Rousseff. Based on US interference one-half of a century ago in Brazilian affairs during the cold war, you speculatively toss out the possibility that the US could be involved. That is incredibly good fact-based adversarial reporting, Mr. Greenwald. You have absolutely no evidence for US involvement (as you state) – but that doesn’t keep you from speculating on the possibility (obviously) using any means possible to save the Rousseff government.
This, of course, has never been about the Brazilian democracy. This was about opposing neoliberal policies and “empire”. If democracy mattered, there might have been at least one article by the thirty journalists at the Intercept on the collapse of democracy in Venezuela. Instead, the Intercept is simply an anti-American site focused on really important stories like “AMERICAN SNIPER” CHRIS KYLE DISTORTED HIS MILITARY RECORD, DOCUMENTS SHOW. Al Jazeera reported that as many as 60,000 prisoners may have perished in Syrian jails, but this didn’t even make a footnote in an article at the Intercept.
What is amazing is how many articles you have written on corruption in Brazilian politics – at the expense of exposing “empire”. OK. You managed to connect the US in this article – but without a shred of evidence. In the world of “adversarial” journalism”, why pay attention to such minor details?
You have evidence proving a 20th or 21st century right wing coup in Central or South America was not sponsored by the US?
I have witnesses that will corroborate that the US was in North America at the time of the impeachment vote……
Does that pass for clever among your know-nothing friends and family?
I have personally witnessed American goon activity here in Brazil (Rio and Sao Paulo).
I have witnessed some of your beloved goons’ activities throughout the US sponsored right wight coup process here in Sao Paulo.
Hi Stan
“……I have witnessed some of your beloved goons’ activities throughout the US sponsored right wight coup process here in Sao Paulo…….”
I suggest that you get in touch with Greenwald because he doesn’t have any evidence of US complicity in the “coup”.
Thanks.
What do you call the obsessive NSA surveillance of Brazil and Petrobras?
http://www.brasilwire.com/snowden-wikileaks-brasil/
“One early observation about these releases in Brasil regarded a world map which measured the intensity of surveillance in the ‘Boundless Informant‘ programme. On this map, Brasil appeared to be approximately as surveilled as Russia.”
Likewise, what do you call Temer’s push to sell off the controlling majority interest in Petrobras to Wall Street, if not evidence that the coup was conducted to benefit Wall Street interests?
We have a motive (Wall Street control of Brazil’s economic decisions), we have the means (NSA surveillance of Petrobras and government leaders), we have extensive contacts between the parties involved (U.S State Department and coup leaders) – that’s quite a bit of evidence, isn’t it?
Or perhaps you are one of those who believe that if it wasn’t discussed on CNN, MSNBC or FOX News, if the NYTimes and the Washington Post haven’t editorialized about it, than it can’t possibly be true?
In the old Soviet Union, you’d be running around saying “I didn’t read it in Pravda, so it must be Western capitalist lies.”
Comrade photosymbiosis
“……Likewise, what do you call Temer’s push to sell off the controlling majority interest in Petrobras to Wall Street, if not evidence that the coup was conducted to benefit Wall Street interests?……”
First of all, there still is no evidence that the US supported the ousting of Rousseff, right? The US likely spies on most major oil companies including Gazprom. Second of all, Petrobras is in the midst of a huge political scandal – and is in massive debt so selling off some of the offshore oil fields to foreign interests will generate royalties, fees and tax dollars. It will attract foreign investment. It will take some of the burden off of the inept state-run oil company which is trying to sell off some of its assets to pay off debt. That’s simply good business – and nothing to do with the US underpinning a coup.
Sorry, Photo, you are looking for love in all of the wrong places……
Supporting a coup is obviously what the U.S. did in this case, which of course differs from ‘orchestrating a coup’ – the orchestration was done by Brazil’s elite class, a collaboration between a crooked court system and a elite-owned media system.
It’s similar to the Honduras coup, which was orchestrated by the Honduran military (many of whom came out of the School of the Americas complex in Fort Benning Georgia) and the Honduran elite class, but which was then supported by Hillary Clinton in the face of opposition by other Latin and South American countries.
Perhaps you are getting hung up on semantics? In any case, it’s impossible to deny that the U.S. is supporting the coup. ‘Supporting’ does not mean the U.S. is the sole power behind the coup.
‘Ol Brezhnev would have offered you a nice position in his Ministry of Information; you stay on message and happily ignore any evidence which does not agree with the Party line, which are ideal qualities for a Soviet apparatchik.
“……Supporting a coup is obviously what the U.S. did in this case, which of course differs from ‘orchestrating a coup’…..”
What you have in Brazil is a corrupt political system – left and right. The elite class includes the left wing as well as the right wing politicians. The US likely had no knowledge that the Rousseff government would fall. Is it even a coup since Rouseff is charged with a crime? Even if the CIA predicted that the government would fall, as you stated, there was no indication that the US was behind the collapse of the Rousseff government. Greenwald is planting that idea for purposes of propaganda i.e., to rally forces against the Temer government. Greenwald also objected to the advocacy journalism of the Brazilian media. He has absolutely no room to complain since they practice what he preaches. For Greenwald, politics supersedes journalistic integrity.
I have no doubt that the US will work with Temer – just as China and other trading partners will work with the new Brazilian government. Like many of the left wing governments in South America, Brazil’s economy is a disaster – and needs help.
Thanks.
” Like many of the left wing governments in South America, Brazil’s economy is a disaster – and needs help.”
Amen to that.
The unassailable prop to your position, the US economy hums along with the help of invisible hands. Praise the Lord’s right wing economists. God’s business people will know how to fix up Brazil.
Sure, praise right wing politician and profit driven business people.
Because we are tired of demagogic SJW leftist and corrupt politicians and crony king’s friends corporatist business people.
We gave up the socialist utopia, we want to emulate America, with all of its flaws and virtues.
We don’t want equal misery, we want capitalism tentacles reach every millimetre of Brazil demographic.
I just don’t propose to switch citizenship with you because I didn’t give up of my country. But I’d like to do it theoretically to see if you really want an left-wing government with an equality driven laws or if it is just hypocrisy plain and simple
Reading comprehension… Yes, the US is still in North America and it’s good to know you are so well informed. It seems you have attained at least one of those US university degrees.
I said US goons have been present in Sao Paulo throughout the coup process.
I have seen many of them here in the last sixteen+ years. I did not mention the ones I know about are involved in the coup. But I do know some of these US patriots (with the help of some rented Brazilians) are here on stalk and torture duty. Since the US is known to be involved in stalking and torturing US dissidents in Brazil, and the US has been involved in every right wing Latin American coup during your lifetime, only a fool would state the US is not involved in this one too. Only an American fool would make such an absurd claim.
I am still waiting for your evidence the US was not involved in any right wing coup in Central and South America during the 20th and 21st centuries.
By the way, did you win those wars yet? One of them? Are you aware of any of them?
Stan
“……Since the US is known to be involved in stalking and torturing US dissidents in Brazil, and the US has been involved in every right wing Latin American coup during your lifetime, only a fool would state the US is not involved in this one too……”
Can I just state for the record that I don’t agree with every past US action, OK? The US considered South and Central America to be within its sphere of influence during the cold war. The rise of the incompetent left wing governments was the unfortunate result. But that is irrelevant to Brazil June 5, 2016. Count me a fucking fool, but you have – again – presented no evidence for the US involvement in the collapse of the Rousseff government. Your say so doesn’t mean shit to me, OK? Either you have evidence or you don’t. Shit or get off of the pot.
“……But I do know some of these US patriots (with the help of some rented Brazilians) are here on stalk and torture duty. Since the US is known to be involved in stalking and torturing US dissidents in Brazil…..”
Fair enough, now just provide a link.
Thanks.
Stan: “……But I do know some of these US patriots (with the help of some rented Brazilians) are here on stalk and torture duty. Since the US is known to be involved in stalking and torturing US dissidents in Brazil…..”
Craig: “Fair enough, now just provide a link.”
Craig, you require hyperlinks to dozens of Zersetzung thugs’ LinkedIn pages listing their job descriptions and daily itineraries? Hyperlinks to my experience being stabbed with a needle followed by a more severe physical assault in a Sao Paulo medical lab (6-May-2009), and the experience of being threatened with a straight razor and poked in the eye with scissors in a barber shop down the street (3:15pm 10-Sep-2014)? I’m not scratching a very thick surface and won’t mention recent fun I had in the US among your domestic thugs, but I cannot resist mentioning the freedom loving blood relations in Georgetown, Texas who delivered verbal death-threats in November 2008. But hey, they are courageous patriots too, making sacrifices for their country just like you.
Is my not providing these hyperlinks evidence US patriots do not engage in routine torture in Brazil and the US?
Do you ask for hyperlinks from people who claim they are being tortured by Iranians, Chinese, or Russians?
Do you not believe the US engages in routine torture today?
Or do you jovially approve of torture as most Americans do, and would rather it not be discussed as most Americans prefer?
Craig: ” The US considered South and Central America to be within its sphere of influence during the cold war. The rise of the incompetent left wing governments was the unfortunate result. But that is irrelevant to Brazil June 5, 2016. ”
Why trust a country with the US’ track record? Why assume innocence today when the US was always guilty in the past, up to the very recent past? (I am referring to Venezuela and Honduras.) Chronic US habits and its response to recent events is relevant to the political meltdown here in Brazil today. And if you want to find something out about the NSA’s shitty behavior towards Brazil I encourage you to look it up yourself. I don’t owe you those hyperlinks and you’ve been to college, right?
The Cold War excused everything for you doesn’t it. Now your country’s excuse for every insane act has switched from ‘the commies’ to ‘the terrorists’ which the US itself funded, trained, and set loose on Russia in Afghanistan. The great and the good in D.C. are so screwed up they even have the chutzpah (not surprisingly) to beg Russia not to attack its ‘allies’ in Syria today.
And these right wing, ‘run a country like a business’ governments you favor… Quite the competent, disciplined, and decent bunch they have been. The most obvious example of the awful things that can happen to countries run like a business is the US itself: a militarized police state, 24×7 totalitarian surveillance, routine torture (not mentioned in polite society), a no-strategy war it never even intends to win, lost respect, lost power, a decimated middle class (I doubt that bothers you at all), rotting bridges, poisoned water supplies, and what else… I’m sure I am forgetting something. Oh yeah, meaningless elections to decide which substantively identical faction gets prime grazing rights on what’s left of the carcass.
Stan
You still have provided zero evidence for US complicity in the “coup” in Brazil. How many times are you going to post without anything to back up your position? And I don’t give one flying fuck about your personal history. It means absolutely nothing to me.
“……Why trust a country with the US’ track record? Why assume innocence today when the US was always guilty in the past, up to the very recent past? (I am referring to Venezuela and Honduras.) Chronic US habits and its response to recent events is relevant to the political meltdown here in Brazil today. And if you want to find something out about the NSA’s shitty behavior towards Brazil I encourage you to look it up yourself. I don’t owe you those hyperlinks and you’ve been to college, right?……”
Sorry. I’m not looking up anything on your behalf. You are the one accusing the US of torturing “patriots” in Brazil and underpinning the impeachment of Rousseff. Provide a link or fuck off. Seem fair enough?
“……Now your country’s excuse for every insane act has switched from ‘the commies’ to ‘the terrorists’ which the US itself funded, trained, and set loose on Russia in Afghanistan…..”
I have to love your switch, Stan. Afghanistan was in the backyard of the USSR i.e., in their sphere of influence. The Soviets invaded to ensure their puppet remained in power. The US (Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) funded the Mujahideen to free the people in Afghanistan from Soviet control. Funny how that works. In the world of crack-pots like your good self, the USSR was doing the Afghanistan people a favor, while the US fucked up all of South America. As even you might recall, when the USSR collapsed, 15 countries were freed – many of which joined NATO and the EU. Can you venture a guess why? Does Ukraine ring a bell?
“…….The great and the good in D.C. are so screwed up they even have the chutzpah (not surprisingly) to beg Russia not to attack its ‘allies’ in Syria today……”
It is Russia that is propping up the Assad regime in Syria. Assad was responsible for instigating the civil conflict in the first place by crushing a democracy movement. About 200,000-300,000 people have died which are primarily the responsibility of Assad the murderer. The US – for the most part – has not been involved until recently bombing ISIS and supplying the rebels with weapons after the first couple of years of the conflict. Russia, Iran and Lebanon (Hezbollah) have done nothing but prop up a brutal police state for geopolitical reasons, but go ahead and continue to sing the praises of Russia.
“……..The most obvious example of the awful things that can happen to countries run like a business is the US itself: a militarized police state, 24×7 totalitarian surveillance, routine torture (not mentioned in polite society), a no-strategy war it never even intends to win, lost respect, lost power, a decimated middle class (I doubt that bothers you at all), rotting bridges, poisoned water supplies, and what else… I’m sure I am forgetting something. Oh yeah, meaningless elections to decide which substantively identical faction gets prime grazing rights on what’s left of the carcass……”
Unlike the thriving Brazil? I do get a kick out of you far left wing nut jobs.
Thanks Stan.
“Sorry. I’m not looking up anything on your behalf. You are the one accusing the US of torturing ‘patriots’ in Brazil and underpinning the impeachment of Rousseff. Provide a link or fuck off. Seem fair enough?”
Again, I point out your reading comprehension disability, American Fuckwit.
I am accusing US patriots of engaging in routine torture here in the Brazil and in the US. I did not say they are torturing “patriots”. (That’s an insult.)
The US has always been involved in right wing coups in Latin America.
Always.
You can count on it as much as seeing the sun rise in the morning.
Please provide evidence that the US has not been involved in every right wing Latin American coup in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The onus is on you, american monster, to prove otherwise. You think anyone with a couple of neurons to rub together trusts psychopaths like you?
only 0.02:
[“Please provide evidence that the US has not been involved in every right wing Latin American coup in the 20th and 21st centuries.”]
Actually, the burden of proof relies with whom makes an assertion. You do not prove an absence in an infinite space, but the contrary.
So, rather than proving a given government is not implicated in another country’s coup, the burden of proof should be given to the one who asserts it is.
Pretty much the principle of innocent until proven guilty.
“The US (Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) funded the Mujahideen to free the people in Afghanistan from Soviet control. Funny how that works.”
Ha ha ha. Good one. Since when was the US interested in freeing anyone in your lifetime, even their own brain-dead population? You sir, are a patriot. I have to call this off, now. You kind is only good for insulting. Psychopaths cannot be reasoned with.
Will you please mention a single example of Latin American “coup shit” — as LBJ, who knew something about Brazilian coup shit, once referred to this ubiquitously American bidnes — the US has not been involved in during your lifetime?
Persons like yourself have an official US prosecutorial category. It is called stooge. Persons like yourself also have an official psychological classification, it is called sociopath. You also have an official cia classification called psycho, and a military classification called certifiable and a societal classification aka nutjob. Put it all together and you would be infamous, like famous in an “in” sort of way. Killed anyone lately?
Are you telling us that USG is not in the business of abusively destroying anything that doesn’t play into the interests of their plutocratic elite? By the way it has always been regardless of the human, societal cost of their “freedom-loving”.
You may not find “a shred of evidence” between the arrival of people from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean on the Southern U.S. border and the active, vertical and comprehensive corruption of any vestige of democratic processes in the region. Training terrorists at the so-called “School of the Americas” on U.S. tax payers moneys who then become president in their own countries … Since they can’t see “shreds of evidence” when they notice thousands of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S. Southern border they talk about the “unmorality of their parents” forgetting about their own unmorality while they corrupt and destroy the societal fabric of those people.
As another case, you may not find “a shred of evidence” between the never ending abusive occupation and destruction of whole societies, families and the actual killing of individuals and the waste of their own lives in the middle East and the huge and ongoing refugee crisis Europe is facing.
I would like to know about that too, but are you so sure there aren’t “shreds of evidence” there either relating to “freedom loving”?
RCL
Crap news!!! Don’t say anything about Dilma’s, Lula and PT corruptions scandals!!! Crap socialism!!! Whay don’t you mention something about Petrobras? Odebrecht? BNDS? Pasadena? The new aircrafts to the Brasilians Air Force? Andrade Gutierrez? World Cup 2014 Stadiums (Arena Corinthians for exemplo), Sao Francisco’s river transposition, Ferro Norte train rail, Belo Monte’s Hidrelectral Plant, Mensalao, MST, UNE, Rouanet Rules, MTST and so on? Once again, Blooddy crap news!!!
exposing Temer as the criminal he is, good thing. Better, exploring his relationships would also expose a web of organized crime in the US government and the criminals they employ. The network of organized crime in the US is supported by many gov agencies, by wallstreet, by many corporations. And it is getting bigger.
Let’s get started with Temer’s credibility cannot collapse because he does not have much. Then the article is filled with inaccuracies and drama. Glenn is partnered with David Miranda, who is a politician in Brazil’s radical Left against Dilma’s impeachment. Rather than work as a journalist, Glenn has gone to opinion and innuendo, at the level we often see in Fox News, Donald Trump’s tweets and in state-owned Telesur from Venezuela. All the while he shuttles back and forth between Rio and London like a champagne socialist. Glenn – you can do better than this article.
Shuttles back and forth? I don’t think Glenn has been in London since at least 2013.
a “champagne socialist”!? WELL, HELL YA. Let’s take a good look at that name, ok? EVERYONE SHOULD BE A CHAMPAIGN SOCIALIST. Me included. And all my family, neighbor, friends, and countrymen. That would be a good thing. We could all celebrate the life of socialism – another great thing.
Socialism as in sharing. Sounds like you dont like sharing.
Champagne. i like champaign. Sounds like you don’t. Teetotaller are ya or just a crazy person?
I can’t tell if you were ranting at me or at “Tassio Caralho.” But if it was at me, you failed to understand my comment reply to T.C.
What is more likely is that the US has just decided to stay out of it and why wouldn’t they? The entire government is corrupt! Yes, it is true that they took a democratic elected leader out. A leader who was the chairman for Petrobras during corruption and a leader who’s own party is terribly corrupt. Also, keep in mind that Dilma isn’t very friendly with the US government. Is it the US governments job to stop coups from around the world? I think Greenwald is playing to the imagination of the leftist in Brazil. Desiring to be that guy who has all the right answers and can stick the blame to the “imperialist” US government. Because after all, doesn’t Brazil need to blame someone, something other than themselves? You can sleep much better with yourself knowing that someone else is to blame for you situation, but that’s not the mature posture to have. Look, Brazil is a terribly corrupt country with a faulty constitution which does it’s best to keep the Brazil from moving forward. Brazilians blame yourselves for once. Quit being children.
Brazilian elites did not choose Temer.
Temer was the PT party’s nominee for VP.
His crimes do not justify Dilma’s financial misreporting. Her actions were impeachable offenses and the Brazilian legislature and judiciary followed the process determined by the Brazilian Constitution.
Not sure why you are unable to see this.
Those tapes! Are they the same ones that surfaced before?
Something interesting is that, even if there obviously is some “freedom loving” interests behind Dilma’s impeachment, there is some agency they haven’t been able to totally control and that (to them) is not “good for business”
That will also teach Latin American leaders to stay away from corruption. Not because they do it you should. Don’t let them lure you into it:
1) as they say: crime doesn’t (really) pay (in the long run)
2) when you do it, it will be “different” (peculiarly hypocritical)
3) not because you can do something, it means you have to, should
4) not being corrupt is not that contagious it seems ;-), but it does set an example, opens possibilities to other
If you have a spine or police don’t like you, you have to be very careful because they would like to get you off base “to get, entrap you” with some prosecutable b#llsh!t. Here in NYC people smoke ween in the open, but if you are an activist and you do they will put you behind bars for a number of years. Why playing into their b#llsh!t?
RCL
Activism has always had its price which predatory power mongering thieves will make you pay.
Activist or not, if you know things about say, wallstreet criminals, stock trading fraud, criminal boards of directors holding meetings high on cocaine passed around, criminal intent of company executives looking to defraud the public or govt agencies, yeah, they will want find a way to remove you from circulation.
If that is your situation, always have 2 or more attorneys whom you have paid to represent you.
Shouldn’t you be searching for a job?
I hope this isn’t inappropriate but, can somebody help me? I can’t tell the difference between Temer and Macri. They look absolutely identical to me. Please tell me they are two different people and there is some way to distinguish, well maybe distinguish is not the right word for either of them, I mean is there some feature that would differentiate them from each other?
Thanks in advance.
2 doomed reformers in collapsing economies
I found weird from the beginning how Greenwald only selectively reports on events in Brazil – for example talking about recordings that reveal ministers of Temer trying to intervene in the investigation, but not talking about recordings that reveal PT members doing the same, including Lula and arguably Dilma (“in case of necessity”).
One of many distortions seen here, always favoring the PT camp.
But now it all makes sense, since Greenwald’s partner revealed he is running for office in party allied with PT. It confirms that the motivations were political, not journalistic.
GOOD.
If one does nott take OWNERSHIP of one’s govt, one’s democratic RESPONSIBILITY, then one would be a PUTZ.
Putz’s always use the phrase “it’s political” as if it is nothing but selfish. Putz’s always look for a merely selfish politcal incentive. Beware the con job because the putz perspective is that of mix of selfish and selfless, an attempt to conflate the two. The TRUTH is that being politically responsible and involved and activated for goodness is called SELFLESS. Example – Bernie Sanders, political, and selfless.
Glenn Greenwald is doing his part to enable the self destiny of ownership of equal power for all (except putz’s, criminals, dictators, thieves and the like). Frankly, people who dont like that, please get off my planet.
You clearly do not get a very simple point: the problem of submitting journalistic standards to political expediency. Telling stories not as they really are, but as it meets your political objectives.
Seriously you have no right to write about what we are living, and what’s going on here in Brazil. Especially if you are writing in a wrong way. Playing the devil’s advocate seems really ugly. I’m a Brazilian and I was embarrassed by our former president, she didn’t even know how to speak in public and when she did speak she embarrassed everyone. In the United States she wouldn’t even be elected alderman.
Marcelo odebretch accused Dilma roussef of extorting $12M for her campaign.
So now the “only politician not accused of corruption” is finally debunked…
http://m.politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,revista-afirma-que-dilma-pediu-caixa-2-para-odebrecht,10000055201
Dilma is corrupt. Enough with “poor Dilma” and “poor Brazilian democracy”. Dilma for prison already, with all her peers.
Dilma Rouseff is the best person to come along to the planet since fried rice. She fought against CIA ASSASSINS and against SPECIAL US FORCES TRAINED ASSASSINS and against CORPORATE US ASSASSINS.
I dont care if she used public money to wash her hands in a gold plated bowl. The truth is, the evil ASSASSIN types are trying to demean her as if ASSASSINATING her would not be murder. This verbal-written demeaning her is the same thing that ISRAELI LIKUD ZIONISTS GENOCIDAL PSYCHOPATHS do the same thing toward Palestinians.
Killing Palestinians is MURDER. Demeaning Dilma Rouseff is an attempt to propagate murder. Only criminal minded sociopathic thieves would want to harm Dilma.
The Brazilian military dictatorship had its fair share of dark moments. But groups fighting the military back in the early days were not kind either. Dilma and her crew had their moments spreading terrorism (bank robbery, bombing, airplane highjacking)..
But these days are gone, we are now in a republic and it granted amnesty for everyone that fought in that time, for both sides, left and right, regardless of how many blood they had in their hands.
We are judging the President Dilma, not the terrorist or activist one..
So…..
We and the vast majority of the brazilians against Dilma dont want to harm her.
The only thing we want is PT out of Federal Government.
We dont find her fit to be in office anymore. Temer might not be as well, but thats another history. If it is the case, We might have both gone and new elections.
It is clear that you have zero knowledge about Brazil’s political history. And it is now also clear that you forgot to take your meds.
I just read about how the Deutche Bundesbank engineered a recession in Germany so they could cause a change of government (they didn’t like Erhard who, himself had done a job on Adenauer to become Chancellor). What just happened in Brazil is no different than what just happened in Argentina and in many other country’s including most western countries. This started after the New Deal, accelerated after the 71 Gold “standard” end, engineered by Nixon and Connolly with Volcker providing the brains because the Europeans were abusing it and the USA could not compete in world markets. It went on steroids near the end of Carter and Volcker as Fed. Chair and Regan put it in hyper-drive destroying the working class and recycling the foreign surpluses through Wall St. and the City. This is not going well for the working class and will not end well for the rentier class either but no one knows when the system will crash. Interesting that no one seems able to figure it out and change it giving a soft landing but then again we are losing the earth to climate change rather than leaving it in the ground.
New York – NY / U.S.A
June 4th, 1016
No Kidding !
Perhaps, you should take in consideration to added to your previously written remarks that you have been led by a legit mid 60’s terrorist and former urban guerrilla prostitute commonly known as Dilma Vana Rusev, along with her own dismembered nine fingers criminal predecessor, who have indeed fathered the biggest corruption probe ever in Latin America’s history amidst the biggest multi-billion dollars scheme scandal.
There are some great thinkers coming out speaking about transitioning to a steady-state economy and horizontal democracy. It’s slow in the coming, but it’s coming.
Tendentious news.
Brazil was the first country in the world where the “population gave a coup”.
how about an interview with temer?
how about an interview with Janaína, Miguel Reale, the ones who filled the impeachment?
How about an interview with brazilian lawyers board, OAB, which filled a new impeachment in congress?
How about an interview with the leaders of the movements that made millions of brazilians go to the streets and ask dilma out?
Playing devils advocate is good for journalism.
Many people have commented here on Brazil’s declining economy, but few have mentioned an important factor in that decline, namely, a drastic drop in the price of oil over the past two years. Brazil, Russia, and even Saudi Arabia all struggled to balance their budgets when the boom in oil prices went bust. Glenn, can you provide some insight into this and other factors that have brought Brazil into financial difficulty?
Brazil is not an oil exporter. Brazil is not self suficient oil producer. This is not even an government budget issue, but a trade one.
When crude oil prices dropped, the then Petrobras president Graca Foster used
*used the lowprice advantage to compensate the fraudulent budget, since they didnt drop gas and diesel prices, even rose them.
Relying on a boom-and-bust commodity cycle for long-term economic growth is always a dead end, whether it’s a democracy or a dictatorship, left-wing or right-wing.
If you’re on top of things, you use the boom to get out of the debt trap but you also prepare for the bust, by moving your economy to one based on manufacturing, which requires investment in education for all your people. Dilma and Lula got some of this right (like their education programs for the poor) but, like so many other developing countries, they didn’t prepare for the bust end of the commodity cycle.
Wall Street, on the other hand, in collusion with Washington, has played this game many times with developing nations, and knew that an economic downturn could be exploited to institute a regime change program and keep the country in client status. That’s what happened in many Asian countries in the late 1990s – but China avoided that. What Brazil should be asking now is, “how did China avoid our fate?” (Hint: see all the Wall Street whining about ‘Chinese currency manipulation’)
https://www.rt.com/news/345395-brazil-media-incited-protests-favored-impeachment/
The media in Brazil is in the hands of a small number of families. It would be well within the realms of possibility, that they have a connection to US policy demands, that suit them and suit the US.
I suggest the world’s media generally has some connection to the requirements of US policy. The press is at its best , when it at holds the governments’ feet to the fire in the search for truth and justice. How often do the MSM do this?
sadly for Brazil, there is not a decent alternative to the failed and badly flawed Rousseff.
these swine certainly are no better than Dilma…
…but that doesn’t change that she has failed miserably and leads a party that is as corrupt as the others.
Thank you so much Glenn! there are many powerful involved in the coup against democracy and the people. It is very importan to continue denouncing what is happening, mainly for the foreign press. Muito obrigada
Still, Glenn, conservative lawmakers in the US are already proven willing to crash the world economy in their childish my-way-or-no-way governance. If ever “car washing” corruption from this country’s government, knowing these sell-out scorched-earth establishment types as we do, Brazil’s current turmoil by comparison might seem like a walk in the park.
spot on and,
like a walk in the dark
[where are the] Keepers of the Light ~ Ky-mani Marley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQUVM48Hp5Q
lucky for the human race, people are born with the will of goodness. It is the interuption of evil means that fosters greed then corrupts the soul. But the world shall be judged by a truth which is visible and undeniable and without the constraints of history or the permutation of lies since.
quite simple really and effective. But it does require an ounce of faith.
god bless this planet and all good people upon it.
Here was one that shone brighter than most and America jailed him.
https://www.rt.com/news/345391-muhammad-ali-famous-quotes/
The Light is Truth my friend…
It is the knowledge of Christ by separation of truth from the lies. It is happening now in the world by the exposing of the Truth. When it is exposed we are accountable for it. This is Grace. The Light is separating those who do not want the Truth (darkness) from those who do. This is why we can see, feel, hear and touch the evil that is covering this earth. There are many ambassador’s who are aiding this along…albeit ordinary folk as opposed to religious oligarch’s, pharoah’s, and self crowned leader’s tied up with man made doctrines missing humanity. We are accountable to hear them…to change and be counted among the good who want what’s right. It’s happening…
God bless you and thank you for Ky-mani Marley.
“This is why we can see, feel, hear and touch the evil that is covering this earth.”
So much.
“Some want to live within the sound of a church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.” C.T. Studd
It’s nigh time.
Very nice.
Tks you só much, Gleen, for helping us save ou democracy!
Considero o intento de Destituição da Dilma um Golpe propio da Elite ,de esse Brazil q ainda não tem saido da escravidão e’ a crema e nata a defender seu ” poder” mesmo q seia cometendo o crimen mais cruel :condenar sem causa por motivo futil. Hoje no Jornal “El Pais” na entrevista ao FHC ,ele deixa ver que estam despejando o caminho para o PSDB (!!!) . Glenn ,OBRIGADA por levar a verdade fora do Brasil .Não vai ter Golpe!!
Thanks Glenn for an admirable analysis. Could not have dreamt up this drama in a million years.
I think that some involvement of the US government into this crisis we are living here in Brasil is much more than just a political or economical dealings. It has fingers of evangelical religious influence of american churches here, as you can observe occur in Africa. Here is not at the same level, but there’s part of a bigger plan. You can observe something in these days: Eduardo Cunha is – at least he says he is – an evangelical. He comands a good part of the lower house full of evangelical officers. And he uses churches to get his support. It’s true that some evangelical churches here are very powerfull, but is also true that american missionaries are involved in some minor churches, trying to influence officers and others politians. Some of the most famous pastors here, Silas Malafaia, is one of these minor churches involved with american missionaries and groups.
American influence here is much more than just political and economic. It’s trying to deny brasilian culture and creating laws that they are not allowed to do in their home country.
What’s with the Christian persecution??
The majority of Christians in Brazil are catholic, which its institutions like CNBB are leftists and rooted for PT ever since.
The evangelicals are not trying to deny brazilian culture. Brazil was founded on a christian majority. It is not like the minorities cant have their own cult and culture, for the constitution protects them and we have a reasonably peace among all religions in Brazil, including African’s in the mix. But we cant deny Brazil has its roots on Christianity.
And the congress is the very image of the Brazilian society, of course it would have evangelicals among them, as it have catholics, African based (candomblé), seculars, progressists, pro-life, pro-choice, men, women and so forth…
It has fingers of evangelical religious influence of american churches here,
Beware of the evangelicals for they are radical extremists much like the puritans and the inquisition. They are lost souls who falsely believe that god will make everything right and all they have to do is be his army. But i tell you the truth – in Jesus’ way he would say that eveyone could live and enjoy life as flawed human beings if they would only not violate the 10 commandments and feed the hungry, heal the sick, help the need – the economy of God’s will. Do that and enjoy life and you need not be on your knees at every moment before a sermon.
Evangelicals are, imho, a twisted deceived self-righteous menace.
Radical extremists? Self righteous menace?
Within this description I have a religion in mind, but thats not a christian one…
Hey Glenn,
Stick to what you know, for the sake of humanity. You have no idea the harm you’re causing. You have tarnished your reputation with 2/3 of hard-working Brazilians who know the reality of our country and the relief it is to remove this criminal government from power.
Whose agenda are you pushing?
Best,
Pedro
Just to clarify the article. First, the impeachment of a president is permitted by the Federal Constitution, hence, don’t know why the author claims that it was illegal. Second, it was due to crimes that the president committed, not corruption charges. The federal government cannot use public banks to fund its government, which President Dilma did. The article is clearly biased with incorrect information thereby losing all credibility, as I see it.
The sad thing is . Even with all these Brazilian scandals, their democracy is better than our “democracy”
absolutely.
american democracy is so bad it scares other countries into dictatorship.
Escapamos de virar uma venezuela e tem gente apoiana comunismo em pleno seculo 21 ridiculo.. todos são ladroes…Escapamos de virar um lixo de pais como a Venezuela..restou mais de 11milhões de desenpregado… uma divida astronômica e um pais quebra…lixo de PT..Psol…Pc do B…se acham comunismo bom..vão morar na Coréia do Norte…ultima questão..quantas pessoas morreram fugindo da ilha de cuba e seus admistradores assinos e sanguinários…e quantos norream tentando ir pra cuba a nado??? O socialismo só cria ditaduras…
Pure rubish. PT have ecploring and taking mobey out of Brazil since de Buchanear of Lula sa Silva became president.
Brazilians do not want PT in power no wven Dilma Incompetent Rousef in power.
In my mind, I have no doubt that the US is involved in having Rousseff impeached based on history, even recent history. Somehow I think that if someone really looked that USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy would somehow be involved in funding opposition media, opposition protesters, and opposition government officials as they have done in numerous countries. Al Jazeera reported of USAID and the National Endowment for democracy funding opposition in Egypt before the overthrow of Morsi. USAID created ZunZuneo in Cuba, Cuban Twitter, to try to inspire regime change in, I believe, 2010 as reported by the Associated Press. From documentaries that I have watched USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy were involved in funding opposition in Venezuela in 2002 where even some of those that were funded received government positions. Then we have Ukraine whom I believe received funding from USAID and even so involved that an “American” who used to work for USAID in Ukraine became Ukraine’s Finance Minister. Let us also not forget about US involvement in the coup in Honduras in 2009 which was undertaken by a graduate of the School of the America’s (now WHINSEC) located in Fort Benning, Georgia (11 Latin American Dictators, and their death squads, trained at SOA) as reported by the Guardian. It is a twisted game which makes a mockery of democracy for economic and geopolitical gains.
One other thing that Wikileaks tweeted was:
“Current US Ambassador to #Brazil Served in #Paraguay Prior to 2012 Coup”
Thank you so much for this …
I totally agree with this as I too have seen the connection(s). USAID is a complete form of blackmail dressed up in humanitarian clothes. Israel is a great picture of it. If ONLY sovereign states would stop accepting it. (But in truth when they do…they have brought on themselves the evil that this horrible country USA can strike with at every side to throw them over). There are also many other so-called organizations dressed up (as you mentioned) that in reality are the enemies of not only our citizens, but the poor of others. SOA is a terrorist organization…period. And I am calling it what it is. Hopefully a drone will “phone home” on that place.
Glenn, Dilma and Michael and the rest are all crooks. Eu amo o Brasil but the whole government is dirty. Grossly liberal policies work no where. See Venezuela. You need new leaders that are moderates that have total transparency. Until Brazil changes its ways to be more business friendly and diversified along with the changes politically and legally, it will never change.
Glenn, You know nothing about Brazil ! You’re still lying to the world and protecting a communist (Dilma). Whether you like communism, why don’t you move to Vanezuella?
Shut up !
t’s incredibly annoying that in both Brazil and the USA, corruption (including even vicious intimidation and entrenched oligarchy) can be exposed, even archived as history, and yet be considered simultaneously as the immovable status quo – to be modified only how, if and when our overlords decide.
It gets ‘modified’ from time to time as history records. It’s called revolution and it’s quite violent.
Yep,they just ignore it,as if it doesn’t and didn’t happen,as they make their own reality now.Arrogant bastards.
It’s true…
But…
It is now available for all of us to blast in these pages…to wake up our senses and come out of our ‘holier than thou of the world’ propaganda. It is available for us to be changed by and utterly be sickened by it. It’s available for us to say NO MORE in our name(s). It is available for us to be ashamed of the lies that are even up to this day are still under cover by Congress. It is available for us to CHANGE what is…to what it shouldn’t be by demanding accountability and a total cleanse of DC. They are liars and thieves because we gave them the power to be.
this overlapping with the upcoming olympics has also been odd to watch. in any case, venezuela is next. then possibly bolivia. all with the help of argentina and their “reform minded” (western press code for “vichy austerity fetishist”) president who is allowing u.s. military bases near the borders.
and all of which will go into light speed if hillary is eletced. possibly trump,yes…but 100% without a doubt under her.
*elected.
also: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Macri-Gives-Go-Ahead-to-US-Military-Installations-in-Argentina-20160518-0029.html
My thoughts mirrored “Pair” ………. and worse still…. I’m beginning to think that these organised “regime changes”… Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil… are preparatory for an invasion of Venezuela… a sorry situation indeed.
It’s prose poetry, it really is!
Vile, disgusting crapflooding of the thread, of course, but very entertaining in a perverse fashion.
Oops. That was a reply to a post that seems to have, er, been removed. Which was a good decision.
Who was the miscreant in this thread?
Some of the Chef’s posts have been scrubbed.
I was wondering if that was not a computer program, in all seriousness.
And now, he has been formally convicted of violating election laws and, as punishment, is banned from running for any political office for eight years.
zippity doo dah, zippity ay………………
if they could only do this sort of thing in America.
Miami – FL / U.S.A
June 3rd, 2016
In today’s world, the existent Brazilian associate press and it’s outlets have made Dilma Vana Rusev and her own dismembered nine fingers insignificant imbecile, and or predecessor, as the Jews of Decade, in the same manner as the Nazis had made themselves in past, as the communists as their own hatred towards to any social democracy on earth’s surface.
In 2013 John Kerry told the Organization of American States that the “era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.”
Fucking stand-up comedian, this guy.
And the U.S. propaganda machine (rebel comedians included) continues to ignore or distort this story.
http://mpmacting.com/blog/2016/3/30/ynuq9kkoj5fb81hobs9tlk1h48fpjn
From the US State Department’s webpage stating something that sounds very familiar to me after watching Glenn’s 4 minute explanation. Somehow, it resonates.
“The Commercial Dialogue, which develops strategies to eliminate impediments to trade and investment.”
.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35640.htm
I guess the 2007 secret trip by the VP to the United States qualifies as “Commercial Dialogue”
With a little rearrangement of the phrases, our Chef could become the founding father of a new Anglo-Latin poetry genre: Neo-Nihilistic Scatological Grunge.
Just want to make sure I understand the implications of the article:
Temer will be installed as the President, but due to his conviction, will be ‘stuck’ in the position for eight years so therefore he’s the President for the next eight years?
Am I misunderstanding? Thanks.
Temer has been the interim president for the past 20 days. If Rouseff’s impeachment proceedings follow through, Temer will be sworn in until next presidential elections in 2018. What the article posits is the illegitimacy of a caretaker government led by a politician who won’t be able to run for office for the next eight years. But seeing as this is Brazil we’re talking about I’m surprised his conviction still hasn’t been repealed.
Thanks, phasmo (and barabbas). It’s what I assumed, but given the free-for-all, I wondered if he would be the installed president, not be able to run for office for eight years, but also remain the president for those said eight years, rather than two, under the pretense he can’t run for office. Crazier things have happened.
Yes, rather amusing. You are convicted of crimes and therefore you cannot run for political office for eight years…Mr. President.
I know very little about Brazil, I only see rough sketches, increasingly more clearly, of how things work in the world. I am truly saddened by what a few people will do to other people for power and money. That, and I am mentally ruminating each day on what an appropriate moral response is, even if just the little things.
if Dilma is booted, Temer remains to election 2018.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/18//dilma-rousseff-impeachment-what-happens-next-in-brazil
“If you are a Latin American citizen and you’re not asking yourself this question, that would be very strange.”
Wouldn’t it, though? ;^)
Leaving aside, just for a moment, the substance of the matter under discussion, I just have to say that, again, I’m in awe of Glenn’s ability to speak extemporaneously with absolutely awesome precision and striking impact. And not just in his native language.
Sometimes, Glenn, you’re just scary. ;^)
Miami – FL / U.S.A
June 3rd, 2016
A country that lacks in the ability to provide to their citizens the basic rights for a better educational environment, health and safety system, truly don’t need to pay wages towards to an execurive culture’s minister.
Instead, they should invest the money towards to open it the biggest socialist outdoor brothel’s house, alongside with Rio’s biggest outdoor septic-toilet ever built on earth’s surface that remains receiving a massive 4 tons of raw sewage and garbage materials as a legit form to keep their ideology obstinate by their own normality and defense mechanism.
Lucky for you, Glenn and his friends banned my YouTube Donkey Sex video link, in which I imputed cultural inferiority based on ethnicity. Otherwise, you would have been profoundly insulted.
So I guess you win.
You have defeated me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY
“It was one of the great remaining mysteries surrounding the final days of World War II – what happened to Heinrich Mueller, the head of the Gestapo secret police and the highest-ranking Nazi never to have been captured or located.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/long-sought-nazi-gestapo-chief-heinrich-mueller-died-in-berlin-researcher-says/
Now we know – he’s been revived to write comments on the Intercept’s web page. Laying it on a bit thick aren’t we?
“My best regards to the Brazilian officials, men and women in uniform, who simplify the words, honor, courage and commitment, and as firm of Tribute to a great Brazilian Citizen and brother in arms and friend in peace commonly known as Brazil’s Army Cel. Brill Ustra, who fought terrorism, communism, and criminals scums to give an opportunity to 214 Brazilian Citizens the right for freedom.”
Benito Mussolini is better at this than you are, I’m afraid.
hmm….
heinrich meuller…..
mueller……
chef mueller…..
nice catch, photosymbiosis!
he had a son?
The way I see it Brazil (or its Judiciary) is taking care of many decades of legacy corrupt politicians.
Most have special protection from prosecution while they are politicians, so they have to be fired before they really start to answer for their crimes. It was the case of Dilma who could not be bothered for anything related to more than a decade at the top of Petrobras while she was President. It was the case behind the last minute nomination of Lula for minister to enjoy this type of protection.
And to get someone fired by their peers when about 85% of them are under investigation is one very complicated puzzle.
You have scandals everywhere, presidents and CEOs of big companies sentenced to decades in jail, politicians of ALL parties under investigation, the ones you specifically target in your articles were for DECADES the parliament and senate support for Lula and Dilma governments… do you really think you are doing a good journalism job in endorsing the “coup” thesis that anyone caught with his/her hands in the cookie jar always comes up with?
BDS works…
Thank you Glenn for your continuing stand to get the truth out. You stood pretty much alone getting this out but in the larger picture there are masses coming together to join you…not just in Brazil but the world. People are increasingly tired of the corruption on a global scale…and the numbers are power to take back what they gave away to be handled by thieves, robbers and killers. We have given away the power, authority and the right to assemble against this evil. You (and I wish I could have heard the whole speech in the video) are rightfully trying to warn the people that only they can bring the justice back because they have been on the receiving end of injustice. Some here may complain about the war on Democracy (i.e. voting)…but they are not complaining about its corruption. The system is a failure because the failure is the corruption that digs in deeper to find a secret place to rule from. At least with public outpouring in Brazil and the world…BDS…has made even the justice system straighten its act up. But for how long?
Glenn I say…you are at the right place at this critical time and I send to you the exhortation of strength. God Willing…His Strength
Viva the Brazilian people.
[“Viva the Brazilian people.”]
If you care about Brazilians, unlike Glenn, you would go with the overwhelming majorithy of brazilian citizens that see the impeachment trial as our tool to destitute a criminal from office.
It’s true that most brazilians dont like Temer, but its not our fault. We didn’t ask for him, it is Dilma’s fault, Dilma chose him to run with her. Until a while ago, they were like bff, like newly weds on a honeymoon. Now the impeachment trial is on Dilma, the only thing she does is to brag about him, accuse him and throw tantruns over everyone who doesnt buy the coup narrative. Temer in office is to be blamed on Dilma.
Everyone against the impeachment trial could instead ask for new elections. But please dont as for Dilma get back. We deserve better. We are tired of their lies.
Hi Thomas…
I assume you are Brazilian. I only care about what is right and fair. Most times one needs to get at it through the darkness esp. the darkness of US connections (interests) that are never designed for the population(s). I am not your enemy. Lies are. So however those lies can be revealed and sorted through is for you and your fellow citizens to embrace and say NO MORE. That is why I said “Viva the Brazilian people” and that includes you.
Thanks Sparrow.
I believe you and most fellow Americans who comment here have the best intentions on your words regarding our situation. I am thankful for your insights and kindness on your replying, believe me. But then again, please consider that what is written in this article may be stretched, biased and even wrong.
For all purposes, Obama is leftwing. Dilma, Lula are leftwing. What would US government gain with a rightwing government in Brazil? That doesn’t make any sense. Obama is fond of Lula, why would US’s Obama gvt allow “the coup” if Lula, Dilma were somewhat allies? Even though possible, nobody provided the lightest evidence regarding US gvt intervention, nor a reasonable reason on why they would sponsor such “coup”.
Please consider that maybe the interim government is not as bad as Glenn paints. Moreover, please consider that maybe the former government is not as good and Glenn paints. Also, please consider that maybe the US gvt is just being used as a scapegoat. Please consider that this article may be far from the truth, to say the least.
I have considered the things you point out. But my growing knowledge of US history of being a Predator (2.
a person or group that ruthlessly exploits others)…when it comes to the ‘world’ is ever smh. The simple truth that one can’t change the spots on a leopard nor the stripes on a zebra applies across the board. Obama is on his way out. Obama bows to AIPAC and Wall St. I can only give to you the condemnation of my Government because I am a US citizen. I can’t do that with Brazil only you can. So with respect to that … the history of power has been the same throughout time…and mostly it is the population that gets exploited under that power then suffers. Glenn Greenwald is known for revealing the truth to power and standing in the gap for the people.
I’m sorry you don’t see it that way…but I am not in your shoes and I can’t assert your position because you are a Brazilian. I wish you all the best in getting fair and rightful transparency…we all need that because we are all neighbors.
I forgot to add:
Yes…I would like to see an interview with Temer! That would be interesting…
Glenn’s partner is running for Rio’s city council:
https://www.facebook.com/events/981236365329246/
The page does not state which party he belongs, but by the people attending should be PSOL:
http://www.psol50.org.br/
Take a look on the party’s program:
http://www.psol50.org.br/partido/programa/
This party is was born of PT dissidents, and is with PT ever since. Today it works as an auxiliary party of PT, since it blindfollows them.
This article reflects the PT, PSOL and the brazilian left-wing narrative. So one might wonder.
I think it’s safe to say Greenwald doesn’t like the new president.
Why would anyone like the new president?
His dog and kids,maybe.His wife likes his dough.
After 13 years of PT in power, Brazilian religious zealots would choose even satan over Dilma, Lula, and any other workers party candidate.
We don’t read the situation as if Temer is better than Dilma, but a least harmful option.
You have to be certifiably insane to like the new president. The man is a shitty scumbag.
Arazzou. Te Amo Grenn. Amo a Dilma também, nossa mãezinha. Obrigada por ser do jeito que és.
Razed. Te Amo Green. I Love Dilma also our little mother. Thank you for being the way you are.
I loved #BackDilma
Great article Glenn. Such a sad state to see Brazil in.
FYI I wasn’t able to successfully play the video of your thoughts on U.S. involvement on this page. It loaded a short amount and then never loaded further (tried on another browser as well), however if I went directly to youtube it played normally.
If you were still not able to upload it, to summarize, Glenn states that he does not have the evidence to declare that the U.S. is involved. As in the case of the 1964 coup, evidence of involvement may take years to be revealed. What he does know is that there is a covert relationship between members of the interim government and the US, both in the recent past and in the present. He also states that although he does not know if the US is directly involved in the coup, it could not have happened without US approval and that the US has a history and existing policy of supporting right-leaning governments (which are more favorable to international corporations, wall street, business interests) over left-leaning governments in Latin America.
Miami – FL / U.S.A
June 3rd, 2016
The United States of America doesn’t have nothing to do with Dilma Rusev’s and her own criminal predecessor named as Lula, who has been leading a nation straight to the biggest financial collapsed vortex hole in Latin America’s history, amidst to a multi-billion dollars corruption scheme scandal involving Rusev’s main head treasurer commonly known as John Vaccary, who has been arrested by local federal officials since early 2015 due to a massive $ 800 million dollars in contracts scheme and bribes funneled from PBR’S and shared between Rusev’s criminal workers’ party coalition, led by criminals and certified prostitutes.
The United States of America has no connection whatsoever with Rusev’s $ 23 billion dollars manipulation at Nasdaq stock market located in New York, either has officially acknowledged any imvolviment with Rusev’s $ 349.3 million dollars cheme probe at Texas Pasadena’s Refinery.
Certainly, what the United States of America it is doing in relation to Petrobras, is suing Dilma Vana Rusev in the U.S District Courthouse for a massive $ 98 billion dollars amidst the existent scheme, accompanied with a price tag of $ 150 million dollars in fees for each court session due.
As for past March 31st, 1964 Military overthrow intervention event, yes we did fought communism, criminal scums, and terrorism led by Dilma Vana Rusev, who is a legit mid 60’s terrorist and former urban guerrilla prostitute, who used to belongs to four different criminal organizations in Brazil’s territory alone, using Che Guevara’s and Mario Marighella’s as an urban mentors that had also supported an implementation of communist dictatorship in the country based on Rusev’s version of a proletariat socialist regime, totally linked in the cultural marxist environment already implanted in the country.
My best regards to the Brazilian officials, men and women in uniform, who simplify the words, honor, courage and commitment, and as firm of Tribute to a great Brazilian Citizen and brother in arms and friend in peace commonly known as Brazil’s Army Cel. Brill Ustra, who fought terrorism, communism, and criminals scums to give an opportunity to 214 Brazilian Citizens the right for freedom.
I’m sorry, but I stopped reading as soon as you called her a prostitute. Her actions in her personal life have nothing to do with her actions in her political life. A common problem regarding brazil’s politicians is the fact they don’t want to separate their personal lifes from their political ones, what in this case leads to corruption. Dilma does not do it. She was the only politician whose name didn’t appear in any of the anti-corruption investigations. Temer, on the other hand, who is now the interim president was now caught by court because he did not follow the law. What does this tell us about the government that now is installed in Brazil?
I do believe Chef “Heinrich” Mueller, ex-head of the Nazi Gestapo under Hitler, is trying to wind everyone up. . .
But then, these days, who can be sure?
Miami – FL / U.S.A
June 3rd, 2016
We’ve already knew by fact that Dilma Vana Rusev’s has in past funneled Brazilian tax payers funds exclusively in her own financial benefit during the event of 2014’s election presidential campaig and presidential term.
Now, we’re certain that she’s has also brazenly lied in regards to the U.S Pasadena’s refinery located in Texas, which it is not true that she wasn’t aware at time of the purchase, which has carried out a tag pricing irregularity that has officially caused to Brazil’s federal revenue a massive $ 349.3 million dollars in loss at collapsed PBR’s Petrobras.
Dilma Vana Rusev not only knew about it, but also indeed participated with the alleged ongoing multi-billion corruption scheme scandal in Latin America’s history.
When you say “you know blahblahblah,” do you have conviction or is it an allegation? Also, how do you propose to clean up a system where nearly everyone is corrupt?
As an American, I’m kind of interested in the answer to that question. We have our own situation here in the U.S.
Polecat Hill – Ky/USA
June 3rd, 2016
The New York Times is worried, NOW … http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/us/politics/donald-trump-constitution-power.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
*there’s no telling what kind of verbal diarrhea will come out of that imbeciles mouth. President Trump might even execute US citizens without trial or invade foreign lands when Congress explicitly tells him not to … etc., etc.
Oh wow, that is an utterly hilarious article, thanks, I got a good long laugh out of this bit, an attempted attack on Trump, or at least that appears to be the intent:
“There are other precedents, said John C. Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who took an expansive view of executive power as a lawyer in the Bush administration. “The only two other presidents I can think of who were so hostile to judges on an individual level and to the judiciary as a whole would be Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt,” he said.”
If one needed any more proof that the New York Times has become a ridiculous laughingstock of the media world, a promoter of illegal wars and a tool of the neocon/neoliberal propaganda machine, there it is, in one paragraph.
That’s John Yoo who wrote the unconstitutional torture memo that the CIA relied on it its efforts to torture captured Al Qaeda suspects in 2002 into confessing to ties to Saddam Hussein (Bush had the CIA take the detainees away from the FBI after they initially confessed to links to the Saudi Royals; that’s why Abu Zubaydah hasn’t been seen in 14 years, he had direct ties to the Saudi Royals – likely detailed in those 28 classified pages of the 9/11 comission report); that initial Yoo-justified torture program at Gitmo and CIA black sites was later imported to Iraq in 2004 in an effort to crush the anti-Bremer occupation insurgency by Donald Rumsfeld, Geoffrey Miller and similar psychopaths – creating the iconic enduring images of the Iraq War, such as the guy on the box with the hood and the wires, the naked guy being attacked by dogs, etc. That’s who the NYT turns to for soundbites on Trump! Unreal.
It’s actually an endorsement for Trump, comparing him to FDR – really, NYT? That’s supposed to be a negative? Someone’s lost in the neoliberal hall of mirrors, I think, believing their own PR.
It’s not too surprising, the NYT was the leading promoter of lies about Saddam’s non-existent WMDs, and now they’ve endorsed Hillary ‘Thatcher’ Clinton, the raving war pig with the bugged-out eyes and the witch laugh – that rag is populated by a pack of PR monkeys clattering away on the orders of government overseers, like Pravda under Brezhnev in the ol’ USSR.
Anyway, thanks for the laughs, I needed that.
You have a lovely literary way with words. When I first read it, I thought you had actually said, “Hillary ‘The Hatchet’ Clinton” which also works because I can feel it coming down on our necks, being wielded by the “raving war pig.” Indeed.
Hillaryious.All coming from serial lying world destroyers,the most complete mockery of serious and real discussion of what matters to Americans since Goebbels?
And the HB has already endorsed nukes vs at least one state,so its all poopie cockie hysteria to get little thinking rabbits scared.
“We’ve already knew by fact that Dilma Vana Rusev’s has in past funneled Brazilian tax payers funds exclusively in her own financial benefit during the event of 2014’s election presidential campaig and presidential term.” – BULLSHIT. You don’t “know” any such thing. Lots of accusations yet STILL no actual proof after over a year of investigation.
In capitalism, the rich get powerful. In socialism, the powerful get rich. The idea that the US was behind the impeachment is ridiculous. One would have to ask what the benefit to America was? Sooner of later these governments eat themselves. They are tanking their economy and it is showing. These governments believe that the people exist to support them as opposed to they exist because of the people.
Did anyone claim that? What I would say is that it’s not hard to figure out which side the US establishment is on: The side of the corrupt plutocrats.
https://www.yachana.org/teaching/resources/interventions.html
History of US Interventions in Latin America
(nah…just a bad dream that keeps on coming back)
Your comment needs an edit: “One would have to ask what the benefit to [Wall Street] was.”
This is becasuse the imperial neoliberal/neoconservative project of the past few decades has not benefited the American people in general, just that small elite minority with connections to Wall Street and Congress and the White House / State Department / Pentagon. The imperial project is the chief cause of the decline of the American middle class, in fact.
The simplest answer to your question is that Wall Street doesn’t want to see Brazil become another China, economically speaking. A government run by a corrupt elite who depends on Washington for patronage suits Wall Street’s interests, not one that will refuse currency manipulation attempts, fail to fall into debt traps, build up its manufacturing sector and run a trade surplus with the U.S.
In the preferred Wall Street scenario, Brazil halts its development at the commodity supply stage – it remains a source of cheap soybeans, cattle, iron ore and oil, with those commodites controlled by Wall Street-based corporations who control their flow to world markets – see the current Temer push to private Petrobras by auctioning off the a majority of the shares to Wall Street funds, for example. A clear benefit, wouldn’t you say?
Brazil could also be a source of cheap sweatshop labor for U.S. corporations under this scenario – but not if they have a minimum wage for the poor, etc. (Incidentally, Hillary Clinton worked to prevent Haiti from raising its minimum wage; she has no interest in helping out the poor, abroad or at home).
This is the imperial project: well-paid American manufacturing jobs are shipped abroad, and the American elite get rich off their corporate labor savings; Brazil’s resources are plundered, its Amazon forests cut down for cattle production for McDonalds, and only the Brazilian elite get rich while the majority live in poverty in the favelas. Dilma’s government with its education and social services for the poor was directly opposing the imperial project, so it seems obvious that Team Obama would want to bring it down. NSA spying on Petrobras was revealed by the Snowden documents, right?
Now when Obama said about Lula, “I love this guy”, in 2009 – well, when Tony Soprano or the Godfather or Joe Pesci says that to you, you better watch out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7978816.stm
However, there is ample room to criticize the leftist governments of South America, who set themselves up for failure by giddily riding the commodity boom without investing enough in manufacturing and development, while also building up huge debts; China didn’t make that mistake. A similar game as to what is currently hitting South America was played out in Asia in the late 1990s, bringing down many ‘paper tiger’ governments from Korea to Indonesia – but not China. Brazilians should study that episode, I think.
I agree with your analysis.
We have our own problems coming here in the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knoqs-lV8uo
What I would like to know, both in Brazil and in Venezuela is, where is their Council of Economic Advisors? Why is their economy failing? Where is their economic recovery plan? What team of internationally renowned economists put it together?
The whole purpose of having Economists is to put together an economic plan. If the plan fails, the president can fire the economists and be seen taking effective action. We can argue about Dilma or Temer or Democracy or whatever, but that isn’t going to fix the economy. I’d like to know what is wrong not just who is wrong.
Dilma should have put her economists on the hot seat, and said “Listen up folks. If people start getting fired and removed from office around here, it’s going to be you guys first. My last act as president will be to fire every last one of you. So get cracking!”
America at least has a history that involves the New Deal policies of FDR. So when people tell us that there is no alternative, we know they are lying. Does Brazil have a WPA? Is it modernizing its infrastructure including Energy and Broadband? Does it get people trained up for jobs like nursing, IT, construction and the like? Does it have urban housing program with 1% loans for new housing?
With massive oil reserves, a young aspirational population willing to work, modern technology, their own currency, small military expenditures (compared to the USA), it should be relatively easy to create sustained economic growth. So where is it?
Miami – FL / U.S.A
June 3rd, 2016
In fact, socialism dictatorship is only successful until runs out of the other people’s money.
“….Never worked before, and never will…”
It’s all other people’s money. The government creates the money. See MMT Modern Monetary Theory.
You need to get some real economists. Not just a bunch of hot air and slogans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
socialism dictatorship
No matter what you say, you cannot erase the fact that Rouseff – and Lula before her – were elected by the votes of the majority of the populace in Brazil. The minute there is another election, Temer and his band of criminals will be out of power again.
I wish I could watch your face turn purple while you bang out your reply and wreck your keyboard. [snort!]
Miami – FL / U.S.A
June 3rd, 2016
I must admit it to myself, that there’s nothing more dangerous in today’s world, than a communist dulled at birth, who remains harebrained obstinate by their own stink normality, while I’d take in serious consideration on my regular daily basis that “…The truth sounds just like hate to those who hates truth…”
You’re going to have to do better than that if you’re to convince anyone here of your convictions. Aiming nothing but wild assertions with no backing evidence is nothing short of raving like a two-year-old who insists on having his own way because nothing but his ego has developed.
BTW, where does Rusev come from. I can’t find a single reference to it online, so I have to assume that that’s you’re just trying to be cute by lending Russian overtones to her name. That’s, um, interesting coming from someone who signs himself Meuller. We all pretty much know how Germanic names primarily came to be associated with Latin America.
Err… you are either rather good at winding people up with nonsense, or perhaps you really do spend your days goose-stepping up and down the living room?
“Mueller occupied a position in the Nazi hierarchy between Himmler, the overall head of the Nazi police apparatus and the chief architect of the plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe, and Eichmann, the man entrusted with arranging the deportations of Jews to the Eastern ghettoes and death camps. Thus, although his chief responsibility was always police work within Germany, he was fully in charge and thus responsible to execute the extermination of the Jews of Europe. He received detailed reports from Eichmann on the Einsatzgruppen units, which according to historian Raul Hilberg killed more than two million people. . .”
Time for your meds, isn’t it?
Sorry pedinska that was directed to ‘Chef Heinrich Mueller’
Sorry pedinska that was directed to ‘Chef Heinrich Mueller’
I figured. ;-}
And Chavez. And Maduro. And Kirchner. And Castro if you count hands in the air.
But of course if we switch to any Austrian populist or anyone named LePen or Victor Orban, then the narrative is that there was something wrong with the vote or the voters’ heads…
Whoever assumes that popular vote grants an unlimited mandate to steal and plunder doesn’t really qualify as a democrat.
Brazil economic environment is a nightmare.
– We are one of the most unfree economy regarding foreign trade (protecionism, to hold the internal monopolies);
– Working and employment regulation derived literally from pre WW2 facist Italy – Mussolinni’s Carta del lavoro. So many rules that prevents registered work and many people work under the law once creating a job offer most employers think thousand times before doing.
– Asphyxiating taxation. The burden of taxation on Brazil is ludicrous. The government budget takes 40% + of the Brazilian GDP.
– On top of the taxes, Brazilian ever increasing debt rate is spiking up with no precedents. The budget unbalance is growing due government reckless (mostly) and populist spending from all governments since the new republic (1988). Also for the government officials, their income raises are always granted. Yesterday, SC justices had their montly income raised from ~R$ 33K to R$ 39K out of blue.
– Dilma and her economists are kenesyans. Their ideology prevails over science. We are heading towards rock bottom because of their economic policies. They not only believed government could help economy results, but also that they could steer it to their own will and political needs (i.e. favouring friendly companies and industrials). As has history shown, that never worked.
The single attempt to address some issues, i.e. correcting the budget, wont be easy for leftwingers will yell “austerity”, “neo-liberal (whatever it means)” etc..
We are f****… It will be a long road to get the economy running again.
You are spewing a lot of nonsense, such as this gem:
“Dilma and her economists are kenesyans. Their ideology prevails over science”
The claim that ‘free-market economic theory’ is ‘science’ is utter BS, it’s just propaganda aimed at justifying neoliberal imperial policies which devastate the middle class while enriching a handful of corrupt elites. The only reason that endlessly discredited ‘economic theory’ still exists is because billionaires who benefit from it have financed its promoters, from Milton Friedman to Alan Greenspan, who are also give plenty of column space in the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as lots of time on NPR, CNN, FOX, etc. Its practioners have also been promoted by the Swedish Bank Prize (not even a real Nobel) to the jeers and embarrassment of real academic scientists, as well as the disapproval of the Nobel family members.
Free-market capitalism is supposedly the opposite of centrally controlled communism, but it’s purpose is no different than the communist economic ideology put out by the Sovier Ministry of Information to justify rule by a few elites overseeing the entire economy. Sure, the Brazilian elite aristocrats promote it – it justifies their control over the economy, despite the incompetence they’ve shown, time and again crashing the economy – just as Wall Street did in 2008.
In practice the result of free-market capitalism and authoritarian communism is the same – instead of the Supreme Central Committee making all economic decisions, they’re made by a handful of Wall Street executives and billionaires who issue their directives to the poodle in the White House and the tools in Congress. By eliminating regulations, they allow the construction of monopolies – that’s why deregulated electricty systems, cheered by ‘free-market economists’ always turn into massive ripoffs of the general public. That’s the kind of thing you’re promoting, isn’t it? And that means you’re either stupid or corrupt – so which is it?
I’m not spewing nonsense. Is you that apparently doesn’t understand how the economy (not markets) Works.
First of all, there’s no such thing as “neoliberal”. This is just a neologism full of prejudice aimed towards those who want to be free from government. Everyone who wants laissez-faire is asking for classical liberalism, back from Adam Smith, nothing “neo” about it.
Had you a little knowledge of history (not even about economy), you’d know that middle class emerged from the industrial revolution towards the advent of capitalism. Before that, on feudalism, there was just lords and vassals. It was the industries with better opportunities for the peasantry, which made them to migrate to the cities with better salaries and ultimately rising from the poverty and so this new middle class was created.
The 2008 crisis was a capitalist crisis, sure… Only Wall Street to blame. What about Obama’s populist policies, like promoting credit and housing, without any financial background checking, for those who could not afford them in the first place? You should review your understanding over how bubbles grow and bursts.
BTW, talking about bubbles, a Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, who advocate for government intervention on economy, literally asked the Federal government to insufflate a new bubble, like a housing bubble, to boost the economy after the .COM bubble burst. What a prophecy, right?
https://mises.org/library/krugmans-call-housing-bubble
So in this context I agree with you. Nobel prize on economy doesn’t mean ****.
Regarding Brazil, no politician asks for liberalism. They all are in favor of government ruling over economy. In a Venezuelan like fashion. The only difference between them is the intensity government interferes.
Monopolies just sustain themselves within governmental protection of a given market against the entry of new players. The freer the market, the more likely new players will arise in case the opportunities show. If your definition of monopoly remains in the number of players, you should know the mere number of players don’t say much on monopolies.
Free market doesn’t end with ripoffs of the public. Im not stupid nor corrupt. I just want the big corporations stop feeding off of taxpayer’s money through government subsidized credit and bailouts (like leftwing Obama did). If they thrive, good. If they fail, they fail. Is that simple, why you people don’t get it?
“The freer the market, the more likely new players will arise in case the opportunities show.”
That’s the theory – the flat earth theory – but can you give even one concrete example of that happening in practice? Here are some examples of how deregulation of markets, the free-market economist’s most-common prescription, plays out in practice:
1) NAFTA and free trade deals – go back to the early 1990s, you find these same free-market economists touting model results that ‘proved’ that NAFTA would increase employment and wages in the United States (even though all the corporations shipped their manufacturing jobs overseas, destroying jobs in the U.S.) – they were entirely wrong.
2) Deregulation of the electricity system in the U.S. and Britain – again, the economic models ‘proved’ that this ‘competition’ would bring rates down and be good for everyone – but the interests who financed their ‘studies’, such as Enron, immediately colluded to jack rates up to astronomical levels, from California on down.
3) Glass-Steagall, the rule banning commercial banks from playing the investment casino market game, was repealed to the cheers of free-market economists, who somehow failed to predict the massive fraud and market rigging of home prices and loans that led inevitably to the 2008 market crash.
A theory unsupported by any evidence is not ‘science’, just hand-waving bullshit, and that’s all free-market economics is. The only reason it’s still taught in schools is because of its propanganda value to entrenched elite monopolists with deep pockets. Go read Jane Mayer’s Dark Money, or Ha-Joon Chang’s books, and you’ll understand this.
Sure, have a look in the two rankings below:
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index
If you dont like the sources (heritage or wikipedia) feel free to choose similar rankings. You will get to the same conclusion.
Here a real case to illustrate: https://youtu.be/cmyPDjJ4l7o
Regarding your Nafta example, there’s a misconception. Free trade does not protect all jobs. It protect jobs that are demanded (i.e. create value). If you can successfully manufature overseas with a lower labor costs, why would you want to have a more expensive product here? Please have in mind the difference between price, cost and value.
Brazil had the anti nafta mentality. We protect our jobs in the auto and tech industries for decades. We had shitty and ridiculous expensive cars and computers. Then we made a little easier to import, and many auto companies broke, and all tech broke. The ppl who lost the jobs and the unions yelled while the entire brazilian consumer market celebrated. Those jobs were not demanded. They were artificially sustained through market protecionism at the expense of the entire population. That’s not free trade capitalism, thats mercantilism.
The point being: if someone else can do it cheaper than us, great, let them produce it and we will buy from them. Lets focus on what we do better and cheaper. Capital (both human and money) is scarce, we cannot afford to misuse it.
Miami – FL / U.S.A
June 3rd, 2016
Unfortunately, Brazika’s has already turned out to be the 21st century newest socialist vortex decayed shit-hole in the southern hemisphere, currently led by a mid 60’s terrorist and former urban guerrilla prostitute, commonly known as Dilma Vana Rusev, who was indeed physically trained at Cuba’s Jungle under of the utmost repressive, depressive and undemocratic dictatorship regime ever in Latin America’s history.
While our unique planet earth is indeed fighting Islamic terrorists, starvation and various diseases, included Brazil’s recently ground zero Zika’s mosquitoes outbreak, while Dilma Vana Rusev main agenda’s showed only concerns to protect it every single criminal, drug addicted, weapons smuggler, along with her own welfare’s aided English taught it prostitutes to remained safely away from the existent laws.
Dilma Vana Rusev is indeed the main reason to why 64.000 Brazilian Citizens have being murdered in the past twelve months alone. As today’s date, Rusev’s remains a truly pathological liar, who used to belongs physically to four different terrorist organizations in Brazil’s territory alone, who have sponsored and supported the implementation of a communist dictatorship in the country by carried out her own version of proletariat socialist dictatorship regime, that were fortified since the implementation of an underground criminal organization commonly known as Sao Paulo’s communist Forum, founded back in late 1990’s by Cuba’s communist dictator named as Fidel Castro, and along with Dilma Vana Rusev’s dismembered nine fingers criminal predecessor also known as Lula Silva.
“…Dilma Vana Rusev has fought exclusively for communism, and never in favor of a state of democracy…”
A passionate communist dissident from Gabrovo’s city located in Bulgary, whose own communist-criminal father, commonly known as John Petar had fled his own country back in 1930’s straight to France in order to save his criminal neck, and then later on arrived in the northern region of Brazil.
Dilma Vana Rusev is by fac a communist at birth, who sympathizes with any terrorist, communist and socialist countries, who also has achieved in past her own representation of democracy, attached to a massive 448 kilograms of stolen dynamite from various military compounds in Brazil’s territory.
A certified prostitute, who has chosen criminals such as Che Guevara’s and Mario Marighella’s as main mentors, while assaulting local financial institutions at gun point for a quick cash accomplishment, who clearly remains until now, truly obstinate by her own past criminal normality, while verbally referring her own Military personnel and local enforcement officials as dictators, and whoever opposes against her as a fascist, used as a simple form of defense mechanism.
Gorilla prostitute? I’m confused. Does this mean your mom is a gorilla who is also a prostitute, or do you mean that your mom is a normal prostitute who does gorillas?
Maybe you should go ask your mom and we can get this cleared up.
S1iver1ook hunnee Chuff Muller wud knot no a go rilla presstitoot if it bitt him on him azz an carreed him too top uv tree don u no.
Thank you for asking for me! Sorta wonder how this knowledge is obtained?
All that time in Miami and you still can’t write English. Mas apostaria que o senhor seja analfabeto em Português também. Enjoy your ignorance as the sea level rises.
I have also read statements from these politicians reconsidering their final impeachment vote; their embarrassment might put Dilma right back. (It is rare to see shame in this crowd, something never seen in the US.)
I’ll be sure to keep my distance when you pop. Then what will be your next brilliant move, fascist?
You forgot to mention they are trying to terminate health care, postponing retirement , will increase taxes and on the other hand aproved a 170 billion deficit so they can distribute money and benefits for the ministers, congressmen and federal judges. The package of benefits to that class will have an impact of 58 billion in the economy, some say it will be much grater that impact. The austerity mesures are targeting the poor while they raise their salaries and benefits, that are already the biggest in the world.
Actually I referenced that in the first paragraph under “radical austerity”
Finally, something to amuse me here in São Paulo: thinking of the respectable neo-liberal economist — sacerdote — who impressed some young business school students I know with his scholarly ‘e ou nao e golpe’ garbage.
More popcorn please…
Whatever it is, it’s the U.S.’s fault. South America would just be peachey without U.S. involvement. Venezuela and Cuba have resisted intervention and currently have utopian societies to show for it. Surely the only problem in Brazil is U.S. meddling. The lack of evidence for it just makes it even more likely, since the U.S. would totally keep everything secret and all. It’s literally obvious.
Sometimes, you spew nothing but straw men. This is one of those times.
I don’t think the presence of straw men by itself implies a CIA coup, though, Mona. I think what’s important is the racial and financial character of these people (since we’ve already established that they are, in fact, men and hence capable of the dirtiest deeds). What needs to be proven before we sling these accusations around is whether these straw men are (gasp) white and (double gasp) rich. Then we’ll have all of the evidence we need and can say that it’s literally a right-wing coup orchestrated by the masters of the universe.
Still spewing the free-market economic theory BS, are we?
“Masters of the Universe” – are you talking about your Central Soviet Committee masters, or your Wall Street CEO and hedge fund billionaire masters? In reality, there’s no difference between them – and the ‘economic theories’ of free-market capitalism and authoritarian communism are nothing but bullshit propaganda designed to perpetuate systems of elite rule and top-down control.
You do know this, don’t you? But you also know, as a good little apparatchik, that by kissing the right asses you might get some nice rewards somewhere down the line.
Oh C’mon Macroman, do a little homework anyway.
Straw is straw and bullshit is bullshit, your are smearing the latter stuff all over yourself.
Thanks, Dennis. Your are the expert on the latter stuff, and I need to do a little homework anyway. You know what they say: straw is straw.
Venezuela and Cuba have resisted intervention and currently have utopian societies to show for it.
Yes, and we would be remiss not to note that every other country that has been fortunate enough to have had the US intervene has ended up just peachey.
http://www.yachana.org/teaching/resources/interventions.html
Yeah, must be something else, then, since it seems south american countries are a mess independently of CIA coups. Is it the Spanish language? Seems plausible, but Brazilians speak Portuguese. Maybe it’s just that anything but English leads to empty store shelves. Just a guess.
There is also that bit about US spying on Rouseff’s communications:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/24/brazil-president-un-speech-nsa-surveillance
I’m sure they were just doing it to see what her wardrobe choices would be for that UN speech…..and not to get inside information on Petrobras or other corporate interests.
If the courts can ban an individual from running for office as a punishment for violating the law, then it seems government will spend a lot of time and resources convicting people of violating the law.
The whole process makes a mockery of law and democracy.
Of course this same logic applies to voting, not just running for office.
Banning people from running for office, like banning people from voting, is corruption and anti-democratic.
You are right. He should have eight years of prison instead. He can run the country from there.
I glean that this is the punishment specifically for violating election laws. Of course, your point still stands.
On the other hand, for the wealthy a fine wouldn’t be a deterrence. Prison or other loss of liberty would be, tho.
Restricting who can run for president is a destruction of democracy. If the people want to elect a crook to represent them, they should have that choice. There are many people in the United States who would be extremely angry if told they couldn’t vote for Mrs. Clinton, simply because she broke national security laws.
People want a leader who represents them. If it makes Brazilian hearts swell with pride to have Temer as their representative, there is really no harm indulging them. So allow them to express that preference at the polls. The whole purpose of a democracy is to make people more acquiescent, by making them complicit in government wrongdoing; Brazil is ending up with the worst of both worlds.
The obvious US ‘connection’ (Glenn can’t find.) Temer graduated, sum cum lawd, from Trump University.
“Temer graduated, sum cum lawd, from Trump University.”
bahmihummerbung hunnee effurry menz hoo effur grajuated frum Tramp Unifurcity wants too thikn himsef iz a cum lawd don u no.
Teemer jus haz a hed sturt on mos uv tehm.
Relax, Brazil has an effective recycling program. It worked well for Paulo Maluf and the Sarney and de Mello families. Sr. Temer has a bright future ahead of him.
Another of il Duce one liner to stamp on T-shirts
RCL
“This isn’t merely the destruction of democracy in the world’s fifth-most-populous country.”
Is destruction the right word? Class wars have been part of humanity for thousands of years. It’s ongoing. No victor has emerged.
Temer seems determined to live up to his description as a butler in a horror movie, though unfortunately the horror in Brazil today is no movie.
Thanks to the Intercept for reporting and analysis, an oasis of critical work in the desert of Brazilian media.
Hello Glenn! I don’t think that stopping Lava Jato is an objective at all. Lava Jato (also known as Caça Lula [Lula chaser]) seeks to gather public support under the supposed threat of being attacked, to reappears soon with another raids on friends and parents of PT leaders, or even on Lula himself.
Dear Glenn, you are doing an outstanding work for Brazil. Thanks to the attention you are giving to the coup among other corruption problems many international newspapers like the NYT have been investigating the situation and publishing relevant information, thank you a lot for that. But I think not enough attention is been given to the fact that this interim government was put there to stop the car wash but mainly to privatize the PRE SAL. Please write about that as much as you can, we cannot let this people sell our oil, our main resource and the only chance Brazil has to become really “independent”. Please help us there! Best Regards, Elaine
I think it’s a stretch to say that Dilma’s removal could not have happened with approval from the U.S. The internal dynamics of the Car Wash investigation, the desire for self-preservation, and the maintenance of impunity status quo, coupled with the economic issues were the main drivers.
I don’t think the relationship between Dilma’s administration and the U.S. was problematic to the point that the U.S. would prefer her gone, and have instability instead, (Snowden spying revalations aside). Dilma’s government was quite pragmatic and not radical in any sense.
Brazil has some deeply entrenched cultural issues that need to be sorted out before they can truly progress. I don’t know if that will happen anytime soon, but I’m hopeful that some tipping point will be reached soon.
That’s fair. I was really making the point that it wouldn’t have happened had US objected, had it insisted upon preservation of democracy in Brazil.
The show continues. Temer’s latest appointment for Women Secretary Ms. Fátima Pelaes is being charged on corruption scandal. SOS Brazil!
I view thee situation in Brazil as metaphorical to the condition of the Western form of civilization. It has become corrupt to its very core.
We see “trickle down” corruption from the Olympic committee down to the athletes. From the Federal government down to the cities who give us led in our water.
The empire of oligarchs that runs things now is unaccountable to anyone and does as it chooses, government has been weakened so it is nearly useless and the oligarchs have a strangle hold on the global economy. Neoliberal ideology is firmly entrenched and the power of corporate governance is rising. Political chaos is good for oligarchs.
Until and unless the owners of transnational corporations are dealt with directly and the vast fortunes which have been amassed dismantled and their power neutralized nothing much will change.
Yes!
What we see now in play is fascism on steroids. Whereas Mussolini defined fascism as the merger of the corporations and the state, little did he appreciate the potential for the corporations to become more powerful than the state, eventually rendering it impotent save to serve the purpose of the corporations. And this has happened because the politicians – the elites running the state – allowed themselves to be corrupted by corporate money, and subverted their oaths of office to serve the corporations and not the people who elected them.
People rant about trade agreements, but the truth is that free trade, properly conducted, can be a boon for everyone. As implemented, however, the agreements provide corporations the tools to exploit workers and nullify the laws that individual countries have to protect human rights and the environment. The nimrods of the right fret about the UN and its being a world government, all the while being blind to the fact of ever increasing corporate power. I wonder what they will be saying when the M&A cycle comes to its inevitable conclusion, with a single corporation, headquartered in Panama or the Cayman Islands, controlling the majority of the planet’s wealth, jobs and resources.