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Behind the Headlines: The Empire Strikes Back: BRICS under attack with coup in Brazil

Sott.net
Sun, 15 May 2016 16:00 UTC

© Reuters / Ueslei Marcelino
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff look on before a meeting at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, May 19, 2015

Democratically-elected Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has been suspended pending impeachment, replaced with a corrupt, right-wing, unpopular U.S. spy. Modi's India seems to be aligning more with the U.S. in confrontation with China. South Africa is suffering at the hands of U.S. intrigue. In short, it appears as if the U.S. Empire is launching a multi-front war on Russia and China by 'converting' its BRICS allies to the dark side.

This comes as the U.S. 'policy' in Syria is coming apart at the seams. Their 'friend and ally' Turkey has been exposed as arguably the biggest supporter of ISIS/Daesh in Syria. The U.S. is feebly trying to maintain that the terrorist groups it supports are 'moderates'. But unwilling to admit defeat, the U.S. seems keen on taking the world down with it in perhaps the biggest case of suicidal hubris the world has ever known.

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Sheldon Adelson poised to give Donald Trump a donation boost

Jonathan Martin
The New York Times
Fri, 13 May 2016 15:07 UTC

The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson told Donald J. Trump in a private meeting last week that he was willing to contribute more to help elect him than he has to any previous campaign, a sum that could exceed $100 million, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of Mr. Adelson's commitment.

As significant, Mr. Adelson, a billionaire based in Las Vegas, has decided that he will significantly scale back his giving to congressional Republicans and direct most of his contributions to groups dedicated to Mr. Trump's campaign. The two Republicans familiar with Mr. Adelson's plans spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Comment: To get to know more about Mr. Adelson:

Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa threatened by CIA soft coups

Hugo Turner
Global Research
Sat, 14 May 2016 14:52 UTC

The Empire of Chaos (The US) has won a major victory in Brazil destroying a democracy in order to bring Brazil back under control. Dilma Rousseff has been impeached on trumped up charges ignoring the wishes of the 54 Million Brazilians who voted for her and replacing her with the traitor Michel Temer.

Temer gives a whole new meaning to the idea of rule by the 1% because Temer has a 1% approval rating. Rousseff has been suspended from office for 180 days while the impeachment process continues. Brazil has joined the list of successful recent coups in Honduras, and Paraguay. Like the people of Argentina the people of Brazil are about to be reminded of what it means to be ruled by neo-liberal Hyenas.

For the people of Brazil the battle has only begun. The 1964 coup in Brazil installed a brutal military dictatorship and was only the first of many coups that would leave the entire region under the fascist rule of Operation Condor's network of military juntas. The people of Brazil and of all of Latin America are in deadly danger. By this act the US has signaled that even minor reforms like those carried out by Brazil's workers party are unacceptable. Nothing must be allowed to impede the looting and impoverishment of the planet at the hands of the multi-national corporations.

Comment: Further reading: Oh the temerity! Post-coup pres Temer sets Brazil back decades in first day - all male cabinet, ministries eliminated, corruption rampant

Venezuela's President threatens to seize factories that halted production

Sputnik
Sun, 15 May 2016 14:39 UTC

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro threatened to seize the country's factories which are currently not working and put their owners in prison.

The announcement comes after the Polar Group food and beverages producer stopped making beer last month.

"We must take all measures to recover productive capacity, which is being paralyzed by the bourgeoisie. Anyone who wants to halt [production] to sabotage the country should get out, and those who do must be handcuffed and sent to the PGV [Venezuelan General Penitentiary]," Maduro said Saturday as quoted by the BBC.

Oh the temerity! Post-coup pres Temer sets Brazil back decades in first day - all male cabinet, ministries eliminated, corruption rampant

teleSUR
Fri, 13 May 2016 14:37 UTC

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Brazil's Chief of Staff Minister Eliseu Padilha, Senate-imposed President Michel Temer, and Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles (L-R) in Brasilia, Brazil, May 13, 2016.

Michel Temer has waged an all out attack on the country's most progressive social and political achievements.

All White Male Cabinet

Senate-imposed president Michel Temer unveiled his cabinet Thursday and his choices are drawing criticism for failing to represent Brazil's diversity.

Temer's cabinet has no women, no Black ministers, no one who identifies as gay, lesbian, or trangender, nor anyone representing social movements or any other of Brazil's minority groups.

Even Senator Cristovam Buarque, who voted in favor of impeachment, expressed surprise at Temer's choices for his cabinet, posting on his Twitter account: "Seems strange to me a cabinet without women, without representatives from minority groups or social movements."

Temer's cabinet, while all men and all white, also includes seven ministers who are under investigation for their alleged role in the Petrobras corruption scandal.

Comment: Further reading:

Disinformation agents & the CIA: Weaponizing the term 'Conspiracy Theory'

Dr. Gary G. Kohls
Global Research
Wed, 11 May 2016 17:15 UTC

Conspiracy theory' is a term that strikes fear and anxiety in the hearts of most every public figure, particularly journalists and academics. Since the 1960s the label has become a disciplinary device that has been overwhelmingly effective in defining certain events as off limits to inquiry or debate. Especially in the United States, raising legitimate questions about dubious official narratives destined to inform public opinion (and thereby public policy) is a major thought crime that must be cauterized from the public psyche at all costs... CIA Document 1035-960 played a definitive role in making the 'conspiracy theory' term a weapon to be wielded against almost any individual or group calling the government's increasingly clandestine programs and activities into question. - From CIA Document 1035-960

Comment: Be a proud conspiracy theorist, you're in the majority

Boris Johnson: The EU's drive for a 'superstate' is same as Hitler's

RT
Sun, 15 May 2016 12:44 UTC

A frantic backlash has followed a remark by London's ex-mayor, Boris Johnson, who said modern EU bureaucracy pursues the same goals as previous European "integrators" Napoleon and Hitler did and thus creates a "massive democratic void."

The EU's principal objective is to create a powerful superstate resembling that of the Nazi leader, Boris Johnson said recently in an interview with the Telegraph.

"Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods," Johnson told the newspaper.

"But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe. There is no single authority that anybody respects or understands. That is causing this massive democratic void."

Comment: Boris Johnson speaking some sense for a change - but of course these snakes in suits will say anything to appeal to a portion of the electorate.

Further reading:

Fear the Brexit: Why the American Empire needs the UK to stay in the EU

Panama papers: The real target is the UK, not Russia - 'move your offshoring to U.S. or else'

NATO's military build-up along Russian border bad for Europe, good for military-industrial complex

Sputnik
Sun, 15 May 2016 12:51 UTC

Russia has every right to be concerned over the recently inaugurated NATO missile defense facility in Romania and the proposed site in Poland, journalist Tony Robinson said.

NATO's military buildup along the Russian borders can be considered a threat, he added.

Earlier this week, a new component of the US missile defense shield in Europe was activated at the Deveselu military base, in Romania. The new $800-million facility includes an Aegis Ashore missile defense system, the land version of the ship-based Aegis system. The site is one of the first major European components of the US global missile shield.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the system could be used to launch cruise missiles, thus violating the 1987 INF Treaty between Washington and Moscow. The ministry also criticized the West for a very one-sided approach to the issue of missile defense.

Comment: Further reading: Why is the American establishment so obsessed with, and hateful of, Russia?

Possible good news? TTIP on the brink of failing: EU 'Frustrated' About US Proposals

Sputnik
Sat, 14 May 2016 02:36 UTC

© REUTERS/ Eric Vidal
European consumer rights activists take part in a march to protest against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), austerity and poverty in Brussels, Belgium October 17, 2015

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is unlikely to be implemented in the near future. The EU negotiators are frustrated about the potential deal, as the stances of European countries and the US have little in common, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) wrote.

Referring to the website EUobserver, the newspaper noted that EU negotiators have become frustrated about the deal and don't believe in the success of the TTIP anymore.

The main problem is fundamentally different visions of the US and the EU about the nature of the agreement.

"The US is pressuring the EU to roll back environmental and health standards as part of a free trade deal," the website wrote. "The US also wants to keep the current arbitration system that allows corporations to sue governments for perceived loss of profits."

Comment: A polite way of saying the deal is completely stacked against Europe, favoring transnational corporation's rights over national sovereignty. The grimly amusing thing about the US pushing so hard for this deal is that it can be ground down under the same provisions, such as getting sued for cutting into a corporation's profits. The health and environmental standards are already long gone.

According to DWN, the US is playing hard, makes "unacceptable" demands and contributes to growing "frustration among Member States".

Comment: Hardly bad news. If the European leaders were smart (and actually cared about their citizens), they would walk away from the deal as fast as they could go. But can they? Why is it that EU leaders continue to make decisions that are manifestly against their own countries' interests?

Why is the American establishment so obsessed with, and hateful of, Russia?

Patrick Armstrong
Global Independent Analytics
Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00 UTC

First of all, let me start by saying I don't know why the American Establishment is so obsessed about Russia. I can't think of any good reason why it should be. All Russia wants is a quiet life so that it can rebuild things - as Putin himself said, back before he was President:

"The current dramatic economic and social situation in the country is the price, which we have to pay for the economy we inherited from the Soviet Union."

That was not said by someone whose principal purpose is to re-create the USSR or the Russian Empire; it was said by someone who wants to reconstruct the defective "economic and social situation" of his country. And that requires peace and quiet. In the real world, Russia isn't any kind of threat whatsoever to the USA. And, one would think, when the "Terror threat looms across the world," it's a useful and necessary ally.

I do know, and my quotations collection shows, that hostility to Russia never stopped - or even moderated - after the USSR collapsed. Even in 1990 there were people insisting that nothing was real that was happening because Russia, in its very essence, was expansionist, dictatorial and hostile to "our values." Any so-called changes were only illusions calculated to gull the simple-minded. The only possible Russia was the Enemy Russia: all Russians qua Russians - never mind the absence of the temporary Soviet carapace - imagined, thought about, dreamed of, was enmity to Us and to Our Values. Russophobes - not Russia-fearers really, but Russia-haters - had little audience as long as it seemed that Russia was sinking into insignificance. With the revival of Russia's prospects this century the Russia-haters have come to dominate the discussion.

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Puppet Masters

Behind the Headlines: The Empire Strikes Back: BRICS under attack with coup in Brazil

Sheldon Adelson poised to give Donald Trump a donation boost

Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa threatened by CIA soft coups

Venezuela's President threatens to seize factories that halted production

Oh the temerity! Post-coup pres Temer sets Brazil back decades in first day - all male cabinet, ministries eliminated, corruption rampant

Disinformation agents & the CIA: Weaponizing the term 'Conspiracy Theory'

Boris Johnson: The EU's drive for a 'superstate' is same as Hitler's

NATO's military build-up along Russian border bad for Europe, good for military-industrial complex

Possible good news? TTIP on the brink of failing: EU 'Frustrated' About US Proposals

Why is the American establishment so obsessed with, and hateful of, Russia?

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