{"id":72437,"date":"2016-04-25T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=72437"},"modified":"2016-04-22T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:21:01","slug":"neoliberal-restoration-hybrid-war-hyenas-tear-brazil-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/04\/neoliberal-restoration-hybrid-war-hyenas-tear-brazil-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNeoliberal Restoration\u201d: Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pepeescobar\"<\/a>The Covert War against BRICS Nations<\/em><\/p>\n

The coup has been sponsored by a certified crook, president of the lower house Eduardo Cunha; holder of 11 illegal accounts in Switzerland, listed in the Panama Papers and under investigation by the Supreme Court. Instead of lording over near-illiterate hyenas in a racist, largely crypto-fascist circus, he should be behind bars.-\u00a0Car Wash\u2019s not so hidden agenda was always regime change. Who cares if in the process\u00a0the nation is left on the verge of being controlled exactly by many of those indicted by the anti-corruption drive?<\/em><\/p>\n

19 Apr 2016 – <\/em>The gloomy and repulsive night when the female President of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.<\/p>\n

\"Dilma-400x224\"<\/a>By 367 votes for and 137 against, the impeachment\/coup\/regime change-light drive against Dilma Rousseff cleared the Brazilian Congressional circus and will now go to the Senate, where a \u201cspecial commission\u201d will be set up. If approved, Rousseff will then be sidelined for 180 days and a low rent tropical Brutus, Vice-President Michel Temer, will ascend to power until the Senate\u2019s final verdict.<\/p>\n

This lowly farce should serve as a wake-up call not only to the BRICS but to the whole Global South. Who needs NATO, R2P (\u201cresponsibility to protect\u201d) or \u201cmoderate rebels\u201d when you can get your regime change just by tweaking a nation\u2019s political\/judicial system?<\/p>\n

The Brazilian Supreme Court has not analyzed the merit of the matter \u2013 at least not yet. There\u2019s no solid evidence anywhere Rousseff committed a \u201ccrime of responsibility\u201d; she did what every American President since Reagan has done \u2013 not to mention leaders all across the world; along with her Vice-President, the lowly Brutus, Rousseff got slightly creative with the federal budget\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n

The coup has been sponsored by a certified crook, president of the lower house Eduardo Cunha; holder of 11 illegal accounts in Switzerland, listed in the Panama Papers and under investigation by the Supreme Court. Instead of lording over near-illiterate hyenas in a racist, largely crypto-fascist circus, he should be behind bars. It beggars belief that the Supreme Court has not turbo-charged legal action against Cunha. The secret of his power over the circus is a gigantic corruption scheme lasting many years featuring companies\/corporations contributing to his and others\u2019 campaign financing.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the beauty of a soft coup\/regime change-light\/color revolution chapter of Hybrid War when staged in such a dynamically creative nation such as Brazil. The hall of mirrors yields a political simulacrum that would have driven deconstructionists Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco, if alive, green with envy; a Congress crammed with fools\/patsies\/traitors\/crooks who are already being investigated for corruption has conspired to depose a President who is not under any formal corruption investigation \u2013 and has not committed any \u201ccrime of responsibility\u201d.<\/p>\n

The neoliberal restoration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, without a popular vote, the \u2013 massively rejected \u2013 tropical Brutus twins, Temer and Cunha, will find it impossible to govern, even though they would perfectly incarnate the project of the \u2013 immensely arrogant\/ignorant \u2013 Brazilian elites; a neoliberal triumph, with Brazilian \u201cdemocracy\u201d trampled down six feet under.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s impossible to understand what happened at the Circus Maximus this Sunday without knowing there\u2019s a gaggle of Brazilian political parties that are seriously threatened by the non-stop overspill of the Car Wash corruption investigation. To ensure their survival, Car Wash must be \u201csuspended\u201d; and it will, under the bogus \u201cnational unity\u201d proposed by lowly Brutus Temer.<\/p>\n

But first, Car Wash must produce a high-profile scalp. And that has to be Lula in jail \u2013 compared to which the crucifixion of Rousseff is an Aesop fable. Corporate media, led by the noxious Globo empire, would hail it as the ultimate victory, and nobody would care about Car Wash\u2019s enforced retirement.<\/p>\n

The 54 million-plus who voted for Rousseff\u2019s reelection in 2014 voted wrong. The overall \u201cproject\u201d is a government without vote and without people; a Brazilian-style parliamentary system, without bothering with pesky \u201celections\u201d and crucially, including very \u201cgenerous\u201d campaign financing flexibility not bound to incriminate powerful companies\/corporations.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, the ultimate aim is to perfectly \u201calign\u201d the Brazilian Executive, Legislative, Judiciary and corporate media interests. Democracy is for suckers. Brazilian elites remote controlling the hyenas know very well that if Lula runs again in 2018, he will win.<\/p>\n

And Lula has already warned; he won\u2019t buy any \u201cnational unity\u201d crap, he\u2019ll be back in the streets fighting whatever illegitimate government pops up.<\/p>\n

\"dilma-rousseff_1<\/a>We\u2019re now open for plundering<\/strong><\/p>\n

As it stands, Rousseff runs the risk of becoming the first major casualty of the NSA-originated, two-year-long Car Wash investigation. The President, admittedly an incompetent economic manager and lacking the right stuff of a master politician, believed that Car Wash \u2013 which practically prevented her from governing \u2013 would not reach her because she is personally honest. Yet Car Wash\u2019s not so hidden agenda was always regime change. Who cares if in the process the nation is left on the verge of being controlled exactly by many of those indicted by the anti-corruption drive?<\/p>\n

Lowly Brutus Temer \u2013 a vanity case version of Argentina\u2019s Macri \u2013 is the perfect conduit for the implementation of regime change. He represents the powerful banking lobby, the powerful agribusiness lobby and the powerful federation of industries in Brazil\u2019s economic leader, the state of Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n

The neo-developmentalist project for Latin America \u2013 uniting at least some of the local elites, invested in developing internal markets, in association with the working classes \u2013 is now dead, because what may be defined as sub-hegemonic, or peripheral, capitalism is mired in crisis after the 2008 Wall Street-provoked debacle. What\u2019s left is just neoliberal restoration. TINA (\u201cthere is no alternative\u201d). This implies, in the Brazilian case, the savage reversion of Lula\u2019s legacy; social policies, technological policies, the drive to globally expand large, competitive Brazilian companies, more public universities, better salaries.<\/p>\n

In a message to the nation, Brutus Temer admitted as much; \u201chope\u201d after impeachment will be absolutely swell for \u201cforeign investment\u201d, as in let them plunder the colony at will; back to the trademark history of Brazil since 1500.<\/p>\n

So Wall Street, US Big Oil and the proverbial \u201cAmerican interests\u201d win this round at the circus \u2013 thanks to the, once again proverbial, vassal\/comprador elites. Chevron execs are already salivating with the prospect of laying their hands on the pre-salt oil deposits; that was already promised by a trusted vassal in the Brazilian opposition.<\/p>\n

The coup goes on. The real hyenas haven\u2019t yet pounced. So it\u2019s far from over.<\/p>\n

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Pepe Escobar<\/em> is a Brazilian independent geopolitical analyst. He is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for <\/em>Asia Times Online<\/em>. He has been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9\/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of \u201cGlobalistan<\/a>\u201d (2007), \u201cRed Zone Blues<\/a>\u201d (2007), \u201cObama does Globalistan<\/a>\u201d (2009) and \u201cEmpire of Chaos<\/a>\u201d (2014), all published by Nimble Books. His latest book is \u201c2030<\/a>\u201c, also by Nimble Books, out in December 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The coup has been sponsored by a certified crook, president of the lower house Eduardo Cunha; holder of 11 illegal accounts in Switzerland, listed in the Panama Papers and under investigation by the Supreme Court. Car Wash\u2019s not so hidden agenda was always regime change. Who cares if in the process the nation is left on the verge of being controlled exactly by many of those indicted by the anti-corruption drive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}