{"id":73947,"date":"2016-05-23T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=73947"},"modified":"2016-05-20T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:25:46","slug":"noam-chomsky-brazils-president-dilma-rousseff-impeached-by-a-gang-of-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/05\/noam-chomsky-brazils-president-dilma-rousseff-impeached-by-a-gang-of-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky: Brazil&#8217;s President Dilma Rousseff &#8220;Impeached by a Gang of Thieves&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 17, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As protests continue in Brazil over the Legislature\u2019s vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial, Noam Chomsky notes, &#8220;We have the one leading politician who hasn\u2019t stolen to enrich herself, who\u2019s being impeached by a gang of thieves, who have done so. That does count as a kind of soft coup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rousseff\u2019s replacement, Brazil\u2019s former vice president, Michel Temer, is a member of the opposition PMDB party who is implicated in Brazil\u2019s massive corruption scandal involving state-owned oil company Petrobras, and has now appointed an all-white male Cabinet charged with implementing corporate-friendly policies.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=33V-JTtYbqE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 17, 2016 &#8211; As protests continue in Brazil over the Legislature\u2019s vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial, Noam Chomsky notes, &#8220;We have the one leading politician who hasn\u2019t stolen to enrich herself, who\u2019s being impeached by a gang of thieves, who have done so. That does count as a kind of soft coup.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73947","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=73947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}