{"id":76482,"date":"2016-03-22T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/22\/le-chaudron-bresilien\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:11:28","slug":"le-chaudron-bresilien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/22\/le-chaudron-bresilien\/","title":{"rendered":"Le chaudron br\u00e9silien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2 class=\"titleset_a.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d;font-size:2em;\">Le chaudron br\u00e9silien<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>La situation br\u00e9silienne est \u00e0 un point de rupture. Nous allons laisser \u00e0 P\u00e9p\u00e9 Escobar le soin de pr\u00e9senter les derniers \u00e9v\u00e8nements dans un texte, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-edge\/336440-brazils-revolution-color-escobar\/%20Brazil's%20revolution%20starting%20to%20reveal%20its%20true%20colors\">le 21 mars sur RT<\/a>, pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 ci-dessous. (Nous rappelons \u00e9galement un de ses pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents textes sur le sujet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-edge\/334904-brazil-brics-lula-economy-regime\/\">le 7 mars \u00e9galement sur RT<\/a>, avec une dimension suppl\u00e9mentaire puisque Escobar place ces \u00e9v\u00e8nements br\u00e9siliens dans le cadre d&rsquo;une attaque g\u00e9n\u00e9rale du Syst\u00e8me contre les BRICS, dont nombre de ses membres, &ndash; quasiment quatre sur cinq, &ndash; sont soit l&rsquo;objet d&rsquo;attaques du Syst\u00e8me, soit dans une position interne difficile, soit les deux.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Escobar ne fait pas de ce d\u00e9sordre terrible au Br\u00e9sil essentiellement l&rsquo;effet d&rsquo;une man&oelig;uvre de subversion (des USA, alias \u00ab\u00a0Empire du Chaos\u00a0\u00bb pour lui), m\u00eame si la subversion attend, sur la ligne de d\u00e9part, le moment d&rsquo;investir le pays \u00e0 coups d&rsquo;investissements lucratifs. Il d\u00e9crit plut\u00f4t un \u00e9norme d\u00e9sordre de corruption, o&ugrave; il distingue ceci qu&rsquo;une justice politis\u00e9e et qu&rsquo;une oligarchie locale ont coinc\u00e9 les forces r\u00e9formatrices et antiSyst\u00e8me (Rousseff et son mentor Lula, appel\u00e9 urgemment en renfort dans la direction gouvernementale) dans une situation extr\u00eamement inconfortables. <strong>Le pire peut en sortir, pourtant \u00ab\u00a0assez pur\u00a0\u00bb de toute intervention ext\u00e9rieure d\u00e9cisive et voyante, au contraire de tant de crise pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes dont les fameuses \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9volutions de couleur\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong> dans leur composition et leur m\u00e9thodologie arch\u00e9typiques :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p>&laquo; <em>Kafka et Dada sont de nouveau les ma&icirc;tres d&rsquo;&oelig;uvre ; c&rsquo;est exactement le march\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0en douceur\u00a0\u00bb pour un changement de r\u00e9gime qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 conclu \u00e0 Brasilia par une sale combine ; une s\u00e9lection de politiciens corrompus, achet\u00e9s par les \u00e9lites br\u00e9siliennes ; une s\u00e9lection d&rsquo;hommes d&rsquo;affaire ; une partie importante du monde judiciaire coopt\u00e9 ; et les m\u00e9dias-Syst\u00e8me appartenant aux quatre failles r\u00e9gnantes au Br\u00e9sil. Appelez \u00e7a un \u00ab\u00a0coup propre &raquo;. Appelez \u00e7a un changement de r\u00e9gime. Appelez \u00e7a une \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9volution de couleur\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 la br\u00e9silienne. Sans l&rsquo;OTAN. Sans l&rsquo;imp\u00e9rialisme \u00ab\u00a0humanitaire\u00a0\u00bb. Sans une goutte de sang et et des milliers de $milliards perdus en Irak, en Libye, ou en Syrie. Si \u00ab\u00a0propre\u00a0\u00bb. Si \u00ab\u00a0l\u00e9gal\u00a0\u00bb. Comme les th\u00e9oriciens de l&rsquo;Empire du Chaos n&rsquo;ont-ils pas song\u00e9 \u00e0 cela avant ?<\/em> &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>Quoi qu&rsquo;il en soit, nous n&rsquo;en sommes pas encore \u00e0 cette extr\u00e9mit\u00e9 et Escobar nous instruit des derniers labyrinthes toujours en cours d&rsquo;exploration dans une ambiance surr\u00e9aliste, &ndash; Kafka et Dada, certes, &ndash; avec Lula dont on esp\u00e8re qu&rsquo;il parviendra \u00e0 s&rsquo;installer au gouvernement en surmontant les obstacles qu&rsquo;un syst\u00e8me judiciaire engag\u00e9 dans une lutte \u00e0 mort contre le r\u00e9gime a pos\u00e9 devant lui. Mais nous irions encore plus loin, pour notre compte, s&rsquo;il fallait suivre la pente la plus catastrophique que nous d\u00e9crit Escobar comme la possibilit\u00e9 la plus extr\u00eame (<em>regime change<\/em>) : il n&rsquo;est pas assur\u00e9 que les forces de ce qu&rsquo;il nomme \u00ab\u00a0l&rsquo;Empire du Chaos\u00a0\u00bb soient capables d&rsquo;assurer des positions de force et, si l&rsquo;on suit l&rsquo;expression, <strong>il se pourrait que le \u00ab\u00a0Chaos\u00a0\u00bb pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e2t l'\u00a0\u00bbEmpire\u00a0\u00bb sans n\u00e9cessairement na&icirc;tre de lui et lui interdise les profits qu&rsquo;il en attend. Cela devrait d&rsquo;autant plus \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9 que l'\u00a0\u00bbEmpire\u00a0\u00bb, comme l&rsquo;on devrait bien avoir \u00e0 l&rsquo;esprit, est en ce moment fort occup\u00e9 par son \u00ab\u00a0Chaos\u00a0\u00bb personnel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Il nous semble que cette situation br\u00e9silienne se place dans un courant nouveau qui parcourt le continent sud-am\u00e9ricain \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s depuis la mort de Chavez en 2013, \u00e9v\u00e9nement \u00e0 la fois strat\u00e9gique et symbolique. C&rsquo;est en effet Chavez qui avait conduit jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 en \u00eatre l&rsquo;inspirateur presque transcendantal la marche exceptionnelle de l&rsquo;essentiel de l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique Latine vers une position unitaire d&rsquo;ind\u00e9pendance vis-\u00e0-vis de son ancien tortionnaire-exploiteur <em>yankee<\/em>. Sa mort tragique, apr\u00e8s une derni\u00e8re victoire \u00e9lectorale qui confirma sa puissance et sa gloire mais pour un avenir irr\u00e9m\u00e9diablement compromis par la maladie en phase terminale, ouvrit en fait une p\u00e9riode nouvelle, qui affecte aussi bien, par exemple, le Venezuela lui-m\u00eame, o&ugrave; le successeur de Chavez est en grandes difficult\u00e9s, que l&rsquo;Argentine d&rsquo;une certaine fa\u00e7on, avec le d\u00e9part (dans les r\u00e8gles constitutionnelles d&rsquo;ailleurs) de la pr\u00e9sidente Kirchner, que le Br\u00e9sil apr\u00e8s l&rsquo;\u00e9poque Lula et le premier mandat de Rousseff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Cette nouvelle p\u00e9riode est sans aucun doute un reflux par rapport au brio et \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9clat de l&rsquo;affirmation politique de la premi\u00e8re d\u00e9cennie du si\u00e8cle ; <strong>pour autant, elle n&rsquo;est nullement une victoire pour tous ceux qui s&rsquo;opposaient et s&rsquo;opposent \u00e0 ces forces, et donc nullement une victoire pour les USA.<\/strong> Apr\u00e8s tout, cela fait trois ans que Maduro a succ\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 Chavez dans une \u00e9lection imm\u00e9diatement contest\u00e9e, qu&rsquo;il est r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement mis en cause, sur la d\u00e9fensive, dans une situation \u00e9conomique en constate d\u00e9gradation (avec l&rsquo;effondrement du prix du p\u00e9trole), et pourtant il parvient \u00e0 tenir son pouvoir. Kirchner a termin\u00e9 son mandat dans des conditions tr\u00e8s difficiles et pourtant elle tient une place politique puissante dans un statut d&rsquo;opposition critique de l&rsquo;actuel pr\u00e9sident, qui pourrait pr\u00e9parer son retour pour un nouveau mandat de pr\u00e9sidente Pour le Br\u00e9sil, on a vu ce qu&rsquo;il en est&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On est donc conduit \u00e0 constater que s&rsquo;il y a un r\u00e9el reflux de la p\u00e9riode de puissante affirmation \u00e0-la-Chavez, les USA et, d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale le bloc-BAO, n&rsquo;en profitent pas. <strong>Notre sentiment est que ce reflux d&rsquo;une politique unitaire et bien coordonn\u00e9e correspond en v\u00e9rit\u00e9 \u00e0 la mont\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale du d\u00e9sordre qui est partout constat\u00e9, y compris au sein du bloc BAO (USA et Europe).<\/strong> Ce d\u00e9sordre est le produit du Syst\u00e8me, bien entendu, de son d\u00e9clin  au travers de sa course surpuissance-autodestruction, dans la mesure o&ugrave;, de la m\u00eame fa\u00e7on que la Russie par exemple, les pays du bloc sud-am\u00e9ricain sont dans cette position inconfortable de s&rsquo;opposer au Syst\u00e8me tout en respectant ses r\u00e8gles, tout en affrontant le bloc-BAO selon les r\u00e8gles du Syst\u00e8me : une attitude \u00ab\u00a0un pied-dehors, un pied-dedans\u00a0\u00bb qui marque la position de tr\u00e8s nombreux antiSyst\u00e8me institutionnalis\u00e9s et oblig\u00e9s, pour s&rsquo;affirmer, d&rsquo;\u00e9voluer au sein de l&rsquo;ensemble globalis\u00e9 qu&rsquo;est le Syst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Il nous semble que la m\u00eame logique s&rsquo;applique aux BRICS, dont Escobar parle dans un autre texte, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-edge\/334904-brazil-brics-lula-economy-regime\/\">d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9f\u00e9renc\u00e9<\/a>. Effectivement, depuis 2013-2014, les BRICS ont perdu l&rsquo;allant qui caract\u00e9risait cette organisation depuis 2009. Les causes sont \u00e0 trouver d&rsquo;abord dans les probl\u00e8mes internes que connaissent leurs membres, et aussi des tensions crisiques internationales qui affectent certains d&rsquo;entre eux (la Russie particuli\u00e8rement, la Chine \u00e9galement). On pourrait d\u00e9velopper l&rsquo;analyse que cet ensemble de reflux est la cons\u00e9quence d&rsquo;attaques port\u00e9es \u00e0 la fois contre le groupe et contre quelques-uns de ses membres. Pourtant, l\u00e0 aussi, il y a des situations diff\u00e9rentes et, surtout, des situations qui tendent d&rsquo;une certaine fa\u00e7on \u00e0 distendre les liens entre certains membres des BRICS.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Le destin russe, entre 2014 et 2016, a certainement pes\u00e9 sur les relations de la Russie avec les autres membres des BRICS, et m\u00eame les relations entre la Russie et la Chine, qu&rsquo;on jugeait strat\u00e9giquement fondamentales en 2014 apr\u00e8s \u00ab\u00a0le coup de Kiev\u00a0\u00bb, surtout pour la Russie, et qui le sont devenues un peu moins depuis l&rsquo;automne 2015 et l&rsquo;intervention russe en Syrie (Syrie-II) qui a achev\u00e9 (apr\u00e8s la quasi-victoire russe dans la crise ukrainienne) un statut de grande puissance, notamment militaire \u00e0 la Russie. Ces divers \u00e9pisodes ont nui \u00e0 l&rsquo;homog\u00e9n\u00e9it\u00e9 des BRICS. I<strong>l est \u00e9vident qu&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui, la Russie a moins besoin des BRICS, et moins besoin du Br\u00e9sil par exemple, qu&rsquo;elle n&rsquo;en avait besoin en 2013-2014.<\/strong> Les positions de chacun des membres ont \u00e9volu\u00e9 \u00e9galement, dans des sens diff\u00e9rents, en fonction de cette nouvelle donn\u00e9e. De notre point de vue, ces facteurs internes aux BRICS ont plus pes\u00e9 sur la situation des BRICS que des attaques ext\u00e9rieures contre le groupe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p>Quant \u00e0 la cause g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, nous en revenons toujours \u00e0 la m\u00eame explication, qui est simplement celle du d\u00e9sordre, cause d\u00e9j\u00e0 envisag\u00e9e pour le bloc sud-am\u00e9ricain. <strong>On ne voit pas en effet que la r\u00e9duction de l&rsquo;\u00e9lan des BRICS, l&rsquo;affaiblissement relatif de leur coordination aient eu la moindre cons\u00e9quence favorable pour le bloc-BAO et les USA<\/strong>. La chose (la perte d&rsquo;influence des USA, leurs divers revers, mais aussi leur crise int\u00e9rieure) est suffisamment document\u00e9e pour qu&rsquo;une argumentation soit n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard. Simplement et comme dans le cas du Br\u00e9sil, <strong>m\u00eame si les BRICS ont \u00e9videmment une vocation antiSyst\u00e8me, ils n&rsquo;en restent pas moins oblig\u00e9s de continuer \u00e0 \u00e9voluer plus ou moins dans le cadre du Syst\u00e8me<\/strong>, toujours avec \u00ab\u00a0un pied en-dehors, un pied en-dedans\u00a0\u00bb, ce qui les rend, comme tous les autres acteurs, sensibles \u00e9videmment au d\u00e9sordre qui secoue le Syst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>A notre sens, d&rsquo;ailleurs, cela ne doit pas emp\u00eacher la poursuite \u00e9ventuelle de l&rsquo;expansion des BRICS, et surtout de son organisation-s&oelig;ur, l&rsquo;Organisation de Coop\u00e9ration de Shanghai, qui devrait accueillir de nouveaux membres (l&rsquo;Inde et le Pakistan, voire l&rsquo;Iran) prochainement. Mais ces structures ne d\u00e9terminent en rien, non plus (sinon encore moins) celles du bloc-BAO (OTAN, FMI, etc.), le sens g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des relations internationales et le poids d\u00e9stabilisant grandissant de l&rsquo;infrastructure crisique et de son \u00e9volution tourbillonnante en \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/le-tourbillon-crisique-regne\">tourbillon crisique<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0. <strong>L\u00e0 aussi, nous trouvons la confirmation qu&rsquo;en 2014 \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s, nous sommes pass\u00e9s dans une nouvelle p\u00e9riode rempla\u00e7ant la p\u00e9riode 2008-2014 qui fut certainement la plus favorable \u00e0 la formation de bloc anti-BAO, dans une situation situ\u00e9e entre le d\u00e9clin acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9 du bloc-BAO et la naissance du d\u00e9sordre global qui n&rsquo;avait pas encore atteint son niveau d&rsquo;efficacit\u00e9 op\u00e9rationnelle pr\u00e9pond\u00e9rant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>dedefensa.org<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"titleset_b.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d;font-size:1.65em;font-variant:small-caps;\">Brazil&rsquo;s revolution starting to reveal its true colors<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As we approach High Noon in the savage Brazilian politico-economic western, here&rsquo;s what is at stake following my previous piece on RT.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For the past five days, all hell has broken loose. It started with judge Sergio Moro, the tropical Elliott Ness at the head of the two-year-old, 24-phase Car Wash corruption investigation, crudely manipulating an &ndash; illegal &ndash; phone tapping of a Lula-Dilma Rousseff conversation, which he duly leaked to corporate media and was instantly used as \u00ab\u00a0proof\u00a0\u00bb that Lula may be back in power as Chief of Staff because he&rsquo;s \u00ab\u00a0afraid\u00a0\u00bb of Elliott Ness.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As a crucial instance of the total information war currently at play in Brazil &ndash; with the hegemonic Globo media empire and the major newspapers salivating for a white coup\/regime change more than ever &ndash; the shaky \u00ab\u00a0proof\u00a0\u00bb turbocharged the Rousseff impeachment drive to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"subtitleset_c.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d;font-size:1.25em;\">The conversation<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The appalling politicization of the Brazilian Judiciary is now a fait accompli, with many a judge moved by opportunism and\/or corporate interest\/shady political agendas. That implies a \u00ab\u00a0normalization\u00a0\u00bb of illegal procedures such as phone tapping of defense lawyers and even the President (Edward Snowden, in a lightweight aside, commented that Rousseff is still not using cryptography in her communications).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Supreme Court ministers &ndash; at least so far &ndash; have not punished Elliott Ness for his illegal tapping of the President&rsquo;s phone and for his illegal leaking of the Lula-Rousseff conversation (there&rsquo;s nothing in it to implicate them in any wrongdoing, as Elliott Ness himself admitted).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The next cliffhanger was Supreme Court minister Gilmar Mendes &ndash; a notorious opposition puppet &ndash; using the illegal phone tapping to suspend Lula&rsquo;s new role; that was \u00ab\u00a0required\u00a0\u00bb from him by two opposition parties. Lula back in government means two anathemas for the white coup\/regime change crowd; political articulation &ndash; which may end up by defeating the impeachment drive against Rousseff; and fundamental help for the Rousseff administration to start at least taming the economic crisis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It&rsquo;s crucial to note that Mendes&rsquo;s unilateral decision was taken only a day and a half after he had a long lunch with two opposition heavyweights, one of them Wall Street darling banker and former Soros prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Arminio Fraga.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Mendes not only pushed the administration into a corner; he went further, handing back to Elliott Ness the competence to investigate Lula under Car Wash, and this after Moro himself had already been forced, by law, to transfer the jurisdiction to the Supreme Court, as Lula was to become a minister.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Mendes was not competent to do it &ndash; as even other Supreme Court judges stressed; he took it away from the minister-speaker of Car Wash in the Supreme Court, Teori Zavascki. So now it&rsquo;s up to Zavascki to \u00ab\u00a0affirm his competence\u00a0\u00bb in the matter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Essentially the phone tapping leak is crammed with serious illegalities, as a smatter of jurists has pointed out; from the tapping taking place after Moro himself determined they should be discontinued, to the leak of a Presidential communication, which could only be authorized by the Supreme Court. Which leads us to the hidden political agenda behind the leak: to expose Lula to public execration and pit him against politicians and the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Lula has presented a habeas corpus request to the Supreme Court, signed by some of Brazil&rsquo;s top jurists, while the government is about to present its own appeal against the blocking of Lula&rsquo;s nomination. The ball is with the Supreme Court &ndash; and all bets are off.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"subtitleset_c.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d;font-size:1.25em;\">What \u00ab\u00a0rule of law\u00a0\u00bb?<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Brazilian Supreme Court in fact has ceased to act as a Supreme Arbiter as some of its members refuse to admit all the current trappings of a police state. This is happening while a rash of prosecutors and a gaggle of investigators at the Brazilian Federal Police &ndash; the equivalent of the FBI &#8211; now can be identified as mere pawns of the ultra-politicized Car Wash investigation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In a nutshell: \u00ab\u00a0Justice\u00a0\u00bb in Brazil is now totally politicized. And Car Wash&rsquo;s mandate is now revealed to clearly consist in the outright criminalization of absolutely anything related to the coalition governments led by the Workers&rsquo; Party since the beginning of the first Lula term in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Car Wash is not about the cleansing of corruption in Brazilian politics; if that really was the target, top opposition politicians would be under investigation, and many behind bars already. Moreover, the appalling corruption scheme in the development of Sao Paulo&rsquo;s metro lines would not have been treated only as the working of a cartel of companies, with no politicians involved; the Sao Paulo metro racket follows the same logic of the corruption scheme discovered &ndash; by the NSA &#8211; inside Petrobras.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00ab\u00a0Rule of law\u00a0\u00bb in Brazil has now been debased to Turkey&rsquo;s Sultan Erdogan levels &ndash; featuring business leaders with the \u00ab\u00a0wrong\u00a0\u00bb political connections arrested for months without trial, which translates as blatant manipulation of public opinion, the preferred tactic of Mani Pulite fan Moro and his team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The road map ahead is grim. The Brazilian Constitution is being torn to shreds, submitted to a white coup logic to be enforced by all means necessary. The politicization of the Judiciary runs in parallel to the mainstream media spectacularization of everything that the process touches, criminalizing politics but only selected politicians.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Brazil&rsquo;s hugely concentrated economic interests are willing to support any deal that would mean an endgame to the political\/judicial war, as politico-economically the country remains totally paralyzed &ndash; and polarized. Inside the &ndash; immensely corrupt &ndash; Brazilian Congress, a special commission to deliberate over Rousseff&rsquo;s impeachment has been appointed, including 36 dodgy members of Parliament who are facing myriad judicial problems; Kafka or the Dadaists would not come up with anything as absurd.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>So the road map ahead now depends on how this dodgy impeachment commission will progress &ndash; or not. One of the possible scenarios is Rousseff&rsquo;s ouster as early as late April, even if she has not been formally accused of any wrongdoing; the usual Empire of Chaos suspects and the local comprador elites barely contain their glee as they \u00ab\u00a0inform\u00a0\u00bb Bloomberg or the Wall Street Journal. But then there&rsquo;s the Lula factor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"subtitleset_c.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d;font-size:1.25em;\">How sweet was my coup<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Assuming Lula may be back in action in the next few days, extensive political articulation &ndash; which the opposition wants to kill by all means &#8211; will need 171 votes to smash the impeachment drive in the lower house; only then may the administration defuse the political crisis to seriously tackle the economic crisis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In a cliffhanger-heavy, extremely fluid scenario, there would be only two possible negotiated solutions: a sort of legal ersatz Parliamentarism, with Rousseff still as President, and Lula as a de facto Prime Minister; and an all-out ersatz Parliamentarism, with Lula in charge of all the government&rsquo;s political articulations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A pact &ndash; forged during \u00ab\u00a0secret\u00a0\u00bb dinners in Brasilia &#8211; between the PSDB (the former social democrats turned neoliberal enforcers) and the PMDB party (the other major cog in the Workers&rsquo; Party ruling coalition) has been sealed to kill both options. The PMDB, incidentally, is notorious for &ndash; what else &ndash; corrupt politicians, not as a governing entity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>All eyes are now on the Supreme Court and the &ndash; wallowing in corruption &ndash; Brazilian Congress. Lula, in the eye of the hurricane itself, is in the most unenviable position. He will need to use all his political capital and all his decades as a master negotiator to find a (political compromise) way out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Brazilian street remains totally radicalized; the logic (?) of blind hate prevails while virtually all instances of juridical or political mediation, not to mention plain, civilized common sense, have been frozen. Brazilian democracy &ndash; one of the healthiest in the world &ndash; is now being strangled by the warped python logic of a police state.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Which brings us to the tawdry scenario that might as well play out before summer. A cowardly, very conservative Congress expels Roussef from power; the Vice-President, PMDB&rsquo;s Temer, steps in, the country is \u00ab\u00a0pacified\u00a0\u00bb and the proverbial foreign investors, Wall Street, the Koch brothers in the US, hail the white coup; the Car Wash hysteria slowly &ndash; and magically &ndash; fades out because no way former opposition mandarins should be indicted or go to jail (that&rsquo;s only for the Workers&rsquo; Party).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kafka and the Dadaists to the rescue, again; this is exactly the \u00ab\u00a0soft\u00a0\u00bb regime change deal that has been clinched in Brasilia by a nasty combo; selected (corrupt) politicians bought and paid for by the Brazilian comprador elites; selected businessmen; a large part of a co-opted Judiciary; and corporate media (ruled by four families).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Call it white coup. Call it regime change. Call it the Brazilian color revolution. Without NATO. Without \u00ab\u00a0humanitarian\u00a0\u00bb imperialism. Without blood and zillions of US dollars lost, like in Iraq, Libya or Syria. So \u00ab\u00a0clean\u00a0\u00bb. So \u00ab\u00a0lawful\u00a0\u00bb. How come Empire of Chaos&rsquo;s theoreticians never thought about this before?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00ab\u00a0Humanitarian\u00a0\u00bb imperialism is so old Hillary; at least the Masters of the Universe will have a new template to apply all over the developing world. Happy &ndash; regime change &ndash; days are here again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And forget about reading any of this on Western corporate media.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4>P\u00e9p\u00e9 Escobar<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le chaudron br\u00e9silien La situation br\u00e9silienne est \u00e0 un point de rupture. Nous allons laisser \u00e0 P\u00e9p\u00e9 Escobar le soin de pr\u00e9senter les derniers \u00e9v\u00e8nements dans un texte, le 21 mars sur RT, pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 ci-dessous. 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