We ignore the power of right wing media at our peril. They gave us Trump. They stole Brazil.
TeleSur IN DEPTH: Coup in Brazil has great coverage. I certainly don't align with pepe's world view, but this is a good read and we should take seriously the manner in which Brazil's populist will has been overthrown.
"Pepe Escobar takes on the media narrative in Brazil, where if a right wing paper accuses you of a crime, you are already guilty." source
Brazil: Get Lula! Now! Or Else…
By: Pepe Escobar - 27 September 2016
A powerful array of institutional/oligarchic interests is behind the rabid demonization of all things Workers’ Party.
The interminable, ghastly telenovela aiming at turning Brazil, the seventh-largest economy in the world, into a Banana Republic of Scoundrels while destroying its economy, is—like the infamous GWOT (Global War on Terror)—a gift that keeps on giving.
No, this would never qualify as a Shakespearean tragedy or even a Monty Python sketch. Neither tragic nor funny; just
nasty, brutish and overwhelmingly pathetic.
Center stage once again is Sergio Moro, the puny provincial prosecutor with an Elliott Ness complex in charge of the blatantly one-sided Car Wash corruption investigation. Moro is a pure product of Hollywood screenwriting. He is investigator, judge, executioner; in sum, he incarnates The Law. A Magnum-deprived Dirty Harry, but armed with plenty of cheap suits.
After the golpeachment of Dilma Rousseff, it didn’t take long for Moro to play his joker: Lula in jail by all means necessary.
It started with a—pathetically amateurish—Powerpoint presentation by the provincial crusaders in the southern Brazilian state which doubles as Car Wash’s seat, insisting they are “convinced” Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva is guilty of being the Don Corleone in a vast corruption ring. But they have no proof.
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The power of the right wing global media has never been so profoundly obvious as in the case of overthrowing Brazilian democracy with nothing but words and a lot of corrupt right-wing politicians. And short of a revolution in the streets that would be a bloodbath for the left, the people of Brazil have had to simply watch their elected government get swept into the gutter. This is the new world order, powerful plutocratic, corporatist interests employing propaganda to overthrow popular will and elections, with money corrupting the political players enabling the overthrow.
Say goodbye to the Amazon rain forest, say goodbye to the uncontacted tribes and the remaining Native Americans resisting the Anglo invasion of their territories, the wingnuts have decided to sell off their country to whoever pays more.
Your country may be next. Who is the likeliest target? The USA, where 50% of public land in the West is federal. Get the federal government out of the way and all that wealth becomes yours.
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