by Pepe Escobar, first published at The Cradle, reposted here by the author’s permission
The failed coup in Brazil is the latest CIA stunt, just as the country is forging stronger ties with the east.
A former US intelligence official has confirmed that the shambolic Maidan remix staged in Brasilia on 8 January was a CIA operation, and linked it to the recent attempts at color revolution in Iran.
On Sunday, alleged supporters of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace, bypassing flimsy security barricades, climbing on roofs, smashing windows, destroying public property including precious paintings, while calling for a military coup as part of a regime change scheme targeting elected President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva.
According to the US source, the reason for staging the operation – which bears visible signs of hasty planning – now, is that Brazil is set to reassert itself in global geopolitics alongside fellow BRICS states Russia, India, and China.
That suggests CIA planners are avid readers of Credit Suisse strategist Zoltan Pozsar, formerly of the New York Fed. In his ground-breaking 27 December report titled War and Commodity Encumbrance, Pozsar states that “the multipolar world order is being built not by G7 heads of state but by the ‘G7 of the East’ (the BRICS heads of state), which is a G5 really but because of ‘BRICSpansion’, I took the liberty to round up.”
He refers here to reports that Algeria, Argentina, Iran have already applied to join the BRICS – or rather its expanded version “BRICS+” – with further interest expressed by Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Indonesia.
The US source drew a parallel between the CIA’s Maidan in Brazil and a series of recent street demonstrations in Iran instrumentalized by the agency as part of a new color revolution drive: “These CIA operations in Brazil and Iran parallel the operation in Venezuela in 2002 that was highly successful at the start as rioters managed to seize Hugo Chavez.”
Enter the “G7 of the East”
Straussian neo-cons placed at the top of the CIA, irrespective of their political affiliation, are livid that the “G7 of the East” – as in the BRICS+ configuration of the near future – are fast moving out of the US dollar orbit.
Straussian John Bolton – who has just publicized his interest in running for the US presidency – is now demanding the ouster of Turkey from NATO as the Global South realigns rapidly within new multipolar institutions.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his new Chinese counterpart Qin Gang have just announced the merging of the China-driven Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Russia-driven Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU). This means that the largest 21st century trade/connectivity/development project – the Chinese New Silk Roads – is now even more complex, and keeps expanding.
That sets the stage for the introduction, already being designed at various levels, of a new international trading currency aimed at supplanting then replacing the US dollar. Apart from an internal debate among the BRICS, one of the key vectors is the discussion team set up between the EAEU and China. When concluded, these deliberations will be presented to BRI-EAEU partner nations and of course the expanded BRICS+.
Lula at the helm in Brazil, in what is now his third non-successive presidential term, will offer a tremendous boost to BRICS+, In the 2000s, side by side with Russian President Putin and former Chinese President Hu Jintao, Lula was a key conceptualizer of a deeper role for BRICS, including trade in their own currencies.
BRICS as “the new G7 of the East,” as defined by Pozsar, is beyond anathema – as much for Straussian neo-cons as for neoliberal.
The US is being slowly but surely expelled from wider Eurasia by concerted actions of the Russia-China strategic partnership.
Ukraine is a black hole – where NATO faces a humiliation that will make Afghanistan look like Alice in Wonderland. A feeble EU being forced by Washington to de-industrialize and buy US Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) at absurdly high cost has no essential resources for the Empire to plunder.
Geoeconomically, that leaves the US-denominated “Western Hemisphere,” especially immense energy-rich Venezuela as the key target. And geopolitically, the key regional actor is Brazil.
The Straussian neo-con play is to pull all stops to prevent Chinese and Russian trade expansion and political influence in Latin America, which Washington – irrespective of international law and the concept of sovereignty, continues to call “our backyard.” In times where neoliberalism is so “inclusive” that Zionists wear swastikas, the Monroe Doctrine is back, on steroids.
All about the ‘strategy of tension’
Clues for Maidan in Brazil can be obtained, for instance, at the US Army Cyber Command at Fort Gordon, where it’s no secret the CIA deployed hundreds of assets across Brazil ahead of the recent presidential election – faithful to the “strategy of tension” playbook.
CIA chatter was intercepted at Fort Gordon since mid-2022. The main theme then was the imposition of the widespread narrative that ‘Lula could only win by cheating.’
A key target of the CIA operation was to discredit by all means the Brazilian electoral process, paving the way for a prepackaged narrative that is now unraveling: a defeated Bolsonaro fleeing Brazil and seeking refuge at former US president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion. Bolsonaro, advised by Steve Bannon, did flee Brazil, skipping Lula’s inauguration, but because he’s terrified he may be facing the slammer sooner rather than later. And by the way, he is in Orlando, not Mar-a-Lago.
The icing on the stale Maidan cake was what happened this past Sunday: fabricating a 8 January in Brasilia mirroring the events of 6 January, 2021 in Washington, and of course imprinting the Bolsonaro-Trump link on people’s minds.
The amateurish nature of 8 January in Brasilia suggests CIA planners got lost in their own plot. The whole farce had to be anticipated because of Pozsar’s report, which everyone-who-matters has read across the New York-Beltway axis.
What is clear, is that for some factions of the powerful US establishment, getting rid of Trump at all costs is even more crucial than crippling Brazil’s role in BRICS+.
When it comes to the internal factors of Maidan in Brazil, borrowing from novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, everything walks and talks like the Chronicle of a Coup Foretold. It is impossible that the security apparatus around Lula could not have foreseen these events, especially considering the tsunami of signs on social networks.
So there must have been a concerted effort to act softly – without any preventive big sticks – while just emitting the usual neoliberal babble.
After all, Lula’s cabinet is a mess, with ministers constantly clashing and some members supporting Bolsonaro even a few months ago. Lula calls it a “national unity government,” but it is more like a tawdry patchwork job.
Brazilian analyst Quantum Bird, a globally respected physics scholar who has returned home after a long stint in NATO lands, notes how there are “too many actors in play and too many antagonistic interests. Among Lula’s ministers, we find Bolsonarists, neoliberal-rentiers, climate interventionism converts, identity politics practitioners and a vast fauna of political neophytes and social climbers, all well aligned with Washington’s imperial interests.”
CIA-stoked ‘militants’ on the prowl
One plausible scenario is that powerful sectors of the Brazilian military – at the service of the usual Straussian neo-con think tanks, plus global finance capital – could not really pull off a real coup, considering massive popular rejection, and had to settle at best for a “soft” farce. That illustrates just how much this self-aggrandizing and highly corrupt military faction is isolated from Brazilian society.
What is deeply worrying, as Quantum Bird notes, is that the unanimity in condemning 8 January from all quarters, while no one took responsibility, “shows how Lula navigates virtually alone in a shallow sea infested by sharpened corals and hungry sharks.”
Lula’s position, he adds, “decreeing a federal intervention all by himself, without strong faces of his own government or relevant authorities, shows an improvised, disorganized and amateurish reaction.”
And all that, once again, after CIA-stoked “militants” had been organizing the “protests” openly on social media for days.
The same old CIA playbook though remains at work. It still boggles the mind how easy it is to subvert Brazil, one of the natural leaders of the Global South. Attempted old school coups cum regime change/color revolution scripts will keep being played – remember Kazakhstan in early 2021, and Iran only a few months ago.
As much as the self-aggrandizing faction of the Brazilian military may believe they control the nation, if Lula’s significant masses hit the streets in full force against the 8 January farce, the army’s impotence will be graphically imprinted. And since this is a CIA operation, the handlers will order their tropical military vassals to behave like ostriches.
The future, unfortunately, is ominous. The US establishment will not allow Brazil, the BRICS economy with the best potential after China, to be back in business with full force and in synch with the Russia-China strategic partnership.
Straussian neo-cons and neoliberals, certified geopolitical jackals and hyenas, will get even more ferocious as the “G7 of the East,” Brazil included, moves to end the suzerainty of the US dollar as imperial control of the world vanishes.
Please pardon my confusion but it was my impression that the New York Times US government mouth piece?) heartily endorsed Lula’s election as did (I thought I read) some Biden admin members. I can’t make sense of that contradiction to what Mr. Escobar writes here. And btw, I have always admired his writings and eagerly await anything new from him. Thanks in advance to anyone helping me understand this seeming contradiction.
J-P
It appears that Andrei is right. The Washington DC power structure no longer has the ability to speak with one voice. There are now competing political groups running contradictory agendas. So one agency pushes one line and another agency maybe something different. To varying and confusing degrees it would seem. Imperial breakdown syndrome?
There is no single US foreign policy. There is a CIA foreign policy, a State Department foreign policy, a Pentagon foreign policy, and tons of other “US” foreign policies. Need I remind you that Bolsanaro was seen as a “Brazilian Trump”. And if you are against Trump, you can’t be for Bolsanaro, hence the (fake) pro Lula stance of some Neolibs.
It is all crap, really, ignore the verbiage, look at the actual actions.
So was the voiced “support” for Lula by Biden et al an attempt to induce a false sense of security before the planned colour revolution, or just an unrelated empty PR shell?
There was even a Brazilian shaman dude Identical outfit makeup . Even down to the stars painted on his cheek. Was quite startling to see both pictures together
The reason for different policies is in the nature of US. Population thinks it lives in democracy, but actually, they are not. US is by no means feudal state run by multiple uber rich families or Houses whose members are born into royalty, entitled to untold amount of resources do not pay any taxes, and have complete immunity in front of Law. Meaning, no one went to jail, ever. They answer only for the offenses made to each other, outside of scope of commoners.
The number of such Houses is unknown, but it is probably similar to the number of various inteligence agencies as no one like to share secrets with others.
During cold war they were united by the common enemy -communism. After financial meltdown 2008, cracks started to show. Many was disappointed with their share of spoils, while some reaped profits beyond
belief. Rift caused ceasing in common interests like infrastructure, healthcare, and, naturally, foreign policy.
This kind of schizophrenia has always been present in the United States. In France, this trait is found in one and the same person: Macron. Still recently his former minister Minister of Home Affairs and ex-mayor of Lyon Gérard Collomb, who was a fervent support of Macron in 2016, told that he suffers from a split personality. “Macron tells you one thing, and then the exact opposite, and this on all problems. On National Education, he defends a secular position, (…), and the next moment another, a rather woke one. This way of [seemingly] reconciling totally opposite positions is a tic for him.” In the end, you have to look at the the implemented policy.
Also, the NYT, as the “paper of record” in the USA, has to maintain a shred of credibility and the facade of pro-democracy. They can’t just come out and say, “we support the attempted coup and Bolsonaro, despite the election results.” If the coup had been successful, they would support it after the dust settled. This seems to be all about appearances.
It is in the interests of finance capital to have Bolsonaro open Brazil for full rape and pillage by foreign capital, cut down every last tree and starve out the remaining indigenous population. It’s “good for jobs and economic growth” eh
Over and over going back decades Latin American reformers have been elected and subsequently overthrown by a US backed military. If we take a look at what movements have succeeded they are countries where revolutionaries once in power quickly move to take firm control of the military–Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, the current government in Iran. Bolivia held on by the skin of its teeth. What remains to be seen is how committed the Brazilian military is, one way or another. Or maybe the CIA has lost its mojo. The old school guys who engineered Indonesia, Guatemala, Iran, and a dozen or so coups in Latin America, not to mention the color revolutions in Eastern Europe, aren’t around anymore. And the Chinese are not as stupid or as gullible as the Soviets/Russians after Stalin were, though it has certainly taken Putin and Labrov long enough to figure things out. I can only say, thank God for the Chinese Communists. Without their cool strategizing, strength, character and economic success the world–including Russia and Brazil– would be sunk.
I am deeply concerned about President Lula. He has accepted an invitation to the White House in Washington. Is he being set up for something? Will he be “made an offer he can’t refuse”? Money or Murder? Lula’s influence in BRICS+ and South America is huge. It’s an awesome power which the US government via its intelligence agencies would want to destroy. An image comes to mind when I read that Biden and Trudeau are “concerned” about democracy in Brazil, it’s the image from Colombian director’s film “The Serpent’s Embrace” …the U.S. being the serpent that has sought to strangle South America to death. President Lula, My God grant you His presence, power and grace to stave off The Serpent’s Embrace.
@ J-P on January 10, 2023 · at 8:59 pm EST/EDT
The “endorsing” of Lula was more an anti-Bolsonaro move than support for Lula.
Clearly, Lula could not have won without the “endorsing” of powerful sectors in the US, who opposed Bolsonaro due to his closeness to Trump.
I am sure Lula played those sectors in his campaign against Bolsonaro. Lula is a shrewd politician, and can use the US for his own gain.
Right after he won, Pepe posted a picture on his Telegram channel, of Lula with Jake Sullivan, US National Security Advisor, exchanging soccer shirts.
A picture speaks for a thousand words.
Bolsonaro is one of Trump’s cards, his campaign counted with full advise from Steve “Prince of Darkness” Bannon, who besides telling Bolsonaro to escape and evade before Lula took over, also told him to feign illness (“intestinal obstruction” what else?:-) after Jake Sullivan stated “Lula has not requested Bolsonaro’s extradition.”
Defeating Bolsonaro was part of the Dems campaign to deny Trump any political support, domestic or international.
Lula played that very well to his advantage.
The enemy of my enemy, is my friend.
Naturally.
Lone Wolf
@ Pepe
Muito Obrigado, Pepe, as always.
Maidan uprising? Not even close.
Coup d’etat? It looked more like a dress rehearsal.
It was too little, too late. The timing for this “January 6” déjà vu charade would have been right after the elections, once Lula was declared the winner, as a way to channel the pent-up frustration of the defeated, unleashing it on Lula and his victory, and more importantly, before Lula had a cabinet, however patchy, and a governing structure, sort of.
Obviously, given the “restraint” observed by the police/military forces in Brasilia to quell the riots, there was some unspoken support and coordination with the local garrisons. However, it was badly managed from the beginning. The whole guacamole needed a punch, which would have only come from the military sector, which failed to materialize. There was some late intervention, minimal, with the military forming barriers preventing federal security services from reaching out to the barbarians, as Lula so appropriately called the rioters.
By then, Latin American countries, the US and the EU had already pronounced against the troglodytes, those behind the attempt saw the signs written on the wall very clearly, they were destined to fail. No doubt Bolsonaro and his henchmen, still in power at state and local levels, were behind the circus, in coordination with some tin-pot dinosaurs of which the Brazilian army has plenty.
Their hope might have been “to incite” other military to rise up and follow suit in support of the “people” demanding “justice” against the “electoral fraud,” and they launched the useful idiots for a symbolic take-over of the three powers, to probe the willingness of military circles for a putsch.
They found from little to none.
Latin American armies, with the Brazilian army at the top, are now corporate institutions, with their own financial base, investments, running companies and businesses like any corporation. Their goal is to maximize their profits, playing politics to that end when possible, as when they bet on Bolsonaro. They will not risk the “constitutional order” on a political adventure that has no future, ruining both their military careers and their financial base.
Bolsonaro’s “January 8” circus does not even have the seriousness of their historical predecessor in the US, it was a botched exercise from beginning to end, so much so Bolsonaro is now putting up a show in Florida, getting hospitalized for “intestinal obstruction” (sure!).
Jake Sullivan, US National Security Advisor, stated on Monday “the Biden administration hasn’t received any requests from Brazil to extradite the former president,” a not-so veiled threat the US is willing to extradite him if Lula requests it. After all, this is Brazil’s Trump, and, the Biden administration is clearly signaling they had nothing to do with Bolsonaro’s latest attempt against Lula.
After all, they helped Lula defeat him.
As bad as this dress rehearsal was, it was a serious warning to Lula.
Brazil’s dark forces, in collusion with their neo-con-zio-nazi US allies, will not stop at anything to erode Lula’s power and sabotage his ruling. A week into his presidency, this coup attempt has also become a test for Lula. His response to those responsible for the mayhem, both useful idiots and master puppeteers, his exercise in judgment and power, will define his term and the future of Brazil.
And by extension, the future of the multipolar order, of which Brazil is now the weakest link.
Eu vou pelo Brasil!
Lone Wolf
Did they help Lula win? I do not see it that way at all. Once exonerated from his convictions, Lula was supposed to be a shoe-in. In the end, the result was close enough for Bolsonaro’s supporters to cry foul! Job done for the sowers of chaos…
IMO Lone Wolf, you just absolutely nailed the entire 9 yards.
Lula’s power will be either the weakest link for multipolarity or the strongest, depending on whether the neocolonialists are able to coup or murder him… only time will answer that question.
Cheers
Col
Very interesting article. Almost predictable at this stage. On a different blog there was info on Lulas Vice President Geraldo Alckmin who is amongst other things a 33rd degree Mason. Given the fact that Lula is reportedly not a healthy man and or is holding political power by a thin thread, could this be the ultimate play?
Either way, it is a shame that the average American is so brain dead that they cannot contemplate the depravity of its State Department and the total number of lives that have been destroyed.
“Geoeconomically, that leaves the US-denominated “Western Hemisphere,” especially immense energy-rich Venezuela as the key target. And geopolitically, the key regional actor is Brazil.” Absolutely correct. The Anglo-American globalists won’t let go of Brazil as one their prime WEF’s Agenda 2030 experimentation ground which envisions force feeding the population with insects, trans-gender bending programs, digital ID’s, monthly vaccine injections ….now that they seem to be losing to Russia. Russia is too tough, so why not get Brazil instead? The globalists are specially angry at Lula, after the new administration stopped the privatizations of key industrial sectors including the energy and aviation industries. Beside Brazil, they’re also working on the same scenario in Pakistan. Yesterday, there was a report of the arrest warrant for Emran Khan. Pakistan can be used to draw a nice wedge against Both Chinese BRI, and India’s North-South transportation corridor. What Lula needs now is a million-member grassroots militia army protecting the Brazilian government, its offices and strategic industries. Just like in Iran a few weeks ago and Kazakhstan last year, hordes of videogame-playing hooligans are paid about a $150 each person by some wealthy mentors to pour into the streets shouting American democracy slogans is what’s actually happening in Brazil right now.
I often refer to the rumsfeld cebroski doctrine. It was a follow on from the which path to persia, and was specifically targeting latin america. Most remember the parts about long term plans to reshape the usa military to meet the future. But what hardly gets mentioned was the idea that there would be no need to invade nations as they would target institutions to breed neo liberal subs they could easily control later when placed in key positions. So it was a multi decade program and we do see fruits like guano umm guado. Seems rf has had all theirs flee to where their bad talents can be more appreciated. Latin America has a long way to go to clean them out
“Ukraine – where NATO faces a humiliation that will make Afghanistan look like Alice in Wonderland.”
Wonderland ended with Alice waking up: “Oh, pooh. I’m not afraid of you. Why, you’re nothing but a silly pack of cards!”
Hi, Andrei, J-P, Snow Leopard, Nelson, Rodrigo and Lone Wolf… I absolutely share your concerns. And of course once again sterling work by Pepe!
Just my personal observations in this monumental jigsaw puzzle… what’s happening in Brazil and LatAm is a huge call for Uncle $am… this is existential for the entire western model of neocolonialism.
Looking at the WB 2021 population figures helps to bring into context just how vital this situation really is…
USA 331 million
EU 447 million
Latam 621 million…
Canada 38 million
LatAm in terms of population is very close to double that of the US, 1.38x that of the EU, and a massive 16x that of Canada. Brazil itself is the 6th most populous country on earth.
In terms of combined natural resources, LatAm makes the US look like a very poor cousin. This lunatic pretty much sums up the U$ position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZLWWD1okg
The US has taken it for granted that LatAm is their historical, playground which they can pillage to their heart’s content. Of course, the U$ is literally shitting BRIICs over Lula gaining the presidency and uniting LatAm to challenge their hegemony.
The truly enormous combined energy resources of Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti (some of them quite recently discovered) make this situation even more dangerous than ever before.
This situation is existential now for the Monroe Doctrine… the U$ knows that if Lula survives this means the end of their pillaging of the entire LatAm bloc.
I honestly don’t think Lula cares anymore about his own personal survival, other than he hopes to finish the work he started 20 years ago in his two earlier Presidential terms. I assume that’s why Lula rode in an open car on inauguration day… such a powerful signal to humanity that he has no personal fear of the western oligarchy.
Trump supporters around the world basically all automatically took a default position of supporting Bolsanaro without doing their homework. As such they have massively increased the danger for Lula and for a feasible and concerted challenge by LatAm to the US Hegemon.
How very sad that so many could miss the potential repeat of what happened to Gadaffi… especially since as a person Lula is on a completely different level, and enjoys huge respect from virtually every leader on earth apart of course from the Natostan bloc.
One of the better explanations of the historical background leading up to Lula regaining the presidency is contained in this interview of Brian Meir by Ben Norton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQq1kTubYQQ&t=22s
Goodness, me… I started making notes on this interview of the key points… but arguably the whole thing IMO is made up of highlights.
Perhaps the key to much of this lies in what 18th-century economists Friedrich List and Alexander Hamilton advocated as sovereign development economic policies.
Far from being anything new, these models were given a new lease of life when the term was coined – Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI).
This trade and economic policy advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production. This is the crucial part of Lula’s vision just as it was in his first two terms as President.
By contrast, Bolsanaro’s policies were a continuation of Temer’s and were complete neoliberalism based on an expert-orientated model, not on value-added exports, but on exporting raw materials. The very essence of the neoliberal/Monroe Doctrine policies that the West has imposed on Latin America is to try to keep these countries dependent on foreign markets for imports.
Perhaps this quote from one of Lula’s speeches best sums all of this up in one simple sentence…
“We need to rescue the model of state institutions, public banks, and state-owned companies in the development of this country.”
Also…
” Brazil is too big to renounce its productive potential. It makes no sense to import fuels, fertilizers, oil platforms, aircraft and satellites. We have sufficient technical capacity and market to resume industrialisation.”
This is the complete opposite of Bolsanoro’s blatant neoliberal agenda and those of his Chicago Boys indoctrinated economic minister.
Another important point is that Lula’s WP Workers Party needs to be differentiated from the fake left parties of so many western countries including “our own” (sic) Labour party here in NZ.
Lula’s vision is a social democratic model with a structure that gives much more grassroots control over social policies. The point here is that if much of this power can be turned over into the hands of voluntary people’s groups then central Govt power can be greatly reduced… hence the welcome corollary, the reduction of both state Govt size and its power.
At the 38-minute mark, they discussed how Bolsanaro paved the way for Petrobras to sell 8 refineries and gas station chains to private ownership including BlackRock. Basically, Bolsanaro shut down these refineries only to ship oil up to the US for refining so it then had to be repurchased as refined gasoline and shipped all the way back to Brazil!
Perhaps one of the most revealing actions of Bolsanaro, which illustrates his true nature, is the fact that he fled in a panic to Florida when he realised that his coup had come unstuck. He was being summoned by police for questioning on his numerous criminal acts whilst in power, and leading up to the election.
Arguably one of the most telling and symbolic acts was that during the inauguration Lula flew the Mercosur Flag right next to the Brazilian flag. This signalled his commitment to reviving integration and cooperation in South America, especially the four founding members, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
What a change from the blatant neoliberal shill Bolsanoro who loved flying the US and Israeli flags next to the Brazilian one at important events.
Perhaps the worst aspect of Bolsanaro was his outrageously dishonest and hypocritical habit of trying to pass himself off as working for the people… IMO nothing could be further from the truth.
If I had to summarise in a single sentence I would say that most of the global confusion, and not just within the US and Brazil, is from the massive overlap of Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism, and hence of the old left and right paradigms.
The confusion is even more profound in the US because the Demos were never the genuine left (just as their blue party livery suggests). They were always fake left. This is the problem, just as it is here in NZ, both the left and the right now carry water for the WEF and the corptocracy.
The true grassroots centre right that works for Mainstreet and national sovereignty is becoming exceedingly rare, especially in LatAm
The actions of leaders like Lula need to be interpreted in terms of actions and achievements rather than by using assumptions and perceptions of how they fit into these old paradigms.
That was the mistake that both Amy Benjamin and Chantelle Baker made here in NZ… they simply swallowed the MSM/CIA memes put around that Lula was dangerously far-left and neoliberal. In fact, he is a direct challenge to both Neolibs and Neocons… as such he and his presidency is in huge danger.
Personally, I believe it will be a miracle if Lula sees 2023 out as President. People like JFK and Gadaffi, and now Lula, who take on the money changers, tend to have appalling tenure and life expectancies.
These huge forces are trying to destroy him because he challenges the western colonial oligarchs more than any leader on earth with the possible exception of Putin.
If we want to help the emergence of an effective multipolar world and put an end to neo-colonialism then we also need to try to put an end to this confusion… otherwise, we simply carry water for the Klaus Slobs of this world, his comrades, and of course the existing financial oligarchy.
Cheers to all
Col
Thank You Col: An excellent analysis, which cuts to the real heart of the matter. I fully concur. You write of Lula having a unique power because he does not fear death. This power seems to move people.
Col: I always learn from your posts – they help keep me centered very nicely.
Thank you again. A Kiwi from Christchurch. Well at least us Kiwi’s have an appetite for understanding core structures.
Enjoyed that read Col!
Thank you for your compliments Snow Leopard, WTFUD, and Lone Wolf below.
Sadly, I feel like a very small voice in an exceedingly windy wilderness down here in New Sheepland. Almost 100% of our so-called geopolitical commentators are now mercilessly bagging Lula. I foresee a Gaddafi #2 situation about to unfold.
In fact, the entire collection of neocolonial kleptocrats on the globe are desperately trying to get Lula couped or killed, now that they realise that he has the following of a scale that heralds an existential threat to their ongoing hegemony.
They need no help from dazed and totally confused would-be freedom fighters in accomplishing this task. Once again Mr Global cunningly recruits in the most unlikely places.
YCHMTSU
Col
According to Phil Butler {a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”} the world is closer perhaps to disaster than we had thought.
As Mr. Escobar writes, the CIA has been a busy little bee. And now, it appears it is operating “sleeper cells” in Russia. We have seen the spate of explosions and fires within and across Russia recently, and I would add to Butlers site damage examples, the spate of deaths of highly placed Russian Energy entrepreneurs and CEO’s. The Empire GovProp MSM of course tries to blame Putin for the latter.
According an investigative reporter Butler cites,{Jack Murphy} these are clearly CIA cells bringing a message and confusion to the Governing Officials of Russia. Whether they are that threatened by them, or have plans to counter them, we cannot know as yet. But as Butler and Jack Murphy point out, should this push Russia into a corner, they could retaliate with an escalation not expected by the Empire HQ, taking the world over the brink. I just dont know – but it’s worrying information.
I should add that I have followed the writing of Phil Butler for a few years, and never found him to be unreliable, and that the New Eastern Journal is a reputable source. Jack Murphy I have never heard of or read before, and thus the reader should make up their own mind. Maybe others know the man. He does explain exactly why his report was not able to make it to MSM, and had to be published on his own blog site.
The link to that report is below.
https://jackmurphywrites.com/169/the-cias-sabotage-campaign-inside-russia/
@ Col… \’the farmer from NZ\’ on January 11, 2023 · at 6:17 am EST/EDT
Excellent write up, Down-under friend!
Thank you for the insights into population numbers in the western hemisphere. Geopolitically, that counts, even if just to know how many are getting targeted for eugenics. Latin America’s resources have been pillaged for 500 years, by Europeans at large, then Anglo-Saxons, and the latter are not going to let go of “their backyard” without a fight.
Hence the botched “coup d’etat” against Lula, plus all the reasons you pointed out, and Pepe listed above.
The political concepts of “left” and “right” are now vacuous, empty signifiers that signify nothing.
The traditional left died long ago, fading away in multiple political mutations going from “socialist” to “social-democrats” and everything in between.
As Pepe subscribed in his other article posted before this one, “Bye bye 1991-2022,”
/bye-bye-1991-2022/?inmoderation
“…We’re back to what the world looked like in 1914, or before 1939, only in a limited sense. There’s a plethora of nations struggling to expand their influence, but all of them are betting on multipolarity, or “peaceful modernization”, as Xi Jinping coined it, and not Forever Wars: China, Russia, India, Iran, Indonesia and others…
we are back to how the world looked like before WWI/WWII, and the concepts of “left” and “right” acquired their full meaning in those periods. In fact, those wars clearly defined the left and the right in antagonistic camps, and that’s the conceptual reality we inherited post-WWII.
The new paradigm whose showdown we are privileged to witness, cannot be captured with concepts that are, by all means, dead, useless to contain the new realities being created politically and militarily. What is, for example, the European “left”? There is nothing left of the “left” in Europe, now that even the progressive “Greens” are marching under the nazi banner.
The new multipolar world would needs a fresh conceptual framework entirely, and we are assisting to its creation. Pepe, the Saker, and others, have coined multiple terms to redefine and capture the new landscape. Xi Jingpin’s “peaceful modernization,” which Pepe quoted, is a good example of the new concepts at work in the creation of the multipolar world.
“Peaceful modernization” is an anti-war concept, wars being one of the main exports of the neo-con-zio-nazis to perpetuate their control and domination of Zone B. Without denouncing the warmongering Collective West, or defining themselves as anti-war militants, the Chinese are creating a new umbrella under which more and more countries can get under to protect themselves against the “Forever Wars,” as Pepe calls the warmongers.
Pepe’s “Bye bye 1991-2022” is also a bye-bye to the old conceptual world.
Cheers…and hello to 2023, the Year of the Rabbit…we need to watch out for the rabbit hole…
Lone Wolf
PS: I was wondering where you were after I saw Pepe’s article on Brazil posted here. He announced it was coming on The Craddle on Telegram. Glad you made it. On another note, the Saker team should start working on a glossary that could help many navigate the new realities, as sundry new terms and concepts have been coined in this venue.
They “will get even more ferocious” at what they see in a mirror.
Don’t underestimate the incompetence in Washington D.C. and throughout USA governments.
You don’t throw throw engineering, physical and spiritual, out of your home and system of education and expect to have all the things you want at your beck and call.
You want a new helicopter. Well, some of those guys you filled and killed with all manner of drugs could have designed and fabricated one for you. But you made it so they couldn’t do that for you. They’re gone.
You got rich by taking their wealth from them. But you got poor from not having them around to live with you. Why can’t you just live with others in friendship?
The only difference between a Neoliberal and a Neo-con is a circumcision . . . . and very often, not even that.
So the top-brass of the military and spy-centres in Brazil are CIA-ified like their Pakistani peers; well, do what VVP would do and replace them with loyalists, through whatever means.
The reach of the CIA and proxy NGO’s/Militias will diminish rapidly with the downturn in the economic fortunes of the West. Whatever their black-budget is, they’re still dependent on ‘external’ incomes (Drug trade, money-laundering, human trafficking, extrajudicial killings, kidnapping, extortion . . . . . ). There’s a correlation between income and influence exerted on the sovereign. Their freedom of movement and access has been hampered, restricted, even within former colonies and due mainly to the changes in the geopolitical landscape (Thanks Russia).
The Western ruling-class are butt-hurt rattled that their Financial ponzi-scheme and access to other sovereign’s resources on the cheap, or free, is OVER.
4 hypersonic missiles on Langley, Virginia, home to the satanic forces would sent a message.
6 ways from Sunday, eh!
With all due respect for Pepe, whose analysis are usually to the point, this makes no sense. If this was a CIA operation, it was in the same sense January 6th was a CIA operation- the creation of a Reichstag event to centralize power. And now Alexandre de Moraes is the most powerful judge in the world, he whose whole career has been at the behest of Geraldo Alckmin (Lula’s vice-president, former opponent, probably a freemason, from a crypto-jewish family, and with strong ties to Opus Dei- and who would never be elected by the Brazilian people, but now is a heartbeat away from the Presidency, and the complete subjugation of Brazil to NATO).
I think the writer of this article has interpreted the situation in Brazil incorrectly. The Left who is foreign influenced by the likes of the WEF Oligarchs, are stealing elections all over the globe so the elected WEF/Globalist controlled newly installed governments can pass laws for a smooth transition of their Great Reset and the end game being One World Gov controlled by these Oligarch criminals who also allegedly have influence over western intelligence agencies. The protesters in Brazil are motivated by a strong belief that the presidential election suffered from massive electoral fraud. On November 9, 2022, the nation’s Defence Ministry sent to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) its long-awaited report on the electoral process. According to the Ministry of Defence, “It is not possible to ensure that the computer programs that have been implemented at electronic voting machines are free from malicious insertions that alter their functioning.”
As a result, the Ministry of Defence requested the Superior Electoral Court “to conduct an urgent technical investigation into what happened in the compilation of the source code and a thorough analysis of the codes that were executed in electronic voting machines”.
Unfortunately, the request from the Ministry of Defence was completely ignored by Justice Alexandre Moraes, president of the Superior Electoral Court.
Furthermore, Justice Moraes rejected any voter fraud claims from Bolsonaro’s political party (Liberal Party) in November. He described the legal filing as ‘bad faith’ litigation and fined the plaintiffs $4.3 million for simply daring to ask the court’s opinion about the election results!
But a bit of context is important so as to clarify the nature of the problem.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes was appointed as the nation’s top electoral officer in August 2022. Prior to this, he was appointed by President Lula to join the first composition (biennium 2005-07) of the National Council of Justice (CNJ).
From 2002-05, Moraes served as the Secretary of Justice and Defense of Citizenship of São Paulo state under Geraldo Alckmin, the candidate for Vice President on Lula’s presidential ticket, and who had previously served as the Governor of São Paulo from 2001-06, and then again from 2011-18.
During this year’s presidential campaign, Justice Moraes ordered social networks to remove thousands of posts and arrested numerous supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro without a trial for posts on social media that he claims “attacked Brazil’s institutions”, namely his own court.
Writing for the New York Times on 26 September, US journalists Jack Nicas and André Spigariol explain that these arbitrary rulings, “…could have major implications for the winner of the presidential vote.”
In addition to sending some of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s friends and supporters to jail, Moraes has ordered the confiscation of their electronic devices and the freezing of their personal bank accounts.
Of course, these judicial rulings are entirely arbitrary and unconstitutional. Supreme Court justices are expected to uphold the law and Brazilians have a very clear constitutional right to protest politically.
Under Article 1 of the Brazilian Constitution, all power belongs to the people, who exercise such power by means of their elected representatives or directly. This constitutional right is also protected under Article 5, IV of the Constitution, which communicates that the free manifestation of political thought.
Apparently, however, nobody in Brazil has been allowed to question the transparency of the recent presidential election. Whoever dares to do so “will be treated like criminals”, admonishes Justice Moraes. On December 14, he warned that “many people still need to be arrested and a lot of fines to be issued”.
This is how brutal dictatorships start. At this moment hundreds of judicial arrests are taking place across Brazil. The unelected judiciary has now moved on to a new phase of political activism, and the federal police keep carrying out the arbitrary arrest of people on solely ideological grounds.
Prof Augusto Zimmermann PhD
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Professor Augusto Zimmermann is an expert in Brazilian law and the author of numerous books and articles on Brazilian Constitutional Law, including Direito Constitucional Brasileiro – Tomes I & II (Rio de Janeiro/RJ: Lumen Juris, 2014)
Another rigged Election. If Klaus Schwab and his subversive team of criminals at the WEF (a controlling and subversive economy destroying, anti democratic terrorist organisation) can boast about their prowess in infiltrating National Cabinets of Sovereign Nations, they sure as hell can infiltrate the electoral process of sovereign nations, bribe and subvert electoral officials to install the WEFs preferred left wing political parties and leaders, to bring about the smooth transition of the WEFs Great Reset Crime Against Humanity and Sovereign Nations. These WEF Criminals need to be ended and quickly.
The cognitive world of geopolitics requires deepness of thinking. I have read Escobar for many years, and I noticed, in his style, the search of “the right style for the sake to impress the fans”. Sometimes it was quoting of analogies from antique legends (a distraction from the essence), sometimes cheap leftist populism, and, as in this case, a style that it specular of msm polarization style (out of pro-alternative fan style). A kind of possession. :) But it is OK, since I know he will return to himself.
Nothing important happened in Brazil. Just the same plot as in Capitol Hill. The direction of the state is decided by the state itself, of which the president is a mere foreground actor.
The dynamics of this Brazilian charade is a just result of a global trend, regardless of BRICSs.
@ Cicio_Bello
Your insult to Pepe’s writing style is extremely curious to me.
Did it ever occur to you that if he didn’t write with a degree of flare and colour, using historical context as well, then very few would even bother to read his work at all?
So too regarding your claim that… “The direction of the state is decided by the state itself, of which the president is a mere foreground actor.”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Virtually the entire LatAm region has endured centuries of colonial pillaging. In the entire existence of Brazil as a nation, that country would have seen only a handful of years where the state enjoyed any degree of sovereignty in its Governance – and eight of those were under Lula’s first two terms.