Brazil’s Revolution Starting to Reveal its True Colors [View all]
March 23, 2016
Brazils Revolution Starting to Reveal its True Colors
by Pepe Escobar
As we approach High Noon in the savage Brazilian politico-economic western, heres what is at stake following my previous piece on RT.
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 illegal phone tapping of a Lula-Dilma Rousseff conversation, which he duly leaked to corporate media and was instantly used as proof that Lula may be back in power as Chief of Staff because hes afraid of Elliott Ness.
As a crucial instance of the total information war currently at play in Brazil with the hegemonic Globo media empire and the major newspapers salivating for a white coup/regime change more than ever the shaky proof turbocharged the Rousseff impeachment drive to a whole new level.
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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 normalization 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).
Supreme Court ministers at least so far have not punished Elliott Ness for his illegal tapping of the Presidents phone and for his illegal leaking of the Lula-Rousseff conversation (theres nothing in it to implicate them in any wrongdoing, as Elliott Ness himself admitted).
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/23/brazils-revolution-starting-to-reveal-its-true-colors/