The Amazon Is Ours

This is an excerpt from a Consortium News show. This segment presents a discussion between Pepe Escobar and Joe Lauria, the editor in chief of Consortium News. Pepe managed to get an interview with Lula in fascist Brazil! That's astonishing. The entire discussion with Pepe, who also talked about his dinner with Dilma Rousseff, a former President of Brazil who was removed in a soft coup, is very interesting. It seems that the generals who actually run Brazil aren't keen on Jair Bolsonaro and therefore may engineer his ouster. What happens after that won't be good either, but perhaps Lula can return to politics. I don't think that Lula is perfect, as does Escobar, but he would be so much better than the current fascist, Bolsonaro, or rule by the generals. Pepe talked a bit about how Lula was undone and he tells us about Lula's own thoughts on that, which seem to be not developed.

The coup-making machinery, I would have thought, is not mysterious or unknown, at this point, since having been explained by many, including Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their very important two volume "The Political Economy Of Human Rights." The US bribes officers in the police and military. They train them, often bringing them to the US. They are given American weaponry and tech and become reliant on Americans in that way. They are indoctrinated while in the US and then go back to their home countries where, like vampires, they infect others and destroy, eventually, their own government in a US directed and/or supported coup. Escobar has some criticism of the leaders of the workers organizations in Brazil who he notes lacked, and still lack, analytical skills (intelligence), but I never heard anything in the long discussion that he had with Joe to indicate that he understands the basics of coup making that I just described. And yet he understands color revolutions.

What's to think about Lula? A targetted State, one that whose leader is trying to protect his people and natural resources from invaders, would do two things for sure: 1. clamp down on private security, which has shown itself time and again to be a threat to national security and 2. pass laws barring anyone from membership in the military or police forces who gets training from foreign entities like the US and Israel. And educate your people, not just with formal education but with real life education!!!!

This video will be attached to my blog post titled "Professional Scam Artists - part 70" - https://arrby.wordpress.com/2019/09/08/professional-scam-artists-part-70/