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BRAZIL QUESTIONS SEPT 11 STORY; THE CFR FREAKS OUT Posted By: Rosalinda Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2002, 10:52 p.m. [Source: Folha OnLine, Sept 14; "Anti-Americanism in Brazil," by Kenneth Maxwell, in Spring 2002 issue (#9), {Correspondence: An International Review of Culture and Society} on CFR website] SEPT. 11 ATTACKS MAY HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT BY THE "AMERICAN RIGHTWING" SEEKING WORLD DOMINATION, IN A "REICHSTAG FIRE" REPLAY, BRAZILIAN ECONOMIST CELSO FURTADO WARNED right after the attacks. Furtado is one of Brazil's most famous economists, and a close buddy of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (they roomed together in Paris for awhile in the 1970's). {Folha OnLine} published its interview with Furtado on Sept. 14. Furtado's argument was angrily cited in a recent piece by the Council on Foreign Relation's Kenneth Maxwell. Furtado told {Folha} that one hypothesis, which many will come to, is that behind the attacks were "very-well organized people of the American Right. To organize an operation of this breadth, with this fantastic synchronization... leads one to think of someone within the United States, an internal organization." The American Right wants the world to return to a new Cold War, and could use Sept. 11 to accomplish that. A Cold War against "undefined social movements, [and] against marginalized countries." If they prevail, this will mean that the United States will go for the Free Trade Accord of the Americas, and "there will not be the least space for Latin America to develop on its own." Furtado told {Folha} he did not foresee a Third World War developing, but rather a "hardline policy with respect to Third World countries," which will provoke new types of conflict and "generalized terrorism," in which the "grievous situation" suffered today by Africa, which has been totally marginalized, could spread throughout the world. The situation would be much worse, if the attacks were planned by the American Right, and not extremist Islamic groups, he commented. A domestic enemy would have to be very powerful. "The fact that something like this could arise within the United States, with the power and the resources which they have, could be a very big challenge to humanity. This would reproduce the Reichstag [Fire], in Germany, which created Hitler. The Parliament was burned by the Right, which blamed the Left." [Source: as cited above] KENNETH MAXWELL, DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS' LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, GOES AFTER BRAZIL AS "ANTI-AMERICAN," and not onboard the U.S.' post-Sept. 11 plans. Maxwell's nasty article, published in the just-released issue of the CFR's semi-annual publication, {Correspondence}, on the theme, "The World & Terrorism: What the U.S. Media Missed," reflects the hysteria growing in Anglo-American circles over the danger that Brazil might break with their globalization empire. Maxwell claims Brazilians such as Celso Furtado are "blaming the victim," when Furtado "suggested in one of Brazil's most influential newspapers that...a more plausible explanation... for this disaster was a provocation carried out by the American far right to justify a takeover," in an act comparable "to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany." Some in the U.S. argued that the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil should have been recalled for consultations, after President Fernando Henrique Cardoso told the French Assembly in mid-October that "barbarism is not only the cowardliness of terrorism, but also the intolerance or the imposition of unilateral policies on a global scale." The U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela was recalled, when its "populist" President Hugo Chavez said "much the same thing," he wrote. Maxwell lumps what Furtado and Cardoso said, as of a piece with the crazed remarks of psycho Liberation Theology guru Leonardo Boff, that he was sorry that only one plane, and not 25 such planes, hit the Pentagon. And he complains that polls showed that 79% of Brazilian "unequivocally" opposed any U.S. military attack against countries that hosted those responsible for Sept. 11 attacks, and 78% opposed any Brazilian military participation in any U.S. armed response. "So much for Hemispheric solidarity. And remember that this is not Saudi Arabia --mullahs do not set the cultural tone here," Maxwell writes. |
