'Corruption' and regime change VC, Communist University, 1 October 2016 In an article <http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/30/can-russia-learn-from-brazils-fate/> published this week by Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson, they begin: "William Engdahl recently explained how Washington used the corrupt Brazilian elite, which answers to Washington, to remove the duly elected President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, for representing the Brazilian people rather than the interests of Washington. "Unable to see through the propaganda of unproven charges, Brazilians acquiesced in the removal of their protector, thereby providing the world another example of the impotence of democracy. "Everyone should read Engdahl's article. He reports that part of the attack on Rousseff stemmed from Brazil's economic problems deliberately created by US credit rating agencies as part of Washington's attack to down grade Brazilian debt, which set off an attack on the Brazilian currency." It's very interesting that the Brazilians were "unable to see through the propaganda of unproven charges". It means more than just the fact that the charges were false (as Engdahl's article shows). It means more than the fact that the US used the credit rating agencies to initiate, and then to exacerbate, the many-sided crisis that they concocted for Brazil. It means that the deliberately unproven nature of the charges was what made the charges potent. The potency of "corruption" as a political scarecrow is in inverse proportion to the number of convictions. If there are zero convictions for corruption, then the potency of the corruption bogey, as propaganda, rises to infinite heights. This is where the parallel with South Africa comes in. If there were convictions, the mystery surrounding "corruption" would disappear. It could be measured, and therefore managed. Hence, for the regime-changer, it is always preferable to convict the target of something other than corruption. In the case of Dilma Rousseff, Engdahl writes that "she was impeached for the dramatic decline in the Brazilian economy" - a decline that had been manufactured by the USA. In the case of Al Capone, as the SA Treasury's "Momo" Momoniat reminded us recently on "The Justice Factor" TV show, the gangster was never convicted for being a gangster, but instead, for tax evasion. Therefore, to see "corruption" being weaponised for regime-change purposes, you should look for this indication: There are no cases. There are no arrests and no charges, and consequently there are no convictions. Nobody is being jailed for corruption. Yet there is a constant clamour about corruption. Those who point out the lack of evidence are assailed with loud accusations of "denialism". In South Africa, the most recent, very peculiar, corruption cases are already years in the past. The lack of current, material cases is a clear sign that they are being avoided. There is a policy of not having corruption cases, at the same time as the propaganda about corruption is increasing to levels never seen before. This can only be for the reasons demonstrated above in the case of Brazil. It means that the coming regime-change in South Africa is most likely going to be run along similar lines to the one that took place just over four weeks ago in Brazil. The victim will be "railroaded", and the bigger "railroaded" victim will be the country itself. William Engdahl's article on the Brazilian coup is at: http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO24Sep2016.php __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14210 (20161001) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/001201d21c22%2418e1e950%244aa5bbf0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
