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Turkey: Media Purge Intensifies In Coup Attempt’s Wake

July 26, 2016 Staff, www.rsf.org Educate! coup, Türkiye

By Staff of RSF - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores the growing persecution of critical media in the week since the 15 July coup attempt in Turkey. With the government’s response seeming more and more like a witchhunt, journalists have been subjected to arrests, seizures of entire newspaper issues and a menacing state of emergency. “No one disputes the Turkish government’s legitimate right to defend constitutional order after this abortive coup but democracy, for which hundreds of civilians gave their lives, cannot be protected by trampling on fundamental freedoms,” said Johann Bihr, the head of RSF’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk.

Turkish Coup: Excuse For Hunt To Suppress Dissent

July 22, 2016 Isil Sariyuce and Angela Dewan, www.edition.cnn.com Educate! coup, Türkiye

By Isil Sariyuce and Angela Dewan for CNN - Istanbul (CNN)Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the nation is imposing a three-month state of emergency in the aftermath of last week's bloody coup attempt. Erdogan met Wednesday with his national security council and council of ministers, the latter of which approved the state of emergency recommendation "The purpose of the declaration of the state of emergency is, in fact, to be able to take the most efficient steps in order to remove this threat as soon as possible, which is a threat to democracy...

Turkish People Power Foils Attempted Coup

July 19, 2016 Juan Cole, www.readersupportednews.org Organize! coup, Türkiye

By Juan Cole for RSN - The poorly planned junior officers’ coup in Turkey on Friday appears to have failed as I write late Friday night, though rebel military elements still hold positions in some parts of the country, including Ankara, the capital. Their allegiances and motives are still unclear. Remarkably, among the reasons for the failure was the determined stance of the Turkish people who stood up for their democracy, even if about half of them deeply dislike President Erdogan.

Turkey’s Failed Coup Hands Erdoğan Pretext For Further Repression

July 18, 2016 Julian Sayarer, www.newstatesman.com Educate! coup, Repression, Türkiye

By Julian Sayarer for New Statesman - Turkish politics is seldom what it seems and so a coup late at night, backed with the imposing presence of military hardware, unravels to become an attempted coup come morning. Turkey will now face the prospect of yet another of its paradoxes, in which a public show of support for democracy, with people pouring onto the streets to protect an elected government, could well become the basis by which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, expands his power over the Turkish state and justifies still more of his disdain for democracy.

Three Years After Coup, Lessons Still Unlearned From Egypt’s Tragedy

July 8, 2016 Abdullah Al-Arian, www.middleeasteye.net Strategize! coup, Egypt

By Abdullah Al-Arian for MEE - Had it been allowed to continue, last Thursday would have seen Mohamed Morsi’s four-year term as president of a post-authoritarian Egypt draw to a close. Instead, last week marked the third anniversary of Morsi’s forced removal by a military coup that has reimposed a perpetual dictatorship upon 90 million citizens. The calamity of Egypt continues to unfold daily, with mounting human rights abuses, stifling of dissent, widespread corruption, economic crisis, and the consolidation of power in the hands of a new authoritarian ruler, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

On Coup Anniversary, Examining U.S. Role In Honduras

July 2, 2016 Pamela Spees, www.ccrjustice.org Educate! coup, Honduras, US Foreign Policy

By Pamela Spees for Center for Constitution Rights - Tomorrow, June 28, 2016, marks seven years since the coup d’etat in Honduras – the day that former President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the Honduran army and then flown out of the country from an air field controlled by the U.S. military. That event sent shockwaves through the region and the world and was denounced by the United Nations, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the European Union. Honduras was suspended temporarily from the OAS.

Credibility Of Brazil’s Interim President Collapses

June 5, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, Corruption, coup, Neoliberalism

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept. Brazil - It has been obvious from the start that a core objective of the impeachment of Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was to empower the actual thieves in Brasilia and enable them to impede, obstruct, and ultimately kill the ongoing Car Wash investigation (as well as to impose a neoliberal agenda of privatization and radical austerity). A mere 20 days into the seizure of power by the corruption-implicated “interim” President Michel Temer, overwhelming evidence has emerged proving that to be true: Already, two of the interim ministers in Temer’s all-white-male cabinet, including his anti-corruption minister, have been forced to resign after the emergence of secret recordings showing them plotting to obstruct that investigation (an investigation in which they, along with one-third of his cabinet, are personally implicated).

Brazil’s Anti-Corruption Minister Quits Over Leaked Recordings

May 31, 2016 Brad Brooks and Guillermo Parra-Bernal, www.reuters.com Resist! Brazil, Corruption, coup

By Brad Brooks and Guillermo Parra-Bernal for Reuters - BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s Transparency Minister Fabiano Silveira resigned on Monday after leaked recordings suggested he tried to derail a sprawling corruption probe, the latest cabinet casualty impacting interim President Michel Temer’s administration. Silveira, the man Temer tasked with fighting corruption since he took office on May 12, announced his plans to step down in a letter, according to the presidential palace’s media office. No replacement for Silveira has yet been named.

The Brazilian Coup’s Image Problem

May 28, 2016 Gianpaolo Baiocchi, www.bostonreview.net Educate! Brazil, coup, Democracy, Elections, Latin America

By Gianpaolo Baiocchi for Boston Review - Two weeks ago, after recording what was perhaps her last official address and signing a net-neutrality addendum to Brazil’s landmark 2014 Internet civil rights legislation (the Marco Civil da Internet), Dilma Rousseff was temporarily removed from the office of president of Brazil. For a period of up to six months, the Senate will deliberate on whether to remove her permanently from office or reinstate her to finish her term, depending on if she is found guilty of a “crime of responsibility” for fiscal inconsistencies in the national budget.

Brazil Minister Ousted: Secret Tape Reveals Plot To Topple President Rousseff

May 26, 2016 Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com Resist! Brazil, coup, Leak

By Jonathan Watts for The Guardian - The credibility of Brazil’s interim government was rocked on Monday when a senior minister was forced to step aside amid further revelations about the machiavellian plot to impeach president Dilma Rousseff. Just 10 days after taking office, the planning minister, Romero Jucá, announced that he would “go on leave” following the release of a secretly taped telephone conversation in which he said Rousseff needed to be removed to quash a vast corruption investigation that implicated him and other members of the country’s political elite.

Leaked Telephone Shows Removal Of Dilma Was A Coup

May 24, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, coup, Leak

By Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda for The Intercept - BRAZIL TODAY AWOKE to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual motives and participants driving the impeachment of the country’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff. The transcripts were published by the country’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, and reveal secret conversations that took place in March, just weeks before the impeachment vote in the lower house was held.

New Coup Finance Minister Promises Neo-Liberal Reforms

May 13, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Brazil, coup, Elections

By Staff of Tele Sur - Brazil’s new Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles held a press conference today, laying out the outline of a neo-liberal approach to social security and labor reform. The "most important" issues facing Brazil's economy are the level of unemployment and retirement funds, both of which related to sovereign debt. Meirelles said that the current state of the economy, which has suffered due to low oil prices, is causing international financiers to lose confidence in the Brazil government.

The Forces Behind The Attempted Coup In Brasil

April 6, 2016 Mark Weisbrot, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Brazil, coup

By Mark Weisbrot for Counter Punch - If you are following the news of political turmoil in Brazil, it may be difficult to get a grasp of what is really going on. This often happens when there is an attempted coup in the Western Hemisphere, and especially when the U.S. government has an interest in the outcome. Usually the information about that interest, and often Washington’s role, is the first casualty of the conflict. (Twenty-first century examples include Paraguay in 2012, Haiti in 2011 and 2004, Honduras in 2009,Ecuador in 2010 and Venezuela in 2002.)

Will Washington Greenlight Another Coup In Haiti?

December 18, 2015 Natalie Miller, www.fpif.org Educate! coup, Haiti, United States

By Natalie Miller for Foreign Policy In Focus - In October, Haitians went to the polls in a critical election for nearly 5,000 political positions, including the presidency. The preliminary results named Jovenèl Moïse, a member of outgoing President Michel Martelly’s party, as the frontrunner — though by a small enough margin that a runoff vote is planned for December 27th. Unfortunately, evidence of overwhelming fraud discredits these results. If the putsch is successful, Haiti could have yet another U.S.-backed president with a weak democratic mandate.

US Total Failure In Ukraine, Will The Nation Wake Up?

September 6, 2015 Patrick L. Smith, www.salon.com Educate! coup, Media, Propaganda, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

By Patrick L. Smith for Salon - It is not a matter only of countering entrenched interests—the Pentagon, the defense industries, the intelligence and national security apparatus. I conclude that the American consciousness must also sustain a certain kind of violence before we will imagine our place in the world anew. This seems to me the colonel’s thought: We failed in Ukraine “pretty much completely,” and we can learn from this to think differently. I see two major misapprehensions immediately at issue. One is the neoliberal model, arising as it does out of the Chicago School’s free-market ideology, econometrics, rational choice theory, and the drastic tilt toward mathematics and computer modeling in postwar social sciences. It strips all history, culture, tradition and human preference out of our thinking such that we can pile into Ukraine and expect to win the day. Impossible. This is the irrationality of hyper-rationality. It is a proven loser. Let the losses pile up.

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