{"id":20163,"date":"2016-04-22T19:06:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20163"},"modified":"2016-04-22T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:06:18","slug":"washington-launches-its-attack-against-brics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20163","title":{"rendered":"Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2016\/04\/22\/washington-launches-its-attack-against-brics-paul-craig-roberts\/\">Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.<\/p>\n<p>Washington used a federal judge to order Argentina to sacrifice its debt restructuring program in order to pay US vulture funds the full value of defaulted Argentine bonds that the vulture funds had bought for a few pennies on the dollar.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/27\/us-vulture-funds-argentina-bankruptcy\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/27\/us-vulture-funds-argentina-bankruptcy\u00a0<\/a>These vultures were called \u201ccreditors\u201d who had made \u201cloans\u201d regardless of the fact that they were not creditors and had made no loans. They were opportunists after easy money and were used by Washington to get rid of a reformist government.<\/p>\n<p>President Kirchner resisted and, thus, she had to go. Washington concocted a story that Kirchner covered up an alleged Iranian bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994. This implausible fantasy, for which there is no evidence of Iranian involvement, was fed to one of Washington\u2019s agents in the state prosecutor\u2019s office, and a dubious event of 22 years ago was used to clear Kirchner out of the way of the American looting of Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>In Brazil, Washington has used corruption insinuations to get President Rousseff impeached by the lower house. Evidence is not necessary, just allegations. It is no different from \u201cIranian nukes,\u201d Saddam Hussein\u2019s \u201cweapons of mass destruction,\u201d Assad\u2019s \u201cuse of chemical weapons,\u201d or in Rousseff\u2019s case merely insinuations. The Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, notes that Rousseff \u201chasn\u2019t been accused of anything.\u201d The American-backed elites are simply using impeachment to remove a president who they cannot defeat electorally.<\/p>\n<p>In short, this is Washington\u2019s move against the BRICS. Washington is moving to put into political power a rightwing party that Washington controls in order to terminate Brazil\u2019s growing relationships with China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff. 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