Can Coups Defeat Elected
Governments?
Bt James Petras
Never in the history of the United States, has a President and Supreme Court Judge openly advocated the overthrow of a Presidential candidate. Never has the entire mass media engaged in a round-the-clock one-sided, propaganda war to discredit a Presidential candidate by systematically ignoring or distorting the central socio-economic issues of their opposition.
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INTRODUCTION
August 11, 2016
"Information Clearing
House" - Washington has organized a systematic, global, no holds
barred campaign to oust Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump from the
electoral process. The virulent anti-Trump animus, the methods, goals and mass
media resemble authoritarian regimes preparing to overthrow political
adversaries.
Comparable propaganda efforts led to political coups in Chile
in 1973, Brazil 1964, and Venezuela in 2002. The anti-Trump forces
include both political parties, a Supreme Court judge, Wall Street bankers,
journalists and editorialist of all the major media outlets and the leading
military and intelligence spokespeople.
Washington’s forcible and illegal ouster of Trump is part and
parcel of a world-wide campaign to overthrow leaders and regimes which raise
questions about aspects of the imperial policies of the US and EU. .. We
will proceed to analyze the politics of the anti-Trump elite, the points of
confrontation and propaganda, as a prelude to the drive to oust opposition in
Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
THE ANTI-TRUMP COUP
Never in the history of
the United States, has a President and Supreme Court Judge openly advocated the
overthrow of a Presidential candidate. Never has the entire mass media engaged
in a round-the-clock one-sided, propaganda war to discredit a Presidential
candidate by systematically ignoring or distorting the central socio-economic
issues of their opposition.
The call for the ouster of a freely elected candidate is
nothing more or less than a coup d’état.
Leading television
networks and columnists demand that the elections be annulled, following the
lead of the President and prominent Republican and Democratic Congressional and
Party leaders.
In other words, the political elite openly rejects democratic
electoral processes in favor of authoritarian manipulation and deception.
The authoritarian elite relies on magnifying tertiary, questionable personal
judgement calls to mobilize coup backers.
They systematically
avoid the core economic and political issues which candidate Trump has raised -
and attracted mass support - which challenge fundamental policies backed by the
two Party elites.
THE ROOTS OF THE ANTI-TRUMP COUP
Trump has raised several key issues which challenge the
Democratic and Republican elite.
Trump has drawn mass support and won elections and public
opinion polls by:
(1) rejecting
the free trade agreements which has led major multinationals to relocate abroad
and disinvest in well-paying industrial jobs in the US
(2) calling
for large scale public investment projects to rebuild the US industrial
economy, challenging the primacy of financial capital.
(3) opposing the revival of a Cold
War with Russia and China and promoting greater economic co-operation and
negotiations.
(4) rejecting
US support for NATO’s military build-up in Europe and intervention in Syria,
North Africa and Afghanistan.
(5) questioning
the importation of immigrant labor which lowers job opportunities and wages for
local citizens.
My comment, sorry this interruption
[[ During the war of words (primaries) it doesn’t matter the
promises the oligarchy made to people. Once in power, the dynamic of
politics & economics is a totally separated business, independent from the
dynamic of elections. After Nov 4 there will be a new actor that plays a decisive role
in government: the deep state, in which big corp have the upper
hand. All that big corp wants before and after elections is “a separation of powers” as the Law granted.
They will avoid by all means that the winner of the Executive get also the Senate.
If happens , they will have the House and Governors to manipulate their private
interest. The elected President & its executives are only watchmen of the
neoliberal rules. If re-elected , the Presid
can have the upper hand, if manage to negotiate Fed Institutions with the other
players, otherwise he will continue be the seller of weapons to India or
elsewhere. When Obama got re-elected he got real executive power , while Hillary took personal-private
advantage of it .. She broke the Law and Obama overlooked. .. Love for
the party? .. Perhaps. Hillary made a
thread : if OB do not support me in the Libya affair .. other among the Dems will fall. The problem now
is that this nasty type of system doesn’t work anymore at economic &
political level. We got a cul d’sac and
we have to go back to our Nation and re-organize our system, without pretending
hegemony in the new post-neoliberal world system. Meaning: for the benefit of our
Nation and world system: Hillary has to be stopped. The whole macro system have
to be re-organized, and Hillary only promise wars and more chaos. At world
level the whole IMF and part of the UN has to be re-organized asap. A single
currency has to be negotiated for banking savings and international trade. Otherwise the current chaos will continue eroding our economy & world banking system. All we doing now is manufacturing currencies
from the thin air. This has lead our economy to the current stagnation and this
is about to implode. If we really care for our dollar now is the time to put in
the basked to create the new world currency. Whatever is promised
during election have to match these trends at world level. Otherwise the electoral
system will continue having not sense, besides being rigged and prompt to
frauds & dishonesty. While Trump is connecting his promises to the
macro-system, he will have electoral support, but nothing grants that he or she
enacted their promises in real politics. The election with both of them leading
the contest will be the continuation of the
war of words by other means, but in the same context and in favor of status quo .. with the old players
.. There is only
one problem to this panorama:
there is a new actor, is the politicized masses ready to explode with the support from
the soldiers who survive in the battle fields. What the rulers are
going to do? .. continue militarizing the police? .. or privatizing & mercenarizing them? .. If happens .. the arms will go to
the people. What else? Disarming the civilian
population? . We try it & we got the
opposite result.. What else? Vandalizing
houses with the pretext of looking for arms? .. That is also illegal. If the rulers break the
Laws nobody owes obedience to them .]]
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Continue the art: THE ROOTS OF THE ANTI-TRUMP COUP
The anti-Trump elite systematically avoid debating these
issues; instead they distort the substance of the policies. .. Instead of discussing the job benefits
which will result from ending sanctions with Russia, the coupsters screech that
‘Trump supports Putin, the terrorist’.
Instead of discussing the need to redirect investment inward
to create US jobs, the anti-Trump junta mouth clichés that claim his critique
of globalization would ‘undermine’ the US economy.
To denigrate Trump, the Clinton/Obama junta resorts to
political scandals to cover-up mass political crimes. To distract
public attention, Clinton-Obama falsely claim that Trump is a ‘racist’, backed
by David Duke, a racist advocate of “Islamophobia”. The anti-Trump junta
promoted the US- Pakistani parents of a military war casualty as victims of
Trump’s slanders even as they rooted for Hillary Clinton, promotor of wars
against Muslim countries and author of military policies that sent thousands of
US soldiers to their grave.
Obama and Clinton are the imperial racists who bombed Libya
and Somalia and killed, wounded and displaced over 2 million sub-Saharan
Black-Africans. .. Obama and Clinton are the Islamaphobes who
bombed and killed and evicted five million Muslims in Syria and one million
Muslims in Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
In other words, Trump’s mistaken policy to restrict Muslim
immigration is a reaction to the hatred and hostility engendered by the Obama-
Clinton million-person Muslim genocide.
.. Trump’s “America First” policy is a rejection of overseas
imperial wars - seven wars under Obama-Clinton. Their militarist policies have inflated budget
deficits and degraded US living standards.
Trump’s criticism of capital and job flight has threatened
Wall Street’s billion-dollar profiteering - the most important
reason behind the bi-partisan junta’s effort to oust Trump and the working
class’s support for Trump.
By not following the bi-partisan Wall Street, war agenda,
Trump has outlined another business agenda which is incompatible with the
current structure of capitalism. In other words’ the US
authoritarian elite does not tolerate the democratic rules of the game even
when the opposition accepts the capitalist system. .. Likewise,
Washington’s quest for ‘mono-power’ extends across the globe. Capitalist
governments which decide to pursue independent foreign policies are targeted
for coups.
OBAMA-CLINTON’S
JUNTA RUNS AMOK
Washington’s proposed coup against Trump follows similar
policies directed against political leaders in Russia, Turkey, China,
Venezuela, Brazil and Syria.
Russian President Putin has been demonized by the US
propaganda media on an hourly basis for the better part of a decade. The US has backed
oligarchs and promoted economic sanctions; financed a coup in the Ukraine;
established nuclear missiles on Russia’s frontier; and launched an
arms race to undermine President Putin’s economic policies in order to provoke a coup.
Likewise, Obama-Clinton have backed successful coups in Latin
America. Coups were orchestrated in Honduras, Paraguay and more
recently in Brazil to undermine independent Presidents and to secure satellite
neo-liberal regimes. Washington presses forward to forcibly oust the
national-populist government of President Maduro in Venezuela.
Washington has escalated efforts to erode, undermine and
overthrow the government of China’s President Xi-Jinping through several
combined strategies. A military build-up of an air and sea armada in
the South China Sea and military bases in Japan, Australia and the Philippines;
separatist agitation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and among the Uyghurs; a US- Latin
American- Asia free trade agreements which excludes China.
CONCLUSION
Washington’s strategy of illegal,
violent coups to retain the delusion of empire stretches across the globe,
ranging from Trump in the US to Putin in Russia, from Erdogan in Turkey to
Maduro in Venezuela to Xi Jinping in China.
.. The conflict is between US-EU imperialism
backed by their local clients against endogenous regimes rooted in nationalist
alliances.
The top priority for the US Empire
is to undermine and destroy Trump by any means necessary. Trump already
has raised the question of ‘rigged elections’. But each elite media attack of
Trump seems to add to and strengthen his mass support and polarize the
electorate. .. As the elections
approach, will the elite confine themselves to verbal hysteria or will they
turn from verbal assassinations to the ‘other kind’?
Obama’s global coup strategy shows mixed results:
they succeeded in Brazil but were defeated in Turkey; they seized power in the
Ukraine but were defeated in Russia; they gained propaganda allies in Hong Kong
and Taiwan but suffered severe strategic economic defeats in the region as
China’s Asian trade policies advanced.
As the US elections approach, and
Obama’s pursuit of his imperial legacy collapses, we can expect greater deception
and manipulation and perhaps even frequent resort to elite-designed ‘terrorist’
assassinations.
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James
Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton
University, New York.
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