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. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45561.htm

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.

Brazil's financial openness made Brazil an easy target to attack. One might hope that Vladimir Putin would take note of the cost of "economic openness." Putin is a careful and thoughtful leader of Russia, but he is not an economist. He has confidence in neoliberal Elvira Nabiulina, Washington's choice to head the Russian central bank. Nabiulina is unfamiliar with Modern Monetary Theory, and her commitment to "economic openness" leaves the Russian economy as exposed as Brazil's to Washington destabilization. Nabiuina believes that the assault on the ruble is due to impersonal "global market forces," not to Washington's financial clout.