[rad-green] MSM Adamantly Avoids the Word ‘Coup ’ in Bolivia Coverage

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/12/msm-adamantly-avoids-the-word-coup-in-bolivia-coverage/

*Consortium News           November 12, 2019*

MSM Adamantly Avoids the Word ‘Coup’ in Bolivia Coverage

*As usual, the mass media’s reporting on this story is in full alignment
with the U.S. State Department.*

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*By Caitlin Johnstone*
*CaitlinJohnstone.com <https://caitlinjohnstone.com/>*

*There has been a military coup
<https://twitter.com/MarkWeisbrot/status/1193644006238015488> in Bolivia
backed by violent right-wing  rioters
<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1193696946961211393?s=20> and the
U.S. government
<https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1193643567622885382>, but you’d
hardly know this from any of the mainstream media headlines.*

“Bolivian President Evo Morales steps down following accusations of
election fraud” proclaims
<https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/10/americas/bolivia-new-election-audit/index.html>
 CNN.

“Bolivia’s Morales resigns amid scathing election report, rising protests”
reports
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/bolivia-to-hold-new-elections-after-protests-and-international-criticism/2019/11/10/4778e842-03b2-11ea-ac12-3325d49eacaa_story.html>
 *The Washington Post*.

“Bolivian Leader Evo Morales Steps Down” says
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/10/world/americas/evo-morales-bolivia.html>
 *The New York Times*.

“Bolivian President Evo Morales resigns amid fraud poll protests” declares
<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50370013> the BBC.

“President of Bolivia steps down amid allegations of election rigging” we
are informed
<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/10/bolivia-hold-fresh-elections-damning-report-vote-rigging/>
 by *Telegraph*.

“Bolivia’s President Morales resigns after backlash to disputed election”
says
<https://www.smh.com.au/world/south-america/bolivia-s-president-morales-calls-fresh-elections-as-protests-escalate-20191111-p5399h.html>
 the *Sydney Morning Herald*.

So, there you have it. The indigenous leader of a socialist South American
government which has successfully lifted masses of people out of crushing
poverty <https://twitter.com/sunraysunray/status/1193637264691286019>,
which happens to control the world’s largest reserves of lithium
<https://www.dw.com/en/bolivias-evo-morales-plans-lithium-mining-offensive/a-39727810>
(which
may one day replace oil as a crucial energy resource due to its use in
powering smartphones, laptops, hybrid and electric cars), which has an
extensive
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2008/11/18/orchestrating-a-civic-coup-in-bolivia/>
 and well-documented
<https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/bolivian-democracy-vs-united-states/> history
of being targeted for regime change
<http://inthesetimes.com/article/3562/recruiting_spies_in_the_peace_corps> by
the U.S. government
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Audios-Linking-Civic-Ex-Military-and-US-in-Coup-Plans-20191105-0001.html>,
simply stepped down due to some sort of scandal involving a “disputed
election.” Nothing to do with the fact that right-wing mobs had been
terrorizing
this leader’s family
<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1193579435309568001>, or the fact
that the nation’s military  literally commanded him to step down
<https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1193633310729277440> and
are now currently
searching for him to arrest him
<https://twitter.com/evagolinger/status/1193704121565696000>, leading to
ousted government officials being rounded up and held captive by soldiers
wearing masks <https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1193680302931107841>.

All perfectly normal and not suspicious at all.

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As is usual
<https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-to-make-sense-of-foreign-protests-conflicts-and-uprisings-1ecb7fa42ba4>,
mass media’s reporting on this story is in full alignment with the U.S.
State Department, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also advancing the
“disputed election” line in a tweet
<https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1193600452849475584?s=20> shortly
before the forced resignation of Morales. Pompeo cited the evidence-free
and discredited
<https://twitter.com/MarkWeisbrot/status/1193644001783623683> allegation of
suspicious vote tallies during Morales’s re-election last month from the
Washington-based
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States> Organization
of American States (OAS). As Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic &
Policy Research explains in a recent article for *The Nation*
<https://www.thenation.com/article/bolivia-election-oas/>, the OAS receives
60 percent of its funding from Washington, which gives the U.S. tremendous
leverage over the supposedly neutral and international body. This ties in
interestingly with what we discussed the other day
<https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-usas-history-of-controlling-the-opcw-to-promote-regime-change-7a965bbe78c6>
about
Washington’s known history of using its disproportionate financial support
for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as leverage to
force that supposedly neutral and international body to comply with U.S.
agendas.

The field of narrative management keeps making more and more advances.

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The U.S.-centralized empire just keeps throwing coup attempts at unabsorbed
governments until they stick. The coup in Venezuela failed in 2002 and
again in 2019, but they’ll just keep attempting them until one takes hold.
A kickboxer throws strikes in combinations with the understanding that most
attacks will miss or do minimal damage against a trained opponent, but
eventually one will get through and score the knockout blow. Imperialist
regime change agendas employ the same punches-in-bunches philosophy: just
keep attacking and undermining at every possible turn, and eventually
something will stick.

And the empire can afford to do this. When you have all the power and
resources, you can bide your time, knowing that if the current attempt at
toppling the government in a sovereign nation fails, there’s always
tomorrow.

At a United Nations Security Council meeting last year, Morales summed up
the true nature
<https://lybio.net/evo-morales-bolivian-slams-president-trump-and-us-not-interested-in-democracy/speeches/>
of
America’s role in the world very accurately, and, it turns out, very
presciently.

“I would like to say to you, frankly and openly here, that in no way is the
United States interested in upholding democracy,” Morales said. “If such
were the case it would not have financed coups d’etat and supported
dictators. It would not have threatened with military intervention
democratically elected governments as it has done with Venezuela. The
United States could not care less about human rights or justice. If this
were the case, it would have signed the international conventions and
treaties that have protected human rights. It would not have threatened the
investigation mechanism of the International Criminal Court, nor would it
promote the use of torture, nor would it have walked away from the Human
Rights Council. And nor would it have separated migrant children from their
families, nor put them in cages.”

“The United States is not interested in multilateralism,” Morales
continued. “If it were interested in multilateralism it would not have
withdrawn from the Paris Agreement or given the cold shoulder to the global
compact on migration, it would not have launched unilateral attacks, nor
have taken decisions such as illegally declaring Jerusalem to be the
capital of Israel. This contempt for multilateralism is motivated by the
thirst of the United States for political control and for the seizing of
natural resources.”

“Each time that the United States invades nations, launches missiles, or
finances regime change, it does so behind a propaganda campaign which
incessantly repeats the message that it is acting in the course of justice,
freedom and democracy, in the cause of human rights or for humanitarian
reasons,” Morales also said.

“The responsibility of our generation is to hand over a fairer and more
secure world to the following generation,” Morales concluded. “We will only
achieve this dream if we work together to consolidate a multipolar world, a
world with common rules that are respected by and defended from all the
threats ranged against the United Nations.”

Indeed, the only reason the U.S. is able to wage its endless campaign of
regime change agendas against unabsorbed governments is because the
unipolar world order it rules has allowed it the power, resources and
leisure to do so. A multipolar world would enable the citizenry of this
planet to have a say in what happens to them in a way that is not dictated
by a few sociopaths in and around Washington, DC. A multipolar world is to
democracy as a unipolar world is to monarchy. The citizens of the world
should oppose this unipolarity.

*Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper who
publishes regularly **at Medium* <https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone>*.
Follow her work on **Facebook* <https://www.facebook.com/CaitlinAJohnstone/>
*, **Twitter* <https://twitter.com/caitoz>*, or her **website*
<http://caitlinjohnstone.com/>*. **She has a **podcast*
<https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue>* and a new book **“**Woke: A Field
Guide for Utopia Preppers*
<https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Field-Guide-Utopia-Preppers/dp/064823455X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8>
*.”*

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