{"id":17331,"date":"2012-11-12T21:23:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T20:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=17331"},"modified":"2012-11-12T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T20:23:26","slug":"argentina-unrest-brought-to-you-by-goldman-sachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/argentina-unrest-brought-to-you-by-goldman-sachs\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina unrest brought to you by Goldman Sachs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Cartalucci,\u00a0Land Destroyer Report<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n

The\u00a0US-engineered \u201cArab Spring<\/a>\u201d brought us the \u201cApril 6 Youth Movement<\/a>\u201d in Egypt, run by Wall Street-backed\u00a0Mohammed ElBaradei<\/a>\u00a0in coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood, the \u201cFebruary 17 Revolution,\u201d consisting of Al Qaeda terrorists of the\u00a0Libyan Islamic Fighting Group<\/a>\u00a0in Libya, and now Argentina has the \u201c8N,\u201d or \u201cNovember 8\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 movement working in coordination with foreign-owned Argentinian media group, \u201cClar\u00c3\u00adn.\u201d Clarin has been\u00a0enthusiastically supporting the protesters<\/a>\u00a0and laying the rhetorical groundwork justifying their street presence.<\/p>\n

The Guardian reported in their article, \u201cArgentina protests: up to half a million rally against Fern\u00c3\u00a1ndez de Kirchner<\/a>,\u201d that (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Word of the demonstration spread through social networks. Many organisers remain anonymous, but Mariana Torres, administrator of the Facebook page El Anti-K, one of the most active in calling for the rally, said she was delighted: \u201cIt was a true feast for democracy.\u201d<\/em>
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\n<\/em>There was no single cause of discontent. Many in the middle class are angry at the highest inflation in a decade, estimated at a yearly 25% by private economists, currency controls that have created a black market in dollars, and one of the slowest economic growth rates in Latin America.<\/em>
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\n<\/em>Banners and chants also took aim at recent corruption cases and Fern\u00c3\u00a1ndez\u2019s efforts to limit the power of big newspaper and TV conglomerates.\u00a0Clar\u00c3\u00adn, the country\u2019s most powerful media group, has stepped up its criticism of the government before the introduction on 7 December of a law that will weaken its empire.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nMention of the \u201cEl Anti-K\u201d Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0by the Guardian is interesting for two reasons. First, Mariana Torres and collaborator Marcelo Moran who created the page, have made the unlikely and unqualified claim\u00a0that they possess no affiliations whatsoever<\/a>\u00a0with any political organization. The level of support the protests have received from special interests within Argentina\u00a0and abroad<\/a>\u00a0alone raise serious concerns regarding the veracity of \u201cEl Anti-K\u2019s\u201d claims.<\/p>\n

Second, while the Guardian attempts to portray \u201cEl Anti-K\u201d as a separate entity from Clarin, the page itself is riddled with suspicious defenders of Clarin, with one comment even reading (translated roughly from Spanish):<\/p>\n

Clar\u00c3\u00adn is a company and as a company is defined is precisely to unite human effort and capital to obtain a benefit. If this is within the law, we who bought their products or services should shut up or find another alternative. The Kristina government is the one who uses our money that we pay (in taxes), then steals it and distributes it for its own interests.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While surely any government is guilty of taking from the people their hard earned cash and misappropriating it in a variety of ways \u2014 to somehow claim that Clarin is simply an honest business operating within the law to \u201cunite human effort and capital to obtain benefit,\u201d and that its own unwarranted influence is not a factor, is naive at best. Just how much unwarranted influence does Clarin have to draw from? It is backed by one of the largest corporate-financial institutions on Earth, Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n

\"\"And as illustrated throughout the duration of the US-engineered \u201cArab Spring,\u201d a corporate-financial institution like Goldman Sachs is not a single entity operating on its own, but part of\u00a0a larger cartel of corporate-financier interests<\/a>, who do not secretly plot in smoke-filled board rooms their agenda, but fund well-known policy think-tanks like the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the American Enterprise Institute, and the International Crisis Group (ICG). These think-tanks in turn produce policy that is executed by Western politicians, and talking points which are sold to the public through the vast Western corporate media as well as local outfits like the Clarin Group in Argentina.<\/p>\n

US government-funded fronts like the\u00a0National Endowment for Democracy<\/a>, Freedom House, and George Soros\u2019 Open Society build up opposition groups inside targeted nations, at times directly funding groups when indigenous special interests are either incapable or disinterested in collaborating with foreign special interests.<\/p>\n

In Argentina it is clear that indigenous special interests are linked with Western designs \u2014 just as they are in Venezuela, and\u00a0a nearly identical campaign<\/a>\u00a0to undermine both nations is underway.<\/p>\n

There is a Real Opposition in Argentina.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And while the current government of Argentina is an obstacle for foreign interests, it is by no means perfect. According to readers from Argentina, there are legitimate opposition groups without ties to foreign interests, or the protesters who recently took to the streets, and in fact, are vehemently opposed to foreign meddling in their country. They have enumerated grievances against the government of President Cristina Kirchner, but they are poorly covered by local and international media.<\/p>\n

It would benefit these groups immensely if they exposed the current protests for what they are, and instead of holding their own protests, began pursuing a program of pragmatic solutions to address their grievances.<\/p>\n

The governments of both Venezuela and Argentina do employ populism. If they did not, a Western proxy-candidate would move in and use populism to build a pro-West \u201cpeople\u2019s movement\u201d as an unassailable voting bloc, just as US-backed Thaksin Shinawatra\u00a0has been doing in Thailand<\/a>. Populism is a socioeconomic tool, and only as good or as bad as the people wielding it. And like any tool, overuse has its consequences.<\/p>\n

The tension in Argentina is produced by the benefits of populism reaching their limitations in the face of external pressure, sanctions, and attempts at destabilization both political and economic. Just as has been\u00a0pointed out in Venezuela<\/a>\u00a0after recent elections,\u00a0more permanent solutions must be explored<\/a>, and genuine opposition groups have an opportunity to lead the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Cartalucci,\u00a0Land Destroyer Report\u00a0| The\u00a0US-engineered \u201cArab Spring\u201d brought us the \u201cApril 6 Youth Movement\u201d in Egypt, run by Wall Street-backed\u00a0Mohammed ElBaradei\u00a0in coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood, the \u201cFebruary 17 Revolution,\u201d consisting of Al Qaeda terrorists of the\u00a0Libyan Islamic Fighting Group\u00a0in Libya, and now Argentina has the \u201c8N,\u201d or \u201cNovember 8\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 movement working in coordination with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}