An Excellent, To-The-Point Russian Assessment of the Bolivian Coup — Col. Cassad

The events effectively used the Venezuela blueprint – street protests in major cities by the right-wing, attacks on ruling party activists, denial of legitimacy by the US & Co, pressure on the army to end support for Morales. Using the OAS to delegitimise Morales, he was proposed to leave for Mexico. As a result, what did not work in Venezuela, where all this instrumentation, including the president appointed by Washington, was designed to overthrow Maduro, as a whole worked in Bolivia, allowing to overthrow the president, who in democratic elections gained 600,000 votes more than his opponent.

De facto, it’s a banal colour coup, like the Ukrainian coup....

Summary analysis follows.

Anti-Empire
An Excellent, To-The-Point Russian Assessment of the Bolivian Coup

Col. Cassad

A more detailed analysis

Counterpunch
Bolivia and Venezuela: Two Countries, But Same Hybrid War
Nino Pagliccia

Robert Stevens — British Army against Corbyn! Imperialism needs to Destroy Democracy in the West

Forget the Deep State. There's talk of a military coup in the case of  a leftist leader being elected. No, we are not talking about Venezuela. Rather Britain.

This is not a joke either. It's actually being floated seriously. This is the way that the unthinkable gets normalized. It's a tactic.

Written by Paul Carter for the de facto house organ of the Conservative Party, the article makes clear that discussions on such a course of action in the event of a Labour victory under Corbyn are ongoing.

The article begins by noting, “Only one week after Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, a serving general of the Army warned of a direct and public challenge if a future Prime Minister Corbyn jeopardised the country’s security: ‘The army wouldn’t stand for it … people would use whatever means possible, fair or foul, to prevent that.’”…

Carter refers to an article published by the Sunday Times in September 2015, after Corbyn had routed his Blairite leadership opponent with the backing of hundreds of thousands of Labour members and supporters. The newspaper cited an anonymous “senior serving general” that in the event of Corbyn becoming prime minister, there would be “the very real prospect” of “a mutiny.” Elements within the military would be prepared to use “whatever means possible, fair or foul,” the officer declared. He warned, “ You would see a major break in convention with senior generals directly and publicly challenging Corbyn over vital important policy decisions such as Trident , pulling out of NATO and any plans to emasculate and shrink the size of the armed forces.”...

At the time, a Ministry of Defence source said that it was unacceptable for a serving officer to make political comments about a potential “future government,” but rejected mounting any investigation, claiming there were too many generals to investigate....

Makes the US look good. There may be a soft coup in the works, but at least no one has floated the ideal of a hard coup — yet anyway.

Robert Stevens shows that this is not a aberration in British history and cites evidence from the 1960-170's labor unrest and rise of Harold Wilson to power.

Defend Democracy Press
British Army against Corbyn! Imperialism needs to Destroy Democracy in the West

Robert Stevens
crossposted from WSWS, Military coup against a Corbyn Labour government discussed by Daily Telegraph

Ted Snider — What's Happening in Brazil? Exactly What the Coup Leaders Said Would Happen

The Brazilian coup that ousted elected Workers' Party President Dilma Rousseff was a brazen ploy to implement a right-wing economic plan based on austerity, privatization and deregulation. The events unfolding in Brazil today are consistent with the stated intentions of the coup leaders -- tacitly approved by the US.…

The soft coup that removed Dilma was reminiscent of the military coup that removed  João Goulart in 1962 under the aegis of the United States.

In Who Rules the World, Noam Chomsky explains that in 1962, President John F. Kennedy made the policy decision to transform the militaries of Latin America from defending against external forces to "internal security" or, as Chomsky puts it, "war against the domestic population, if they raised their heads." ...

The evidence that the US cooperated in the coup that removed Goulart from power is solid.... President Lyndon B. Johnson gave Under Secretary of State George Ball and Assistant Secretary for Latin America Thomas Mann the green light to participate in the coup: "I think we ought to take every step that we can, be prepared to do everything that we need to do."

The coup against Dilma was a soft coup engineered by the opposition.

How do we know that the maneuverings that removed Dilma Rousseff from power were a coup dressed in the disguise of parliamentary democracy? Because the coup leaders have told us so. Twice now.... 

Truthout
What's Happening in Brazil? Exactly What the Coup Leaders Said Would Happen

Ted Snider

Alexander Mercouris — The Coup in Turkey: First Thoughts (UPDATED)

Looks like a Kemalist coup, as in Kemal Ataturk.

The Duran
The Coup in Turkey: First Thoughts

Alexander Mercouris

See also

Coup in Turkey? No Real Surprise…

Peter Lavelle

UPDATE:

Follow #Turkey for latest. Beware, lots of confusion and possible disinformation. 

Chris Marsden — The UK military, Jeremy Corbyn and the threat of dictatorship

Oh my!

WSWS
The UK military, Jeremy Corbyn and the threat of dictatorship

Chris Marsden
ht Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism

See also

Russia Insider
Saakashvili's Foiled Coup Plot - Breaking It Down

Henry Kamens

Belen Fernandez — The Honduran meltdown: Made in USA

Six years after the coup in Honduras, it's time for another history lesson. 

Al Jazeera | Opinion
The Honduran meltdown: Made in USA

Belen Fernandez, the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, published by Verso, and a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine