BRIAN BERLETIC—Long before headline grabbing protests, color revolutions, armed conflicts and even war, the US spends years laying the groundwork to politically capture a targeted nation. Part of this process involved building up cadres of indoctrinated young people through fellowships and scholarships who eventually work their way into a targeted nation’s media, political system, and academia. The US maintains a large number of programs including its various “Young Leaders Initiatives” folding young people into Western personal and professional networks as well as providing funding for starting pro Western political, media, and educational organizations. These cadres eagerly serve Western interests at the expense of their own nation’s sovereignty and best interests as a means of maintaining their place within the personal and professional networks they were included in through such “exchanges.” Nations can combat this interference by creating their own pipelines through sovereign educational systems, producing journalists, political leaders, administrators and professors who work for their own nation’s best interests, culture, and values.
COLOR REVOLUTIONS
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EDITOR—Guest Anya Parampil (The Grayzone) details the ways the US empire has long tried to grab Venezuela’s natural riches, especially its oil, the largest deposit of oil in the world, surpassing even Saudi Arabia. Parampil explains how Venezuela has resisted the US empire’s coups, sanctions, and other naked attempts at stealing her wealth, something bluntly admitted by Trump, whose government also recognised a ridiculous puppet, CIA-managed “true president of Venezuela,” one Juan Guaido, largely unknown and never elected by the Venezuelan people. Fortunately, the worst seems to be over, and Venezuela under Maduro is gradually emerging from the crisis, more determined than ever to defeat the imperialist attacks.
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LARRY JOHNSON—It may be that the West, stupidly in my view, sees this as a baited trap to lure Russia to intervene if the color revolution picks up steam. I believe that Russia, in light of its failure to respond to the Maidan revolution in 2014, is not going to sit passively and see how things work out. At a minimum, Russia’s intelligence service is probably passing information to its intelligence counterparts in Tbilisi about the identities of foreign operators working to manufacture chaos and the source of the funds pouring into Georgia.
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BRIAN BERLETIC—This startling admission exposes the US government as deeply involved in interfering in and subverting the political independence of not one, but multiple, nations in Eastern Europe. The same article admits that the US government achieves this through funds distributed by the National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) many subsidiaries, (NED is a CIA-created and controlled “NGO”), including the International Republican Institute (IRI), National Democratic Institute (NDI), and Freedom House. It also mentions adjacent private foundations like George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
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IMPERIALISM: DECADENT PARASITIC AND DOOMED WITH JOTI BRAR EPISODE 11 – WHY IS THE EMPIRE CRASHING?
14 minutes readEDITOR—Garland and Joti analyse the current historical juncture, essentially but the latest and gravest global structural crisis of capitalism, arguing that helping to stabilise the system now is only to prolong the agony of 99% of humanity, and, equally important, increase the risk of seeing the entire planet go up in nuclear flames as a result of some desperate provocation by the hypocritical oligarchic capitalist elites concentrated in the “collective West”. The “collective West values’ paradigm”—grounded in unipolar supremacism and exploitation— is over. It has reached the end of its political, scientific and economic line. As heroic Russia has finally demonstrated, it lacks the capability to impose its will on other nations by military force. The US and its vassals—as the cases of Ukraine, Palestine, Taiwan and other theaters of manufactured conflict and horrendous crimes clearly show—are now completely devoid of moral legitimacy.