Tag: Color Revolutions

The factors drawing Putin and Xi together

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A strong sense of empathy with Russia on the part of China is only natural as it too faces predicaments such as being forced to the back foot on the issue of human rights in Xinjiang or being branded as “assertive” when it began reviving in 2015 its historical claims in the South China Sea from where they were abandoned in 1935, in response to the activities of the other littoral states.

It is an open secret that Western intelligence had a big hand in stirring up the unrest in Hong Kong. In fact, the history of US interference in China’s internal affairs to destabilize the Communist government is not new. It goes back to the Central Intelligence Agency’s covert activities in Tibet in the 1950s and early 1960s (which were at least partly responsible for triggering the 1962 China-India conflict).

The factors drawing Putin and Xi together

CD186: National Endowment for Democracy

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The National Endowment for Democracy is a private foundation – that receives millions of our tax dollars – that pays groups to work to change the governments of other countries. In this episode, hear highlights from a hearing during which the president of this creepy organization and the presidents of two organizations that it funds – which are controlled entirely by members of the Republican and Democratic parties – will give you some insight into what kind of work they are doing manipulating information and interfering in elections in other countries around the world.
— Read on congressionaldish.com/cd186-national-endowment-for-democracy/

What is the National Endowment for Democracy?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

What is the National Endowment for Democracy? Who funds it? What does it do? If we can’t answer these questions, then we can’t honestly claim to understand what’s shaping the world we live in. The National Endowment for Democracy is just one example of the kind of taxpayer-funded NGOs (non-governmental organization) and/or corporately funded think…
— Read on robertpeck.net/2019/03/13/what-is-the-national-endowment-for-democracy/

[WTF?!] US army could help Venezuela with nonviolent resistance against Maduro

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US army could help Venezuela with nonviolent resistance against Maduro: West Point prof

Social movements are notoriously decentralized, which makes power more diffuse yet consensus difficult. That works fine in Silicon Valley conference rooms, but is less compatible in downtown squares in Kiev or Cairo. “[N]onviolence isn’t magic,” as Daniel Fermin notes. “It can fail. It needs discipline, organization, clear goals, and unity of purpose.” A new book by Ivan Marovic, “The Path of Most Resistance,” echoes this point. The former Serbian youth campaigner provides a how-to manual for why nonviolent resistance needs to embrace the strategy and tactics more commonly employed by the military.

My notes:

The Maidan didn’t quite go the way the author states. Poroshenko financed the Maidan, himself, to gain popularity. The U.S. government and CIA were responsible for the snipers.

As for Maduro’s ‘colectivos,’ it’s the Opposition’s demonizing term, for the collectives.

The word ‘collective’ has different uses, but basically it’s any gathering of people that wants to resolve certain conditions that they have in common.

A good article on the ‘colectivos,’ is here.

Both Juan Guaidó, and Leopoldo Lopez, have already been trained to use Gene Sharp’s tactics to overthrow a ‘dictator’ in ‘nonviolent ways’, which was used by US-funded Otpor, to overthrow Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, in 2000. Ivan Marović was a member of Otpor. Another member, Srđa Popović, went on to start CANVAS, which worked with Stratfor to spy on activists and overthrow governments. CANVAS has been declared a terrorist group in the UAE.

At least the author acknowledges that a military intervention would be like an Iraq-style invasion or the Bay of Pigs.