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On 3/20/14 10:15 AM, Richard Fidler wrote:
Right-wingers with a left-wing guise
Raúl Zibechi
ALAI AMLAT-en, 19/03/2014.- Recent mass demonstrations, instigated by
the right-wing in a variety of countries, indicate their capacity to
co-opt symbols that they used to scorn, to the confusion of many on the
left.
This piece plagiarized Tony Carlucci.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-engineered-arab-spring-the-ngo-raids-in-egypt/28433
The US Engineered “Arab Spring”: The NGO Raids in Egypt
By Tony Cartalucci
Global Research, December 31, 2011
The LA Times reported, “Egypt raids foreign organizations’ offices in
crackdown. Three U.S. groups are among those raided. Activists say the
army is using the ruse of foreign intervention to stoke nationalism and
deflect criticism of abuses.”
….
However, it is no “ruse” as the US-funded “activists” claim. And while
the LA Times denies its readership a documented back-story either
confirming or denying “activist claims,” understanding the US role in
funding sedition in Egypt is essential to understanding why not only are
the raids of NGOs justified, but an absolute necessity to protect both
Egyptian national sovereignty and international stability.
Documented Back-Story of the US-Engineered “Arab Spring” in Egypt
In January of 2011, we were told that “spontaneous,” “indigenous”
uprising had begun sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, including
Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt, in what was hailed as the “Arab Spring.” It would
be almost four months before the corporate-media would admit that the US
had been behind the uprisings and that they were anything but
“spontaneous,” or “indigenous.” In an April 2011 article published by
the New York Times titled, “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings,”
it was stated:
“A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the
revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth
Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots
activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training
and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute,
the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human
rights organization based in Washington.”
The article would also add, regarding the US National Endowment for
Democracy (NED):
“The Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated
with the Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by
Congress and are financed through the National Endowment for Democracy,
which was set up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in
developing nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million
annually from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money
from the American government, mainly from the State Department. ”
It is hardly a speculative theory then, that the uprisings were part of
an immense geopolitical campaign conceived in the West and carried out
through its proxies with the assistance of disingenuous organizations
including NED, NDI, IRI, and Freedom House and the stable of NGOs they
maintain throughout the world. Preparations for the “Arab Spring” began
not as unrest had already begun, but years before the first “fist” was
raised, and within seminar rooms in D.C. and New York, US-funded
training facilities in Serbia, and camps held in neighboring countries,
not within the Arab World itself.
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