“Second Revolution” Rocks Egypt
Military reneges on Wall Street mandates, gets second wave of protests aimed at them.
Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
November 21, 2011
November 21, 2011 – After playing a role Wall Street and London meddlers had hoped would translate into the Egyptian military holding the bag while corporate-fascists like those escorted through Cairo by John McCain in June 2011 filled it with Egypt’s wealth, it seems as if the Egyptian military, through the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCARF) has gotten cold feet. Perhaps through pangs of nationalism or at least a realistic appraisal of their own future, trading places with the now fully betrayed Hosni Mubarak or Muammar Qaddafi verses their best self-interests, the military, despite grandiose promises to usher in Wall Street and London’s “democratic reforms,” including the implementation of a constitution literally written by George Soros-funded think tanks, have laid these measures thoroughly, and entirely to the wayside.
With predictable exactitude, the very same protesters, led by the very same US-created April 6 youth movement and Muslim Brotherhood, have once again poured into the streets to either get the military back on the right, Wall Street/London approved track, or as Council on Foreign Relations “fellow” Steve Cook hopes, oust the military from power all together. Al Arabiya News has recently reported that the April 6 youth movement, “would stay in Tahrir Square and continue sit-ins in other cities until its demands were met, including a call for a presidential vote no later than April.” The Muslim Brotherhood has also taken a vocal lead in the protests – a move that should not surprise anyone aware of the US-backed nature of the Arab Spring, consuming nations from Tunisia to Syria and everywhere in between.
Waiting in the wings for this eventual collapse and the expedited presidential elections April 6 is “fighting for,” is US-backed Mohammed ElBaradei, another “Nobel Peace Prize” carrying imposter, along side President Barack Obama, and Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi, bent in perpetual servitude to the corporate-fascist agenda of Wall Street and London. ElBaradei has faced severe PR challenges as Egyptians and indeed people around the world learned of his deep ties to Washington despite his attempt at portraying himself as “at odds” with the West. At one point, ElBaradei, after leading the US-engineered “Arab Spring” through his native home of Egypt, had rocks hurdled at him months later, with angry mobs calling him “an American agent.”
Predictably the West came to his rescue using the now fully exhausted ploy of planting “Wikileaks” documents “revealing” just how contemptible the West saw ElBaradei in an attempt to rehabilitate his image as “anti-West” and therefore “pro-Arab” and thus more likely to be able to foist the US agenda upon Egyptians. More recently, and perhaps the most ludicrous attempt yet to paint ElBaradei as anything but an agent of the West, was when Israel accused him of being an “Iranian agent” instead. Of course, ElBaradei literally sits on the board of trustees of the same US corporate-funded think-tank, the International Crisis Group, as several of Israel’s most prominent political and financial figures including the Israeli President himself, Shimon Peres.
That April 6 was waiting at the airport in Cairo (and subsequently arrested) in 2010 for ElBaradei’s return to Egypt, after the youth movement had received training via the US State Department in New York a full two years earlier, is highly significant. April 6, along with Google’s Wael Ghonim would spend 2010 building up ElBaradei’s “National Front for Change” for the coming January 25, 2011 Egyptian revolution. As this premeditated, US-engineered unrest unfolded, many of the media organizations complicit in the US State Department’s planning of the “Arab Spring” feinted surprise and confusion claiming that these events were entirely spontaneous, triggered by neighboring unrest in Tunisia (which was also premeditated by the West years in advance) and entirely indigenous in nature.
That April 6 is now back in Tahrir Square, with their man ElBaradei still lurking in Egypt’s political underbrush bidding his time, and as violence starts all over again, it appears something has gone awry with the West’s heavy investments in the Egyptian military. The US is still in fact funding the Egyptian military, perhaps in a bid to bring out officers more willing to take short-term Western incentives at the cost of inevitable long-term consequences. It is also likely this continued funding plays as the carrot to the US State Department-funded street mobs’ stick to get the military to move forward and accept Wall Street/London mandates regarding Egypt.
Such a dichotomy of incentives and consequences are a reoccurring theme in US foreign policy and have been written about extensively by US policy makers, in particular toward Iran, where economic aid of every kind imaginable is counterbalanced with the threat of everything from fomenting street mobs against the Iranian government, to funding outright terrorism, to even unilateral first strikes against the Islamic Republic. The definitive “handbook” of overthrowing an entrenched targeted regime, Brookings’ “Which Path to Persia?” gives invaluable insight into the mechanics at work now in Egypt.
And finally, as people fret over which side to take, it should be noted that no real revolution of any kind will take place until people both understand the balance of power currently held in the world today and how to change it pragmatically rather than politically. Whether Egypt retains its sovereignty against the Wall Street-funded forces wreaking havoc throughout Cairo’s streets or not, Wall Street itself will remain intact until we see them, not Egyptian generals or street hooligans and dupes as the true enemy, and the systematic boycotting and replacing of their degenerate, global domineering system implemented in full as the solution.
Occupy Wall Street and “The American Autumn”: Is It a “Colored Revolution”?
Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
October 13, 2011
Occupy Wall Street and “The American Autumn”: Is It a “Colored Revolution”?
Part I
There is a grassroots protest movement unfolding across America, which includes people from all walks of life, from all age groups, conscious of the need for social change and committed to reversing the tide.
The grassroots of this movement constitutes a response to the “Wall Street agenda” of financial fraud and manipulation which has served to trigger unemployment and poverty across the land.
Does this movement constitute in its present form an instrument of meaningful reform and social change in America?
What is the organizational structure of the movement? Who are its main architects?
Has the movement or segments within this movement been co-opted?
This is an important question, which must be addressed by those who are part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement as well as those who, across America, support real democracy.
Introduction
Historically, progressive social movements have been infiltrated, their leaders co-opted and manipulated, through the corporate funding of non-governmental organizations, trade unions and political parties. The ultimate purpose of “funding dissent” is to prevent the protest movement from challenging the legitimacy of the economic elites:
“In a bitter irony, part of the fraudulent financial gains on Wall Street in recent years have been recycled to the elites’ tax exempt foundations and charities. These windfall financial gains have not only been used to buy out politicians, they have also been channelled to NGOs, research institutes, community centres, church groups, environmentalists, alternative media, human rights groups, etc.
The inner objective is to “manufacture dissent” and establish the boundaries of a “politically correct” opposition. In turn, many NGOs are infiltrated by informants often acting on behalf of western intelligence agencies. Moreover, an increasingly large segment of the progressive alternative news media on the internet has become dependent on funding from corporate foundations and charities.
The objective of the corporate elites has been to fragment the people’s movement into a vast “do it yourself” mosaic.” (See Michel Chossudovsky, Manufacturing Dissent: the Anti-globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites, Global Research, September 20, 2010)
Occupy Wall Street And Its CIA And Oligarchical Roots
YouTube
October 20, 2011
Potent News: Michel Chossudovsky On OWS Movement & Libyan War
Amir Alwani
Potent News
October 22, 2011
This morning I had a chance to interview award-winning writer, Prof. Michel Chossudovsky about the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Michel Chossudovsky is the President and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He teaches Economics at the University of Ottawa and his books have been translated into over 20 languages.
Go to globalresearch.ca for more information.
US State Department Funded Agitator in DC Advising #OWS
by Tony Cartalucci
From the US to Serbia, to Egypt and back again, US State Department-funded, trained, and equipped agitator Ahmed Maher poses at the scene of “Occupy D.C.” Ironically, Americans claim Maher and his “April 6” movement have inspired them to rise up against their corrupt government, unaware that his movement was insidiously created by the US government. Photo: courtesy Ahmed Maher, Spencer Ackerman
While the Wired piece doesn’t explain where Maher honed his “revolutionary” skills, it does mention vaguely that he was in D.C. on invitation from an unnamed university professor and that next he would be headed to New York City to “advise” protesters there.
This of course isn’t Maher’s first trip to the United States. Years before the Egyptian revolution, the United States was quietly preparing a global army of youth cannon fodder to fuel region wide conflagrations throughout the world, both politically and literally. Maher’s April 6 organization had been in New York City for the US State Department’s first “Alliance for Youth Movements Summit” in 2008. His group then traveled to Serbia to train under the US-funded “CANVAS” organization before returning to Egypt in 2010 with US International Crisis Group (ICG) operative Mohamed ElBaradei to spend the next year building up for the “Arab Spring.”
Potent News Update – Occupy Nova Scotia [video included]
Amir Alwani
Potent News
October 20, 2011
My experience, on the ground, is that this is one of the most leaderfull “leaderless” movements I’ve ever seen. Also noteworthy, one of these guys just came from Tahrir Square and the other from Wall Street.
Activist Post‘s description of the video is spot-on:
Contributor Amir Alwani was back at Occupy Nova Scotia to document some of the speakers and protesters. He made some interesting discoveries. In the first segment, a protester voices his concern over the structure of the General Assembly within the overall movement. He illustrates the irony that people have taken to the streets as the 99% fed up with the rule by the 1%, yet many congregate in choir fashion around one speaker, often chanting the message of the “leader.” He is quick to point out that this does not invalidate the entire movement, but it is something we certainly should be mindful of as activists.In the second segment a man comments about a tent labeled “media centre” that, according to him, was behaving in a secretive way. Amir heads over to the tent and listens to two representatives, James Green and Miles Howe, speak about their mission. James has arrived from the Occupy Wall Street media team, and Miles has experience in “revolutionary squares,” including Tahrir Square in Egypt. This combination should cause some healthy skepticism of their views, as both locations have been focal points for political operatives.
In fact, they are creating a “media co-op” at Occupy Nova Scotia where citizen journalists are encouraged to submit their videos and printed material. However, there is a strange choice of language as they discuss how important it is that their group be the only one to disseminate the information to the world, stressing the need to “shape the message.” This is the exact top-down approach that corporate media uses. It seems oddly out of place to those who are protesting against the power that the few have over the many. Again, we urge activists to be mindful of giving away our power to any centralized source.
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley on PressTV (Oct. 12):
“Press TV: This thing about silencing John Lewis, if we have a member of the Congress there being silenced, then what does show in terms of what is going to happen to the protesters out on the streets? How would the one percent want to use any tactics to silence? What kind of tactics would they use to silence the Americans and the protesters out on the streets?
Tarpley: With what they are using. They are using a bunch of anarchists and this Adbusters comes from the Situationist International. Situationist International was cooked up by NATO and the CIA back in the 1950s and 60s to overthrow General [Charles] de Gaulle of France who was the target at that time.
This whole apparatus of the General Assembly, the facilitators, the consensus, the voting, the human microphone; the leaderless group is a brainwashing technique; the human microphone is a brainwashing technique.”
http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/204427.html
http://tarpley.net/2011/10/12/unchain-the-mass-strike/
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Oct. 18 http://blip.tv/play/AYLZjk0C.html
Oct. 16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-CYRKt5mU
Oct. 12 http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/204427.html
Oct. 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVEVmxMsEg
Oct. 7 http://tarpley.net/2011/10/07/occupy-wall-street-who-wants-to-hijack-the-movement/
Oct. 5 http://tarpley.net/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-needs-a-fighting-program-to-save-the-nation-not-endless-groupthink/
Sept. 20 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21110
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UPDATE from June 6, 2013: I have to admit that after having met Miles Howe a couple times and having spoken to a couple people who’ve known him for years, I am now admittedly less suspicious of Miles Howe. That said, the other guy, James Green, definitely made a reputation for himself at this event and in the end, there seemed to be consensus among the community that James Green was definitely a shady character. For one thing, James had gone out of his way to tell mainstream media that if they wanted to interview members of the Occupy NS movement they had to come to the square to do it. He told this to mainstream media on behalf of everyone in the movement while consulting few, if any, people in the movement. At the beginning of this whole thing he referred to himself as the “media liaison” for the group and when I was present at a couple of the meetings that happened prior to the actual initial event, it was clear that James was trying to dominate and steer the debate into a discussion about administrative matters such as food, toilets, tents, blankets, etc. People swallowed this shit up as they disregarded the fact that nobody there seemed to prioritize coming to a consensus about why we were actually there and what our demands were. To call this movement synthetic is an understatement, in my opinion.

