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Congress Votes to Arm Violent Mobs That Storm Through Capitols Around the World

Ted Rall • January 15, 2021

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Terrified political leaders watched the police who were assigned to protect them melt away. They fled as an angry mob of hooligans, riled up by sketchy allegations of rigged elections, stormed up the stairs of the government building that hosted the debates and deliberations of their venerable democracy. The rioters, reactionary right-wingers from the nation's... Read More

Belarus on the Edge: Biden’s First Move?

Carl Boggs • December 14, 2020

• 1,700 Words • 16 Comments • Reply

The ascent of Joe Biden and his neocon “promoters of democracy” to the White House likely means renewed attention to the idea of Color Revolutions once thought to bring liberation to nations under the heel of dictators. First in line for this latest geopolitical blessing could be Belarus, already site of protracted street protests in... Read More

Belarus --- the Next Color Revolution

Carl Boggs • October 16, 2020

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In the wake of recent political dramas in Belarus – a lopsided and contested presidential election, massive street protests, agitated reactions from both Russia and the European Union – it seems we might be on the verge of another infamous Color Revolution. After all, regime changes promoted by the United States and NATO have become... Read More

Will Belarus Become the Next Banderastan?

The Saker • August 19, 2020

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The situation in Belarus is evolving very rapidly, and not for the better, to say the least. A lot has been going on, but here is a summary of what are the most crucial developments in my opinion: Last Sunday was a major success for the Belarusian opposition: huge crowds took to the streets of... Read More

Guaido, President of Belarus

Israel Shamir • August 14, 2020

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It’s not over yet, but can Lukashenko survive the storm? Ever since the presidential elections of 8/9/2020, Belarus has experienced fitful waves of protests. The protesters claim the elections were rigged, just as the pussy-hat ladies accused Trump in 2016. The protests are presented to the world through the magnifying glass of the global fake... Read More

Battleground Beirut: Western Colony or Back to the East?

Pepe Escobar • August 12, 2020

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As much as Covid-19 has been instrumentalized by the 0.001% to social engineer a Great Reset, the Beirut tragedy is already being instrumentalized by the usual suspects to keep Lebanon enslaved. Facing oh so timely color revolution-style “protests”, the current Lebanese government led by Prime Minister Diab has already resigned. Even before the port tragedy,... Read More

“Hands Off Hong Kong” - the Cry That Seldom Is Heard

Where are the self-styled anti-war activists - like DemocracyNow?

John V. Walsh • September 5, 2019

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Through the summer the world has watched as protests shook Hong Kong. As early as April they began as peaceful demonstrations which peaked in early June, with hundreds of thousands, in protest of an extradition bill. That bill would have allowed Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China, to return criminals to Taiwan, mainland... Read More

30 Years After Tiananmen Square, the U.S. Is Still Trying to Destabilize China

Max Parry • July 9, 2019

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Last month marked three decades since the conclusion of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China. The anniversary is opportune for Washington and its Western partners to ramp-up their Sinophobic smear campaign while recycling the hoax they have propagated ever since the June Fourth incident occurred. Coverage of the commemoration has been wedded with the... Read More

The Velvet Revolution

James Petras • March 6, 2011

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Speaking of democratic revolutions… Play written in June 2008 Act 1, Scene 1 (A cafe in upper west side of Manhattan not far from Columbia University. Grovel Havel sits with an editor of N.Y. Review of Books and a professor sympathetic to the New Left… drinking coffee… a cigarette hangs from his lip in the... Read More

"Color Revolution" Items Across Entire Archive

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American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?

Ron Unz

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot

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John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.

Sydney Schanberg