Color Revolutions.
Getting Our Facts Straight on the “Arab Spring”
The
so-called Arab Spring is one of the most pivotal geopolitical
happenings of the current century and one which will no doubt
reverberate and define the academic discourse on the subject in later
generations.
While
no doubt unsavory strongmen like Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak
of Egypt had well earned the resentment of their population, to engage
in a reductionist paradigm of the Arab Spring illustrating down-trodden
masses merely rising up against political exploitation does injustice to
the behind-the-scenes networks of NGOs and special interests who helped
influence popular sentiment and channel it in ways to bolster western
objectives.
While the notion that the US government, and specifically the corporate-financiers overlords of Wall Street and London,
were behind the Arab Spring are scoffed at by “skeptics” and
“academics”, the financial and political connections are well
established and open for all to independently verify. The year 2011 was
truly the “Year of the Dupe”
and unless we collectively identify this engineering of our past and by
extension our destiny, we run the risk of making true yet again
Napoleon Bonaparte’s adage that, “History is a set of lies that people
have agreed upon.”
Our
first stop in deconstructing the myth of the Arab Spring relates to the
standard view propagated by the mainstream left and the likes of MSNBC,
CNN, most of academia, and well-intentioned “critics of the
conspiratorial right-wing” (which does warrant legitimate criticism but
for different reasons). A classic case of this which can be found
replicated across a host of websites is the article “How the Conspiratorial Right is Spinning Egypt’s Protests”
by Sarah Posner. According to her