Anti-Trump protest movements are envisaged alongside a campaign to disrupt.
While there are “genuine
protests” –e.g. those led by the Answer Coalition and Workers World–,
the main thrust is coming from an “engineered” campaign supported and
financed by the Neocons, which is largely intent upon disrupting
the inauguration and destabilizing the Trump presidency. Several progressive organizations have nonetheless joined the bandwagon of the #Disruptj20 campaign.
The protest movement in
fact started on the evening of November 8 prior to the announcement of
the election results. The organizers of this movement are acting on
behalf of powerful elite interests. People are misled: the protests are
not being led on behalf of the genuine concerns of Americans who oppose
Trump’s right wing racist agenda.
The engineered protest ops
are coordinated with a relentless propaganda campaign led by the
mainstream media, which includes accusations of high treason and
sedition directed against Donald Trump, who is portrayed as
an instrument of the Kremlin.
Even prior to the November 8 elections, former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leo Panetta had
already intimated that Trump is a threat to National Security.
According to The Atlantic, Trump is a “Modern Manchurian Candidate”
serving the interests of the Kremlin.
Vanity Fair November 1 2016
The Atlantic October 8 2016
In the wake of the Grand Electors’ Vote
(in favour of Trump) and Obama’s renewed sanctions against Moscow, the
accusations of treason directed against Donald Trump have gone into high
gear. Unprecedented in US history, a movement to impeach an elected
president has been launched prior to his accession to the White House.
The objective of the engineered protests
which has the support of US intelligence is to undermine the legitimacy
of the Trump presidency.
Is it a conspiracy? The various
components of this operation are carefully coordinated. All the
essential features of an American-style “color revolution” with the
intent to destabilize an incoming president are there.
Background: What is a Color Revolution?
Before proceeding
further, let us focus on the nature and historical origins of the
“color revolutions” used as a means to triggering “regime change”, which
have emerged in a large number of countries in the course of the last
decade.
The “color revolution” is a US
intelligence operation which consists in covertly supporting as well as
infiltrating protest movements with a view to triggering “regime change”
under the banner of a pro-democracy template. The objective of a “color
revolution” is to manipulate elections, create violence, foment social
unrest and use the protest movement to topple an existing government.
The ultimate foreign policy goal is to instate a compliant pro-US
government (or “puppet regime”).
Engineered protest movements are
carefully planned. They are intelligence ops. They use non-governmental
organizations to recruit protesters.
History: “The Revolution Business” and “Regime Change”
In
August 1999, the CIA set up a training program for a Serbian NGO
entitled OTPOR which subsequently played a key role in the engineered
protest movement conducive to the downfall of president Slobodan
Milosevic. A few years later, OTPOR established a training and
strategizing outfit entitled The Centre for Applied Non Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS). CANVAS became a consulting outfit specializing in “Revolution” on contract to the CIA.
CANVAS was set up by the CIA as “an
International network of trainers and consultants” involved in the
“Revolution Business”. Funded by Freedom House, the National Endowment
for Democracy (NED) as well private corporate foundations. CANVAS
constitutes a consulting outfit, advising and training US sponsored
opposition groups in more than 40 countries. In this regard, OTPOR
played a key role in fomenting the mass uprisings during the Arab Spring
in Egypt in 2011. What appeared to be a spontaneous democratization
process was a carefully planned intelligence operation. View video
below.
How does this relate to the coordinated operation to undermine the Trump presidency?
What is at stake is a “color
revolution” Made in America which is marked by fundamental rivalries
within the US establishment, namely the clash between competing
corporate factions, each of which is intent upon exerting control over
the incoming US presidency.
The OTPOR-CANVAS-CIA model is
nonetheless relevant. Several foundations involved in funding color
revolutions internationally are involved in funding the anti-Trump
campaign.
Moreover, while CANVAS’ mandate is to
oversee “color revolutions” internationally, it also has links with a
number of NGOs currently involved in the anti-Trump campaign including The Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS). OWS launched
by Adbusters was funded via the Tides Foundation which in turn is
funded by a number of corporate foundations and charities, including the
Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation and the Open Society Institute. Ford
is known to have historical links to US intelligence.
It is worth noting that the raised fist
logo first launched by OTPOR in 1999 as a symbol of CIA sponsored color
revolutions (including Egypt during the Arab Spring), also constitutes
the symbol of several organizations involved in the anti-Trump
engineered protest movement.
The Inauguration Disrupt Campaign: Disruptj20
Several hundred thousand Trump
supporters will be present in Washington DC on January 20th. D.C.’s
Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management estimates that
there will be between 800,000 – 900,000 people in DC for the event,
including Trump supporter and protesters.
Will there be clashes between both sides?
The Disruptj20.org campaign is calling for the disruption of the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017:
#DisruptJ20 is supported by the work of the DC Welcoming Committee, a collective of experienced local activists and out-of-work gravediggers acting with national support. We’re building the framework needed for mass protests to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump and planning widespread direct actions to make that happen. We’re also providing services like housing, food, and even legal assistance to anyone who wants to join us.
The actions contemplated include
“setting up blockades at checkpoints to prevent people from gaining
access to the inauguration proceedings”. A spokesperson confirmed that
#DisruptJ20 campaign would be “creating a framework to support mass protests and direct action to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump” .
This could potentially lead to violent
clashes with tens of thousands of Trump supporters, which is the
ultimate objective of an engineered “Color Revolution” style protest
movement supported covertly by US intelligence. It’s part of the logic
of a “color revolution” scenario (e.g. Kiev-Maidan, Cairo-Tahir Square)
which is predicated on triggering confrontation and urban violence.
Is the Disrupt Campaign committed to deliberately staging violence on January 20?
“The idea is to shut down access to the parade as much as possible and slowing it down to a crawl,” said DisruptJ20 organizer Legba Carrefour. “Then there’s the broader goal of shutting down the entire city around it and creating a sense of paralysis that creates a headline that says, ‘Trump’s inauguration creates chaos.’” (NBC, January 17, 2017)
The organizers of the engineered protest
movement are funded by powerful corporate interests, they are supported
by US intelligence. The objective is not to undermine the racist right
wing agenda of Donald Trump as conveyed in the video below. Quite the
opposite.
The same color revolution OTPOR style logo:
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Copyright © Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 2017
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