After six months of uncritical cheerleading for the so-called “Arab Spring,” Antiwar.com has finally seen the “color” in the supposedly spontaneous “revolutions.” Nebojsa Malic writes:

Then came the Sandstorm, or as the Imperial pundits prefer to call it, the “Arab Spring.” To hear the mainstream media tell it, the world is once again catching fire, young people everywhere demanding “democracy” and overthrowing the evil regimes oppressing them. Tunisia and Egypt were just the beginning, the “kinetic action” in Libya is all about helping the “democrats”, and if there is any fault in Washington, it is for “standing idly by” and “not helping enough”.

But is that really so?

A few days ago, an interesting documentary appeared on YouTube. “The Revolution Business” documents the recent revolutions throughout the world, and finds the common thread running through nearly all of them: Otpor.

Originally a student group devoted to protesting what they saw as dictatorship by the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, Otpor (“Resistance”) was co-opted by the U.S. intelligence after the NATO attack on Serbia in 1999. Backed by a propaganda apparatus, “suitcases of cash” and a host of organizations from the CIA to the NED, Otpor spearheaded the October 2000 coup in Belgrade, which ousted Milosevic and brought to power a coalition of “democrats” put together by the Empire.

Serbia was the test case for this new mode of warfare by subterfuge, Patient Zero in a world soon to be infected by “revolutions” that weren’t. Otpor was the vector designed for the purpose.

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Submitted by Aletho News on Fri, 2011-06-24 16:25

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