Sunday, April 03, 2016

The Color of Revolution: Money, Power, and Modern Myth-Makers

SUNDAY SCREENING: ‘The Revolution Business’

by 21Century Wire


April 3, 2016
 
This is the latest installment of our new weekly SUNDAY SCREENING feature, where our editorial team curates a documentary film for our 21WIRE audience.

This is an incredible documentary film by Journeyman Pictures that reveals the inner workings of the ‘Arab Spring’ and other faux color revolutions – where professional revolution ‘consultants’ steer activists in countries like the Ukraine and Egypt in order to start high-profile uprisings.






Democratic change has been demanded across the Middle East. But was what seems like a spontaneous revolution actually a strategically planned event, fabricated by ‘revolution consultants’ long in advance?

Revolution consultants are the worst nightmare of every regime. Srdja Popovic was a founder of the organisation ‘Otpor’, a revolution training school. It was instrumental in the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s and has now inspired a new generation of activists.

Political commentators like William Engdahl are convinced Otpor is being financed by the USA.

“The people from Otpor gave us a book in which they described all their strategies”, says Ezzedine Zaatour of the Tunisian uprising. That book was written by an American, Gene Sharp, and is now considered the “revolution guide book”, being used by opposition movements worldwide.

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