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Arab Spring
Arab Spring

Arab Spring

Most of this true history has been carefully suppressed by the western media. Ahmed Bensaada’s 2011 book L’Arabesque Américaine concerns the US government role in instigating, funding and coordinating the Arab Spring “revolutions” and devotes much more attention to the personalities leading the 2011 uprisings. It was planned by the Obama administration and overseen by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Some openly admitted to receiving CIA funding. Others had no idea because it was deliberately concealed from them. A few (in Egypt and Syria) were officially charged with espionage. In Egypt, seven sought refuge in the US embassy in Cairo and had to be evacuated by the State Department.

The Arab Spring was nothing less than a US-UK-Israeli enterprise designed to accelerate the Greater Israel Project.  The advancement of this particular project is central to the reason why Obama was installed as POTUS and Clinton as SOS.  These two co-conspirators formed a tag team whose mission it was to turn the Mideast into a dystopian apocalyptic wasteland. And so they have.

Because Clinton and Obama collaborated so closely to implement the CIA-designed scheme known as the Arab Spring, they have been obligated to provide each other cover. Were all 31,000 plus emails to be made available for public scrutiny, it would be revealed that Obama is as guilty in the Emailgate fiasco as Clinton is.  He was also a party to her illegal server since he corresponded with her using that email while transmitting highly classified information.

The ultra-secret info and classified data, related directly to the execution of the CIA’s Operation Arab Spring, forms the very basis for Emailgate and Servergate. Both Clinton and Obama conspired unceasingly to deceive the American people into believing that this was an organic, home-gown movement when in fact the C.I.A. & Company paid out millions of US dollars to get the various countrymen to the city squares to protest. This highly coordinated black operation is still the best kept secret in Washington, as it is throughout the power capitals of the world.  And so it better be for their sake, since the very creation of ISIS was a central part of their patently illicit and traitorous plan.

Given the intense scrutiny that Donald Trump operates under every single day of his campaign it ought to be understood that he would not accuse President Obama of creating ISIS unless it was true.  He has also identified Secretary of State Clinton of being a co-founder.  Clearly, Trump is in the possession of classified information which proves his point that Obama and Clinton were both instrumental in the establishment of the Islamic State, the support of ISIL expansion, and the arming of the Daesh across the Northern Levant.

Not once, but twice did Donald Trump make these radioactive allegations about the Obama-Clinton crime team.  The second time he labelled Obama the MVP of ISIS and asserted how much the Daesh worshipped Obama.  As follows:

It’s true that SOS Clinton and husband Bill functioned as a parallel government throughout her tenure at State.  This extremely unusual and unlawful arrangement was necessary in order to implement so much of the Arab Spring subversive activities which had to be hidden from the American people.  Were the truth to be known about the degree of outright criminality that was perpetrated, they both would have been permanently barred from participating in political life, if not banished altogether from the USA.  Yes, their collective malfeasance and perfidy, malevolence and treachery are unparalleled in U.S. history.

Buried amid tens of thousands of pages of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s secret emails, made public by the US Government after FOIA requests, is a devastating email exchange between Clinton and her confidential adviser, Sid Blumenthal. It’s about Qaddafi and the US-coordinated intervention in 2011 to topple the Libyan ruler. It’s about gold and a potentially existential threat to the future of the US dollar as world reserve currency. It’s about Qaddafi’s plans then for the gold-based Dinar for Africa and the Arab oil world. Read more on this astounding discovery by William Engdahl here…

Democracy: America’s Biggest Export

According to Bensaada, the MENA Arab Spring revolutions have four unique features in common:

  • None were spontaneous – all required careful and lengthy (5+ years) planning, by the State Department, CIA pass through foundations, George Soros, and the pro-Israel lobby.1
  • All focused exclusively on removing reviled despots without replacing the autocratic power structure that kept them in power.
  • No Arab Spring protests made any reference whatsoever to powerful anti-US sentiment over Palestine and Iraq.
  • All the instigators of Arab Spring uprisings were middle class, well educated youth who mysteriously vanished after 2011.

Nonviolent Regime Change

Bensaada begins by introducing non-violent guru Gene Sharp (see The CIA and Nonviolence), his links with the Pentagon and US intelligence, and his role, as director of the Albert Einstein Institution, in the “color” revolutions.2 in Eastern Europe and the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002.))

The US goal in the Arab Spring revolutions was to replace unpopular despotic dictators while taking care to maintain the autocratic US-friendly infrastructure that had brought them to power. All initially followed the nonviolent precepts Sharp outlines in his 1994 book From Dictatorship to Democracy. In Libya, Syria and Yemen, the US and their allies were clearly prepared to introduce paid mercenaries when their Sharpian “revolutions” failed to produce regime change.

Follow the Money

Relying mainly on Wikileaks cables and the websites of key CIA pass through foundations (which he reproduces in the appendix), Bensaada methodically lists every State Department conference and workshop the Arab Spring heroes attended, the dollar amounts spent on them by the State Department and key “democracy” promoting foundations3, the specific involvement of Google, Facebook, Twitter and Obama’s 2008 Internet campaign team in training Arab Spring cyperactivists in encryption technologies and social media skills, US embassy visits, and direct encounters with Hillary Clinton,  Condoleezza Rice, John McCain, Barack Obama and Serbian trainers from CANVAS (the CIA-backed organization that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic in 2000).

Bensaada focuses most heavily on the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt. The Washington Post has estimated approximately 10,000 Egyptians took part in NED and USAID training in social media and nonviolent organizing techniques. For me the most astonishing information in this chapter concerned the role of an Egyptian exile (a former Egyptian policeman named Omar Afifi Suleiman) in coordinating the Tahrir Square protests from his office in Washington DC. According to Wikileaks, NED paid Suleiman a yearly stipend of $200,000+ between 2008-2011.

When Nonviolence Fails

Arabesques$ devotes far more attention to Libya, Syria and Yemen than Bensaada’s first book.

In the section on Libya, Bensaada zeroes in on eleven key US assets who engineered the overthrow of Gaddafi. Some participated in the same State Department trainings as the Middle East opposition activists and instigated nonviolent Facebook and Twitter protests to coincide with the 2011 uprisings in Tunisian and Egypt. Others, in exile, underwent guerrilla training sponsored by the CIA, Mossad, Chad and Saudi Arabia. A few months after Gaddafi’s assassination, some of these same militants would lead Islamic militias attempting to overthrow Assad in Syria.

Between 2005 and 2010, the State Department funneled $12 million to opposition groups opposed to Assad. The US also financed Syrian exiles in Britain to start an anti-government cable TV channel they beamed into Syria.

In the section on Syria, Bensaada focuses on a handful of Syrian opposition activists who received free US training in cyberactivism and nonviolent resistance beginning in 2006. One, Ausama Monajed, is featured in the 2011 film How to Start a Revolution about a visit with Gene Sharp in 2006. Monajed and others worked closely with the US embassy, funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). This is a State Department program that operates in countries (such as Libya and Syria) where USAID is banned.

In February 2011, these groups posted a call on Twitter and Facebook for a Day of Rage. Nothing happened. When Sharpian techniques failed to produce a sizable nonviolent uprising, as in Libya, they and their allies (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Jordan) were all set up to introduce Islamic mercenaries (many directly from Libya) to declare war on the Assad regime.

  1. I was astonished to learn that Forum Fikra, a forum for Arab activists working against authoritarian governments, was mainly funded by the Nathan and Esther K Wagner Family Foundation. The latter also funds numerous pro-Israel groups and projects, as well as the Washington Institute for Near East policy (a pro-Israel group with close ties to AIPAC).
  2. The color revolutions were CIA-instigated uprisings that replaced democratically elected pro-Russian governments with equally autocratic governments more friendly to US corporate interests:
    Serbia (2000) – Bulldozer Revolution
    Georgia (2002) – Rose Revolution
    Ukraine (2004) – Orange Revolution
    Kyrgyzstan (2005) – Tulip Revolution
  3. Democracy promoting foundations (as used here, “democracy” is synonymous with capitalism, ie favorable to the interests of US investors). Here are seven of the main ones involved in funding and training Arab Spring activists:
    • USAID (US Agency for International Development) – State Department agency charged with economic development and humanitarian aid with a long history of financing destabilization activities, especially in Latin America.
    • NED (National Endowment for Democracy) – national organization supported by State Department and CIA funding dedicated to the promotion of democratic institutions throughout the world, primary funder of IRI and NDI.
    • IRI (International Republican Institute) – democracy promoting organization linked with the Republican Party, currently chaired by Senator John McCain and funded by NED.
    • NDI (National Democratic Institute for International Affairs) – democracy promoting organization linked with the Democratic Party, currently chaired by Madeline Albright and funded by NED.
    • OSI (Open Society Institute) – founded by George Soros in 1993 to help fund color revolutions in Eastern Europe. Also contributed major funding to Arab Spring revolutions.
    • Freedom House – US organization that supports nonviolent citizens initiatives in societies were liberty is denied or threatened, financed by USAID, NED and the Soros Foundation.
    • CANVAS (Center for Applied Non Violent Action and Strategies) – center originally founded by the Serbian activists of Otpor who the US funded and trained to over throw Slobodan Milosevic and who were instrumental in training Arab Spring activists. Funded by Freedom House, IRI and George Soros

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