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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Arab Spring: Made in the USA<\/h1>\n
Arabesque$: Enqu\u00eate sur le r\u00f4le des \u00c9tats-Unis dans les r\u00e9voltes arabes<\/i>(Investigation into the US Role in the Arab Uprisings)<\/i>\u00a0is an update of Ahmed Bensaada\u2019s 2011 book\u00a0L\u2019Arabesque Am\u00e9ricaine<\/a><\/em>. It concerns the US government role in instigating, funding and coordinating the Arab Spring \u201crevolutions.\u201d Obviously most of this history has been carefully suppressed by the western media. Democracy: America\u2019s Biggest Export<\/b><\/p>\n According to Bensaada, the MENA Arab Spring revolutions have four unique features in common:<\/p>\n Nonviolent Regime Change<\/b><\/p>\n Bensaada begins by introducing non-violent guru Gene Sharp (see\u00a0The CIA and Nonviolence<\/a>), his links with the Pentagon and US intelligence, and his role, as director of the Albert Einstein Institution, in the \u201ccolor\u201d revolutions.2<\/a><\/sup>in Eastern Europe and the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002.))<\/p>\n 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\u00a0From Dictatorship to Democracy.<\/i>\u00a0In Libya, Syria and Yemen, the US and their allies were clearly prepared to introduce paid mercenaries when their Sharpian \u201crevolutions\u201d failed to produce regime change.<\/p>\n Follow the Money<\/b><\/p>\n 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 \u201cdemocracy\u201d promoting foundations3<\/a><\/sup>, the specific involvement of Google, Facebook, Twitter and Obama\u2019s 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,\u00a0 Condoleezza Rice, John McCain, Barack Obama and Serbian trainers from CANVAS (the CIA-backed organization that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic in 2000).<\/p>\n Bensaada focuses most heavily on the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt. The\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0has 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 $200,000+ between 2008-2011.<\/p>\n When Nonviolence Fails<\/b><\/p>\n Arabesques$<\/i>\u00a0devotes far more attention to Libya, Syria and Yemen than Bensaada\u2019s first book.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s assassination, some of these same militants would lead Islamic militias attempting to overthrow Assad in Syria.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u00a0How to Start a Revolution<\/i>\u00a0about 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n<\/a>The new book devotes much more attention to the personalities leading the 2011 uprisings. 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.<\/p>\n\n
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\nSerbia (2000) \u2013 Bulldozer Revolution
\nGeorgia (2002) \u2013 Rose Revolution
\nUkraine (2004) \u2013 Orange Revolution
\nKyrgyzstan (2005) \u2013 Tulip Revolution [\u21a9<\/a>]<\/li>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0USAID<\/strong>\u00a0(US Agency for International Development) \u2013 State Department agency charged with economic development and humanitarian aid with a long history of financing destabilization activities, especially in Latin America.
\n\u2022\u00a0NED<\/strong>\u00a0(National Endowment for Democracy) \u2013 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.
\n\u2022\u00a0IRI<\/strong>\u00a0(International Republican Institute) \u2013 democracy promoting organization linked with the Republican Party, currently chaired by Senator John McCain and funded by NED.
\n\u2022\u00a0NDI<\/strong>\u00a0(National Democratic Institute for International Affairs) \u2013 democracy promoting organization linked with the Democratic Party, currently chaired by Madeline Albright and funded by NED.
\n\u2022\u00a0OSI<\/strong>\u00a0(Open Society Institute) \u2013 founded by George Soros in 1993 to help fund color revolutions in Eastern Europe. Also contributed major funding to Arab Spring revolutions.
\n\u2022 Freedom House \u2013 US organization that supports nonviolent citizens initiatives in societies were liberty is denied or threatened, financed by USAID, NED and the Soros Foundation.
\n\u2022\u00a0CANVAS<\/strong>\u00a0(Center for Applied Non Violent Action and Strategies) \u2013 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 [\u21a9<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n