{"id":19264,"date":"2013-12-10T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19264"},"modified":"2013-12-10T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:31:17","slug":"serbia-peace-activist-srdja-popovic-very-cozy-with-stratfor-about-rights-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19264","title":{"rendered":"Serbia “Peace Activist” Srdja Popovic very cozy with Stratfor about Rights Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Renowned Peace Activist Collaborated with Stratfor and CIA<\/strong>
\nGlobal Research – 4 December, 2013 – Steve Horn and Carl Gibson<\/p>\n

Serbia\u2019s Srdja Popovic is known by many as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere since the late-1990s, and as one of the co-founders of Otpor!, the U.S.-funded Serbian activist group which overthrew Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 in 2000.<\/p>\n

Lesser known, an exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor! offshoot CANVAS (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies) have also maintained close ties with a Goldman Sachs executive and the private intelligence firm Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.), as well as the U.S. government. Popovic\u2019s wife also worked at Stratfor for a year.<\/p>\n

These revelations come in the aftermath of thousands of new emails released by Wikileaks\u2019 \u201cGlobal Intelligence Files.\u201d The emails reveal Popovic worked closely with Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based private firm that gathers intelligence on geopolitical events and activists for clients ranging from the American Petroleum Institute and Archer Daniels Midland to Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Northrop Grumman, Intel and Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n

Referred to in emails under the moniker \u201cSR501,\u201d Popovic was first approached by Stratfor in 2007 to give a lecture in the firm\u2019s office about events transpiring in Eastern Europe, according to a Stratfor source who asked to remain confidential for this story.<\/p>\n

In one of the emails, Popovic forwarded information about activists harmed or killed by the U.S.-armed Bahraini government, obtained from the Bahrain Center for Human Rights during the regime\u2019s crackdown on pro-democracy activists in fall 2011. Popovic also penned a blueprint for Stratfor on how to unseat the now-deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in September 2010.<\/p>\n

Stratfor\u2019s Global Activist Connector
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\nUsing his celebrated activist status, Popovic opened many doors for Stratfor to meet with activists globally. In turn, the information Stratfor intended to gain from Popovic\u2019s contacts would serve as \u201cactionable intelligence\u201d\u2014the firm billed itself as a \u201cShadow CIA\u201d\u2014for its corporate clients.<\/p>\n

Popovic passed information to Stratfor about on-the-ground activist events in countries around the world, ranging from the Philippines, Libya, Tunisia, Vietnam, Iran, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Tibet, Zimbabwe, Poland and Belarus, Georgia, Bahrain, Venezuela and Malaysia. Often, the emails reveal, Popovic passed on the information to Stratfor without the consent of the activists and likely without the activists ever knowing that their emails were being shuttled to the private security firm.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., this investigation\u2019s co-author, Carl Gibson (representing US Uncut), and the Yes Men\u2019s Andy Bichlbaum had a meeting with Popovic shortly after their two respective groups used a media hoax to play a prank on General Electric, ridiculing the company over itsnon-payment of U.S. taxes.<\/p>\n

The pair gave Popovic information about both groups\u2019 plans for the coming year and news later came out that Stratfor closely monitored the Yes Men\u2019s activities. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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