{"id":6848,"date":"2012-03-07T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2012-03-07T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T05:00:19","slug":"analysis-us-soft-power-themed-revolutions-disunity-and-power-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6848","title":{"rendered":"Analysis US Soft Power Themed Revolutions: Disunity and Power Projection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Purpose of U.S. Soft Power Themed Revolutions: Disunity and Power Projection<\/strong>
\nWayne MADSEN – 14 February, 2012 – Strategic Culture Foundation<\/p>\n

A U.S. \u201calphabet soup\u201d agency-sponsored themed revolution in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean comprising twenty-six atolls, stands to plunge the nation, heretofore considered a tropical paradise for tourists, into the same kind of chaos and civil unrest now seen on the streets of Libya, Egypt, and Syria. Maldives is smaller in comparison to the nations of the Middle East where the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), International Republican Institute (IRI), National Democratic Institute (NDI), and George Soros\u2019s Open Society Institute (OSI) have sponsored themed revolutions that have all resulted in civil unrest and a entrance of extremist Wahhabi Salafists into political power. However, the small size of Maldives provides a much clearer picture of how the aforementioned Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-sponsored \u201csoft power\u201d aggressors managed to turn paradise into another center of unrest in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n

In the case of the Maldives, the road to civil strife began in 2005 when USAID- and OSI-sponsored democracy\u201d manipulation groups took root in the country upon the legalization of opposition political parties by the government of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. Serving as president for thirty years, Gayoom was seen by the international human rights network of non-governmental organizations as a dictator ripe for removal. The Western-sponsored NGOs settled on Mohamed Nasheed, a Maldivian opposition leader who had lived in exile in Britain \u2013 with the support of the British government — and Sri Lanka and who returned to Maldives in 2005, as their favorite candidate for president. <\/p>\n

In preparation for the first direct presidential election for president in 2008, outside \u201cdemocracy manipulators\u201d descended on Maldives, a country that had become popular with the Soros network because of global climate change. Maldives, which is threatened by rising sea levels, became a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre for the carbon tax and carbon cap-and-trade advocates.<\/p>\n

Nasheed was the 2008 presidential candidate of the Maldivian Democratic Party against President Gayoom\u2019s Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party. In the first round of voting, Gayoom received a little over 40 percent of the vote in the first round to the 24 percent of Nasheed\u2019s and his vice presidential running mate, Mohammed Waheed Hassan. To defeat Gayoom in the second round, Nasheed, obviously with the encouragement of his foreign \u201cdemocracy\u201d advisers, sought and received the endorsement of four other opposition parties, including the Saudi- and United Arab Emirates-financed Salafist Adhaalath (Justice) Party. Adhaalath is an ideological partner of the Muslim Brotherhoods of Egypt and Syria. In the second round of the election, Nasheed, with the support of the other four opposition presidential candidates, defeated Gayoom 54 percent to 46 percent. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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