"Color Coded" Egypt; Did US-backed NGOs Help to Topple Mubarak
Interviewed by Mike Whitney
by K. R. Bolton
Mike Whitney----Do we know whether foreign agents or US-backed NGOs
participated in the demonstrations in Tahrir Square? Could they have
played a part in toppling Mubarak?
K R Bolton--The revolts in Tunisia, Egypt and as they are spreading
further afield have all the hallmarks of the NED/Soros "color
revolutions" that were fomented in the former Soviet bloc states and
in Myanmar and elsewhere. They all follow the same pattern and many
years of planning, training and funding have gone into the
ridiculously called "spontaneous" (sic) revolts.
The organizations that have spent years and much money creating
revolutionary organizations in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere include
the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, International Republican
Institute, Freedom House, Open Society Institute, and an array of
fronts stemming therefrom, including: National Democratic Institute
for International Affairs, Center for International Private
Enterprise, and the American Center for International Labor
Solidarity.
These organizations have for years been backing Egyptian "activists."
Freedom House for e.g. trained 16 young Egyptian "activists" in 2009
in a two month scholarship.
A few days ago the New York Times reported the association between the
April 6 Youth movement, and Optor, the Serbian youth movement that was
pivotal in overthrowing Milosevic for the benefit of globalism and the
free market. Now April 6 is addressing youths form Libya, Iran,
Morocco and Algeria. ("A Tunisian-Egyptian Link that Shook Arab
History," New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/middleeast/14egypt-tunisia-protests..html).
MW---Whether US-backed activists were involved in the demonstrations
or not, don't you think that the vast labor unrest across the country
suggests that "homegrown" organizations are the real force that is
driving the revolution?
K R Bolton--There do not seem to be any 'homegrown' organisations that
have played a leading role in the revolts. The labor unions for
example were organized, trained and funded by NED. The American Center
for International Labor Solidarity works in conjunction with the
Center for International Private Enterprise, and is funded by the U.S.
Agency for International Development, National Endowment for
Democracy, U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Labor,
AFL-CIO, private foundations, and national and international labor
organizations. What kind of labor organisation collaborates with those
who promote globalisation and the free market?
One of the organizations especially created to sponsor pro-globalist
unions is the NED-based Solidarity Center that has been involved with
recreating the labor movement in Egypt. NED's 2009 report for grants
includes $318,75 to the American Center for International Labor
Solidarity for their program in Egypt; in addition to an array of
other organizations in Egypt, and especially those directed at
training "youth activists" in social media networking and other
features of "spontaneous revolt."
MW---Do you anticipate a clash between the US-backed military junta
and the growing mass of people who seem to have lost their fear of
government repression?
K R Bolton--The mass movement is doing precisely what it was created
to do by the US based globalist organizations. They are reminiscent of
Oswald Spengler's comment of certain 'socialist' organizations a
century ago; that they do not function other than where and how money
dictates. These are "revolutions form above," using the masses as
cannon fodder by interests whom they think they are opposing. The
strategy was tried out within the New Left forty to fifty years ago,
when Foundations and the CIA backed certain "radicals" such as Gloria
Steinem, National Students Association etc., and the "psychedelic
revolution."
The revolt is by the secularized youth who look on Western democracy
as an ideal, which is a facade for plutocracy. A truly revolutionary
force such as, perhaps, the Muslim Brotherhood would be fighting for
an Islamic, traditionalist renaissance, and would eschew
Westernization.
MW----Why would the International Republican Institute (IRI) the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED), or George Soro's Open Society
Institute train activists to topple a pro-American regimen like
Mubarak's?
K R Bolton-- There are long term, dialectical strategies involved that
might require even removing seemingly pro-US regimes, that are simply
now anomalies in the process of globalization.
However, there are indications that Mubarak was an impediment to US
policy. The US and the Mubarak regime were at loggerheads over Sudan
for example, Mubarak favoring a confederation, whereas the US sought
dismemberment of the South from the north. Egypt's influence was
gaining in the Sudan, with investments and advisers. On Nov. 3, 2009
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit stated that within the
previous five years Egypt had invested more than $87 million into
projects in southern Sudan, including hospitals, schools and power
stations, "in hope of convincing the people of southern Sudan to
choose unity over secession."
Towards the end of the Bush regime the U.S. Defense Department
established the Africa Command (AFRICOM), a primary concern of this
new US regional command being the establishment of a massive military
base in southern Sudan.
There is a very interesting article on this in The Washington Report
on Middle Eastern Affairs:
http://www.washington-report.org/component/content/article/363/10285-sudan-set-to-split-despite-egyptian-moves-.html
MW----How do Mohamed ElBaradei and Ayman Nour fit into to all of this?
K R Bolton-- Mohamed ElBaradei appears to be fulfilling the role of
numerous other leaders-in-waiting who have assumed the mantle of
leadership in the aftermath of "color revolutions." ElBaradei is on
the Executive Committee of the International Crisis Group, yet another
globalist think tank promoting the "new world order" behind the facade
of "peace and justice," or of the "open society." ICG was founded in
1994 by Mark Brown, former Vice President of the World Bank. Soros is
a committee member, along with such luminaries of peace and goodwill
as Samuel Berger, former US National Security Adviser; Wesley Clark,
former NATO Commander, Europe; and sundry eminences from business,
academe, politics and diplomacy of the type that generally comprise
such organizations.
"Senior advisers" of the ICG include the omnipresent Zbigniew
Brzezinski, former US National Security Adviser, and founding director
of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, an individual up to his
neck in seemingly every globalist cause and think tank going, and a de
facto foreign policy adviser for Pres. Obama; and Lord Robertson of
Port Ellen, former Secretary General of NATO. Financial backers of the
ICG include the Ford Foundation and Open Society Institute.
Ayman Nour is getting the Zionists jittery, but his comments on the
Camp David accord might be intended to placate Muslim factions. He has
long been championed by US administrations, and would as a "liberal"
by easy to tame.
MW---In your article "What's Behind the Tumult in Egypt", you cite a
Wikileaks memo from the US Embassy in Cairo which appears to prove
that the US was providing support for groups of youth activists who
were demonstrating in Cairo. Do you feel like this type of subversion
is justifiable if it is for a noble cause, like democracy?
K R Bolton-- It depends on one's perspective. The Soviets thought that
their subversion was for a "noble cause." The USA disagreed. Pol Pot
considered he was fighting for a "noble cause," (the USA agreed)…
NED, Open Society, IRI, Freedom House, etc. are proud of their roles
and are relatively open about them, because it is assumed that
everyone will be duped into believing in the nobility of
internationalizing the "American Dream," or what has been called the
"new world order." However, many people, especially those in the
ex-Soviet bloc and in the Islamic states, value tradition, culture and
spirit, more so than the "freedom" to produce and consume, and to
become cogs in a world market with a global mono-culture.
The recently deceased columnist Joe Sobran wrote of these matters
cogently a few years ago:
Anti-Americanism is no longer a mere fad of Marxist university
students; it's a profound reaction of traditional societies against a
corrupt and corrupting modernization that is being imposed on them, by
both violence and seduction. The very word values implies a whole
modern culture of moral whim, in which good and evil are matters of
personal preference. Confronted with today's America, then, the
Christian Arab finds himself in unexpected sympathy with his Muslim
enemy.
America's foreign policy elite considers the USA to have a messianic
world mission to remake the Earth in its image, an early example being
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. Whether this is undertaken behind
the façade of idealism, of "democracy,' "human rights" etc., or by
outright military invasion, makes no difference, and of course there
have been enough wars undertaken in the name of these slogans, one
being the war against Serbia, for example, the actual purpose more
likely being to globalize the minerals of Kosovo which can best be
done under a democratic, free market, debt-ridden regime, than under a
centralized state.
American globalization is worse than military dictatorship, because it
rots the soul.
Maj. Ralph Peters writing in Parameters, the organ of the US Army War
College, has stated that the de facto role of the American army is to
keep the world "open to our cultural assault." He talks of information
as being the "most destabilising factor of our time." He calls this
the "American century" where the USA will become "culturally more
lethal…." He talks of the "clash of civilisations". Entertainment,
media and internet are the basis for destroying traditional religions,
which he derides as "fundamentalism" which will be unable to "control
its children." "Our victims volunteer" he states. The Muslims in the
USA are what he calls the "rejectionist segment of our own
population." They are "enraged because their cultures are under
assault." He calls their "cherished values dysfunctional".
"Hollywood goes where Harvard never penetrated, and the foreigner,
unable to touch the reality of America, is touched by America's
irresponsible fantasies itself…" "Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg and
Madonna" are replacing "traditional intellectual elites." "Our
cultural empire has addicted – men and women everywhere - clamouring
for more. And they pay for the privilege of their disillusionment."
"If religion is the opium of the people, video is their crack
cocaine…" "There will be no peace…" "Our military power is culturally
based…" "Our American culture is infectious, a plague of pleasure… But
Hollywood is preparing the battlefield and burgers precede the
bullets. … What could be more threatening to traditional cultures?"
This is America's spiritual and cultural mission as related by an
influential strategist and commentator, formerly with the Office of
the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence; Foreign Area Officer for
Eurasia.
Maj. Peters description of those who have come under the curse of
secular American global culture, whom he states will serve to bring
down traditional societies, sounds rather like the secularised,
youthful "activists" who are spearheading the revolts in Tunisia,
Egypt, Yemen and elsewhere.
MW---Here's a quote from Leon Trotsky: "There is no doubt that the
fate of every revolution at a certain point is decided by a break in
the disposition of the army." There seems to be a real affection
between the Egyptian people and the army. Does that mean that a
confrontation can be avoided or do you think bloodshed is unavoidable?
K R Bolton-- There could be a unitary movement based around a popular
military regime of the Nasser variety. However, I believe that the
globalists have unleashed their chaos upon another vast region that
will be in a state of disruption for many years to come, like the
result of their having "liberated" (sic) Iraq.
MW---In your article titled "The Globalist Web of Subversion" (Foreign
Policy Journal) you speak of a "World Capitalist Revolution". Can you
explain what you mean?
K R Bolton-- The free market doctrine is the rationale of
globalisation. It is fundamentally revolutionary insofar as it
destroys traditional values. Free Trade is subversive, which is why
Karl Marx, as he stated in The Communist Manifesto and elsewhere,
supported Free Trade. Capitalism desires increasing concentration and
an internationalised economy. It once worked through nation-sates and
then through empires, but both became too restrictive and had to be
surpassed by a "new world order," which requires the destruction of
national, ethnic, cultural and all other bonds that hinder the
international free flow of labor, capital and technology.
A good book on this process was written a few years back, called
Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations, by Richard
Barnet and Ronald Muller. Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book Between Two
Ages wrote of the dialectical nature of capitalism and its drive
towards a world order, approvingly. And, of course, Marx wrote of the
dialectical nature of capitalism in The Communist Manifesto. However,
Marx thought that capitalism, with its destruction of national
boundaries, and its internationalising tendencies in the modes of
production, would be part of the process towards world socialism and
ultimately communism. He was wrong in that crucial respect; social
revolutions have been part of a dialectical process towards an
international capitalist order. The "color revolutions" are a most
essential part of this process.
MW---Here's a quote from your article in Foreign Policy Journal: "The
tumult in North Africa could conceivably backfire on the globalists
terribly and create a quagmire of the Iraq variety." It looks to me
like US meddling may have opened Pandora's Box. Do you agree?
K R Bolton--Yes, "Pandora's box" is a good term. It is the "new world
disorder." It might be wondered whether these global wirepullers are
extraordinarily stupid. But I think the answer lies in some kind of
sociopathology. The psychotic is ultimately self-destructive; although
these people would probably see things dialectically, believing that
it is part of "controlled crisis." Their mentality hovers somewhere
around the Jim Jones type, with the world being their Jonestown.
With the latest disturbances being in Iran, I hypothesize that the
problems generated in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, etc. might have been part
of a regional process directed primarily at Iran, and next Syria, two
states market in particular for destruction by the Project for the New
American Century.
K R Bolton is a "contributing writer" for The Foreign Policy Journal,
a Member of the Emerald Literati Network and other scholarly
societies, and has also been widely published on a variety of subjects
by: The International Journal of Russian Studies; Geopolitika, Moscow
State University; Journal of Social Economics; Journal of Social,
Political and Economic Studies; Retort International Arts and Literary
Review; Istanbul Literary Review; The Initiate: Journal of Traditional
Studies; Esoteric Quarterly; Antrocom Journal of Anthropology; Farsee
News Service; Phayul.com; Radio Free Asia Vietnamese Service; Novosti
Foreign Service; etc. Translations in: Russian, Vietnamese, Latvian,
Czech, Italian, French, Farsee.
Bolton's recent articles on NGO involvement in Egypt include "The
Globalist Web of Subversion" and "What's Behind the Tumult in Egypt?".
Both articles can be found at Foreign Policy Journal
K. R. Bolton is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global
Research Articles by K. R. Bolton
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23282
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