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There is a growing understanding of US regime change strategies and tactics. It used to be that the CIA would work covertly to build opposition movements that would remove governments that did not cooperate with the United States and its corporate interests. This still occurs but many of those functions have been buttressed by the US Agency for International Development and the National Endowment for Democracy. Countries are catching on to this. The article below describes how Vietnam is...

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has stepped up its efforts at “regime change” in Venezuela.... Gunboat diplomacy in new garb. Why does the US care about Venezuela? Oil, what else? CounterpunchStill Meddling in VenezuelaMark Weisbrot

While audiences of Western media may be seeing the group, they aren’t actually being provided the proper context of who the MEK and NCRI are. Instead, MEK protests are being shown across Western media as “anti-regime” protests representative of the general mood of Iranians. The problem with these protests — which have been highlighted by outlets like Fox, Salon, and Vox — is that they aren’t actually taking place in Iran. Instead of highlighting the concerns of the legitimate protests in...

Matias Verengo sums up the Latin American crises, present and past. Manufactured.Naked KeynesianismThe Latin American CrisisMatias Vernengo | Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell University

US and Israel back another terrorist group (in addition to Al Qaeda and ISIS) when it is useful. Fort RussIran: internal grievances, external agendas Jay Tharappel | Guest Contributor See also Wikipedia People's Mujahedin of Iran (Mojahedin-e Khalq, acronyms MEK, MKO) See also  The Guardian (23 Sep 2012)Five lessons from the de-listing of MEK as a terrorist group Glenn Greenwald What could go wrong with getting in bed a bit with the devil as long you don't worship him? Using...

With the Trump and Netanyahu administrations now working in lockstep, U.S.-Israeli hostility towards Iran has now ripened into a plan to repeat what befell Syria over six years ago – the hijacking of minor protests and their transformation into the cover for a foreign-funded insurgency intent on toppling Iran’s elected government. Mint PressBirth Of An Insurgency: The US-Israeli “Secret Deal” To Manipulate Protests In Iran Whitney WebbSee alsoShort and important. Flores is a good analyst....

Backgrounder.NEOIranian Protests: Deep State’s Unfinished Business Tony Cartalucci One factor that I seldom see mentioned in the extensive commenting on Iran both in the mainstream and alternative media is that the protests are grounded in Iranian politics and the contention for power between the conservative hardliners and the liberal government now in power. The Rouhani government is labeled "reformist" as if that is a good thing. "Reformist" means neoliberal. There are two major...

What you won't hear in the lamestream media aka the spin room and the echo chamber.The Vineyard of the SakerIran protests: Western salivation, agitation & desperation Ramin Mazaheri | chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV LobeLogIran Protests: Civil Rights Movement Or Revolution? Reza Marashi | director of research at the National Iranian American Council and previously served in the Office of Iranian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State Moon of AlabamaIran - Early U.S....

Are we witnessing regime change agents hijacking economic protests? Zero Hedge US State Department Hints At Iran Overthrow: Are We Witnessing The Early Stages Of Regime Change? Tyler DurdenSee alsoSouthFrontUS Defense Secretary Warns Assad From Attacking US-backed Forces, Claims US Shifts Strategy In Syrialkb22

The Russian government is convinced that US sanctions are aimed at regime change in Russia.RT US sanctions aimed at turning business elite against Putin before election – KremlinSee also RT's Capitol press credentials cancelled.Sputnik InternationalRussia Hysteria: US Congress Revokes RT’s Capitol Hill Press Credentials