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For almost a decade, I have been covering "Color Revolutions" in virtually all parts of the world. While making a film for TeleSur, I was facing Egyptian tanks, risking my life under sniper fire, getting roughed-up in the middle of clashes of the supporters of al-Sisi and Morsi.
Together with Syrian commanders, I was also facing the terrorists in Idlib; challenged the Ukrainian fascists; encountering Bolivian indigenous elders high in the Altiplano, after the revolution of Evo Morales and MAS was crashed by the U.S.-sponsored coup in 2019. I regularly worked in Venezuela, Lebanon, and Iraq. And of course, again and again, I have been returning to Hong Kong, reporting on systematic Western attempts to radicalize SAR's youth and to harm China.
I mention all this just in order to establish that I am very well aware of how those "Color Revolutions" are triggered and implemented.
"Color Revolutions!" Unlike many "analysts" who are now tossing this term left and right, often without ever experiencing the events first hand, I spoke with the people on the ground, examining dynamics, asking endless questions. On many occasions, I was risking my life to get a philosophical context and the story right.
Frankly, I am sick of conspiracy theories, ignorance, cliche's, and arrogance of those "analysts" who, from the comfort of their couch, somewhere in Europe or North America, are passing judgments and conclusions, with that proud look of superiority.
Since the police murdered Mr. Floyd in Minneapolis, since the United States literally exploded, since the African Americans, Native Americans and other appallingly oppressed people went to the streets in hundreds of the cities demanding justice; a substantial group of mainly white 'we-know-everything' 'analysts' began belittling protesters, calling them 'violent,' calling them 'riots,' calling them 'creations of Soros and the Zionists'! And at the end, with dark sarcasm, declaring that the United States itself is now suffering from what it has been spreading all over the world for years - from the so-called "Color Revolution."
Many of those 'analysts' became so aggressive and vocal that they literally managed to monopolize the 'alternative narrative.' Suddenly, there was hardly any space left for those of us who were continuously writing, using traditional internationalist, left-wing perspective.
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