US Behind Turmoil in Kiev

[GrapesOfWrath]

I read this from a link over at Buzzflash. An interesting take on what we are seeing in the Ukraine.

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US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev

Ian Traynor
Friday November 26, 2004
The Guardian

With their websites and stickers, their pranks and slogans aimed at banishing widespread fear of a corrupt regime, the democracy guerrillas of the Ukrainian Pora youth movement have already notched up a famous victory - whatever the outcome of the dangerous stand-off in Kiev.
Ukraine, traditionally passive in its politics, has been mobilised by the young democracy activists and will never be the same again.

But while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut revolution" are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.

Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1360080,00.html

[StClone]

1. Dupe

An earlier discussion was started but a repost is a good thing!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2754550&mesg_id=2754550

[ckramer]

2. Is it fair to say US is behind every turmoil in the world ?

I'm not surprised.

[veggiemama]

3. Of course it is! Yuschenko's wife is a Univ. of Chicago Neocon

She's American, worked for both Raygun's and Poppy's administrations, she has ties to the Heritage Foundation, and her father was prolly a Nazi. Try googling "Katherine Chumachenko" and learn all about Mrs. Viktor Yuschenko!