Friel notices that there are many parallels between the recent coup in Ukraine and the coup in Venezuela in 2002. Of course, basically the same pattern applies in many other regime change efforts by Empire directors, but the resemblance between these two fits the best. It's clear that regime change engineers have since upgraded their program (RegimeChange 5.5 to RC6.1) to include the use of snipers firing on both protestors and the police and other false flag operations that include the use of bombs to create a climate of intense fear to enhance their prospects of success.
Having identified the main agency used in these regime change operations, Friel asks some critically important questions:
Finally, who in the United States oversees the NED? Not President Obama, who shows no intention of checking even the publicly known outrages of the NSA and CIA, let alone the mostly unknown ones of the NED. Not the Democrats or Republicans in Congress, who in 1983 created the NED “to promote democracy” abroad. Not the federal judiciary, needless to say. And not the press; surely not the New York Times, which, without Christopher Marquis, who died of AIDS in 2005, hasn’t employed anyone since who has shown an interest in shedding any light on the activities of the NED, certainly not in Venezuela and Ukraine today.I find it difficult to understand why so many political analysts and observers resist the idea of a shadow government that rules our nation. They continue to be astonished by the lack of change between the Obama regime and the previous Bush Jr regime, but refuse to go any further. It's like a young child who believes in Santa Claus refusing to believe adults who tell him that this is just a myth. It's (past) time for progressives to grow up!
