Top 3 Current Global Targets For Anglo-American DestabilizationBrandon Turbeville Although the thinly disguised destabilization campaign known as the Arab Spring was largely confined to the Middle East, the latest push by Western-backed intelligence agencies, governments, militaries, and NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) is now taking on global form. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Malaysia all seem to be caught in the crosshairs of the Anglo-American elite and the destabilization tactics of NGOs, Foundations, and popular uprisings that end (and sometimes begin) with violence. From the Middle East and South America to Africa and Asia, the Anglo-American empire is marching forward with a drastic enlargement of covertly conquered territory, putting the Western world on an inevitable and intentional collision course with both Russia and China. One need only take a brief look at the unfolding events in Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Malaysia in order to see the hands of Western militaries and intelligence working behind the scenes; even though some operate more out in the open than others. This article will briefly examine the situation of the latter three countries. Venezuela In addition to the aforementioned NATO-backed crisis in Syria, there exists the continuing effort to shake up and remold the regime in Venezuela. Under the leadership of former President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela was a stalwart source of resistance to the plans of the Anglo-Americans for years, particularly since the George W. Bush administration and, like the imperialist policies the Venezuelan government was initially responding to, continued through the Obama administration. Likewise, for just as long, both Chavez government and the current Venezuelan administration has been the target of US/NATO-backed destabilization efforts, covert operations, and political pressure. Nevertheless, both countries have been without ambassadors since 2010 due to Chavez rejection of the nomination of Larry Palmer by the Obama administration and Washingtons subsequent dismissal of the Venezuelan ambassador in response. Furthermore, the imperialist US sanctions regarding countries, banks, businesses, and individuals that do business with Iran were applied to the Venezuelan state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), in May 2011 after the US State Department claimed that PDVSA delivered two cargo shipments of refined petroleum products worth approximately $50 million to Iran between the months of December and March 2010-2011. In addition, as NewsMax reports, Even more so, Chavez government, in 2002, was briefly overthrown as a result of a coup largely supported by the United States. Although Chavez was able to regain control of the Presidency and the government within a mere 48 hours, such an affront to Venezuelan sovereignty and personal power is not likely to be forgotten by the Venezuelan government. In turn, the fact that the United States is ready and willing to back opposition leaders capable of storming the capitol and taking power is not likely to be forgotten by individuals seeking to do so. This was precisely the attempt made by the United States and Anglo-American networks during the last Presidential election when Chavez was still alive and campaigning for another term against Western agent Henrique Capriles Radonski who openly stated his favoritism toward dismantling many of the social programs developed by Chavez. Whatever one may have thought about Chavez or the Venezuelan government, it was clear enough that the Radonski campaign was a tentacle of Western intelligence and NGO networks. As Lee Brown of Venezuela Analysis wrote at the time, The Duddy that Brown makes mention of in his quote is a reference to Patrick Duddy, the former Ambassador to Venezuela, writing for the Council on Foreign Relations in a paper entitled Political Unrest in Venezuela. In this paper, Duddy provided a clear list of possible military, financial, and political contingency measures to be taken after the October 7 elections were held, essentially giving voice to a variety of opportunities which could be seized upon in order to foment the appearance of a popular uprising in the event of a Radonski defeat. The paper, in short, was a manual of suggestions for the implementation of a coup against the wishes of the Venezuelan people. In the end, Radonski was defeated and the immediate public rioting that Duddy and the Anglo-American networks hoped for did not take shape. However, the destabilization effort that Duddy and the CFR called for in Duddys paper is beginning to take shape in Chavez absence. After Chavezs death and the subsequent campaign between Nicols Maduro and Radonski, the vote count returned a much smaller margin of victory for Maduro than Chavez had enjoyed. Radonski, predictably, refused to concede defeat and claimed that the elections had been rigged. Thus, while the internal debate surrounding the election results intensifies inside Venezuela, Radonski has recently traveled to Colombia to meet President Juan Manuel Santos, a staunch ally of the United States. The visit is largely seen as an attempt to shore up international support for his planned coup. Indeed, Radonski is quite confident that the Maduro government will fall and that he will be placed as leader. I think this government, in the current conditions of illegitimacy added to a deep economic crisis its showing no intention of addressing, is going to cave in, Capriles said. As a result, Maduro has responded to Radonski with accusations that he is nothing more than a destabilization agent for right wing actors who wish to overthrow the leftist government. Tensions both inside and outside the country are rising with diplomatic ties being re-examined between Venezuela and Colombia as a result of the Radonski PR move as well as growing pro-Radonski supporters now demonstrating in the streets. Violent clashes between protesters and the government have resulted in at least three deaths in recent weeks. Anyone who has observed the Syrian situation in recent years can clearly see a parallel between that of Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Malaysia in the sense that NGO groups, Western media, intelligence, and State Department related organizations initially create or nurture an opposition party based on real, exaggerated, or entirely imagined concerns which is then thrust into the streets with claims of oppression, violence, stolen elections, and human rights violations. The country is then thrown into disarray when protests are stoked further and the government responds. Eventually, the introduction of violence on the part of the protestors threatens to either grind the country to a standstill (as in Egypt) or plunge it into a civil war (as in Syria). Zimbabwe An example of a nation with numerous legitimate complaints against their current government economics, social policy, and civil and human rights Zimbabwe has also recently come under the fiery eye of Western imperialists as of late. To be sure, such interest in Zimbabwe never truly abated since the days of British control, but the fact that Robert Mugabe has now outlived his usefulness to the Anglo-American establishment is becoming clearer by the day. As Eric Draitser of Stop Imperialism writes, While the gains made by the people of Zimbabwe are highly debatable, it is quite true that Tsvangirai is nothing more than an agent of the Anglo-Americans. For instance, Wikileaks revealed in a leaked cable in 2010 that Tsvangirai collaborated with President Obama and the US establishment against the interests of Zimbabwe and the people. Furthermore, Obama flatly refused to meet with members of the Zanu-PF but met with members of both of the two different MDC factions. TalkZimbabwe continues, Yet, while this situation is bad enough, especially considering that the people of Zimbabwe will be the only ones who feel the actual ramifications of such bargaining tools, evidence also points clearly toward the control over the entire MDC-T party itself by the American CIA. As the Zimbabwe Herald reported on May 13, 2013 in its article Zimbabwe: Three CIA Agents For MDC-T Indaba, The Herald also quoted Mwonzora as saying, To perfect the document, there are three CIA members who have been invited under the banner of foreign observers. The Wikileaks revelations also included cables sent by former Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, who wrote the following: Dell also wrote that food and fuel shortages were to be used as a tool for regime change. In comparison to the CFRs Patrick Duddy paper on Venezuela, consider also that the notorious Anglo-American propaganda outfit run by George Soros known as the International Crisis Group has recently released its own report entitled, Zimbabwe: Election Scenarios, in which it suggests possibilities of violence and social disintegration surrounding the elections. One need only glance at the report to see the alarmingly similar tone of language to that of the Duddy paper. It says, Interestingly enough, the paper also goes on to discuss red lines concerning the upcoming vote. It says, Eric Draitser of Stop Imperialism, when analyzing the ICG report, thus concurs with my previous statement that violence surrounding real, perceived, or even outright fabricated election fraud is a typical tool of the Anglo-American networks seeking to destabilize what they deem to be rogue nations, i.e. nations not completely obedient to their immediate dictates. Draitser writes, Malaysia Interestingly enough, Malaysia also finds itself in the crosshairs of a Western-backed campaign of destabilization. Much like the situation in Venezuela, the attempt is clearly to install a Western puppet president and, much like Syria, that puppet is one which has been attached at the hip with Western NGOs and think tanks as well as one who has lived largely outside of the country since his own removal from politics. In the case of Malaysia, that puppet is Anwar Ibrahim. It should be noted that, like Henrique Capriles Radonski of Venezuela, Ibrahim was soundly defeated by the popular vote in the recent general elections even despite the fact that Ibrahim was heavily supported by Western NGOs, governments, and media. Regardless of the election results, however, Ibrahim and his coalition are now calling for street protests that themselves could easily turn violent as we have seen both in Venezuela and the entirety of the Western-controlled Arab Spring. Indeed, the stated purpose of the street protests is to topple the current government with speakers at a recent forum attended by opposition groups calling for the government to be removed by force. As Free Malaysia Today reported, It should be noted that the figurehead of the opposition in Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, was Chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in 1998 as well as a lecturer at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Ibrahim was also a consultant to the World Bank. Ibrahim was also the President of the UNESCO General Conference. In addition, Ibrahim has been closely associated with the Neo-Con destabilization organ known as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). For instance, he was a panelist at the NEDs Democracy Award and a panelist at an NED donation ceremony. In another interesting coalescence of facts, the Bersih 2.0 electoral watchdog allegedly observing and analyzing the rising tensions in Malaysia is itself funded by the US State Department. By continuous claims of fraudulent elections and obstacles to peaceful settlement, Bersih is intentionally fueling the fire to collapse the current government in order to install Ibrahim as puppet leader and usher in a new era of imperialist domination over Malaysia. Bersihs own links to the NED are clear enough. According to the Malaysia Insider, Bersih leader Ambiga Sreenevassan admitted to Bersih receiving some money from two US organisations the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Open Society Institute (OSI) for other projects, which she stressed were unrelated to the July 9 march. The NDI is, of course, nothing more than a subsidiary of the NED. Cartalucci reports that clear evidence of both funding and training being provided to Bersih by the NDI was present on the NDIs own website at one point until the NDI removed it. Cartalucci states, A visit to the NDI website revealed indeed that funding and training had been provided by the US organization before NDI took down the information and replaced it with a more benign version purged entirely of any mention of Bersih. For funding Ambiga claims is innocuous, the NDIs rushed obfuscation of any ties to her organization suggests something far more sinister at play. As Syria begins to mop up the psychotic death squads that have been wreaking havoc on the Middle Eastern nation for the last two years, talk is now turning to direct military intervention. Yet, at the same time, the Anglo-American empire is expanding its assault in the third world, marching forward across, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This march, no doubt, will place North America and Europe (meaning the Western world) directly on a collision course with Russia and China in the visible future. By exposing both the ramifications of such action and the true nature of what the majority of the Western public believes to be a mass movement of oppressed peoples against their tyrannical governments, the notion that the Western nations are supporting freedom fighters in the third world, it may then be possible to break the false narrative of the threat of al-qaeda terrorism that has functioned as the basis for every police state measure put in place since 2001. Read other articles by Brandon Turbeville here. Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelors Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of three books, Codex Alimentarius The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutionsand Dispatches From a Dissident.Turbeville has published over 200 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbevilles podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. 