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US State Department Plans “Twitter Revolutions”
How Washington uses the youth and its enthusiasm for electronics in order to force a regime change without the appearance of the CIA’s hand
by Eva Golinger 1
The State Department sponsored a summit dedicated to the use of new technologies with the aim of changing anti-imperialistic régimes.
The city of Mexico hosted the summit of the Alliance of Youth Movements (AYM) on 15 and 16 October 2009. The event, which was sponsored by the State Department, includes the intervention, by internet, of a luxury speaker: The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In addition, many “delegates” were invited by the United States diplomacy, among whom were persons related to movements of active destabilization in Latin America. The list of participants includes the Venezuelans Yon Goicochea, of the party Primero Justicia, Rafael Delgado, the leader of the Organization Venezuela de Primera (a group founded by Goicochea), and Geraldine Álvarez, the former student leader and currently member of the Fundación Futuro Presente, also created by Goicochea, with the financing of the Cato Institute (EUA). The following also participated: Marc Wachtenheim of the Cuba Development Initiative, a project financed by the State Department and USAID throughout the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), Aryra Cedeño Proaño, of the Corporación Foro de la Juventud Guayaquil, an Equatorial entity financed by USAID, and Eduardo Ávila of Voces Bolivianas, an organization supported by the Embassy of the United States in Bolivia and financed by USAID. In total, 43 delegates came from the whole world (Sri Lanka, India, Canada, United Kingdom, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jamaica, Ireland, Turkey, Moldavia, Malaysia, United States and Mexico).
Speakers and sponsors formed a strange mix of representatives of new technologies and employees of agencies specialized in the corruption and destabilization of governments which refuse to submit to the agenda of Washington. The speakers notably came from the Freedom House, International Republican Institute (IRI), the State Department and the World Bank, but we also counted young technology designers such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, Gen Next, Meetup and Youtube. The only traditional media invited by the State Department were CNN in Spanish and CNN in English, an out of the ordinary fact proving the existing close links between these different entities.
There is no doubt that the marriage of the agencies of Washington, new technologies and young political leaders selected by the State Department represents a strategy to “change regimes”. In addition, the summit confirmed the political and financial support provided by the United States to the student movement of the Venezuelan opposition and provides to the public opinion the irrefutable proof of the sinister alliance between Washington and the new technologies.
Centre for “digital diplomacy”
According to its own definition, the AYM was born in 2008 in response to the appearance “on the world scene, of a series of persons practically unknown, generally young who master the most recent technologies and have done unbelievable things. These persons have provoked great transformations of the real world in countries like Colombia, Iran and Moldavia, using these common techniques to get the young, and this is only the beginning.”
The agencies of Washington could not miss positioning themselves on an attractive scene where the young, already hooked to the new technologies like internet, notably Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, could become the leaders and promoters of social movements at the service of the interests of the Empire. According to the founders of the AYM, there was, however, a problem. “These movements of the 21st century are the future of the civil society, but they do not yet have a mechanism that allows supporting, educating and empowering these leaders whose only office is an electronic address. They also do not have an entity that can teach the traditional movements of the 20th century the efficient use of instruments and medias of the 21st century to reach their objectives.”
Their objectives or Washington’s objectives?
One of the first operations successfully carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the 1950s and 1960s was the creation in Europe of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, designed to penetrate and use spaces occupied by art, universities, intellectuals and social movements in order to neutralize the expansion of communism. The recourse to culture to promote the imperial agenda was extended beyond the cold war. Whereas the phenomenon of the scale of the dependence to technology is growing, it is being exploited in an increasingly refined manner. New technologies – like Facebook and Twitter, developed with the financing of CIA enterprises, for example In-Q-Tel, specialized in the “exploitation of information mines” – function today as networks of recruitment of “agents” disposed to promote the interests of the Empire. The potential that contain these technologies in order to lead psychological operations and diffuse propaganda is unlimited: they permit the dispersing of messages in a record time on a planetary scale.
The only thing missing was a strategy to exploit this potential.
The followed model: the Obama campaign
“The Alliance of Youth Movements has filled in this blank. It has started in 2008 by a summit during which the State Department associated itself to MTV, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Howcast, AT&T, JetBlue, GenNext, Access360Media and the Law Faculty of Columbia University in order to identify and convoke the movements of the 21st century, and, for the first time in history, to dialogue with them by internet”.
The following have participated in this first summit of AYM, members of the Venezuelan opposition organization Súmate (financed by NED and USAID) and the Colombian initiators of the march “No más Chávez” (No more Chávez) and “Un millón de voces contra las FARC” (A million votes against Chávez). The main speakers were three architects of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, namely Joe Rospars, director for the new media during the campaign, Scott Goldstein, online director for Obama for America and Sam Graham-Felson, director of blog for the campaign of Obama in 2008. Sherif Mansour, of Freedom House, Shaarik Zafar, of the Homeland Security of the United States, and eight other officials of the State Department as well as representatives of diverse multinational companies active in the domain of communication and new technologies were also present.
The creators of the “high-tech” campaign that was to lead Obama towards victory worked hand in hand with the agencies of Washington to design the perfect strategy by combining two forces innovative in politics : youth and new technologies. This combination should allow getting what the CIA did not succeed in many years of effort: the regime change in countries not submitted to the interests of the United States, without the appearance of the hand of Washington.
The students’ movement “manos blancas” (white hands) in Venezuela, financed by American agencies, the anti-communist protests in Moldavia, the demonstrations against the Iranian government and the last virtual demonstrations against President Chávez constitute examples of this new strategy. The main weapons used are the new technologies – Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, among others. As to traditional media, like CNN and its affiliate units, they contribute to exacerbate the real effect of these movements by diffusing the matrices of distorted opinions whose importance and legitimacy have been misrepresented.
The Alliance of Youth Movements is but a chapter in the plans of destabilization against anti-imperialistic sovereign countries that refuse all domination. The double morale of Washington confirms the following: while the State Department supports finances and sponsors the training of youth of other countries to the use of new technologies in order to destabilize their government, it criminalizes the resort to Twitter and Facebook to convoke demonstrations against the policies of Washington in the United States. We had the proof three weeks ago, when American citizens were arrested for having used Twitter in order to inform persons demonstrating against the summit of the G-20 at Pittsburgh on repressive actions led by the police.•
1 Eva Golinger is a Venezuelan and American lawyer living in Caracas. She has published many books among them “The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela” Pluto Press 2006 and “Bush Versus Chavez: Washington’s War on Venezuela” Monthly Review Pr 2007.
Source: www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=93492 www.aporrea.org/ddhh/a88539.html
(Translation Current Concerns)
Quotations taken from AYM homepage: http://info.howcast.com/youthmovements/summit09/delegates
“In-Q-Tel apparently sees Visible Technologies’ offering as ideal for monitoring social media overseas. The CIA may or may not be interested in what people think about it, per se. However, In-Q-Tel spokesman Donald Tighe told Wired that the organization plans to use Visible Technologies’ service for ‘early-warning detection on how issues are playing internationally’.”
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10378741-2.html
CIA buys enterprises that monitor blogs, Twitter, YouTube and Amazon
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. (…) Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords. (…)
Visible already keeps tabs on web 2.0 sites for Dell, AT&T and Verizon. For Microsoft, the company is monitoring the buzz on its Windows 7 rollout. For Spam-maker Hormel, Visible is tracking animal-right activists’ online campaigns against the company. (…)
In-Q-Tel says it wants Visible to keep track of foreign social media, and give spooks “early-warning detection on how issues are playing internationally,” spokesperson Donald Tighe tells Danger Room. (…)
The intelligence community has been interested in social media for years. In-Q-Tel has sunk money into companies like Attensity, which recently announced its own web 2.0-monitoring service. The agencies have their own, password-protected blogs and wikis — even a MySpace for spooks. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence maintains an Open Source Center, which combs publicly available information, including web 2.0 sites.”
Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring-firm
