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Flashback Who's funding the protest movement? Who's behind it? It's called "Manufactured Dissent"

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research (Potent News)
Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00 UTC
Occupy All Streets
Author's Note

This interview was first published in November 2011. It focussed on the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, both of which were funded by corporate foundations.

Who is behind the protest movements in the US?

Who is behind the movement against racism and poverty in America.

We are dealing with a network of corporate funding of so-called "progressive" organizations.

This networking of funding dissent is a powerful instrument. It constitutes the basis whereby the economic elites retain control over the protest movement.

The Occupy Wall Street Movement as well as the World Social Forum are funded by Wall Street.

You cannot organize a meaningful mass movement against the Empire and then ask the Empire to pay for your expenses.

And today Black Lives Matter has taken a firm stance in leading the campaign against Racism and Social Inequality.

Black Lives Matter, however, is generously funded by corporate charities and foundations ( Soros, Ford, et al) which are firmly committed to neoliberalism.

That has to be addressed.

It's called "Manufactured Dissent".

Michel Chossudovsky, May 1st 2016, updated June 2, 2020

February 10, 2026

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Comment: More on OTPOR!

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Flashback The Dark Secret Behind a British Billionaire's "Parallel State" In Argentina's Patagonia

Whitney Webb
MintPress News
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:06 UTC
Joe Lewis’ ranch on Hidden Lake
© Francisco Bedeschi | dpaAn aerial photograph Joe Lewis’ ranch on Hidden Lake, March 1, 2010 in southern Patagonia, Argentina.
EL BOLSÓN, ARGENTINA - At the "end of the world," spanning the southernmost regions of Argentina and Chile, lies the land of Patagonia, much of which remains a pristine wilderness that has inspired countless naturalists and would-be adventurers with its dramatic landscapes and natural beauty. For many, it is a place that still feels remarkably untouched and removed from the chaos of the modern world.

Yet, it is these very qualities, as well as the region's great oil and gas potential and its abundance of glacier-fed freshwater reserves, that have placed it in the crosshairs of predators — predators armed with billions of dollars, powerful influence over Argentine politics and the country's press, as well as alliances with controversial international financial organizations and key elements of the global Zionist lobby.

Coveted for its still largely unplundered resources, Patagonia has become the target of a close-knit network of notorious billionaires and global elites, who have spent much of the last two and a half decades seeking to transform this area into their own independent state.
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Netanyahu strikes out in Washington

Mitchell Plitnick
Mondoweiss
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00 UTC
Netanyahu
© White House Photo/Daniel TorokIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu • Monday September 29, 2025 • White House • Washington DC, USA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a hasty trip to Washington this week to push Donald Trump toward war with Iran. Although little has been made public from the meeting, it appears Netanyahu has failed — for now.

In an unusual, though not unique, turn of events, very little about the meeting was made public. There was no press conference, no major statement, not even a readout from either the American or Israeli side.

Aside from Iran, the only other topic mentioned specifically was Gaza, and this tells us something. Given the major developments in the West Bank earlier this week and the response those developments have gotten from Europe and some Arab and Muslim states, the fact that there was no specific mention of the West Bank is significant.

Comment: False flags on both Israeli mandates will offer Neti impetus to both scenarios and choice of timing. Whether sooner or later, both are bad for Trump who can't be a gatekeeper if he's lost control of the key.

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Macron, the Euro, and Europe's strategic exit from dollar discipline

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00 UTC
Euro montage
© Unknown
Europe's financial architecture is entering a phase of reassessment, in which the question of eurobonds has become part of a broader struggle for strategic autonomy.

For most of the post-Cold War period, Europe's geopolitical posture has been defined less by independent ambition than by inherited architecture: American security guarantees, dollar-denominated finance, and the tacit assumption that strategic initiative flowed westward. The arrangement delivered stability, but it also imposed limits — financial, diplomatic, and psychological — that are now increasingly visible. Emmanuel Macron's renewed push for eurobonds and a permanent EU joint borrowing capacity should be read against this backdrop. It is not merely a fiscal proposal but an attempt to loosen Europe's dependence on a system whose center of gravity is shifting and whose instruments are no longer politically neutral.
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Trump promises voter ID "whether Congress approves or not"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:15 UTC
voting booth
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The SAVE America Act squeaked through the House this week by five votes.

The final tally was 218-213, with Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas standing as the lone Democrat to cross party lines.

On Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) gave Republicans their 50th vote late Friday afternoon, telling Maine Wire the revised bill strikes an appropriate balance between election security and voter access.
"The law is clear that in this country only American citizens are eligible to vote in federal elections. In addition, having people provide an ID at the polls, just as they have to do before boarding an airplane, checking into a hotel, or buying an alcoholic beverage, is a simple reform that will improve the security of our federal elections and will help give people more confidence in the results," she told Maine Wire.

"Requiring voters to produce passports or birth certificates on Election Day — as opposed to just a state-issued ID — would have placed an unnecessary burden on the voters. That provision is no longer in the bill, and dropping this requirement was key to getting my support."
With Will Collins onboard, Republicans have enough support to pass the bill even without additional backing, with Vice President JD Vance ready to break any tie.


Comment: Unable to find any such congressperson 'Will Collins'. Perhaps this comment referred to 'Rep. Henry Cuellar' as stated above.


Unfortunately, 50 votes only get the GOP so far. The legislation still lacks the 60 votes needed to overcome a Democratic filibuster, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has made clear the bill is "dead on arrival."

Comment: If the congressional parties on this issue were reversed, the likelihood of similar responses might apply. Problem is Congress has become self-serving, vehemently divided and unwilling to unite for the good of the country - the people for whom they supposedly work. Time to vote out the self-serving maniacs and the duds. The bill is not outrageous nor at odds with the American people. It is practical and solves several problems unless there are devils in the details, in which case we may never know.

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European official warns that Americans can be silenced by EU online speech laws

Kevin Stocklin
ZeroHedge
Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:00 UTC
Paivi Rasanen
© Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty ImagesFinnish Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen • Helsinki, Finland • Jan. 24, 2022
Europeans who face criminal charges for what they said or wrote warned that Europe's speech laws can silence Americans as well, regardless of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections.

While testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last week, Paivi Rasanen, a member of parliament in Finland, recounted how she has been prosecuted since 2021 for quoting Bible verses to church members and on social media that questioned her church's participation in a Gay Pride march. Although she was acquitted, first by a local district court and then by an appellate court, prosecutors appealed the decision to Finland's supreme court, where the case currently sits.

Rasanen told The Epoch Times:
"My prosecution shows how quickly democratic societies can abandon free expression when the state decides which beliefs are acceptable. I never imagined that quoting the Bible in a Twitter post would lead to years of criminal charges, yet this is now the reality in Europe. Americans should be concerned because once censorship is normalized, it never stays confined to one country."
The trend among Western countries to restrict religious speech has spread beyond Europe, with the Canadian government currently advancing a bill that would remove a religious exemption from "hate speech" laws in the country's Criminal Code. Similarly, newly proposed legislation in Queensland, Australia, would criminalize certain symbols and phrases, with penalties of up to two years in prison.
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Macron's AI Clown Show: Europe's Digital Dilemma

Thomas Kolbe
ZeroHedge
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:10 UTC
Macron
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The European Union has lost its place in the global race for artificial intelligence. In a single tweet on platform X, France's President Emmanuel Macron inadvertently outlined the convoluted situation while simultaneously revealing his personal emotional fragility.

The leading representatives of the European Union like to present themselves as emotionless technocrats. Maintaining the greatest possible distance from citizens, they execute their agenda of societal transformation toward what they understand as a net-zero transformation economy.

This ostentatious distance from the citizenry acts as a simulacrum of power, which, in politicians like Emmanuel Macron, often veers into the caricatural.

Macron's striking presence in foreign affairs — whether regarding the Ukraine war or recurring provocations toward the United States — correlates with his aggressive censorship policy toward his own population. A president without a people, steering his minority government through a budgetary crisis that brings France ever closer to the fiscal abyss.
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Maryland Gov. Moore Caught in Yet Another Background Lie?

Luis Cornelio
Headline USA
Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:53 UTC
Maryland Democrat Wes Moore
© AP Photo/Brian WitteMaryland Democrat Wes Moore talks to reporters on June 6, 2022 in Owings Mills, Md., after a Democratic primary debate for governor of Maryland. One of the best opportunities for Democrats to regain a governor’s office this year is in Maryland, and the race to succeed term-limited Republican Larry Hogan has drawn a crowd of candidates.
Not only did Maryland Gov. Wes Moore lie about a Bronze Star, his Baltimore origins, a fictional football Hall of Fame introduction and his academic credentials, but a new report also suggests he fabricated a story about his great-grandfather fleeing the KKK.

The report, published Wednesday by the Washington Free Beacon, centered on Moore's repeated claim that his maternal great-grandfather, Rev. Josiah Johnson Thomas, fled South Carolina for Jamaica after narrowly escaping a lynching by the KKK in the 1920s.

Moore has repeatedly referenced the story as a sign of strength, portraying Thomas as a preacher who, along with his son, Moore's grandfather, was targeted for rebuking racism in South Carolina.

However, the Free Beacon reported that the "straight out of Hollywood" story appears to be "false" as it is "flatly contradicted by historical records."
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Professor Sergey Karaganov: On avoiding oblivion... and rehabilitating humanity

Nora Hoppe and Tariq Marzbaan
Al Mayadeen
Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:33 UTC
Professor Sergey A. Karaganov graphics europe russia
© Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas"Europe, on the other hand, is becoming negligible – economically, politically, morally, socially, etc. So it's better just to push them aside and let them stew in their juices." — Professor Sergey A. Karaganov
Following our first three interviews here, here and here with Professor Sergey A. Karaganov*, we wish to turn once again to this esteemed luminary, political scientist and senior political adviser, to discuss the topics of unheeded warnings of global nuclear war, the Hegemon's latest imperial acts and projects, the fall of Europe, the bane of capitalism and the pursuit of the rehabilitation of humanity.

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H/M: It is a great pleasure to embark on a fourth interview with you...

To start off... Until now, your warnings and your efforts to prevent nuclear war in Europe through nuclear deterrence have remained unheeded by the deranged European elites, who believe that they are untouchable in their comfort bubbles, as well as by the European populations, most of whom are in a stupefied state... There are also quite a few Westerners who, having even heard about your warnings, have misinterpreted them as the expression of an eagerness "to nuke Europe".

But Europe now lacks any significant role in global decision-making. And the real danger is emanating from their supreme leader, the US... We have now reached the point where the outbreak of a devastating global nuclear war is increasingly becoming a bitter reality. This danger has also existed in the past (the 1960s), but it was averted by prudent politicians at the time, as well as by the fear that gripped the population. Today, however, there are no prudent politicians in the West, and there is no fear among their populations.

Therefore, your deterrence statements are not only justified but essential. However, as this message fails to resonate in Europe, as the threat has now reached a global urgency, and as the UN and international law have degenerated into useless institutions, what options do you see for this state of affairs?

PROF. KARAGANOV: To begin with, we Russians shouldn't neglect our obligations toward our people, our nation, even the world, in order to prevent a new world war and to rein in the war-mongers. We have been too soft and indecisive for too long. We have been fighting this global evil that has been unleashed upon us through Ukraine, but we've been extremely patient and cautious. And now we will probably be reaching some kind of piecemeal solution for the time being. It, of course, would not be a final peace, but it may be seen as a pause in active fighting.
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Buyer's remorse: Post mass amnesty announcement, Spain begs Brussels to relocate flood of migrants from Canary Islands across Europe

Thomas Brooke
ReMix News
Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:13 UTC
illegal migrants canary islands landing
© AP Photo/Maria Ximena, FileMigrants arrive at La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, in August 2024.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has increased the pull factor with his mass amnesty announcement, but now his government is requesting that Brussels relocate migrants to other member states

The Spanish government has asked the European Commission to help facilitate the redistribution of migrants arriving in the Canary Islands to other parts of Europe as part of a broader package of measures aimed at easing the demands placed on the archipelago.

Economy, Trade and Business Minister Carlos Cuerpo outlined the proposals in Spain's Congress of Deputies on Wednesday during a question session with Canary Coalition deputy Cristina Valido, who raised concerns about pressures facing the islands.

Cuerpo said Madrid had submitted a package of initiatives to Brussels designed to reinforce economic and social stability in the region, adding the government was willing to examine "all proposals" aimed at guaranteeing the archipelago's "territorial cohesion."

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