Police Lt. Gen. Thitiraj Nhongharnpitak stands with Ploy Bunluesilp, wife of Andrew Marshall. Marshall and Ploy actively aid the US-backed dictator Thaksin Shinawatra and his violent “red shirt” movement.
Paramount to this process of undermining and removing governments, is the targeting and manipulation of public perception. This has always been an essential ingredient for special interests throughout human history. Today, the sophistication through which this is done is unprecedented. While all nations do this to a certain extent, the West has, by far, the largest and widest range of activities dedicated to this purpose.
Policy and objectives set out by corporate-financier funded think tanks are translated into media headlines and campaigns carried out by everyone from large Western news networks to hired bloggers and lobbyists posing as independent third parties. Together, this concerted effort is meant to maximize perceived credibility, and can even take a non-news event, and turn it into a minor crisis.
Just such an example has been exposed, just days before a crucial referendum in Thailand regarding the Southeast Asia nation's new charter.
The new charter is meant to set the nation back on course after over a decade of political instability rooted in the rise and fall of US-backed billionaire, mass murderer, and convicted criminal Thaksin Shinawatra. Should the charter pass, it will deliver yet another blow to a political machine the US has invested heavily in for over a decade, and further contribute to the US' geopolitical retreat from the region as a whole.
Comment: The cracks in the facade of American "primacy over Asia" are beginning to show: Primacy over Asia: US 'pivot' turns to panic