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also: Canvas, Canva, OPPOR, Otpor, OCPOR
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Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Ukraine book_quoted
“A 2007 Stratfor report touted the group's success in fomenting color revolutions that befell a number of Eastern Europe and Central Asian states, namely those in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Belarus. Though thei…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 15:56
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Belarus book_quoted
“A 2007 Stratfor report touted the group's success in fomenting color revolutions that befell a number of Eastern Europe and Central Asian states, namely those in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Belarus. Though thei…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 15:56
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Georgia book_quoted
“A 2007 Stratfor report touted the group's success in fomenting color revolutions that befell a number of Eastern Europe and Central Asian states, namely those in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Belarus. Though thei…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 15:56
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Kazakhstan book_quoted
“A 2007 Stratfor report touted the group's success in fomenting color revolutions that befell a number of Eastern Europe and Central Asian states, namely those in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Belarus. Though thei…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 15:56
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Uzbekistan book_quoted
“A 2007 Stratfor report touted the group's success in fomenting color revolutions that befell a number of Eastern Europe and Central Asian states, namely those in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Belarus. Though thei…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 15:56
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Azerbaijan book_quoted
“A 2007 Stratfor report touted the group's success in fomenting color revolutions that befell a number of Eastern Europe and Central Asian states, namely those in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Belarus. Though thei…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 15:56
USAID funded
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies documented
“that Canvas' ability to mobilize and unite desperate factions of a targeted country was among the best on the planet. Though Canvas billed itself as a non-governmental organization, the Stratfor leaks revealed that the group relied heavily …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 16:23
Freedom House funded
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies book_quoted
“that Canvas' ability to mobilize and unite desperate factions of a targeted country was among the best on the planet. Though Canvas billed itself as a non-governmental organization, the Stratfor leaks revealed that the group relied heavily …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 16:23
Albert Einstein Institute funded
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies book_quoted
“and the Albert Einstein Institute, two of the U.S.-funded entities that effectively serve as money washed for the State Department and USAID. Canva's reliance on grants from U.S.-backed organizations like Freedom House, rather than direct s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 16:53
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies overthrew
Slobodan Milosevic documented
“OTPOR, which translates into resistance, a student group that directed the mass street protests in Serbia against Milosevic. And we've already talked all about that. Within weeks of his removal, the New York Times published a blockbuster re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 17:51
National Endowment for Democracy funded
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies documented
“The National Endowment for Democracy and its International Republican Institute poured millions of dollars into the overthrow of the Serbian government. Oktpor was certainly the largest recipient, a former NED official divulged to The Times…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 18:21
International Republican Institute funded
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies documented
“The National Endowment for Democracy and its International Republican Institute poured millions of dollars into the overthrow of the Serbian government. Oktpor was certainly the largest recipient, a former NED official divulged to The Times…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 18:21
Srdja Popović founded
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies documented
“They are still hooked into U.S. funding and basically go around the world toppling governments that are identified for regime change. Indeed, after applying their Serbian blueprint to stimulate a color revolution in Eastern Europe and Centr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 20:16
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies trained
Juan Guaidó documented
“Two days before the fifth anniversary of Milosevic's ouster, Canvas convened a conference in Serbia's capital to train the next generation of international U.S.-backed regime change operatives. Among the foreign activists who came to Belgra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 23:44
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela documented
“that confidentially announced another color revolution was forming in Latin America. Student movements are only at the beginning of what could be a very long effort to trigger revolution in Venezuela, it declared, crediting Canvas for incit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 24:14
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“All U.S. funded, all to overthrow the Venezuelan government. So that's crazy. And we're going to find out a lot more about it because, of course, Makedo, the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, is one of Guaido's protégés, as you're going to s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 43:34
USAID funded
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies host_asserted
“It's the typical background. But I do want to give you just one little tease for the next one. I'm going to read this paragraph. Part of one of the NGOs called Canvas was involved and hired by USAID. And according to a leaked message from S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 42:23
Mentions (22)
▶ 42:23
It's the typical background. But I do want to give you just one little tease for the next one. I'm going to read this paragraph. Part of one of the NGOs called Canvas was involved and hired by USAID. And according to a leaked message from S…
▶ 15:26
was the window they offered into the center of applied nonviolent action and strategies, or called Canvas, a self-described network of international trainers and consultants with expertise building and running successful nonviolent movement…
▶ 15:56
A 2007 Stratfor report touted the group's success in fomenting color revolutions that befell a number of Eastern Europe and Central Asian states, namely those in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Belarus. Though thei…
▶ 16:23
that Canvas' ability to mobilize and unite desperate factions of a targeted country was among the best on the planet. Though Canvas billed itself as a non-governmental organization, the Stratfor leaks revealed that the group relied heavily …
▶ 16:53
and the Albert Einstein Institute, two of the U.S.-funded entities that effectively serve as money washed for the State Department and USAID. Canva's reliance on grants from U.S.-backed organizations like Freedom House, rather than direct s…
▶ 17:23
Universally targeted designated enemies of the U.S. government were targeted, yet the group's own history provided additional evidence that its function was an extension of the U.S. regime change operations. Canvas was the official outgrowt…
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OTPOR, which translates into resistance, a student group that directed the mass street protests in Serbia against Milosevic. And we've already talked all about that. Within weeks of his removal, the New York Times published a blockbuster re…
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As Ned's co-founder, Alan Weinstein, once famously confessed to The Washington Post, a lot of what we do was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA. In the aftermath of Milosevic's overthrow, Akpor faded into the background of Serbian politi…
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After they toppled Milosevic, the kids who ran OCPOR grew up, got suits and designed canvas. Stratfor's analyst, Marco Pabic, remarked in February of 2010 email characterizing the organization as an exporter revolutionary group that sowed s…
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They are still hooked into U.S. funding and basically go around the world toppling governments that are identified for regime change. Indeed, after applying their Serbian blueprint to stimulate a color revolution in Eastern Europe and Centr…
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Denovik, formerly established Canvas in 2005, officially taking their model for disguising clandestine U.S.-backed protest campaigns as organic, popular revolts to the international level. As Canvas executive director, Popovic was tasked wi…
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to Belarus and Iran. In 2013, investigation by Occupy Wall Street media offshoot revealed just how seriously Popovic took his job as an international regime change agent. By 2007, the canvas chief had successfully leveraged his internationa…
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Based on the review of the Stratfor leaks, journalists Carl Gibson and Steve Horn explained that Popovic passed information to intelligence firms about on-the-ground activist events in countries around the world. The report chronicled how f…
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even transmitting his private communications with foreign activists to the firm. Popovic passed on the information to Stratfor without consent of any of the activists and likely without the activists ever knowing. Stratfor was so grateful f…
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Last name for a part time job. The canvas guy is a close friend slash source. Stratford's vice president of analysis stressed in a March 2010 email discussing the soon to be wife employment, noting that Popovich recommended her for a job wh…
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The following year, the Lovebirds invited a handful of their employees to their Belgrade wedding, a ceremony that Popovich promised would be followed by a serious rock party. A significant portion of Popovich's collaboration with Stratfor c…
▶ 23:44
Two days before the fifth anniversary of Milosevic's ouster, Canvas convened a conference in Serbia's capital to train the next generation of international U.S.-backed regime change operatives. Among the foreign activists who came to Belgra…
▶ 24:14
that confidentially announced another color revolution was forming in Latin America. Student movements are only at the beginning of what could be a very long effort to trigger revolution in Venezuela, it declared, crediting Canvas for incit…
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Generation 2007 had matured from youthful student activists to leading representatives of Guaido's U.S.-backed regime change attempt. Within weeks of their ascent, Canvas's work in Venezuela would become more relevant than ever. At around 5…
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Electrical infrastructure was a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authority to deploy cyber tools. Evidence of Washington's involvement in the Venezuela blackout was not limited to theoretical. At the gray zone, Max…
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The electric went down at their airports. They had no way of keeping backup power to communicate with airplanes. These people are evil. Though Washington denied official responsibility for the blackout, Popovich enthusiastically detailed hi…
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describing Guido as a high quality, young and educated man. Speaking to another media source, he added that he wished, in his words, my friend Juan Guido success in his bid to unseat Maduro. Yet Canvas was not the only U.S. government initi…