By
Brandon Turbeville
In May 2015, protests began erupting in Skopje, Macedonia against the
Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his government. The protests, led by
Zoran Zaev, were allegedly in response to the massive spying and
surveillance of Macedonian officials and other individuals as well as an
alleged cover-up of a killing of a young man by police in 2011. The
protests were largely focused on the issue of government corruption,
with tens of thousands of people in the streets of Skopje, demanding the
Prime Minister’s resignation as well as that of other members of his
government.
A major protest occurred on May 5 and several other anti-government
protests have taken place since then. While some protests have remained
peaceful, there has been widespread violence from other demonstrations.
On the May 5 protest alone, violent clashes took place between
protesters and police with injuries taking place on both sides.
In the days that followed, several Macedonian ministers resigned from
their posts, including the Interior Minister. Prime Minister Gruevski,
however, has refused to resign, characterizing such a move as cowardly
behavior.
On May 17, thousands of protesters once again
descended upon the streets of Skopje to demand the ouster of the current
government. On May 18, however, thousands more took to the streets to
protest
in support of the current government and Prime Minister Gruevski.
An anti-government, anti-Gruevski camp has been set up outside
government offices and remains there indefinitely with several hundred
inhabitants on average.
With such social unrest taking place in Macedonia, one need only look to
the NATO/US and George Soros-funded networks to see the hidden hand of
the Western Color Revolution apparatus at work.
Macedonia may at first seem an unlikely target of the Anglo-American
color revolution apparatus, but the truth is that the small country is
now the latest battleground in a proxy war between Russia and the West.
Not only are the two sides competing for influence over the domestic
affairs and political decisions of the Macedonian government, there is
also the question of geopolitical positions and the agenda of the
creation of micro-states and mini-states. Most notably, however, is the
interest regarding the Balkan Stream pipeline (aka the Turkish Stream
Pipeline).
George Soros, NATO, US Color Revolution Apparatus Behind the Unrest In Macedonia
George Soros is most well-known for playing a major role in the funding and facilitating of the "
Bulldozer Revolution"
in Serbia that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, Georgia’s "Rose
Revolution" of 2003, the 2006 push to move Turkey toward a more Islamist
governing structure, and even the Occupy movement in the United States
among a great many others – none of which brought anything other than
greater misery, impoverishment, and police state mechanisms to bear on
the general public. The Occupy movement, being the only exception, still
brought nothing to its participants except the opportunity to burn off
excess anger and energy along with a few cracked protester skulls. It
was otherwise an incredible waste of time.
In addition, George Soros has been heavily involved in
the social unrest and movement-wrecking activity
that has taken place all across the United States in recent months.
From Florida to Ferguson and then on to Baltimore, George Soros’
Foundations have been involved in making sure that not only are American
citizens unable to overcome racial divisions with mutual cooperation
but that even the racially isolated participants are unable to
accomplish anything of substance.
In Macedonia, like in the United States, Soros organizations work under
the pretense of left cover. In other words, Soros NGOs fund and operate
organizations and movements that are seen as Left in nature but are, in
reality, revolutionary organizations designed to push a political
agenda, change Macedonian culture, install puppet regimes, and
ultimately serve the purpose of the Anglo-American oligarchy.
George Soros’
most well-known NGO is the Open Society Institute,
is highly active in Macedonia and itself works with a plethora of
“civil society organizations” throughout the country that function as
the OSI (and hence the West’s) tentacles in Macedonian society. This is
what has prompted
some in Macedonia to say in regards to Soros that “Soros came into Macedonia like a Trojan horse, and now he is an octopus.”
The OSI has been active in Macedonia for some time, with Vladimir Milcin
heading the organization for nearly twenty years. Milcin was a former
police informant in the days of Communism. Milcin was instrumental in
ratting out a dissident actor Risto Siskov.
The Soros networks in Macedonia are extremely powerful.
As Jay Nordlinger reported for the National Review after having traveled to Macedonia,
In America for the past many years, we have had a plethora of
Soros-funded groups: MoveOn.org, Media Matters, the Center for American
Progress, etc. Macedonia has its rough equivalents. But they mean more
in Macedonia than the Soros-funded groups do in America. Back home, we
have a zillion conservative groups to counter the Soros groups. The Left
has its billionaires, we have ours. You hit me with Soros? Okay, I’ll
hit you with a Koch or two. In Macedonia, I’m told, there is no
tradition of donating money to a cause. There aren’t think tanks and
activist groups and the rest on the right. So, the “Sorosoids” own the
field.
While this may be a bit of an exaggeration – the Right clearly has its
own agents of control and dissemination - it is clearly true that the
Soros influence extends far beyond being able to drive public opinion
through clever networking ideas Indeed, through a much tighter grasp
upon media outlets themselves, Soros is vastly more influential in the
way that news and events are reported than in other locations, even
those located in Eastern Europe.
That being said, it should be pointed out that Macedonian
news outlets like Telma and 24 Vesti
are both major players in promoting the anti-government protests (in
addition to other operations). Both of these outlets are funded by
George Soros.
Indeed, even “opposition leader” Zoran Zaev is a notorious Soros-funded
agent with close connections to the CIA. Not only Zaev, but his entire
Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) party (the former Communist
party) has been entirely taken over by the Soros machine. As Wayne
Madsen writes,
Zaev and [Radmila] Sekerinska are said by Macedonian insiders to be
nothing more than fronts for former Prime Minister and President Branko
Crvenkovski who continues to head up the SDSM and accept large amounts
of largesse from such CIA NGO laundry operations as the National
Democratic Institute (NDI), National Endowment for Democracy (NED),
Freedom House, and Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI) to foment a
themed revolution against Gruevksi's right-of-center VMRO-DPMNE
government.
It is also a known fact that the OSI receives are large amount of money from the US State Department’s USAID.
Interestingly enough, Assistant Secretary of State for European and
Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, has been charged by Macedonian
intelligence of conspiring with Zaev of the SDSM.
Wayne Madsen further describes the role of Victoria Nuland by writing:
The unapologetic foul-mouthed Nuland met on the side of the 51st Munich
Security Conference in Germany with Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola
Poposki and President Gjorge Ivanov to express her displeasure at
Gruevski's insurrection charges against her friend Zaev and his SDSM
co-conspirators. Earlier, Nuland had offered to mediate a long-standing
dispute between Greece and Macedonia over the latter's use of the name
Macedonia, which some Greeks consider to be a solely Greek name.
Macedonian observers viewed Nuland's interest in the name dispute to be a
trap that would enable a pro-U.S. government, along with the Zionist
and global banker baggage that comes with any such «themed» coup d'etat,
to seize power in Skopje. Nuland and her co-conspirators were hoping
for a replay of Kiev in what can be termed «Kiev Version 2.0.»
Nuland and her co-conspirators in Skopje are alarmed over the speed at
which the Macedonian security services rounded up the coup plotters.
Macedonian police, in raids conducted in Skopje and Veles, seized five
laptop computers, three desktop computers, 19 mobile phones, 100 CDs and
DVDs, 17 hard disks, and 9 savings deposit books used by the coup
plotters, including a number linked to Soros-financed NGOs. The bank
accounts of the plotters reportedly were flush with healthy cash
deposits from the CIA as the date of the planned coup approached.
The use of social media by the Soros/CIA coup plotters should come as no
surprise. Social media served at the very core of the themed
revolutions sponsored by the CIA and Soros twice in Ukraine (Orange
Revolution and Euro-Maidan uprising), Jasmine Revolution (Tunisia),
Lotus Revolution (Egypt), Rose Revolution (Georgia), Tulip Revolution
(Kyrgyszstan), and Green Revolution (Iran). In the case of Macedonia,
there are clear indications that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) Thomas Melia,
responsible for DRL’s work in Europe, including Russia, as well as the
Middle East and North Africa, conspired directly with Zaev to mount a
coup against the Gruevski government. Melia is the former deputy
director of Freedom House, a Cold War-era neoconservative bevvy of U.S.
war hawks based in New York. Although founded in 1941 by such
progressives as Eleanor Roosevelt, Ralph Bunche, journalist Dorothy
Thompson, novelist Rex Stout (creator of Nero Wolfe), and Republican
presidential candidate Wendell Willkie (who would be considered by
today's Republicans in the U.S. as a stark-raving liberal), Freedom
House has devolved into a neoconservative chatter source having employed
as their board members in recent years such war hawk cretins as Paul
Wolfowitz, Ken Adelman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Donald Rumsfeld, and Otto
Reich. Freedom House has been caught red-handed funneling CIA money to
opposition groups in Iran, Sudan, Russia, and China. In essence, Freedom
House, like Soros's NGOs, serves as a conduit for CIA support for
rebellious opposition forces in dozens of countries around the world,
countries that now include Macedonia, as well as Hungary, Venezuela,
Syria, Egypt, Serbia, Jordan, Mexico, and Cuba.
In addition, it has been reported by a number of media outlets,
most notably the Russian and Macedonian press, that George Soros has tapped into the Canvas network, enlisting the organization to “help” in Macedonian protests.
According to Macedonia Online,
Canvas members have managed to get themselves permanently banned from
ever entering Russia, but they are welcome in the Macedonian capital.
Soros Open Society Institute and the CIA via its fronts (PNAC, NED,
USAid) have hired Canvas to do work in Macedonia. Canvas issued a memo
to Macedonian students (three weeks prior to protests) that they would
award the two best protest ideas with $1,500.
The ideas were sent to Sonja Ismail, daughter of Guner Ismail, a popular SDSM member and official.
Macedonia Online further describes the Canvas organization by stating the following:
The gang pretending to be NGOs and trained to overthrow Governments and
stage Coups around the world is paying $1,500 for ideas how to better
organize demonstrations, reports Vecer.
That gang is Soros' Open Society Institute, USAid (Front for the CIA)
and the Forum Group (another Soros "NGO"). This group has already backed
and financed not just the Macedonian opposition SDSM, but their
activists & protests, dating back to 2011.
Serbian based Canvas led by Srgja Popovic who specializes in
demonstrations has been hired both by Soros and the CIA to "help" in
Macedonia. Canvas has gained quite the notoriety. Namely, the UAE has
listed Canvas in the same ranks as Al-Qaeda, it is the only non-muslim
terrorist organization!
Canvas and Srgja Popovic were instrumental in bringing chaos to Ukraine
(look at Ukraine today) and in removing Egypt's Hosni Mubarak from power
(look at Egypt now).
[...]
Canvas first earned its notoriety for bringing down Milosevic. But it
didn't stop there. Canvas was repeatedly hired by the CIA to organize
protests in Gruzia, Moldavia, the Maldives, Lebanon, Egypt, Ukraine....
Canvas first appeared in Macedonia in 2009, when it became apparent the
SDSM will be in opposition once again. The thug for hire himself Srgja
Popovic was present in Ohrid to christen the opening of a "Canvas
Academy" where future protesters and activists would be trained and be
called upon when the time is right.
Who was the financier of this academy? USAID and Soros. Soros employees Gjuner Ismail and Sasho Ordanovski were the promoters.
"Students were paid and agrgresively trained on how to protest in
December of 2014 and January of 2015. Srgja Popovic himself showed up
and met with Zaev in March, April and early May 2015. On May 6th Canvas
(SDSM) activists violently attacked policemen, injuring 38", reported
Vecer.
Canvas was heavily involved in the death of Russian opposition leader
Nemtsov, just few days before the opposition protest. The goal was to
destabilize the situation, create internal conflict. But most Russian
saw through the orchestrated murder for what it was, an ordered hit.
When one takes into account the wife of Canvas' leader worked at
Stratfor (another CIA front), then things become clear, says Vecer.
Prior to Canvas, Serbia had another group created by undercover NGOs. It
was called "Otpor", financed by Freedom House, another front for the
CIA. Even the UN investigated Freedom House for their ties to the CIA. Members of Otpor have today joined the ranks of Canvas.
Macedonia Online only echoes a report written by Tony Cartalucci of Land Destroyer Report in 2011 entitled “
CIA Coup-College,” where Cartalucci exposed Canvas by writing
After its success, Serbia's Otpor would continue receiving funds from the West and become a "CIA-coup college" of sorts, under the name CANVAS, or "Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies." It appears that after the Egyptian April 6 Youth Movement finished attending the US State Department funded confab in New York City in 2008, it would make a trip to visit CANVAS in 2009. From there, it took CANVAS's "curriculum" and apparently their logo, and began assembling a US-funded mob in Egypt.
Amongst CANVAS's current "partners" are the Albert Einstein Institution, Freedom House, and the International Republican Institute (IRI). The IRI includes amongst its board of directors John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Brent Scowcroft. When John McCain says "We should have seen this coming," in regards to the unrest in Egypt, he obviously isn't talking about himself since he helped make it happen.
[...]
A final note to consider is that CANVAS is on record in Foreign Policy magazine's article "Revolution U,"
assisting the "Rose Revolution" of Georgia, the "Orange Revolution" of
the Ukraine, and is currently working with networks from Belarus,
Myanmar (Burma) and 50 other countries. Taking a look at their
activities and the overall globalist agenda, it is clear they are
involved in regime change that will directly assist the globalists in
their encirclement of Russia and China.
Who Wiretapped Whom?
While the justification for the protests has been presented as a
wiretapping and surveillance scandal, there is a great deal of question
as to who actually surveilled whom. For instance, while the Western and
Soros-funded press is clear that the Macedonian government wiretapped
the “opposition” and additional officials, other evidence suggests that
it was the other way around and that the “opposition” actually
wiretapped members of the Macedonian government.
For instance,
as NPR has reported with the certainty of Macedonian government’s guilt,
The small Balkan country of Macedonia is in turmoil after it was
revealed that the government wiretapped 20,000 people. . . . . On Sunday
night, tens of thousands of people surrounded this building, demanding
the resignation of Gruevski, the conservative who has run this country
for the last nine years. They say Gruevski's government has paid off
judges, rigged votes and framed political opponents for crimes. A
leftist opposition leader, Zoran Zaev, says it's all on tape. He
released 670,000 secretly recorded conversations from 20,000 Macedonian
phone numbers. Shumanska says the government is spying on its own
citizens.
But, as Wayne Madsen points out, the true nature of the wiretapping
scandal may be more complicated than what is being presented in the
Western media. In fact, it may have been the “opposition” who was
responsible for the wiretapping to begin with.
Madsen writes,
In response to Zaev's charge that Gruevski wiretapped 20,000
Macedonians, including taping phone calls between Zaev and his young
daughter, the Macedonian government charged that it was Zaev and his
associates, working with a foreign intelligence agency believed to be
the CIA, to overthrow Gruevski's government. An obvious flight risk,
Zaev was ordered to turn in his passport to the authorities. Others, in
addition to Zaev, accused of working with the CIA to oust Gruevski
include Zaev's associates Sonja Verusevska and Branko Palifrov, as well
as the former director of the Office of Security and
Counter-intelligence (DBK), Zoran Verusevski. Gruevski charged that Zaev
threatened to disclose sensitive information about his government
provided to the SDSM by the CIA, referred to as "the bomb" in the
Macedonian media, unless Gruevski appointed a caretaker government that
would lead to early parliamentary elections. Gruevski has called Zaev's
gambit nothing more than blackmail pressure in order that a snap
election be called. As far as pressuring the Gruevski government to
resign and call early elections, Nuland resorted to the same gambit that
was used in Kiev to oust Yanukovych.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reporter Michael Martens, who reported on
the Macedonian coup plot, claimed in an interview with Macedonian
television that his initial report on the wiretapping issue had been
altered by certain parties inside Macedonia. Martens said that with a
population of 2 million, to wiretap 20,000 people would have even far
exceed the capabilities of the East German Stasi. In any event, Martens
said the 20,000 figure was not true and that Macedonian media and
politicians had misquoted him and his article. However, the truth has
never been on the side of provocateurs like Nuland and her
neoconservative cabal of plotters and disinformation specialists.
The Methods Of Color Revolution In Macedonia
Macedonia
unfortunately finds itself in an ethnically and nationalistically
susceptible state. Since its formation in 1991, Macedonia has found
itself at odds with Greece and Bulgaria (two bordering states) over a
naming and territorial controversy as well as with Kosovo, Serbia, and
Albania (three other bordering states) in regards to “ethnic Albanians,”
from whom a movement has emerged that often flirts with separation.
While the Albanians are a minority in Macedonia, they are about 25% of
the population
according to some statistics,
large enough to cause a stir when agitated. Because these Albanians
mostly live near the Albania-Kosovo border, they can be tempted to push
for a “greater Albania” on the same model as the Kurds inhabiting Iraq,
Iran, Syria, and Turkey push for a Kurdistan.
In addition, because of the firm grip that George Soros and his networks
have on the Macedonian media, it is much easier to disseminate a
certain viewpoint to the population than in a country with competing
viewpoints. This is especially relevant when one considers that the
total population of Macedonia is only about 2 million people, thus
making the goal of reaching the majority of the population with that
message a possibility that is all the more real.
Journalist and Geopolitical analyst, Andrew Korybko describes the
situation on the ground inside Macedonia as ripe for a color revolution
precisely because of these elements, also pointing out that
the ‘opposition’ was already boycotting the Parliament as it was,
thereby creating the perfect social situation for a Color Revolution to
took root and be ‘convincingly’ broadcast to outside audiences. All of
these factors came together to create a situation that the West
couldn’t’ resist destabilizing, if only for the fact that its
demographics provide it with easily controllable variables to that make
for a perfect Color Revolution test scenario.
The Reasons For The Color Revolution
While geopolitical positioning, geostrategic jostling, and the desire
for political influence are most certainly reasons for the
destabilization of the Macedonian government, the most acute issue
regarding Macedonia is the question of the
Balkan Stream Pipeline (aka the Turkish Stream Pipeline).
The Balkan Stream, of course, is a Russian restart of the
South Stream Pipeline,
which would have stretched from Russia through the Black Sea to
Bulgaria to Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Austria. The oil and gas
would then have been delivered to Europe. This project was abandoned
after
Bulgaria was bullied by the EU (and the United States) into reneging on its promise to participate.
The Balkan Stream
is now a plan to take that Russian gas and oil from Russia and bring it
through Turkey, into Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, and in to
Austria. It will be a replacement for the South Stream pipeline and an
alternate route to provide oil and gas to Europe, particularly now that
the decision has been made to begin
bypassing Ukraine in 2019.
Currently, Russia provides Europe with about 30% (
or 1/3)
of its energy. This provides not only the obvious benefits of profits
and services to both countries but it also ensures that Russia has
Europe over a barrel, the EU being dependent upon the oil and gas rich
nation for a wide variety of energy sources. Thus, it ensures dependence
upon Russia and thus better (theoretically) international conduct
between the two countries if for no other reason than the EU would be
hesitant to provoke Russia for fear of having its oil and gas cut off.
The US and NATO have been frantically trying to remove this leverage over Europe by attempting to
sabotage oil pipelines in the Middle East
that might benefit Iran in favor of oil deals that would benefit Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and other Gulf State feudal monarchies, all essentially
satellites of the Anglo-American oligarchy. It is precisely why the US
was so adamantly opposed to Bulgaria’s participation in the South Stream
project.
As Andrew Korybko comments,
I think that the harsh reaction is definitely due to the fear that
Russian influence in the Balkans can serve as the backdoor to soft
influence over the rest of Europe. In reality, however, the completion
of Balkan Stream would at the very least be a continuation of the
existing state of affairs where Russia provides around 30% of the EU’s
energy needs. Balkan Stream is basically a replacement for South Stream,
which for its own part would have been a replacement for the
Ukrainian-bypassing pipelines that will be phased out by 2019. The
discomfiting fact that EU policy makers try to forget is that they can’t
survive without Russian gas – it’s impossible. The EU and Russia are
natural partners by virtue of their geography and history, and the
completion of Balkan Stream will reinvigorate their positive bilateral
relations.
The conflict, however, is that the US absolutely does not want this to
happen since it understands that it would lessen its control over
Europe, and consequently Eurasia. One needs only to reference former
National Security Advisor and noted Polish-American geostrategic
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s ‘The Grand Chessboard’ to see this explicitly
stated. Therefore, the US wants to use its proxy EU elites to enforce
pressure on whichever leader or country wants to build pragmatic
relations with Russia, hence the current externally driven
destabilization in Macedonia. The future of the Balkans runs through
Macedonia, and the country is now the latest flashpoint of the New Cold
War.
Of course, it is also important to point out that the question of the
creation of “micro-states” and “mini states” on the Brzezinski model is,
as always, readily present. This method is essentially both a strategy
of tension and a goal of creating a world where previously united
nations are reduced to petty impotent and squabbling pseudo-states
incapable of standing up to any major government, corporation, or bank.
Likewise, a planet of peoples who are incapable of viewing anything
other than the convenient scapegoat given to them by the world oligarchy
will be incapable of resisting the power and will of that oligarchy. In
the absence of a fully formed “micro state,” the ability to use poorly
drawn borders, ethnic conflicts, racial tension, and religious
fundamentalism/antagonism provides this oligarchy with the ability to
play national governments and their populations like a fiddle.
Macedonian Reception
The attempt to present the Macedonian color revolution as the legitimate
will of the Macedonian people – as in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and others
– can easily be disproven by talking with Macedonians. Unlike Western
audiences, the Macedonian public is somewhat more hesitant to believe
their billionaire owned media outlets.
If speaking with Macedonians is not convincing enough, one can simply
witness the massive pro-government demonstrations now taking place in
response to the anti-government protests. For instance, on May 18,
tens of thousands of Macedonians
marched in Skopje
expressing support for Prime Minister Gruevski and the Macedonian
government. These marches might not be interpreted as love for the
government and its politicians so much as a response to the obvious
color revolution apparatus at work inside their country. It is more of a
statement of
rejection of outside influence in Macedonian domestic affairs than support for the status quo.
Conclusion
The unrest taking place across Macedonia over the last few months and
currently bringing tens of thousands of Macedonians out into the streets
is the result of a the deployment of the Western-engineered color
revolution apparatus designed to destabilize and overthrown the
Macedonian government, who has agreed to work with Russia to build the
Balkan Stream pipeline through the country. This color revolution,
created and deployed by Western governments, NATO, and the Soros
networks of NGOs, Foundations, and “civil society groups” is an attempt
to remove any leverage Russia may have over the EU and to expand the
hegemony of the world oligarchy.
We must support the Macedonian people in their resistance to this color
revolution and oppose such illegal and unjust intervention here at home.
Recently from Brandon Turbeville:
Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He
has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author
of six books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria. Turbeville
has published over 500 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects
including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties.
Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every
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