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    SYNOPSIS


    This book seeks to demystify the nature and the
    causes of the Arab “revolutions”, better known as the
    “Arab Spring” – to use the term generally used by the
    “world community” (itself a euphemistic term for the
    transnational elite). It is demonstrated that the ultimate
    aim of the transnational elite with respect to all the
    Arab “revolutions”, as well as the attempted color
    revolution in Iran in 2009, has been to secure the full
    integration of all the Arab regimes and Iran into the
    New World Order (NWO). In other words, the world
    order that was established following the collapse of
    the Soviet block and the parallel universalization,
    through the process of neoliberal globalization, of the
    system of the internationalized market economy and
    its political complement, representative ‘democracy’,
    as well as its ideological complement that justifies the
    need for the drastic restriction – if not abolition – of
    national sovereignty, under the pretext of the
    protection of human rights and the related new
    doctrine of the ‘Right to Protect’.

    Although the ultimate aim of the transnational elite
    has been the same with regard to all the Arab
    “revolutions” (and indeed the previous wars
    launched by the same elite against Yugoslavia,
    Afghanistan and Iraq), the means used to achieve it
    have differed substantially according to the particular
    country involved, despite the fact that they all
    constitute, in effect, variations of the practices used
    by the West in bringing about regime change in
    Eastern Europe through a series of instigated “color
    revolutions” over the past two decades or so.

    Thus, in the case of Iran, the process of regime
    change began in 2009 with an unsuccessful attempt
    to instigate a color revolution, which functioned as
    the precursor of the Arab “Spring”. This process may
    eventually culminate in some sort of military strike
    that will complement a new – and successful — color
    revolution.

    In the cases of Tunisia and Egypt, it was the
    transnational elite itself that triggered the mass
    uprisings in these countries – which were, in fact,
    “waiting to happen” – at a time of its own choosing,
    so that its plans could be materialized. These plans
    were, on the one hand, the replacement of the failed
    client regimes of Ben Ali and Mubarak respectively
    with a new kind of client regime based on Islamic
    “democratization”, and, on the other, the
    development of armed insurrections in Libya and
    Syria, and, possibly, another color revolution in Iran.

    Finally, in the cases of Libya and Syria, it was the
    armed insurrections pre-planned by the transnational
    elite (disguised as color revolutions once again) and
    backed by a direct intervention by NATO in the former
    case and an indirect one (for the time being) in the
    latter, which have led or are about to lead to the
    replacement of the non-client regimes of Gaddafi and
    Assad respectively.

    The demystification of the Arab Spring is particularly
    important given that its nature has been completely
    distorted by the world mass media, in an
    unprecedented manipulation of world public opinion
    which makes the ‘media war’ launched during the Iraq
    invasion seem like a dress rehearsal. This effectively
    totalitarian manipulation of public opinion by the
    world mass media – directly or indirectly controlled by
    the transnational elite – has been seen for the first
    time with respect to Libya and Syria in particular.
    These mass media have almost unanimously
    distorted not just the ultimate causes and real aims of
    the military campaigns, but have sometimes even
    engineered the very ‘facts’ leading to them – through
    unidentified and sometimes even faked videos, false
    reports of international NGOs (financed by the
    transnational elite!) and other techniques, which have
    then been used as primary sources by ‘serious’ world
    media to reproduce the transnational elite’s
    propaganda. Furthermore, the alternative (or social)
    media which have emerged in the NWO (Facebook,
    Twitter etc.) have played a crucial role in mobilizing
    protesters in Arab countries and in justifying the
    same campaigns of the transnational elite to the rest
    of the world.

    In other words, for the first time in History, there has
    been an almost totalitarian control of public opinion,
    since not only has the ‘silent majority’ been directly
    controlled through the official media, but the active
    minorities have also been indirectly controlled
    through the alternative media. If we add to this the fact
    that the international liberal “Left” has also, actually,
    been supporting the campaigns of the transnational
    elite indirectly (through its wholehearted support for
    the so-called “revolutionaries” participating in the
    Arab Spring), then the mass manipulation of world
    public opinion becomes clear.


    AUTHOR

    Takis Fotopoulos is a political philosopher, and
    economist who founded the inclusive democracy
    movement. He is noted for his synthesis of the
    classical democracy with the libertarian socialism and
    the radical currents in the new social movements. He
    is editor of Society & Nature/Democracy and Nature/The
    International Journal of Inclusive Democracy. He is also
    a columnist for the Athens Daily Eleftherotypia. He was
    previously (1969–1989) Senior Lecturer in Economics
    at the University of North London. He moved to
    London in 1966 for postgraduate study at the London
    School of Economics, on a scholarship from Athens
    University, after earning degrees in Economics &
    Political Science, as well as in Law from the University
    of Athens. He was a student syndicalist and activist in
    Athens and then a political activist in London, taking
    an active part in the 1968 student movement in
    London, as well as in organisations of the
    revolutionary Greek Left during the struggle against
    the military junta in Greece (1967–74).

    He is the author of Towards An Inclusive Democracy
    (London & New York: Cassell, 1997) which has been
    translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian,
    Greek and Chinese and of the book The
    Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy,
    published by the International Journal of Inclusive
    Democracy (2005). His last book in English is The Pink
    Revolution in Iran and the “Left”(International Journal
    of Inclusive Democracy, 2009). His latest book in
    Greek is Greece as a protectorate of the transnational
    elite: The need for an immediate exit from the EU and
    for a self-reliant economy (Athens: Gordios,
    November 2010). He is also the author of about 1,000
    articles in British, American and Greek theoretical
    journals, magazines and newspapers, several of
    which have been translated into over twenty
    languages (see http://www.inclusivedemocracy.
    org/fotopoulos/).

REDESIGNING THE
MIDDLE EAST
 
The Arab "Revolutions",
Counter-Revolution in Iran and
Regime Change

Takis Fotopoulos
















ISBN: 0-9852710 -7-8  /978-0-9852710-7-7
$19.95 / 323 pp. / 2012
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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION
    Arab “Revolutions”: New means, same ends

    PART I
    The New World Order of neoliberal globalization and
    “democracy

    1.        The significance of Neoliberal globalization
    2.        Political globalization, the transnational elite and its “wars”
    3.        Ideological globalization and the mass media
    4.        The “Arab Spring”: a case of globalization in action

    PART II
    The attempted color “revolution” in Iran as the precursor
    of the Arab “Spring”: Towards a Persian “Spring”?

    5.      The aims of the transnational elite, social divisions and
    the 2009 elections
    6.       The attempted color “revolution” in Iran and the role of
    the Left
    7.       Preparing the ground for regime change
    8.       From sanctions to a “Persian Spring” and regime change?

    PART III
    Redesigning the Middle East through Islamic
    “democratization”: The cases of Tunisia and Egypt

    9.       Tunisia: the transnational elite’s pilot scheme for Islamic
    ‘democratization’
    10.      The road to the Egyptian uprising
    11.      The main players in the uprising
    12.      The end of army hegemony in Egypt
    13.      The rise of "Islamic" “democratization” as part of the New
     World Order

    PART IV
    Redesigning the Middle East through armed insurrection:
    the cases of Libya and Syria

    14.     The pseudo “revolution” in Libya and the social base of
    the two sides
    15.     The NATO military campaign for regime change
    16.     The replacement of the Qaddafi regime with a new client
    regime based on armed factions
    17.     The role of the degenerate “Left” in the campaign for
    regime change
    18.     The color “revolution” in Syria as a cover for armed
    insurrection
    19.     The role of the transnational elite and the "Islamists" in the
    insurrection

    Conclusions