Last month, Stratfor e-mail hacker, Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Today, Occupy published Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated with Strafor by Carl Gibson and Steve Horn. And it’s chilling.
Serbia’s Srdja Popovic is known by many as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere since the late-1990s, and as one of the co-founders of Otpor!, the U.S.-funded Serbian activist group which overthrew Slobodan Milošević in 2000.
Lesser known, an exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor! offshoot CANVAS (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies) have also maintained close ties with a Goldman Sachs executive and the private intelligence firmStratfor (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.), as well as the U.S. government. Popovic’s wife also worked at Stratfor for a year.
These revelations come in the aftermath of thousands of new emails released by Wikileaks’ “Global Intelligence Files.” …
CANVAS Wikipedia entry. Controversy:
Various organisations and individuals, including the governments of Belarus and Iran, as well as former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, have accused CANVAS of being a “revolution-exporter”. CANVAS denies this, emphasizing its role as educator and empowerer of peaceful methods.
Stratfor and Goldman Sachs bringing peaceful revolutions to the world. Far more profitable version of Disaster Capitalism than using bombs and drones.
