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* Robert Williams: 'How Do We Organize for Revolution?': U.S. Funding, Running Cover
* Amir Taheri: Paris Olympics: The Day After


** 'How Do We Organize for Revolution?': U.S. Funding, Running Cover ([link removed])
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by Robert Williams • August 18, 2024 at 5:00 am
* Iran has made no secret of the immense importance it places on the US protests – as a way to export the Islamic revolution. They have been making it clear that the regime sees the protesters at US campuses as an Iranian fifth column in America to be used in the future....
* According to the analysts, "60 percent of Pro-Palestine campus protestors were not authentic online users...." -- XPOZ analyst, iranintel.com, August 2, 2024
* At UCLA, "Those who occupied encampments on the university's property disallowed Jews from passing through the quad unless they would disavow Israel and, by extension, their Jewish faith. UCLA's position had been that the encampments preventing Jewish students from accessing certain areas of campus were not its responsibility." – nationalreview.com, August 14 2024 according ([link removed]) to National Review
* Intelligence chief Avril Haines was not particularly forthcoming about exactly where and how Iran is peddling its influence on US campuses. Haines's only suggestion was to warn Americans to be "more vigilant". How does one go about being "more vigilant" if he is not given a clue what to be vigilant about?
* Why are Haines and Kirby deliberately misleading the public about the nature of these protests which are anything but organic?
* The protests were clearly planned well in advance of October 7. One of the lead organizers of the campus protests, the Hamas-affiliated ([link removed]) Students for Justice in Palestine had a toolkit ([link removed]) ready for a "Day of Resistance" just days after the massacre. While Haines and Kirby claim that the protests are "organic" and "in good faith," Hamas, an Iranian proxy, had been organizing protests on US campuses ([link removed]) .
* Other foreign powers are also involved in stirring up the pro-Hamas protests: China, is maneuvering by means of an organization named Code Pink....
* Significantly, the People's Forum was behind the three-day conference ([link removed]) in Detroit, "People's Conference for Palestine." At the conference, the People's Forum's executive director Manolo De Los Santos -- to great applause -- called ([link removed]) for the complete destruction of the United States....
* Answer Coalition, according ([link removed]) to NGO Monitor, along with a multitude of pro-Hamas organizations, including CODEPINK, Palestinian Feminist Collective, Students for Justice in Palestine Chicago, American Muslims for Palestine Chicago, National Lawyers Guild -Task Force on the Americas/San Francisco Bay Area chapter, ANSWER Coalition – Chicago, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), and National Students for Justice in Palestine are planning to "March on the DNC" on August 19-22, when the Democratic Party is scheduled to host its convention in Chicago.
* "Pro-Palestinian protesters are backed by a surprising source: Biden's biggest donors," Politico revealed ([link removed]) in May. "The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker..."
* Finally, the Biden-Harris administration itself, and therefore taxpayer money, is funding the protests ([link removed]) , through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)... a $50 million grant was awarded from the EPA through the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to 'Climate Justice Alliance,' a group that engages in pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic activities." -- US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, May 21, 2024
* US officials shamefully use disinformation to confuse the American public.

Pictured: Students participate in a demonstration in support of Hamas outside Columbia University campus on November 15, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The Iranian regime's significant role in the ongoing pro-Hamas protests in the US was finally acknowledged on July 9 by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.

"In recent weeks, Iranian government actors have sought to opportunistically take advantage of ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza, using a playbook we've seen other actors use over the years. We have observed actors tied to Iran's government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support to protesters."

Haines made it sound as if the Iranian regime had been sitting on its hands until "recent weeks," but apparently Iranian government agents have been active all along in stoking the protests, including in Ivy League universities such as Harvard and Princeton.

According to Jason M. Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) and a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute's Iran Program:

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** Paris Olympics: The Day After ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • August 18, 2024 at 4:00 am
* As no constitutional limit is set for the president's decision to name a new government, the nation could be left on autopilot with a caretaker government dealing with routine matters for an unspecified amount of time.
* The least risky way out of the current maze is for Macron to allow his parliamentary group to vote for a NPF candidate, but refuse to vote for the leftist bloc's silliest pseudo-Maoist program. That would provide time and space for the least ideologically-afflicted members of the bloc, some of them with a culture of governance, to remember that politics is the art of the possible not Aladdin's magic lamp.

Pictured: French President Emmanuel Macron attends the evening session of the athletics event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, on August 10, 2024. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)

Many had dismissed it as a costly indulgence for a nation facing economic hardship, while some condemned it as a dangerous diversion from the deepest political crisis France faces since the 1950s.

And, yet, the two-week long Summer Olympics hosted by Paris is now universally lauded as a success in organizational, artistic, and of course sporting terms. For two whole weeks the usually grumpy French, some of them in civil war mood, sheathed their daggers to have a good time together.

The old ditty that sport unites while politics divides sounded more plausible than ever.

The fact that man doesn't live by bread alone has been known ever since humanity acquired the minimum of security without which no metaphysical speculation is possible.

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