7 May 2011 — C4SS
In a column three months ago (‘Egypt: Let the Looting Begin,’ Feb. 4), I suggested that was really going on in Egypt was somewhat different from the official narrative. In quite a few of the ‘people power’ revolutions in recent years — no matter how sincere the people on the streets — it turned out that there were attempts to orchestrate things by people behind the scenes, for whom ‘people power’ was the very last thing on the agenda. In that column I reported that Frank Wisner — a veteran spook, described by Vijay Prashad at Counterpunch as a ‘bagman of empire,’ was Obama’s man on the ground.
The New Dark Age 