Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

Turning rebellion into money

The marketing of civil disobedience:

"Ukraine, traditionally passive in its politics, has been mobilised by the young democracy activists and will never be the same again.

But while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut revolution" are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes."

Along with references to "similar operations in central America" as well as eastern Europe, the suspicion grows that the US has co-opted more youth movements and rebellions to ensure a predictable outcome than it is willing to admit. This Guardian peice is perhaps only the broadest outline of a long-running and sophisticated campaign that has probably run for decades.

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