Thanks for posting this, JL. It's a good followup piece to his Murdoch, Scaife and CIA Propaganda.
Speaking of followup pieces .. the following might make a good companion piece to the op ..
Canadas quiet coup: How a CIA off-shoot helped install Stephen Harper as Canadas prime minister
By Mark Taliano
Posted on January 9, 2015
The biggest threat to Canadas national security is internal. It is the offshoot of an extraordinarily successfulbecause it remains largely undetectedcoup that imposed itself on the country with the federal election of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in 2006, and solidified its impacts with the election of a Conservative majority in 2011.
Author, poet, academic, and former Canadian diplomat Prof. Peter Dale Scott recently disclosed a WikiLeaks cable indicating that the International Republican Institute (IRI), an off-shoot of the CIA, and a subsidiary of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) helped install Stephen Harper as Canadas Prime Minister. This was the coup.
Point 12 of the cable explains that In addition to the campaign schools, IRI will be bringing in consultants who specialize in party renovation to discuss case studies of political parties in Germany, Spain, and Canada which successfully carried out the process.
The party renovation referenced in the cable is the renovation of Canadas indigenous Progressive Conservative Party into a Republican-inspired Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) that is largely subservient to the U.S Empire south of the border.
A similar, but more violent, renovation process occurred in 2009 when the democratically-elected government of Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a U.S-orchestrated coup. It is also the same illegal renovation that is destabilizing Venezuela today, as the US interferes in the internal politics of that country, in what is often described as a soft coup...
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