Jul 8, 2019, 7:36 PM

The Rules of Revolt
truthdig.com
Read this article by Hedges extolling the Tiananmen protests on their 25th anniversary in 2014. It is a paean to "color revolutions" and reads like a neo-liberal manifesto. Hedges like many of his ilk accept the Western bourgeois concepts of "human rights" and "democracy" at face value and do not dare to look behind the curtain of US propaganda. They refuse to accept the fact that the US disingenuously uses the peoples frustrations at certain historic junctures to foment regime change in order to install Western friendly elites that serve the hegemonic rule of Western capital. At best he is an unwitting tool of US imperialism. At worst a conscious agent.

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