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Loading ...I’ve been doing some research for my studies in Technology and Culture here at the University of Cottbus and recently stumbled across an organisation called “OTPOR” which was pretty active during the breakdown of the Milosevic government in Serbia 2001. It was a non-violent revolution and the methods this movement were graffiti, concerts, flyers and the internet.
All the conventional media in Serbia were controlled by the dictator Milosevic - radio, television, press; everything was a part of the political mainstream. The young, well educated “OTPOR” activists used the internet to communicate and spread their message. The system didn’t know what to do. There was no radio station they could shut down and no prominent leader to arrest. The old systems worked like western medicine – find the location of the cancer and kill it. OTPOR infected Milosevic’s system in a way it didn’t know how to defend against, it didn’t know what and who to kill, so it was helpless, and OTPOR succeeded in killing off the old system.
Laptops turned out to be more effective than Kalashnikovs. After the successful revolution, “OTPOR” began to export their way of fighting a system to other countries by training other activists with their methods. They succeeded again in Georgia and the Ukraine. But there were also places where they failed, for example in Azerbaijan and Belarus. I thought this particular selection of countries was really interesting and I dug a little deeper. All these countries are geopolitically important - where is the money coming from, and what would the financiers’ interests be?
The big spenders behind the curtain are “Freedomhouse”, a neocon foundation and the “Soros Foundation”, billionaire George Soro’s foundation. These are the people in the background making the important decisions. The next target is supposed to be Venezuela – Ah… “It’s the Oil, Stupid!”
The US apparently has learned from its mistakes; why fight another country the old, expensive way such as is currently failing miserably in Iraq? The war there is costly, unpopular, and not successful at all. Supporting a country’s opposition with some laptops and training is so much cleaner – and a much better return on investment!
Tomorrow’s battlefield is the Internet and online conversation is political martial arts!
(My first blog post in English, yeah!)
Filed under: Censorship, Citizen Journalism, New Education, Online Collaboration, Social Networks, Virtual Communities
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