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If the whole clown parade is relevant to the story, then enough of it would have leaked by now that there would be no need to resort to silly conspiracy nuts like Mr. Madsen. And if some of the clowns are more important than the rest, then those should be highlighted for the reader.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
A veteran of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the New Left monthly Ramparts, Steve Weissman lived for many years in London, working as a magazine writer and television producer. He now lives and works in France, where he is researching a new book, "Big Money and the Corporate State: How Global Banks, Corporations, and Speculators Rule and How to Nonviolently Break Their Hold."
Having read the article, it doesn't support the claim in its title, either, especially because the article doesn't get to the actual regime change and discusses events in the years before (the link says that this is Part I). However, I think it is still worth to read, because the text is more nuanced while detailing the (initially) successful soft power efforts of American meddlers and their European helpers and is far from being pro-Putin. Basically he claims that infrastructure that was essential to launch and boost the protests was funded by various State Department, private and European funds, and launching Orange Revolution II was a professed option long before the rejection of the EU treaty. I feel he is over-stating his case even here, not acknowledging that many in the network might be idealists taken for a ride and not detailing the relationship of the NGOs and the Yushchenko or Tymoshenko aligned cleptocrats. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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