These countries included the Ukraine, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Somalia, and Lebanon. Even in the core capitalist countries the overwhelming majority of citizens are subjected to brutal wars of economic austerity. These social convulsions seem to have become more numerous in recent years and have become more frequent since the mysterious 9/11 attacks, the 2008 financial implosions and European crises and beyond. Ishamael Hossen Zadeh, a professor of economics at Drake University argues that the social turbulences are induced, nurtured and orchestrated from outside, that is by the USA and its allies and of course in collaboration with their class allies from inside ( the bourgeoisie compradors).
Contrary to long established historical pattern of social revolutions, where the desperate and disenfranchised masses rebelled against the ruling elites, in most of the recent struggles it is the elites that have instigated insurgencies and civil wars against the masses. There are shared interests and collaborative schemes of the international plutocracies against the global 99%. Professor Zadeh reasons that the official rationale offered by the US and its allies that the goal of supporting anti government opposition forces in places like Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela e.t.c is to spread democracy no longer holds any validity, it can easily be dismissed as a harebrained pretext to global neo liberalism and austerity economics. Abundant and irrefutable evidence shows that in places where the majority of citizens voted for and elected governments that were not to the liking of Western powers; these powers mobilized their local allies and hired all kinds of mercenary forces to overthrow the duly elected government thereby quashing the majority votes. Such blatant interventions to overturn the elections that resulted from majority votes include the promotion of Orange Revolution in Ukraine (2004 and 2014), Rose Revolution in Georgia (2003) Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, The Green Revolution in Iran (2009). They also include the rejection and effective annulment of the duly elected Hamas government in Palestine in 2006.
