Urban revolutions, external factors, local media, Arab Spring, collective political action, social engineering, geopolitical context, National Endowment for Democracy, citizen journalism, socio-economic tensions
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This document examines the role of external factors and local media in triggering collective political actions and urban revolutions, with a focus on the Arab Spring.
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[...] The synergy between external influence and internal failures often generates a revolutionary action. - The signs of a collective action orchestrated from the outside: the case of the 2011 demonstrations in Egypt and the networks of the Muslim Brotherhood. - The risks of such revolutions orchestrated in part by external actors (external powers and their media relays) - Not all collective actions are systematically directed and orchestrated by external actors?? When observing the demands of the protesters in the short video report2, While certain social demands and the overthrow of the corrupt political elite are at the center of the protesters' demands, nonetheless the demands spill over into other themes: the promotion of sexual minorities, the establishment of a secular republic, and the promotion of feminism. [...]
[...] However, external actors in coordination with local partners take care to exacerbate the tensions arising from these evils to trigger a collective revolutionary action. You will have understood the finality of the external actors is to exploit the multiple internal social tensions in a country to find local partners with whom they will organize the uprising. These local partners benefit from national and international media resonance to successfully carry out the mission of political overthrow of the concerned regime. Are these political actors motivated by a real change in the socio-economic situation of the country or their personal interests (taking power to the benefit of their external patrons . [...]
[...] Peasants were then the main revolutionary social category. But since the end of the 20th century, the growth of urban centers, and the accumulation of investment flows related to globalization, urban centers have once again regained their status as the epicenter of popular contestations. II. External factors secretly infiltrated into society - The role of local media and their financial sponsor - Understanding the geopolitical context of the region - The example of the media Alt the National Endowment for Democracy rooted in Lebanese society " He who controls the media controls the minds Jim Morrison The media contribute to social engineering, that is to say to manipulate or shape, amplify events in order to exert media pressure on one of the parties. [...]
[...] https://www.voltairenet.org/article171460.html. Writing by Mondafrique (2023). The GEORGES SOROS takeover of the 2019 Lebanese uprising. https://www.google.com/amp/s/mondafrique.com/moyen-orient/lopa-de-georges-soros-sur-le-soulevement-libanais-de-2019/amp/. Voice4thought (2019). Thawra The Lebanese revolution in art and words. https://youtu.be/6JpvD4mdfmE?si=eyTRJRzinsJ8kA2T. Ici Beyrouth (2024). Georges Soros or the preventive counter-revolution. https://icibeyrouth.com/articles/221887/georges-soros-ou-la-contre-revolution-preventive. CIA (1985). [...]
[...] In 2011, the fatal incident of the vegetable vendor who tried to recover his confiscated stall and was thrown into a trash bin by police officers sparked emotion and popular anger throughout urban Tunisia and beyond. In Lebanon, a specific event or several specific events triggered widespread public anger. However, can we be satisfied with these explanations? Do social causes and tragic events alone convince a certain number of individuals to overthrow a political regime, knowing that the latter has the means of physical and psychological repression? The Arab Springs we previously mentioned did not have the idyllic outcome that international media promised at the time. As proof, what is the current state of Tunisia? [...]
