Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and “The Arab Spring”: Who’s Funding the Protest Movement? Who’s Behind it? | Global Research

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and “The Arab Spring”: Who’s Funding the Protest Movement? Who’s Behind it? | Global Research

[Potent News] We’re here with Michel
Chossudovsky, and we’re having a little chat. I believe we were talking
about, basically, the protests that are happening here that were
started up by the Adbusters initially. I’ve got a couple of questions.
Are you encouraged by what you see happening with the protests?

[Michel Chossudovsky]
Well, I’m encouraged by the fact that people across the United States
and Canada are rising up against an economic and political agenda. And
they are the victims of the neo-liberal agenda. I’m not encouraged by
the way this Occupy Wall Street movement is proceeding, because it was
initiated by a couple of organizations: Adbusters, which is a magazine
in Vancouver, and the other one was Anonymous, a social media hactivist
website, which does not reveal its identity in any way.

I think the problem is
that these promoters of the Occupy Wall Street movement have been
actively planning a whole network of activities across America with
social media, websites, and so on, for several months. In fact, the
Occupy Wall Street website was launched back in, I think, in July
[2011]. We don’t know who these people are. When we go to their
websites, there’s no contact information. We don’t know who the leaders
are. These are shadow leaders.  [scroll down for complete transcript of
interview]