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The linked article is by Brian Berletic, and he's also posted a video in which he goes over the article and pulls up the sources for his information, providing the links to these sources beneath the video as he always does.

The issue is that the US uses front groups like National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and other NGOs to foment civil unrest in targeted nations, and the article and the video both cover Georgia and Thailand. A starting point is this 2004 article in the Guardian, US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev, which lays out in detail how the US has instigated color revolutions (not always successful) beginning with Yugoslavia and providing the template for how these projects work.

Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.

Ten months after the success in Belgrade, the US ambassador in Minsk, Michael Kozak, a veteran of similar operations in central America, notably in Nicaragua, organised a near identical campaign to try to defeat the Belarus hardman, Alexander Lukashenko.

That one failed. "There will be no Kostunica in Belarus," the Belarus president declared, referring to the victory in Belgrade.

But experience gained in Serbia, Georgia and Belarus has been invaluable in plotting to beat the regime of Leonid Kuchma in Kiev.

The article is worth the read and the 30-minute video is well worth the watch because we all know about these events in general terms but Berletic points to the evidence. Two of his biggest strengths are using only Western or Western-friendly sources; and walking you through how to check various sources' "About" page to see where their funding comes from: NED and Soros' Open Society make frequent appearances in these funding lists.

In this video he also shows how you can search his YouTube page for other videos he has done specifically on NED which is a great resource for future reference.