False flag techniques...

We can thank the amateurs who were put in charge of overthrowing Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. They are the 'G. Gordon Liddy' element within the contemporary black-ops community. When the coup engineers bungled the Caracas operation, they gave up the blueprint that should raise red flags for anyone thoughtfully analysing the situation in Syria (or the one in Libya).

What was supposed to happen in Venezuela wasn't too complex: foreign funding of legitimate and peaceful dissident groups, pushing those movements towards street protests and then, the psychopathology comes out as clandestine snipers take up positions and begin shooting innocent civilians to death. The media is already prepared to broadcast news of a massacre and repeat the lie that it was the Chavez government that irrationally and maniacally ordered troops to fire on a protest march that was not a threat to state stability.

Unfortunately for the evil-doers, the strength of the Bolivarian Revolution, the deep history of resistance to capitalism's obscenely violent tactics in Latin America and Rodney King style camera work revealed what really happened.

Have we learned nothing from the information revolution that was kickstarted by Wikileaks, Julian Assange and -- allegedly -- Bradley Manning? What good is freedom of information if we are already so easily manipulated? This exact same tactic of rapid disinformation, rapid real-world changes in the wake of disinfo campaign, followed by months/years of the truth coming out is right now being used in Syria. It was used in Libya, too.

What is wrong with everyone? This is plain as day.