Inflection EP12: From the US-engineered Arab Spring in 2011 to “Asia Spring” Today

*Week of August 9-13, 2021*

Inflection is a weekly show featuring Angelo Giuliano and Brian Berletic, discussing recent headlines and in-depth discussion of topics shaping the shift from West to East and unipolarism to multipolarism.

This week we talk about the 2011 US-engineered Arab Spring and how it has slowly transformed into the “Asia Spring.”

*News:*

Mother Jones - Myanmar Opposition Leader: We Need More Help From Biden to Defeat the Military Junta:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/dr-sasa-myanmar-opposition-joe-biden/
Wendy R. Sherman on Twitter discussing her conversation with Myanmar's "National Unity Government's" "Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zin Mar Aung:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DeputySecState/status/1423026455844298754
National Endowment for Democracy - Zin Mar Aung, NED Fellow:
https://www.ned.org/fellows/ms-zin-mar-aung/
National Endowment for Democracy - BURMA 2015: THE MAKE OR BREAK MOMENT FOR DEMOCRATIZATION:
https://www.ned.org/events/burma-2015-the-make-or-break-moment-for-democratization/
National Endowment for Democracy - 2016 Annual Report (pages 39-40):
https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/annual-report-2016-final-web.pdf
US State Department - 2012 International Women of Courage Award:
https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/gwi/iwoc/2012/index.htm

*Main Topic:*

Reuters - Obama, Gaddafi shake hands at G8 dinner (2009):
https://www.reuters.com/article/ozatp-g8-summit-libya-20090710-idAFJOE56900Z20090710
Ynet - Kerry meets Assad, hails 'important moment of change' (2009):
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3675201,00.html
New York Times - U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (2011):
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html
Movements.org - Inaugural AYM Summit and Egypt's Shabab April 6 Movement (2011):
http://web.archive.org/web/20110410231924/http://www.movements.org/blog/entry/first-aym-summit/
Wikileaks - APRIL 6 ACTIVIST ON HIS U.S. VISIT AND REGIME CHANGE IN EGYPT (2008):
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08CAIRO2572_a.html
New York Times - Who Really Brought Down Milosevic?:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001126mag-serbia.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001126mag-serbia.html
Alliance of Youth Movements 2008 Summit:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110701045542/http://allyoumov.3cdn.net/f734ac45131b2bbcdb_w6m6idptn.pdf

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