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secondary_op • today at 10:53 AM • 5 replies • view on HN

US CIA and US State Department Behind Serbia's "Student List" Media N1 and Nova S (United Group) [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300051

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5lwZU7Q5U0

    US government-funded pro-opposition outlet BIRN through its Media Ownership Monitor Serbia project admits the central Student List media channels - N1 and Nova S - were created by former US director of the CIA David Petraeus via KKR and former US Ambassador to Serbia Cameron Munter; 

    The parent United Group was acquired and the media platforms built up from 2013-2014 onward as the center of opposition media in Serbia opposing Serbia’s existing leadership and institutions, and playing a central role in both “student protests” last year and the “Student List” movement this year; 

    United Group was only recently (earlier this year) acquired by Alpac Capital, but KKR still maintains an undisclosed amount of shares 
with the move a likely an attempt to distance US involvement in the media network;

    When “leaderless” and “decentralized” protests are praised in the Western media, scroll down in the article where they eventually admit who the leaders and organizations are behind them, perform a simple internet search to identify the key people and investments making them possible to determine whether a movement is indigenous or the product of foreign interference;

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wallaBBB • today at 11:01 AM

Those two channels with limited cable availability had 0 to do with the extremely horizontal and leaderless Student List, that openly stated will do fuck all on the foreign front apart from stopping manufacturing of Israel’s drones. Btw since you’re “doing your own research” see who supported and even better who installed the former ruling party.

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ordinaryradical • today at 11:04 AM

This channel is literally full of pro-Russian propaganda by a random guy in Bangkok. Show us a substantial source, if there is one.

Or are you simply reproducing a regime’s narrative on here?

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gostsamo • today at 10:57 AM

On the one hand, I have no doubt that the US and everyone else able would push their agenda in uncertain times. On the other, imagining that it is all CIA/FSB and so on denies agency to thousands of people who have put in the effort to change thier country.

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ruther4d • today at 11:21 AM

Sure jan, the country with an all time low in trust for institutions and academia ruled by an strongman-loving, education-bashing fascist is secretly funding meritocracies around the world…

exizt88 • today at 11:01 AM

Conspiracy drivel.

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