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Oct 23, 2026

Mel KHOST
82:10
Take a listen to Norm Eisen at Brookings.
Norm EisenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
82:12
acutely cognizant in doing a work of this kind, and we were inspired by other work that's out there, including Gene Sharp's from dictatorship to democracy, in doing a work of this kind and kind of pulling these threads together contemporaneously, today in a modern edition, where there was nothing exactly like this paper, You always have to make choices.
Norm EisenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
82:49
One place where the literature is very rich is on the responsibilities of individuals.
Norm EisenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
82:55
We cite to some of that literature and we talk about the role of the people on page 42.
Norm EisenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
83:46
relationships built by international organizations donors and other international actors and utilized as a non-traditional node of democracy advocacy we talked about a little bit there's much much more
Mel KHOST
84:07
A liberal democracy.
Mel KHOST
84:08
Now, when he talks about Gene Sharp, who wrote the original Color Revolution playbook, of course, it all goes back to Harvard.
Mel KHOST
84:14
And he, of course, graduated from Harvard Law in 91 with Obama, Norm Eisen did.
Larry FedorukHOST
13:01
Put reasonable remarks in the comments section.
Larry FedorukHOST
13:04
Read Gene Sharp's 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action.
Larry FedorukHOST
13:10
Sharp was a political scientist, professor, and theorist who wrote his famous list back in 1973.
Larry FedorukHOST
13:15
And before you start to think, 198 things? How am I going to do all that? Well, just find the list.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
48:51
Arab Spring...
Jay DyerHOST
48:51
By the way, a lot of these follow very similar patterns and models to the Gene Sharp color revolution strategy, which was what George Soros was doing with the CIA in the 1980s under Reagan.
Jay DyerHOST
49:03
This is where we get the color revolution, the orange revolution in Ukraine that actually began back in the 1980s in the post-Cold War Soviet bloc countries.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
49:13
Timeline began in Tunisia, a country that had been under the allegedly corrupt and authoritarian rule of President Zain al-Abidine bin Ali for more than two decades.
Jay DyerHOST
50:54
And there were actually agent provocateurs involved in the student riots as well.
Jay DyerHOST
50:58
And RAND Corporation was studying student riots throughout that whole time period.
Jay DyerHOST
51:01
They wanted to perfect the technique That eventually became the Gene Sharp color revolution democratic model of regime change that the CIA would eventually kind of normalize and adopt through Einstein Institute.
Jay DyerHOST
51:15
We've covered that for 12, 15 years.
Mel KHOST
17:06
This is not new.
Mel KHOST
17:07
It's Gene Sharp color revolution playbook, and unfortunately, they don't care how much havoc they re- wreak on our nation.
Mel KHOST
17:13
As I've said many times, the Hannah Arendt quote from her book, Origins of Totalitarianism, says that, um, "When the people believe everything and nothing at the same time, when they believe everything-- an- a- anything is possible and nothing is true, that is the best time for totalitarians to take over a nation." And frankly, that is where we are right now because the silo that Donald Trump and his PR team and his influencers and his, his media has gone into leaves a lot of independents and a lot of people that aren't sure they're gonna vote without any knowledge of any of the declass that they put out on the White House website.
Mel KHOST
17:50
Because essentially, nobody on the left is, is covering it at all, and it's going on and on.

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Mel KHOST
29:34
But I, I do have to say that a- all of it looks like it's about Donald Trump himself, and I think that the bigger crime was trying to crush the American people that voted for Donald Trump.
Mel KHOST
29:46
I read the Democracy Matters color revolution document that the vicious and, uh, corrupt, um, David Brock of Media Matters and, uh, all of his other NGOs that should've been investigated decades ago and, and shut down, and Isen and Brookings have wr- have written.
Mel KHOST
30:03
These are Gene Sharp, EU overthrowing duly elected presidents over and over playbooks that were played on the United States on a global coordinated scale, mainly through, I believe, the CIA, MI6, and the Five Eyes, to overthrow not just Donald Trump, but to crush MAGA, to crush MAHA, to crush any resistance.
Mel KHOST
30:27
The Center for American Progress, which it was running, uh, essentially our government from 2021 to 2025, is all about ending nation states, achieving Agenda 2030, sustainable development goals, and Atlanticism, meaning the United States is part of Europe somehow.
Lucas BeanHOST
0:50
Fascism survives because people watching it happen don't say or do anything to stop it.
Lucas BeanHOST
0:55
In 1993, political scientist Gene Sharp at the Albert Einstein Institution published a short manual on how ordinary people can dismantle dictatorships without violence.
Lucas BeanHOST
1:05
From Dictatorship to Democracy, Sharp identified 198 methods of nonviolent resistance.
Lucas BeanHOST
1:12
His manual was smuggled into Burma, printed underground in Serbia, and translated into Arabic before the Egyptian Revolution.
Mel KHOST
54:09
Civil resistance, what everyone needs to know.
Mel KHOST
54:11
And, um, frankly, this is an entire, uh, operation to literally run color revolutions based on Gene Sharp's Color Revolution Playbook.
Mel KHOST
54:23
Uh, and if you look through this, you can see very clearly that this entire, um, what do, what do they call it here? Uh, it's an entire hub of civil resistance work And it's Erica Chenoweth, uh, is leading the way in that.
Mel KHOST
54:39
And, um, you can take it down.
Mel KHOST
72:16
Now, as you know from watching my show, I believe Norm Eisen to be the head operator of all of the lawfare that has happened since 2015, late 2015.
Mel KHOST
72:26
You can go all the way back to when he was overthrowing countries and writing playbooks of Gene Sharp, uh, in Europe when he was in the Obama administration as the ethics czar.
Mel KHOST
72:36
But go take a look what he was doing in Prague.
Mel KHOST
72:38
Um, we had also Chief Justice John Roberts was hanging out with, uh, Norm Eisen in Prague, uh, running an international law, uh, opera- uh, conference because they would like to end the Constitution.
John GreenHOST
10:33
By the summer of 1969, they'd brought the demonstrations to an end.
John GreenHOST
10:37
Historians took note of all of this stuff, like historian Gene Sharp published his multi-volume Politics of Nonviolent Action, which was reportedly read by a lot of the original protesters in the Arab Spring of 2011, which reminds us that nonviolent resistance movements advocating for, and in some cases achieving, political change are not just part of history, they're also part of the world in which we live today.
John GreenHOST
10:59
Ideas about nonviolence that began with Leo Tolstoy at the beginning of the 20th century are still very much with us.
John GreenHOST
11:05
And I think it's good to remind ourselves of two things.

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