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Exposing US gov't role in Bangladesh regime change: Why PM Sheikh Hasina was overthrown

54 minutes Posted Aug 17, 2024 at 9:00 pm.

Interim leader Muhammad Yunus: Made in USA

Overthrow of Sheikh Hasina

US military base on St. Martin's Island?

Myanmar

China's reliance on Strait of Malacca for oil imports

Bangladesh-China relations

BRICS

US pressure to join Quad

Russia warned of color revolution in Bangladesh

Arab Spring

Was Hasina's undelivered resignation speech fabricated?

Hasina: "White man" demanded military base in Bay of Bengal

Hasina: USA "can overthrow the government in any country"

US-backed 1975 coup against Sheikh Mujib

US-backed 2022 coup against Pakistan PM Imran Khan

US support for protests in Bangladesh

NED funding for Bangladeshi opposition

NED funding of opposition media outlet Netra News

Historical context: Partition, India, Pakistan, 1971 liberation war

Reasons for protests

US-backed color revolutions

US State Department pressure on Bangladesh

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami, & extremism

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The US government supported protests that overthrew Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. New interim leader Muhammad Yunus has been cultivated by Washington for decades. Ben Norton discusses the geopolitical reasons for the regime change; the roles of India, China, and Russia; and the Pentagon's desire to build a strategic military base on Saint Martin's Island.

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