Hey everyone, this is moderate rebels and I am Ben Norton. My co-host, Max Blumenthal, has a new show

hosted over at the platform Rock Finn, that is R-O-K-F-I-N. His show is called Foreign Agents.

And we've been facing a lot of increasing censorship on YouTube and Facebook and

Twitter, big tech Silicon Valley corporations are being extremely aggressive and cracking down

on alternative voices and independent media. So Max has a new show over at Rockfin, which has no

censorship. It's a great new independent platform. There's a lot of

cool independent journalists over there. So you can find his show foreign agents. I also have a new

show at Rock Finn called Propaganda Today. So we're still going to continue bringing you moderate rebels

regularly. And in this episode today, Max spoke with Marcy Smith Parenthi talking about

two different issues. One is the U.S. government-backed regime change guru Gene Sharp,

one of the masterminds of the U.S. regime change strategies and soft coups that we've seen targeted many countries.

And they also spoke about another issue, which you're not allowed to really even mention

on YouTube. Otherwise, the algorithm will just go crazy. It'll censor the video and all of that.

So if you want to check that out, you can go over to R-O-K-F-I-N.com, Rockfin.

But this is going to be the discussion that they had about Gene Sharp.

And welcome to foreign agents.

I'm here with Marcy Smith Parenti, who has done some incredible work on two issues that I think are essential to

talk about today.

The first one is that we're going to talk about is Gene Sharp, who's someone who's been

widely praised in progressive media as a guru of nonviolence, a kind of theoretician in

the vein of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi,

but he's someone who I realized is enormously influential, if not the most influential figure,

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