Episode Details

This video dives deep into the extensive evidence linking US government funding to the organizations creating the pretext for the protests in Nepal, creating the template used by the protesters, and the tools they used to rapidly overthrow a government of a nation of 30 million people in less than a work week.

References:

BBC - What we know about Nepal anti-corruption protests as PM resigns (Sep. 10, 2025):
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkj0lzlr3ro
NED - Asia Grant Listing 2024:
https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Asia-Grant-Listing-FY24.pdf
NYT - Nepal’s Social Media Ban Backfires as Politics Moves to a Chat Room (Sep. 11, 2025):
https://archive.ph/iZPj3#selection-505.0-508.0
New Atlas - A Tale of Two Protests: Ukraine and Thailand (2014):
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-tale-of-two-protests-ukraine-and.html
WaPo - Thailand’s anti-democracy protests should provoke a harsh rebuke from the U.S. (2014):
https://archive.ph/DTCrt#selection-3591.0-3604.0
CPJ - CPJ: Nepal lawmakers should reject social media bill threatening press freedom (Feb. 2025):
https://cpj.org/2025/02/cpj-nepal-lawmakers-should-reject-social-media-bill-threatening-press-freedom/
Committee to Protect Journalists - Annual Report 2023:
https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CPJ_AR_2023_11.pdf
The Kathmandu Post - FNJ, other groups object to government’s decision to ban social media platforms (Sep. 4, 2025):
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2025/09/04/fnj-other-groups-object-to-government-s-decision-to-ban-social-media-platforms
The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) - About:
https://www.fnjnepal.org/en/page/about-fnj
IFEX -Funding Freedom of Expression – An IFEX Overview (2009):
https://ifex.org/images/international/2009/07/08/ifex_summary_funding.pdf
The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) - Financials:
https://www.fnjnepal.org/uploads/resources/resource_1604827301.pdf (page 5/19)
Freedom Forum Nepal - Network and Partners:
https://freedomforum.org.np/about-us/network-and-partners/
HigherGov - Accountability Lab direct grants:
https://www.highergov.com/awardee/accountability-lab-inc-12419367/
ChildSafeNet - Partners:
https://www.childsafenet.org/partners-1
Hami Nepal - About Us:
https://www.haminepal.org/about
The Gurkha Welfare Trust - Partners and Affiliations:
https://www.gwt.org.uk/about-us/partners-afilliations/
SFT - About:
https://studentsforafreetibet.org/about/
NED - China, Tibet (2019):
https://web.archive.org/web/20200420224744/https://www.ned.org/region/asia/tibet-china-2019/
Office of the Historian - Status Report on Tibetan Operations (1968):
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v30/d342
NYT - Who Really Brought Down Milosevic? (2000):
https://archive.ph/UubU#selection-169.0-172.0
NYT - U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (2011):
https://archive.ph/cvBTH#selection-4323.0-4332.0
US State Department - DRL Internet Freedom Programs Portfolio Evaluation, Pillar 2: Digital Safety (2022):
https://www.state.gov/drl-internet-freedom-programs-portfolio-evaluation/
NED - NED Partner Connects Activists with Critical Digital Tools in Local Languages (Jul. 2022):
https://www.ned.org/ned-partner-connects-activists-with-critical-digital-tools-in-local-languages/
Localization Lab (NED-partner) - Rapid Response:
https://www.localizationlab.org/rapid-response
Localization Lab - Who We Are:
https://www.localizationlab.org/about-us
DRAPAC VPN Project:
https://explore.transifex.com/otf/drapacvpn/
OTF - About Our Funding:
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