Sabby Sabs and Brian Berletic: US-engineered color revolutions in Nepal and Indonesia
The Himalayan nation of 30 million people, wedged between China and India, is slowly returning to normal, less than a week after widespread Gen Z-led protests following a government ban on social media platforms.
Authorities began easing restrictions on Saturday, with curfew and prohibitory orders lifted in the capital, Kathmandu, though sensitive areas remain off-limits to the public.
Hours after appointing former chief justice and anticorruption figure Sushila Karki as the new interim head of government, President Ramchandra Paudel announced in a statement late on Friday that the 275-seat parliament has been dissolved and elections are fixed for March 5.
for a bit more perspective from Vijay Prashad: https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/11/five-theses-on-the-situation-in-nepal/ it strikes me that even though the dying world order is lashing out in a hundred directions the results will be temporary and may even have the opposite effect to the intention: ie waking up the local population to their already… Read more »