{"id":126981,"date":"2022-07-15T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T23:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126981"},"modified":"2022-07-15T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T23:44:45","slug":"us-fingerprints-found-behind-sri-lanka-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/15\/us-fingerprints-found-behind-sri-lanka-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"US Fingerprints Found Behind Sri Lanka Unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The New Atlas<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Evidence is emerging that at least some segments of the ongoing protests in Sri Lanka are funded and backed by the US, serving US interests. A digital strategist\u201d given credit by the Western media for the successful toppling of the Sri Lankan government was a volunteer\u201d at a US National Endowment for Democracy-funded election\u201d organization. His group\u2019s involvement in the current protests are a carbon copy of events that unfolded during the 2011 US-engineered Arab Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"US Fingerprints Found Behind Sri Lanka Unrest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ysy6qrXi0m0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Atlas Evidence is emerging that at least some segments of the ongoing protests in Sri Lanka are funded and backed by the US, serving US interests. A digital strategist\u201d given credit by the Western media for the successful toppling of the Sri Lankan government was a volunteer\u201d at a US National Endowment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}