Think Tank Proposes Red-Green Ecosystem Theory
Mike Gonzales, a senior fellow at the US conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, recently testified at a House hearing and proposed the concept of a red-green ecosystem, meaning red communism and green radical Islamism are joining forces with the aim of overthrowing the establishment and order of the Western world. The original text notes that paradise as described in the Quran is green, the Prophet often wore a green turban and cloak, early Muslim battle flags were green, and the early Shiite Fatimid Caliphate also used green as its representative color. The argument holds that although the red and green camps have different long-term goals, they share the same short-term anti-Western goal, coordinating through a loose, transnational network of nonprofit organizations, media outlets and social movements with no single central command, and is therefore called an ecosystem.
Symbols in French Protests and Media Narratives
Fox News recently reported that red flags of the French National Students Union appeared in recent French protests, with some protesters wearing Palestinian keffiyehs and banners opposing imperialist wars at the front of the marches. The report linked the phenomenon to the think tank Tricontinental and the online outlet BreakThrough News, saying both are funded by Neville Roy Singham. Singham is a Sri Lankan-American whose father was a scholar who believed in Maoism. He founded the IT consulting firm ThoughtWorks in 1993 and sold it for $785 million in 2017, after which he invested huge sums in a global left-wing network and moved to Shanghai, with his network known as The Singham Network.
Funding Flows Under Investigation and Role in Public Opinion
The United States is investigating whether Singham acted as an agent of Chinese interests without declaring it, and suspects that he moved hundreds of millions of dollars through opaque channels such as shell companies and donor-advised funds, funding far-left or Marxist-related organizations, including Tricontinental and BreakThrough News, as well as The People’s Forum, a training platform active in North America that hosts lectures, workshops and rallies. His wife, Jodie Evans, founded the anti-war organization Code Pink, headquartered in the United States with activities worldwide. The report argues that these think tanks and media outlets exert public-opinion influence in protests in France and across Europe, mainly by rapidly releasing on-the-spot videos, conducting field interviews, and packaging protests in different places into the same global left-wing narrative, but they likely did not directly participate in organizing the events.