Alexander Mercouris devoted his Duran program on Aug. 18 to the coup in Bangladesh, which he describes as a U.S.-run “regime change” operation, aiming at getting a U.S. Navy base in the Bay of Bengal. He compares the coup to the Maidan in Ukraine in 2014 that overthrew the elected president.
Mercouris describes the person who has replaced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after she fled to India, Muhammad Yunus, as being very close to the U.S., going back to the 1960s. (Yunus got a PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University in 1971. He was granted the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010, both in honor of his micro-credit scheme to load debt onto the poor. Yunus was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for this economic scheme, an award promoted by President Bill Clinton.)
