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Ep. 132 Democracy Is Their Business, & Business Is Good!
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Ep. 130 Democracy Is Their Business, & Business Is Good!
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In 1983, the strategy of overthrowing inconvenient governments and calling it “democracy promotion” was born.
"With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests."
~ Michael Parenti
The National Endowment for Democracy, an agency created by the Reagan administration in 1983 to promote political action and psychological warfare against states not in love with US foreign policy. It is Washington’s foremost non-military tool for effecting regime change.
William Blum, America's Deadliest Export
Reagan Inaugurates NED
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YYR6LJedPnM
... as CN founder Robert Parry explained in an 2015 article republished today on Consortium News, the C.I.A. had a direct hand in the establishment of the NED, even in the writing of the Congressional legislation that authorized the U.S. Agency for International Development to fund it with U.S. government money. The continued hand of the C.I.A. was to be hidden in the “Age of Overt Action.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/01/20/the-three-types-of-us-regime-change/
"The US NED, NDI, Open Society, and the International Republican Institute (IRI) are engaged in funding and supporting opposition groups including the so-called “Umbrella Revolution” in Hong Kong, the “Bersih” street movement in Malaysia headed by now-jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, and deceptive media fronts like Prachatai in Thailand, who openly and repeatedly attack Thailand’s indigenous institutions, while providing cover for US-backed opposition groups, including Thaksin Shinawatra’s Peua Thai Party (PTP) and his ultra-violent street front, the so-called “red shirts.”
U.S. Funded Foreign Election "Monitors" Exposed
William Blum On NED, Rogue State
https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/TrojanHorse_RS.html
In the omnibus appropriations bill that the president signed in December Obama 2009, lawmakers set the NED's amount at $118 million,(Now $300) more than restoring the proposed cut. The bill went on to specify that the $18 million above the administration's request had to go for democracy, human rights, and rule of law programs.
NED, and The Council On Foreign Relations(CFR)-
The National Endowment for Democracy is funded by the U.S. Congress. Founded in 1983, in recent years NED has spent about $100 million annually on over 1,000(Now 2000) projects of nongovernmental organizations in over ninety nations. A large percentage of these projects are to foster the neoliberal geopolitical capitalist penetration of these countries, under the cover of promoting democracy. In the year prior to the 2014 conflict in the Ukraine, for example, it spent millions on sixty-five different projects in that nation, including $359,945 to fund a “Center for International Private Enterprise,” at least partly to build up the lobbying power of Ukrainian businesses. Many of the Ukrainian projects are to train local activists, including election-related training. The twenty-three-member board of directors of NED include ten CFR members (43.5 percent). Two of them—Vin Weber and Robert B. Zoellick—are former or current Council directors and two—Elliott Abrams and Stephen Sestanovich—are CFR Senior Fellows.
Laurence Shoupe
NED Subgroups
International Republican Institute(IRI)
BOD-Members Include
Lindsey Graham
Mitt Romney
HR McMaster
Marco Rubio
Tom Cotton
Jamie Ernst
John McCain was the former longtime Director
The National Democratic Institute(NDI)
Members Include
Thomas Daschle
Stacy Abrams
Donna Brazile
Howard Dean
Michael McFaul
Walter Mondale
Chris Dodd
Michael Dukakis
Richard Gephardt
Madeline Albright was the former longtime Director
https://www.ndi.org/ambassadors-circle
Hillary at NDI
https://2009-2017.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2011/11/176750.htm
Mr. Richard C. Blum( Husband Of Diane Feinstein) in their Millionaires Circle Donor List
The Solidarity Center(The Union Arm)
https://www.solidaritycenter.org/
Center For International Private Enterprise(CIPE)
(The Private Business Arm)
Some NGO's Funded By NED
*Notice Heavy in Ukraine, and Afghanistan
https://swprs.org/organizations-funded-by-the-ned/
House Bill To Create NED
https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/house-bill/2914?s=1&r=82
NED, & It's Main Four Groups
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