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National Endowment for Democracy

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by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 5 October 2016
Georges Sabra, president of the Syrian National Council and later of the Syrian National Coalition, with french minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius.
Under the presidencies of Johnson and Nixon, the CIA worked on corrupting Communist militants from all over the world, and turning them against Moscow and Beijing. That is how, during the Lebanese civil war, Riyad el-Turki split from the Syrian Communist Party with about fifty militants, including George Sabra and Michel Kilo.
These (...)

NED, the Legal Window of the CIA

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 16 August 2016
For 30 years, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been sub-contracting the legal part of illegal CIA operations. Without rousing suspicions, it has put in place the biggest network of corruption in the world, bribing trade unions and management syndicates , political parties both on both the Right and Left so that they defend the interests of the United States instead of their members. In this article, Thierry Meyssan describes the extent of this system.

"The art of war"

Hong Kong, Under the Umbrella

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 7 October 2014
Confronted by the “Umbrella Revolution” (a definition made in the USA) the British government is said to be “highly concerned” that “fundamental rights and liberties” are guaranteed in Hong Kong.
On this subject, London can provide a tutorial.
In the nineteenth century, to penetrate China, the English had recourse to trade in opium which they bring from India, causing tremendous economic and social damage. When the Chinese Authorities confiscate and burn the opium stored at Canton, English (...)

Putin, a thorn in Washington’s flesh

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 9 January 2012
Vladimir Putin is one of the few world leaders capable of rattling the foundations of U.S. hegemony: military dominance and the dollar’s supremacy as reserve currency. Engdahl shows that the recent election protests in Russia were orchestrated by Washington-sponsored NGOs and their domestic agents in an unsuccessful attempt to destabilize the country. With the rapid erosion of U.S. global dominance, Engdahl warns that the neutralization of Russia and other recalcitrant states will again be on the agenda of the next White House occupant.

Madeleine K. Albright at National Democracy Institute’s Awards Dinner

by Madeleine K. Albright

7 November 2011
Thank you Ken, and congratulations on your continued superb leadership here at NDI [National Democracy Institute].
Excellencies from the diplomatic corps and Capitol Hill, distinguished guests from overseas, friends and supporters of NDI, good evening to you all.
Not long ago, when I was wondering what to say tonight, I noticed one of those newspaper articles we often see entitled, “Five Myths” about one topic or another; I think in this case it was the G-20.
Such articles usually attempt (...)

Cairo’s monitored transition

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 3 August 2011
The White House is promoting the bobo-revolution in Egypt. It honoured the memory of a young Egyptian entrepreneur who died for denouncing police corruption so as to better support the military dictatorship. What matters is not to change the social structures but to guarantee free enterprise and the use of the internet.

And this year’s NED award goes to…

11 June 2011
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a Washington D.C-based non-profit organization funded by the U.S. national budget, boasts that it is "supporting freedom around the world."
All of the above are logos of youth movements involved in removing governments undesirable to Washington. All have been organized and funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, the Freedom House, and other CIA organizations.
The objective is to co-opt popular youth movements against a controversial (...)

Venezuela’s Elections: A Win for US Interference

by Eva Golinger

Caracas (Venezuela) | 2 October 2010
Although it is undeniably true that the winner of Venezuela’s legislative elections last Sunday was the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which sealed a solid and absolute majority in the new National Assembly, there was also another winner: US interference.

John McCain Speech at NED dealing with regime change in Iran

by John McCain

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 10 June 2010
Thank you, Carl [Gershman], for that introduction—and for your leadership of the National Endowment for Democracy. Across the world, this institution is living up to the founding vision set for it three decades ago by my idol, Ronald Reagan. “The objective I propose,” Reagan said, “is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy, the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities, which allows a people to choose their own way, to develop their own culture, (...)

US Agencies Keep Trying to Destabilize Cuba

9 August 2009
Eva Golinger presenting her book: El Código Chávez
The Venezuelan-American researcher Eva Golinger said that several US agencies are investing on the destabilization of the Cuban Revolution through two types of operations.
The analyst explained that these actions are undertaken through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Golinger, who has devoted herself for many years to studying US harassment against Cuba, said that the (...)

Washington is Playing a Deeper Game with China

by F. William Engdahl

13 July 2009
After the tragic events of July 5 in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government’s ”independent“ NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US, once more acting through its “private” NGO is massively intervening into the internal politics of China. Engdahl’s article ties in with Voltaire Network’s consistent reporting on the covert action of the NED and "sister" organizations aimed at destabilizing countries of strategic interest for Washington under the guise of liberty and democracy.

The grassroots takeover technique

« Color revolution » fails in Iran

by Thierry Meyssan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 27 June 2009
Tehran’s «green revolution» is the latest version of the «color revolutions» which have allowed the United States to impose subservient governments in several countries without needing to use force. Thierry Meyssan, who advised two governments facing this type of crisis, analyses this method and the reasons for its failure in Iran.

International Republican Institute Grants Uncovered

Reporters Without Borders and Washington’s Coups

by Diana Barahona, Jeb Sprague

Caracas (Venezuela) | 9 August 2006
British press baron Lord Northcliff said, "News is something that someone, somewhere wants to keep secret, everything else is advertising." If this is true, then U.S. government funding of Reporters Without Borders must be news, because the organization and its friends in Washington have gone to extraordinary lengths to cover it up.

SUMATE: You? No! We, Yes!

by Charlie Hardy

Caracas (Venezuela) | 5 May 2006
Venezuela has an AGO (anti-governmental organization) known internationally, SUMATE. SUMATE pretends to be an electoral watchdog, overseeing Venezuelan elections. But it has also been the self-designated keystone in the effort to oust President Hugo Chávez from the presidency.

NED: National Endowment for Democracy

The networks of "democratic" interference

by Thierry Meyssan

22 January 2004
In his 2004 State of the Union speech, President Bush announced his intentions to double the budget for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). This organization was created by Ronald Reagan to extend the CIA’s secret activities by providing financial support and controlling trade unions, associations and political parties. The NED boasts about having directed and manipulated the Polish trade union Solidarnosc, the Charter 77 and many other groups. Under the direction of the State Department and associated with the Republican and Democratic parties, with the board of trustees and with trade unions, the NED has found many individual and institutional "boosters" all over the world, including in France.