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| + | The NED is funded by the US Congress. The very incomplete list of sponsored organiations is from their 990-tax form for 2017<ref>https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/521344831/10_2018_prefixes_52-54%2F521344831_201709_990_2018102315823464https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/521344831/10_2018_prefixes_52-54%2F521344831_201709_990_2018102315823464</ref>. | ||
Revision as of 06:25, 25 July 2020
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been termed the "traditional intermediary of the CIA".[1] In July 2015, Vladimir Putin banned the NED from Russia as the first "undesirable NGO".[2]
Contents
Official narrative
Wikipedia terms it a "soft-power organization". The NED's president Carl Gershman explained, “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the C.I.A. We saw that in the 60’s, and that’s why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that’s why the endowment was created.” New York Times reporter John Broder explained in 1997, “to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades.”[3]
Problems
In 1993, Barbara Conry, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute an article on the group entitled "Loose Cannon: The National Endowment for Democracy".[4]
Steven Gowens has written that "The Dalai Lama is hardly a democrat, yet he has received Washington’s lucre for decades, including from the CIA and later the NED... old Tibet, then, was hardly a society of peace and tranquility ruled over by a benign ruler. It was a class society torn by conflict and predicated on brutal, naked, exploitation. Despite this, a February 16, 2010 NED press release describes the former Tibetan feudal overlord “not only as a moral and religious leader respected throughout the world but as a fellow democrat who shares America’s deepest values.”"[5]
"The NED does, however, care deeply about the interests of US corporations, banks and investors which, after all, play the dominant role in shaping US policy and whose representatives staff the key positions of the US state."[5]
Staff
- Full article: National Endowment for Democracy/board
- Full article: National Endowment for Democracy/board
Institutes
The NED distributes most of its money through four core channels. The National Democratic Institute seems to be the most active of them.
- Full article: National Democratic Institute
- Full article: Solidarity Center
- Full article: International Republican Institute
- Full article: Center for International Private Enterprise
- Full article: National Democratic Institute
Funding
The NED is funded by the US Congress. The very incomplete list of sponsored organiations is from their 990-tax form for 2017[6].
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Bangkok Blast - Who the Liars Say Did It, Says it All | article | 18 August 2015 | 'Tony Cartalucci' | Analysis of the 18 August terrorist bombing in Bangkok illustrating western media (especially the BBC) bias by omission of major salient points |
| Document:Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness | Article | 3 February 2019 | William Engdahl | Leaving aside whether or not Maduro is a saint, the decision by President Trump to back the Bolton-Pence call for a US intervention in Venezuela may prove a fatal error for the Trump presidency. |
| Document:The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader | Article | 29 January 2019 | Dan Cohen Max Blumenthal | Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, Guaidó has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilisation in Venezuela |
Rating
References
- ↑ Document:Understanding the War in Libya
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/national-endowment-for-democracy-banned-russia
- ↑ John M. Broder, “Political Meddling by Outsiders: Not New for U.S.,” The New York Times, April 1, 1997.
- ↑ http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-027.html
- ↑ a b https://gowans.wordpress.com/category/national-endowment-for-democracy/
- ↑ https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/521344831/10_2018_prefixes_52-54%2F521344831_201709_990_2018102315823464https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/521344831/10_2018_prefixes_52-54%2F521344831_201709_990_2018102315823464
