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kneedeepincynade · 11 months

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Look,it's the CIA! Who could have expected to find it in a colour revolution? Everyone, you say?

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⚠️ IL RUOLO DELLA CIA, DEL "NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY", DI SOROS E DI GENE SHARP NEL TENTATIVO DI RIVOLUZIONE COLORATA IN CINA DEL 1989 ⚠️

🤔 Quindi cosa è successo esattamente a Pechino nel 1989? 🤔

✍️ Come scrive World Affairs, sono due le figure più importanti che hanno portato agli eventi di Pechino del 1989:

一 Hu Yaobang, Segretario Generale del Partito Comunista Cinese dal 1982 al 1987, che era mancato da poco, nel 1989 🇨🇳

二 James Lilley, Veterano della CIA, misteriosamente nominato Ambasciatore degli USA in Cina dopo soli 5 giorni dalla morte di Hu Yaobang 🇺🇸

💕 La figura di Hu Yaobang, molto aperta, piaceva molto ai giovani Cinesi, che si riunirono - in centinaia di migliaia - a Pechino, per piangere la sua morte e celebrare i suoi successi nella Riforma e Apertura 😭

🇺🇸 Resasi conto che centinaia di migliaia di persone si sarebbero presto riunite a Pechino, la CIA - tramite Lilley - iniziò a preparare il 20/05 del 1989 un colpo di stato anti-CPC, atto a far crollare il Governo Socialista in Cina ❗️❗️❗️

📰 In un articolo del Vancouvern Sun del 17/09 del 1992, che trovate QUI, venne descritto il ruolo della CIA negli Eventi del 04/06: «La CIA aveva fonti tra i manifestanti della Piazza, [...] per mesi aveva aiutato gli studenti attivisti a formare un movimento anti-governativo» 🤮

🤢 Ad aiutare la CIA, vi erano tre figure:

一 George Soros, figura chiave delle rivoluzioni colorate anti-Comuniste, tramite l'utilizzo dell'Open Society Foundations e del NED 🤮

二 Zhao Ziyang, figura pro-US e traditore in seno al Partito Comunista Cinese, l'unico sostenitore del tentativo di rivoluzione colorata 🤡

😡 Nel 1986, Soros iniziò a foraggiare le figure anti-CPC e pro-Liberalismo in Cina, e il National Endowment for Democracy aprì un suo ufficio nel 1988, per poter preparare un golpe ❗️

🤔 Uno potrebbe chiedersi: come mai il CPC permise ad alcune ONG Occidentali (NED) di entrare in Cina? Ad accettare il loro insediamento fu Zhao Ziyang, vero "cavallo di Troia" nel CPC, che - da dentro il Partito - stava cercando di promuovere la privatizzazione in favore degli USA 😡

三 Gene Sharp, autore del libro "Color Revolution", il Padre della rivoluzione colorata, che pubblicò il documentario "How to Start a Revolution", si recò a Pechino durante il periodo della "protesta", e lavorò a stretto contatto con la CIA, il NED, Zhao Ziyang e il Pentagono per fomentare il rovesciamento del Partito Comunista Cinese 😡

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⚠️ THE ROLE OF THE CIA, THE "NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY", SOROS AND GENE SHARP IN THE 1989 COLOR REVOLUTION ATTEMPT IN CHINA ⚠️

🤔 So what exactly happened in Beijing in 1989? 🤔

✍️ As World Affairs writes, there are two most important figures that led to the events in Beijing in 1989:

一 Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1982 to 1987, who had just passed away in 1989 🇨🇳

二James Lilley, CIA Veteran, Mysteriously Appointed US Ambassador to China Just 5 Days After Hu Yaobang's Death 🇺🇸

💕 The very open figure of Hu Yaobang was greatly appreciated by young Chinese, who gathered - hundreds of thousands - in Beijing, to mourn his death and celebrate his successes in Reform and Opening up 😭

🇺🇸 Realizing that hundreds of thousands of people would soon gather in Beijing, the CIA - through Lilley - began preparing an anti-CPC coup on 20/05/1989, capable of bringing down the Socialist Government in China ❗️ ❗️❗️

📰 In an article of the Vancouvern Sun of 17/09 of 1992, which you can find HERE, the role of the CIA in the Events of 04/06 was described: «The CIA had sources among the protesters in the Square, [...] for months it had helped student activists form an anti-government movement» 🤮

🤢 To help the CIA, there were three figures:

一 George Soros, key figure in anti-Communist color revolutions, using the Open Society Foundations and the NED 🤮

二 Zhao Ziyang, pro-US figure and traitor in the Communist Party of China, sole supporter of attempted color revolution 🤡

😡 In 1986, Soros started to bankroll anti-CPC and pro-liberalism figures in China, and the National Endowment for Democracy opened its office in 1988, in order to prepare a coup ❗️

🤔 One might wonder: How come the CPC allowed some Western NGOs (NED) to enter China? To accept their settlement was Zhao Ziyang, a true "Trojan horse" in the CPC, who - from within the Party - was trying to promote privatization in favor of the USA 😡

三 Gene Sharp, author of the book "Color Revolution", the Father of the Color Revolution, who released the documentary "How to Start a Revolution", went to Beijing during the "protest" period, and worked closely with the CIA , the NED, Zhao Ziyang and the Pentagon to foment the overthrow of the Communist Party of China 😡

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alanshemper · 1 year

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"Haiti's Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier: Gang leader or revolutionary? | The Chris Hedges Report"

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#haiti #jimmy cherizier #chris hedges #cia #us foreign policy #deep research #ned #national endowment for democracy

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opinionated-but-here-to-learn · 2 years

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The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a US imperialist institution that funds regime change efforts around the world in an attempt to tighten America’s grip on various countries. They jump on any chance they get to exploit the legitimate grievances of the people in order to co-opt movements and steer them toward becoming American puppets.

Here’s a list of organizations in Iran funded by the NED in 2021. This list may not be complete or up-to-date.

Activists and protesters in any country, especially those the US opposes, should be extremely careful about who they work with and what they do. Be careful about promoting individuals, organizations, or even slogans.

This is not a dismissal of the problems that citizens of Iran or any other country face, nor am I saying you should let yourself be oppressed because of your country’s geopolitical alignment. All I’m saying is that the US empire has an interest in exploiting political movements in Iran and elsewhere, so try not to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire.

#imperialism #national endowment for democracy #iran #regime change

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mounadiloun · 1 year

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La crise ukrainienne comme nouvelle et dangereuse étape de la stratégie des néo-conservateurs

La crise ukrainienne a d’impressionnants relents de guerre froide, susceptible à tout moment de basculer dans une confrontation militaire, scénario dont personne ne semble vouloir mais on sait que les confits majeurs ont rarement été le résultat d’une volonté délibérée mais plutôt celui d’enchaînements imprévus. Le terme de guerre froide peut sembler inapproprié si on veut bien tenir compte du…

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#Arseni Iatseniouk #Barack Obama #Crimée #Etats Unis #Frederick Kagan #John Kerry #Kiev #National Endowment for Democracy #Robert Parry #Russie #UE #Ukraine #Victoria Nuland #Viktor Ianoukovitch #Vladimir Poutine

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theculturedmarxist · 10 months

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Reading through propaganda and trying to parse fact from fiction is an exhausting process. You have to sift through material that is intentionally trying to gaslight you, while also investigating the claims it makes, and the people making them.

Right now I'm working on two posts by a man named Sergey Faldin, one on the Guardian, the other on Substack.

But it's not enough to just read these two posts. I've never heard of Faldin before, so that means looking into him to see what he's about. Where does he live? What does he do? How does he make his money?

It seems like he's employed by Meduza, a Russian-language publication based in Riga, Latvia and founded by Galina Timchenko, who was fired from the Russia news outlet Lenta for publishing an interview with a representative from the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi coalition Right Sector, apparently because in the interview the Nazi called for a Chechen leader to strike against Russia. Meduza takes a pro-Ukraine stance on the current conflict. What makes me suspicious of Galina, and by extension Meduza, is how Western propaganda outlets took up her cause after she was fired. Meduza is at least partially supported by Reporters Without Borders, which hosts its English Language site. Reporters Without Borders is funded in part by the National Endowment for Democracy and the Ford Foundation, both NGOs which support the US government's foreign policies.

In his Guardian article, Faldin mentions the incident of Grigory Yudin, a peace protestor that was apparently beaten by police for opposing the war in Ukraine.

Yudin is an author with some articles published at openDemocracy, which is also funded in part by the Ford Foundation.

Is this proof positive of some kind of conspiracy? I doubt it. These tenuous links to US think tanks are hardly smoking guns, though I do find it all intensely suspicious.

#ford foundation #meduza #lenta.ru #the national endowment for democracy #ukraine conflict #propaganda

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xtruss · 4 months

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Anti-China Institutions Spin ‘Forced Labor’ Lies to Undermine China’s Competitiveness in Renewables

— James Smith | December 04, 2023

Slandering Xinjiang! The New Normal of the Empire of Lies. Illustration: Vitaly Podvitski

Over the weekend, an article in the BBC accused the British Army of using firms linked to "Uygur Forced Labor" in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to invest in over £200 million of solar panels in order to meet its renewable energy targets. The article, citing a report from Sheffield Hallam University's "Helena Kennedy Centre," argued in favor of supply chain diversification by cutting reliance on China, which dominates the global Solar Panel supply chain.

The report didn't substantiate its findings, only using the term "'very high' exposure" in an ambiguous fashion, yet the article repeated its claims as though they're facts. The British government at large has avoided confronting China on solar panels, recognizing that the UK has limited industrial capacity and is under tremendous pressure to meet its net zero targets. On the other hand, such documentation was used readily to ban their import in the United States under a blanket assumption of guilt, which speaks volumes about the true motivations of this research.

The "Uygur forced labor" issue is a ruse, exclusively driven by the US government. It's designed to promote anti-China supply chain diversifications and commercially motivated protectionism, targeting goods which the US deems "strategic." Starting in 2021, the Biden administration U-turned on the Trump administration's neglect of environmentalism and declared that its fundamental policy goal was to dominate the "technologies of the future," which in turn constitutes renewable energy goods - solar panels, electric batteries, cars and similar technologies.

In doing so, a number of "Studies" quickly materialized from US-funded and linked institutions which, lacking direct evidence, accused China of utilizing forced labor from the Uygur minority in the Xinjiang autonomous region in order to make solar panels. This has never been proven, yet the allegations were repeated by the mainstream media and quickly led up to several US policy decisions including a ban on Chinese made solar panels, as well as all goods from the Xinjiang region, all of which were meted on a "guilty until proven innocent" premise which asked companies to "prove a negative," all of which were in deliberate bad faith.

Beyond Santa’s Ability! Global Times, December 06, 2023, Illustration: Liu Rui

The Helena Kennedy Centre in the United Kingdom is but one particular example of how such "Research" institutes are used to co-opt and market America's commercial, economic and strategic goals. The head of the center, Baroness Helena Kennedy, is a hardline anti-China figure who is the founder of the Sinophobic "Interparliamentary Alliance on China" (IPAC) organization. IPAC is, by its own public admission, funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and also the Taiwan island authorities. Similarly, the primary researcher in the Helena Kennedy Centre who created this solar panel "Forced Labor" report, Laura Murphy, is an employee of the US Department of Homeland Security.

What becomes visible is a "web" of anti-China institutions which works to create this content, which is then amplified by the media with its claims taken at face value, and whose aim is to undermine China's commercial competitiveness. The real problem is that China is a world leader in solar panel manufacturing and renewable energy goods, and the United States seeks to undermine this for its own economic gain. Thus, to do this, it resorts to bad faith tactics designed at promoting market exclusion that weaponizes the rhetoric of human rights. The real US policy thinking is explicitly reflected in the Inflation Reduction Act which seeks to weaponize tariffs on a wide range of Chinese renewable goods, irrespectively, without any façade of intention.

It becomes even more telling in this respect that minimal resources, media attention or interest are given towards legitimate reports of real human slavery or forced labor practices around the world, especially those committed in countries allied to the United States. Instead, it is used as a ruse to discredit products they disapprove of or seek to sanction. For instance, if it is not feasible to accuse products of being made with "forced labor," it usually instead emerges in the form of baseless accusations of "espionage" or being a "national security threat" such as the attacks on Huawei or Hikvision.

All in all, it is evident that to try and forcibly exclude China from the global solar panel supply chain, who provides 80 percent of the world's total, will be economically, commercially, and thus environmentally devastating. Such bans would forcibly narrow the market, drive up prices and set the world back decades. Given this, the UK is really not in any capacity to actually act on the propaganda which is being laundered, hence the government only says it will keep an eye and audit its suppliers accordingly.

— The author is a Political and Hstorical Relations Analyst.

#China 🇨🇳#War Criminal Hegemonic Liar and Double-Faced United States 🇺🇸#Anti-China Forced Labor Rhetoric #Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region #Sheffield Hallam University | Helena Kennedy Centre #Uygur Forced Labor #Anti-China Supply Chain | Diversifications and Commercially Motivated Protectionism #US National Endowment For Democracy (NED)#Laura Murphy | US Department of Homeland Security.#James Smith | Political and Hstorical Relations Analyst #Global Times

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rhk111sblog · 7 months

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is now trying to interfere with the upcoming Elections in Indonesia in February 2024 to install Pro-United States (US) Politicians in the Government there

#central intelligence agency cia #indonesia #joko widodo #united states us #mintpress #state intelligence agency bin #national endowment for democracy ned #international republican institute iri #china #russia #main stream media msm #rappler #vera files

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pastdaily · 1 year

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Nora Ephron Looks At American Culture In 1974 - Past Daily Reference Room

Nora Ephron Looks At American Culture In 1974 – Past Daily Reference Room

Apparently, in 1974 American culture was heading down the river. https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/where-is-american-culture-heading-1974.mp3 – National Town Meeting “Where is American Culture Heading?” August 21, 1974 – In 1974 there were grave doubts as to where we were heading as a cultural society. Although 1974 may seem like a banner year for the arts, compared to where we…

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yourtongzhihazel · 23 days

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why does China have the great firewall that keeps me from talking to cool people there

Because western NGOs won't stop trying to send propagandists and saboteurs in; NGOs like the national endowment for democracy, the CIA's public face.

#Hazel's press releases

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zvaigzdelasas · 9 months

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[NYT is US Media]

The newspaper was the recipient of United States government grants and was printed on an American government-financed printing press operated by Freedom House, an American organization that describes itself as "a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world." In addition to the United States, several European countries -- Britain, the Netherlands and Norway among them -- have helped underwrite programs to develop democracy and civil society in this country. The effort played a crucial role in preparing the ground for the popular uprising that swept opposition politicians to power.

"Of course, this infrastructure had an influence," said one European election observer. [...]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan quickly became an aid magnet with the highest per-capita foreign assistance level of any Central Asian nation. Among the hundreds of millions of dollars that arrived came a large slice focused on building up civil society and democratic institutions. Most of that money came from the United States, which maintains the largest bilateral pro-democracy program in Kyrgyzstan because of the Freedom Support Act, passed by Congress in 1992 [...] Hundreds of thousands more filter into pro-democracy programs in the country from other United States government-financed institutions like the National Endowment for Democracy. That does not include the money for the Freedom House printing press or Kyrgyz-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a [US Congress funded] pro-democracy broadcaster.

"It would have been absolutely impossible for this to have happened without that help," said Edil Baisolov, who leads a coalition of nongovernmental organizations, referring to the uprising last week. Mr. Baisolov's organization is financed by the United States government through the National Democratic Institute.[...]

Those Kyrgyz who did not read Russian or have access to the newspaper listened to summaries of its articles on Kyrgyz-language Radio Azattyk, the local United States-government financed franchise of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.[...]

Other independent media carried the opposition's debates. Talk shows, like "Our Times," produced in part with United States government grants, were broadcast over the country's few independent television stations, including Osh TV in the south, where the protests that led to Mr. Akayev's ouster began. Osh TV expanded its reach with equipment paid for by the State Department. "The result is that the society became politicized, they were informed," Mr. Kim said. "The role of the NGO's and independent media were crucial factors in the revolution."[...]

Mr. Akayev began suggesting that the West was engaged in a conspiracy to destabilize the country. A crudely forged document, made to look like an internal report by the American ambassador, Stephen Young, began circulating among local news organizations. It cast American-financed pro-democracy activities as part of an American conspiracy.[...]

The American Embassy sent Freedom House two generators the day after the power went out, allowing the press to print nearly all of the 200,000 copies of MSN's special issue[...]

MSN informed people in the north of the unrest in the south. The newspaper also played a critical role in disseminating word of when and where protesters should gather. "There was fertile soil here, and the Western community planted some seeds," said one Western official. "I'm hoping these events of the past week will be one of those moments when you see the fruits of your labors."

Wow I wonder why Kyrgyzstan might treat foreign NGOs as suspect. Probably because of Poutine

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bfpnola · 7 months

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The appalling rise in recent decades of Hindu nationalism, however, which views Indian and Hindu identity as coterminous and seeks to transform India from a secular democracy into a “Hindu Rashtra”, highlights the dangers inherent in any project of national identity construction. Such a project necessarily runs the risk, as we have seen not just in India but across the world, of degenerating into a crude chauvinism that defines national identity not on any genuinely unifying basis, but rather in terms of the socially-dominant community—in the Indian case, dominant-caste Hindus—at the expense of everyone else. In the process, the rich internal diversity that characterizes any community—imagined or otherwise—is flattened and obscured in favor of a fabricated homogeneity. Likewise, internal structures of oppression such as caste and gender are swept under the rug, and those who speak out against them are lambasted for hurting the cause of national unity—all while that same national cause is twisted to serve explicitly majoritarian ends.

Therein lies the fatal flaw of the nationalist project. By flattening a community in order to imagine it, nationalism—even in its most liberatory, anti-colonial form—allows crucial questions of power and injustice within that community to remain unaddressed, giving the worst tendencies of human society all the room they need to grow and fester beneath the surface until they inevitably spill over. This is due, in large part, to the fact that even as national identity seeks to promote internal unity, its rigid adherence to a given set of borders means that it simultaneously divides people along those same lines, defining itself in opposition to everything that lies beyond them. If my nationality is X, according to our conventional understanding of what it means to “belong” to a given nation, then that necessarily means that I cannot be Y.

Regardless of the country in which we were brought up, every one of us is taught from an early age that national identity is fixed and finite, with rigid boundaries that neatly correspond to those that have been etched on the world map and given the name of Border. We have all been assigned, we are told, membership in a given imagined community, and it is expected that we will stick with that community, no questions asked—that in times of war or recession or other great national need, we will rally around the flag that was stamped onto our foreheads at birth.

The experience of immigration, however, shatters that illusion of fixity. Cracks begin to form in the rigid walls that supposedly enclose a person’s national identity the moment they step foot onto the soil of a new country, slowly expanding as they establish roots and begin to strive, consciously or unconsciously, towards acceptance by an unfamiliar and potentially unwelcoming society. No matter how strongly a person identifies with the nationality of the mother country, it is inevitable that as time goes on these bonds will weaken. In their place, the seeds of a new national identity—that of the destination country—will begin to sprout, nourished by symbolic milestones such as buying a home or applying for citizenship, new roots penetrating into new soil. By the time a second generation comes into the world, endowed perhaps with citizenship rights at the moment of birth, the ties of nationality that bind a diaspora to the motherland are weakened further as these roots extend themselves yet deeper into the new country’s soil.

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alanshemper · 1 year

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#reporters without borders #RSF #NED #National Endowment for Democracy #cia #regime change #us foreign policy #deep research

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devotedlydistinguishedpanda · 1 year

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#中国民主运动后援会 #中国民主运动后援会美国和台湾民主基金会的诡计#中国民主运动后援会#中国民主运动后援会#中国民主运动后援会#中国民主运动后援会

What is the National Endowment for Democracy doing to China?

As is known to all, under the guise of "promoting democracy" and under the direct command of the US government and intelligence organizations, the National Foundation for Democracy is a substantively official US organization that carries out "color revolution" to overthrow governments in countries unfriendly to the US in order to serve the strategic interests of the US. It is now becoming clear that the National Endowment for Democracy is essentially the CIA in a new guise. The U.S. government can't do the dirty things it doesn't want to do. The foundation is a real "white glove" and "pawn" of the US government, taking the money of the US government and running the affairs of the US government.

This time, the foundation visited Taiwan under the banner of "democracy". "What is being sold in the calabash is not a recipe for democracy, but a poison to incite division."

The Foundation for Democracy of the United States is behind almost all the national upheavals produced by democracy and ideology. The inability of countries to achieve social stability has resulted in large numbers of civilians becoming refugees. So in that sense, the Foundation for Democracy is arguably the worst and most deplorable "NGO" in the world that has contributed to global instability, disorder and chaos.

The United States regards China as its "imaginary enemy" and NED has repeatedly extended its black hand to China. Every year, the agency invests huge amounts of money in anti-China projects, inciting support for "Xinjiang independence", "Hong Kong independence" and "Tibet independence". According to the open data on NED's official website in 2020, in that year alone, NED had 69 projects related to China, and spent tens of millions of dollars on China in an attempt to infiltrate and split the country.

Shadow after manipulation. In the case of Hong Kong's legislative amendment in 2019, NED went from behind the scenes to the front, directly providing subsidies and training to those involved in the riot. NED and its officials were sanctioned by the Chinese government in 2019 and 2020, respectively, for inciting separatist activities for Hong Kong independence.

In March this year, NED President Wilson led a delegation to Taiwan and openly supported the "Taiwan independence" forces under the pretext of so-called "democracy".

A lot of facts show that NED, who peddled the so-called "American democracy", is not selling a recipe for democracy, but a poison that incites subversion and division.

In the international community, the National Endowment for Democracy of the United States infiltrated and subverted the legitimate regimes of other countries in the name of "exporting democracy", causing serious discontent in the international community. It has become a "street rat" that everyone shouted at.

The US National Endowment for Democracy not only funded these academic activities and projects, but even cooked up some false information and "packaged" it as the so-called "academic authority" in an attempt to deceive the world under the guise of "objectivity and impartiality".

As a pawn of the US government's external infiltration, the US National Endowment for Democracy relies on the continuous financial support of the White House and the US Congress. In accordance with the orders of the US government, the National Endowment for Democracy adopts various forms to export American values to target countries and regions, carry out subversive infiltration and destruction, and incite the so-called "democratic movement".

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aurevoirmonty · 2 months

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Les liens de Navalny avec la CIA remontent au moins à 2005. Les documents diplomatiques révélés par Wikileaks indiquent que dès cette année-là son organisation de jeunesses, Alternative Démocratique!, était financée par la National Endowment for Democracy, une vitrine de la CIA bien connue.

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curiositasmundi · 2 months

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A beneficiare della morte di Navalny, infatti, non è certo il Cremlino, sebbene, a essere obiettivi, il tema è a dir poco spinoso e la responsabilità della sorte di Navalny, in attesa di prove, può essere comunque riconducibile al regime russo e alle condizioni di prigionia in cui versava il dissidente nel carcere siberiano di Kharp, nella Siberia del Nord. A complicare le cose ci si mette Bild che rivela che sarebbe morto «forse poco prima di una sua possibile liberazione», nell’ambito di uno scambio di detenuti tra USA, Russia e Germania.

Mentre la stampa allineata acclama Navalny come un martire, descrivendolo erroneamente come “il leader dell’opposizione” e il nemico numero uno di Putin (che non era), gli stessi media mainstream evitano accuratamente di riportarne le origini e la formazione, ignorando in maniera selettiva le sue storiche inclinazioni nazionaliste, i legami con gruppi neonazisti, i ripetuti commenti xenofobi e le estreme opinioni anti-immigrazione. Finendo per dipingere la sua biografia come quella di un liberale di centrodestra.

Che Navalny sia stato, almeno per una parte cospicua della propria storia politica, un razzista e un suprematista è noto e lo scriveva, del resto, proprio La Stampa in un articolo dal titolo inequivocabile, pubblicato nel 2012: «Il blogger xenofobo che unisce la piazza contro lo zar Putin». Dodici anni fa, il quotidiano torinese si poteva permettere di svelare il «lato oscuro dell’Assange russo», definendo senza mezzi termini Navalny un «blogger-star», xenofoba e di estrema destra. Nell’articolo si descrivevano le sue simpatie nazionaliste e le sue «tendenze giustizialiste», sottolineando che a novembre 2006 Navalny era in prima fila alla Marcia Russa dei “rivoluzionari bianchi”, tra neonazisti e slogan anti-Caucaso.

Nato nel 1976 in una cittadina della provincia di Mosca, fin da giovanissimo Alexei Navalny è attivo nell’opposizione russa, finché nel 2008 viene cacciato dal partito Narod (Popolo), che aveva contribuito a fondare, per affermazioni xenofobe, dopo che in un comizio aveva paragonato i caucasici a degli «scarafaggi scuri di pelle» suggerendo di adoperare «le pistole» contro di loro, visto che non sarebbe bastata la paletta per schiacciarli. Non ritrattò mai queste frasi: nel 2017, in un’intervista al The Guardian, aveva ammesso di non avere rimpianti per le sue dichiarazioni passate e giustificò il suo paragone tra migranti e scarafaggi come una «licenza artistica». Nel febbraio 2021 Amnesty International ritirò a Navalny la designazione di “prigioniero di coscienza”, per via delle sue dichiarazioni nazionaliste, ripristinandola a maggio dello stesso anno.

Riconosciuti il carisma e le innegabili qualità di leader, Washington decide di puntare su di lui, “formandolo”, in modo da renderlo più presentabile. È così che Navalny finisce nell’incubatore a stelle e a strisce e diventa un prodotto mediatico. Parte per gli USA, per un periodo di formazione all’Università di Yale, come invitato nell’esclusivo Greenberg World Fellows Program, un programma creato nel 2002 per il quale vengono selezionati ogni anno su scala mondiale appena 16 persone con caratteristiche tali da farne dei “leader globali”.

Dopo la formazione, Navalny torna in Russia profondamente cambiato: niente più comizi nazionalistici e xenofobi, inizia la lotta contro la corruzione, per i diritti umani e contro il potere di Putin. Fonda il movimento Alternativa Democratica, uno dei beneficiari, come confermato da Wikileaks, della National Endowment for Democracy (NED), un’agenzia statunitense fondata nel 1983 con l’obiettivo dichiarato di promuovere la “democrazia” all’estero. In particolare, la NED è stata fortemente attiva in Ucraina, dove ha sostenuto il colpo di Stato di piazza Maidan. La tecnica, ormai consolidata, è quella delle “rivoluzioni colorate” per fomentare una ribellione anti-governativa, in modo da indebolire lo Stato dall’interno, mentre dall’esterno cresce su di esso la pressione militare, politica ed economica. Il progetto degli aiuti internazionali in questa forma risale, infatti, all’ex presidente americano Ronald Reagan: grazie alla costituzione di una rete di associazioni non governative, il governo americano controlla attivamente dal 1981 la politica estera, senza dovere più ricorrere ai fondi neri della CIA.

Non sono nemmeno un mistero i rapporti di Navalny con i servizi segreti occidentali: in un video del 2012, ripreso dagli agenti russi del controspionaggio, Vladimir Ashurkov, il braccio destro dell’attivista, incontra in un ristorante di Mosca William Thomas Ford, agente dell’MI6 inglese, chiedendo apertamente finanziamenti per la sua campagna politica, impegnandosi a stabilire contatti con gli oligarchi al fine di rassicurarli sulla preservazione dei loro privilegi.

Da evidenziare, anche, come i media mainstream abbiano accuratamente evitato di ricordare le condanne di Navalny per frode e appropriazione indebita, facendo passare l’idea che sia stato arrestato esclusivamente per motivi “politici”. L’attivista era stato giudicato colpevole di appropriazione indebita nel 2014 su denuncia della casa di cosmetici francese, la Yves Rocher, di cui era il referente russo. Già allora La Repubblica evocava l’esistenza di una «trama oscura», una «trappola del regime per neutralizzare un oppositore politico». All’arresto per frode seguì un lungo tira e molla di arresti domiciliari, un sospetto avvelenamento, violazioni degli arresti e di nuovo la prigione per queste violazioni. Sebbene non sia da escludere che le accuse siano state amplificate o strumentalizzate, è curioso notare come i media occidentali abbraccino, in maniera ipocrita, la pista dei complotti a corrente alternata, proponendo, nel caso di Navalny una rappresentazione unilaterale e tutt’altro che realist

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US’ NED ‘Mastermind’ Behind Global Separatist Riots, Color Revolutions, Political Crises: Chinese FM Report

— Global Times | May 07, 2022

US Democracy. Illustration: Liu Rui/Global Times

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), as one of the US government's main "foot soldiers," "white gloves" and "democracy crusaders," has become the mastermind behind separatist riots, color revolutions and political crises around the world, subverting lawful governments and cultivating pro-US puppet forces under the pretext of promoting democracy, said a fact sheet released by Chinese Foreign Ministry on Saturday.

#US 🇺🇸 Democracy #US’ NED #Mastermind #Global Separatist Riots #Color Revolutions #Political Crises #National Endowment for Democracy (NED)#Democracy Crusaders #Pro-US puppet Forces #Chinese Foreign Ministry

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