What are Canadian warships doing in the ultra-sensitive South China Sea? News of Canadian patrol ships traveling through the South China Sea and being buzzed by Chinese warplanes a few weeks ago—pushing the world another chilling step closer to a World War III-level confrontation—has brought to light the unpublicized...
In May, Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) announced that the Bangladesh-focused media outlet Netra News was the recipient of the 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award.  Left unmentioned was that Netra News received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA-front organization founded in the 1980s to advance U.S. global...
Serves As an Award Presenter at 40th Anniversary Gala of CIA Cutout Barbara Lee (D-CA), 77, is rightly revered in progressive circles as the sole member of Congress—House or Senate—to have voted against a resolution that gave the president power to wage aggressive war indefinitely in the Middle East after...
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen Receives National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Democracy Service Medal for Transforming Her Country into a Launching Pad for U.S. War on China In the corrupt era in which we live, horrible people are given honors for carrying out policies that have disastrous ramifications. Henry Kissinger and...
As part of its evisceration of government agencies, the Trump administration imposed a funding freeze for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot that meddles in elections and pushes regime change around the world in the name of “promoting democracy.” On February 12, Elon Musk’s Department of Government...
Sam Brownback’s right-wing “Kansas experiment” caused huge budget shortfalls and led to draconian service cuts The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a CIA offshoot that was founded in the 1980s for the purpose of spreading political propaganda and supporting “civil society” groups in countries targeted by the U.S....
Numerous Hong Kong residents who participated in violent protests against Chinese Communist Party rule just a few years ago are now living and working in China, according to a recent article by Bloomberg. Among the “record number of residents” who are “flocking to Shenzhen for cheap food and a...
On September 13, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) announced that it was appointing Victoria Nuland to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Covert Geopolitics has called Nuland the “queen of chicken hawks” and “Lady Macbeth of perpetual war,” as she has “promoted a foreign policy of intervention, coups, proxy...
One NED-sponsored journalist even fights with the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and openly advocates for the commission of war crimes. Throughout this war, one of the most prolific voices has been the Kyiv Independent. Through both its website and its Twitter account, it has been posting a nearly endless stream of...
In my previous article on the Kyiv Independent, I touched on the Media Development Foundation (MDF), a “media accelerator” founded in 2013 by the CEO and CFO of the Kyiv Independent, Daryna Shevchenko and Jakub Parusinski. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot that tries to advance U.S.-style...