CIA Cutout Welcomes Infamous Neo-Conservative Warmonger Victoria Nuland to Its Board, Showing Its True Colors
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
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...
Army of Secret Propagandists in Ukraine Funded by U.S. to Win Western Hearts and Minds for NATO Policies
Evan Reif - 7
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...
CIA Offshoot, the National Endowment for Democracy, Faces Significant Budget Cuts in Age of Trump
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
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...
Stanford Center Gives Journalism Award to CIA-Linked Media Outlet That Helped Provoke Disastrous Regime-Change Operation in Bangladesh
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
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...
The stakes are both high, and the danger of violence or voter fraud stark, as Bolivians go to the polls this Sunday, October 18, to elect their next president.
Bolivia has experienced pronounced social unrest and economic retrogression since the November 2019 coup d’état which brought down Socialist President Evo...
If the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Is Subverting Democracy—Why Aren’t Some of the Left Media Calling It Out?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 17
NED’s history should lead to it being renamed the “National Endowment for Attacking Democracy,” as journalist Stephen Kinzer suggests.
On January 17, Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, writing for the website Declassified UK, disclosed that the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a nonprofit corporation funded by the U.S. Congress, had...
National Endowment for Democracy Recognizes Unelected Heads of State and Honors Russian Traitor Who Lobbied for Sanctions on His Own Country in Alliance with Billionaire Con Man
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), both war hawks and advocates of regime change around the world,...
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...
New NED Board Member Is Reactionary Kansas Governor Who Left His State in “Carnage and Destruction”
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
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....
Is There Really a U.S. Government Agency that Gives Out Awards for Deceiving the Public?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 9
Check out this year’s “Democracy Awards” handed out by the National Endowment for Democracy. They were presented to Ukrainian NGOs that specialize in creating manipulative “psyops” and fake “atrocity porn” designed to inflame public opinion against Russia.
On June 8, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) awarded its annual “Democracy...









