Tag: NED
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...
Why was Canada trying to take Uygurs who were deported from Thailand to China? A failed anti-Chinese government policy, triggering a later cost of nearly $1 million CAD, is the elephant in the room.
British newspaper The Guardian reported that Canada and the United States had offered to take in...
Democracy Promotion Unmasked: NED and USAID Complicity in anti-Democratic Coups of 1991 and 2004 in Haiti
Ben Arthur Thomason - 0
U.S. democracy-promotion institutions were key to destroying any hope for democratic development in Haiti after the Cold War.
In 1986, when popular uprisings kicked out the nearly 29-year-long dictatorships of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc,” the U.S. could have become a partner to improve liberty...
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...
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...
CIA Cutout Promotes Unverified Claims That North Korea Executed People For Watching South Korean Soap Operas
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
In late July, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cutout that specializes in regime-change propaganda, hosted a set of conferences where panelists alleged that North Korea had executed a 22-year-old man for watching South Korean soap operas.
The allegations had earlier been reported in the New York Post...
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,...
The Empire’s Fake News Machine: The Strange Case of Korean Peninsula’s Very Own “Bellingcat”
Dermot Hudson - 2
Years ago I read a book, edited by CovertAction Magazine founders Philip Agee and Louis Wolf, entitled Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe, about the CIA in Western Europe.
All the articles and essays were very interesting but one had a distinctive title “The CIA Makes the News,” by...
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...
The latest example is its pressing for release of John McCain pallbearer from Siberian jail while it ignores a socialist arrested by the Ukrainian intelligence services and another socialist who was murdered
On April 9, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot specializing in political propaganda, hosted an...