[R-G] Philanthropic imperialism: the National Endowment for Democrac

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

The actions of the acting U.S. Co-President,  Richard Cheney,
illustrate the argument and positions of this debate.  He has wanted
to bomb Iran for well over five years.  His order to the Department of
Defence two years ago that any 'terrorist' bombing within U.S. borders
must cause the immediate U.S. bombing of Iranian targets.  Hesitation
was ordered not to be contemplated.

Suzanne de Kuyper

On 6/28/07, Anthony Fenton <fentona at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Philanthropic imperialism: the National Endowment for Democracy
> William Clark, 29 June 2007
> http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/4264/8/
>
> Democracy building, or democracy assistance, is a putative socio-
> economic policy solution, which, because of the extent of the
> political and economic forces impacting on it, has become a
> contemporary socio-economic problem. Democracy building's
> institutional formation rests upon a reconfiguration of Cold War
> positions that retain, what Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky termed 'such
> interference,' (1) so as to continue subversive covert operations
> previously perpetrated by the CIA or MI6. This then, is a difficult
> area and few researchers are looking at the matter at a sufficient
> level of objective enquiry to satisfactorily outline some of its
> major contradictions. The bulk of researchers studying this problem
> propose policy solutions from within an overlapping institutional
> framework that ignores or rationalises subversion to effect covert
> foreign policy attempts at 'regime-change,' and are themselves sub-
> vented as part of the process. Democracy building becomes the cover
> for a policy goal that has always been surrounded by an enormous
> amount of deception. But we can identify a chain of command:
> organisations that were designed to engage in a duplicitous process
> of marketing philanthropic imperialism as democracy.
>
> Read More [...]:
>
> http://inthenameofdemocracy.org/en/node/182
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