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

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

--- Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:24:11 +0200
> From: "Suzanne de Kuyper" <suzannedk at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R-G] Philanthropic imperialism: the
> National Endowment for
> 	Democrac
> To: suzanne  de Kuyper <suzannedk at yahoo.com>
> 
> 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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