[R-G] Imperial Media Manipulators: The Center for International Media Assistance

[Anthony Fenton]

Michael Barker, "Imperial Media Manipulators: The Center for  
International Media Assistance", Swans, October 6, 2008.

Supported by Democrats, Republicans, big business, and big labor  
(i.e., the AFL-CIO), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an  
influential government funded "nongovernmental" group that actively  
promotes imperialism. In summary, the NED's operations allow the US  
government to export low-intensity democracy through the provision of  
selective support to ostensibly independent civil society groups all  
over the world. The cooptive repertoire of strategies presently  
employed by the NED build upon those same manipulative techniques that  
were fine-tuned by so-called liberal foundations, big labor, and the  
CIA during the twentieth century to ensure that the grassroots of  
democracy could be utilized in the service of imperialism, instead of  
against it. As discussed elsewhere, the manipulation of global media  
systems played a key role in these groups' activities, thus it is  
little surprise that since its founding (in 1983), the NED has funded  
all manner of global media projects. Indeed, as the NED's president,  
Carl Gershman, has observed...

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