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Promoting Democracy: A Blueprint for the Next Administration [PDF]
from policymatters.netJ Chin - Policy Matters J., Spring, 2008
... International Center for Not-for-Profit Law and World Movement for Democracy Secretariat at the National Endowment for Democracy, February 2008. ... Joseph Nye, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004)
at least 130 sources at george soros+National Endowment for
Democracy+soft power

Secret Report Ordered by Obama Identified Potential Uprisings
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17diplomacy.html

President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret
report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without
sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were
ripe for popular revolt, known as a Presidential Study Directive,
the 18-page classified report identified likely flashpoints, most
notably Egypt, and solicited proposals for how the administration
could push for political change in countries with autocratic rulers
who are also valuable allies of the United States...how to balance
American strategic interests and avert broader instability ... The
White House held weekly meetings with experts from the State
Department, the C.I.A. and other agencies. The process was led by
Dennis B. Ross, the presidentbs senior adviser on the Middle East;
Samantha Power, a senior director at the National Security Council
who handles human rights issues; and Gayle Smith, senior director
responsible for global development....The report singles out four
for close scrutiny, which an official said...suggest Jordan, Egypt,
Bahrain and Yemen.

By issuing a directive, Mr. Obama was also pulling the topic of
political change out of regular meetings on diplomatic, commercial
or military relations with Arab states. In those meetings, one
official said, the strategic interests loom so large it is almost
impossible to discuss reform efforts....

RETOOLING U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AS STRATEGIC INSTRUMENT OF FOREIGN
POLICY
http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:gslIoyPd48kJ:scholar.google.com/+NationalEndowment+forDemocracy%2Bsoft+power&hl=en&as_sdt=0,48

Joseph Nyebs introduction of the concept of bsoft powerb as an
essential complement to bhardpowerb captures the essence of public
diplomacy. Nye wrote of the bsoft power of attractionbessential bto
draw target publics into the U.S. web of influence.b4 The achievement
of U.S. foreignpolicy goals is greatly facilitated when more friends
and allies share our interests and contribute totheir accomplishment.
In the case of the War on Terror, victory is directly related to
prevailing in abattle of ideas, which public diplomacy tools seek
to shape.The 9/11 Commission called for action bto compete as
vigorously on the ideological battlefieldas we do on the military
and intelligence fronts.b5 The Department of State (DOS) Advisory
Groupon Public Diplomacy, the General Accounting Office, the Heritage
Foundation, the Council onForeign Relations, and the 9/11 Commission
have all issued reports stating that a greater emphasisis needed
by the U.S. Government on public diplomacy.6This chapter takes the
position that current approaches to public diplomacy are flawedand
must be reconsidered and appropriately funded in order to acquire
the public diplomacycapabilities needed to win the War on Terror.
Furthermore, public diplomacy must be integratedinto the policymaking
process in the form of a comprehensive and coherent strategy.

The areas of public diplomacy used to influence foreign target
audiences are internationalinformation programs, educational and
cultural exchange programs, and international nonmilitarybroadcasting.11
Often included in a canvas of public diplomacy programs is the
National Endowmentfor Democracy (NED), which operates at armbs
length from the Department of State, but whichDOS principally funds.
NEDbs mission is to assist democratic movements worldwide by
leveragingits status as a private, non-profit entity primarily in
the area of foreign elections.12The primary agencies involved in
these areas are the State Dept, the International BroadcastingBureau
and the National Endowment for Democracy.13 Within the Department
of State, the Officeof International Information Programs (IIP) and
the Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs(ECA) focus on
strategic communications and international exchanges respectively.
In addition,the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)
administers the Voice of America (VOA)and numerous surrogate entities
such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and RadioMarti
(broadcast to Cuba).14 Several new initiatives launched since 9/11
include Radio Sawa and a24 hour news channel, Alhurra (the free
one), broadcast to the Middle East. The newest State Deptentry aimed
at bTelling Americabs Storyb is a web site for foreign audiences,
http://www.america.gov.15 The National Security Strategy
of the United States of America (NSS), published
in March 2006,establishes two inseparable priorities: bfighting and
winning the war on terror and promotingfreedom as the alternative
to tyranny and despair.b18 The NSS posits further: From the beginning,
the War on Terror has been both a battle of arms and a battle of
ideas b a fight againstthe terrorists and against their murderous
ideologyb&. In the long run, winning the war on terror meanswinning
the battle of ideas, for it is ideas that can turn the disenchanted
into murderers willing to kill innocentvictims.19 The diplomatic
instrument of power is a critical component in the NSSbs objective
to advancefreedom and human dignity through democracy as the long-term
antidote for transnationalterrorism. Essential to this end is the
continued reorientation of the Department of State toward
transformational diplomacy.20 A key component of transformational
diplomacy is the strengthening of public diplomacy in order to:
advocate the policies and values of the United States in a clear,
accurate, and persuasive way to a watchingand listening world. This
includes actively engaging foreign audiences, expanding educational
opportunitiesfor Americans to learn about foreign languages and
cultures and for foreign students and scholars to study inthe United
States; empowering the voices of our citizen ambassadors as well
as those foreigners who share ourcommitment to a safer, more
compassionate world; enlisting the support of the private sector;
increasing ourchannels for dialogue with Muslim leaders and citizens;
and confronting propaganda quickly, before mythsand distortions
have time to take root in the hearts and minds of people across the
world.21 Since 9/11 there has been an increased focus on departments
and agencies across the governmentcontributing to the mission of
improving Americabs image. Besides the NED mentioned above,other
U.S. Government agencies involved in de facto public diplomacy
include the Peace Corpsand USAID. Both involve people-to-people
communication in U.S. Government funded programsin pursuit of U.S.
policy interests, and as such both perform a strategic public
relations function.22USAID, in particular, is charged with publicizing
U.S. humanitarian assistance.23 Additionally,the Department of
Defense (DOD) has embarked on initiatives to aggressively conduct
foreigncommunications. The much maligned Office of Strategic Influence
was a short-lived effort that cameon the scene in the fall of 2001
and was later replaced by the Office of Strategic Communication,which
has the mission of coordinating and disseminating combat information.
The DOD fundedcontracts worth $300 million over five years to create
media products aimed at improving the publicimage of the United
States abroad. The Joint Psychological Operations Support Element
of the U.S.Special Operations Command has been coordinating these
efforts.24...

Majority support for the U.S.-led War on Terror can be found in
only two of the fifteen countries surveyed, India and Russia, both
of which have significant problems with domestic terrorists.However,
in the case of India, Americabs favorability rating dropped 15
points in one year.45Unfavorable attitudes persist in predominantly
Muslim countries. By all accounts public diplomacyefforts in the
Middle East are a failure. For example, in Egypt, a country that
has received moreU.S. aid in the past 20 years than any Muslim
country by far, only 15 percent of Egyptians have a favorable opinion
of the U.S.46 In the 2006 Pew survey the percentage of Egyptians
supporting theU.S.-led war on terror remained at 10 percent, where
it has hovered since 2002.47A 2006 GAO audit evaluating the
effectiveness of the State Departmentbs public diplomacy programs
focused on a continued inability to engage Muslim audiences. While
some resources havebeen shifted to the Muslim world ranging from a
25 percent increase in the Near East to a 39 percent plus up in
South Asia, the number of authorized overseas positions in regional
bureaus held steady. Furthermore, the report concluded that human
capital challenges, such as poor language proficiency and short
tours of duty, are compounded by security concerns at most posts
in the Muslim world. Consequently, public diplomacy officers in the
Muslim world spent less time communicating withlocal audiences than
their positions require.48The current mix of information programs,
media programs, and cultural and educational exchanges should be
reconsidered with greater emphasis placed on cultural and educational
exchanges. Objective reports assessing the effectiveness of U.S.
public diplomacy cited the cultural and educational exchange programs
as the most effective. The media programs have been perceivedas
less effective due to the U.S. credibility problem in the target
populations. While these perceptions persist, the U.S. will benefit
from investing in local moderate media operations and those of our
allieswith common interests, but without the credibility stigma of
the U.S. in the Middle East. Finally, an underdeveloped aspect of
the information programs is translating more English language texts
into Arabic. In the past century, only 10,000 English language books
have been translated into Arabic.49The current trends in the
effectiveness of U.S. public diplomacy are poor. In sum, the promise
of Americabs public diplomacy has not been realized due to a lack
of political will, the absence of an overall strategy, a deficit
of trained professionals, cultural constraints, structural shortcomings,
and a scarcity of resources. Money alone will not solve the problem.
Strong leadership and imaginative thinking, planning, and coordination
are critical.50 Policymakers are beginning to understand that the
Cold War public diplomacy structure must be retooled and appropriately
resourced to make a more effective contribution to U.S. national
security interests. At a minimum, the conceptualization and execution
of public diplomacy programs mustreach its full potential. The goal
of spreading freedom and democracy throughout the globe is unrealizable
bunless America has a more coordinated, cooperative mechanism
tailored for public outreach.b51...

Many challenges face the U.S. as it seeks to reverse a steady decline
in the worldbs regard for its image and policies. The beginning of
a new presidential Administration in 2009 is a critical window of
opportunity to take concrete steps to regain Americabs bsoft power,b
the power to attract the world to U.S. values and culture. Public
diplomacy should be regarded as a strategic instrument of foreign
policy and given resources and leadership commensurate with that
role. Success in the War on Terror will remain elusive absent such
action

White House Studies Otpor, Solidarnosc Precedents For Egypt
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/message/48848

Obama administration studies recent revolutions for lessons applicable
in Egypt By Scott Wilson,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/13/AR2011021302783.\html

As the Obama administration works to shepherd the Egypt uprising
toward a democratic government, it is drawing on the experiences
of a half-dozen other nations whose revolutions have been the focus
of internal White House study in recent weeks. National security
adviser Thomas E. Donilon, at President Obama's behest, has ordered
some of his senior directors, some responsible for areas outside
the Middle East, to review recent popular uprisings that have toppled
governments, searching for lessons applicable in Egypt. A White
House official said a six-inch-thick file now sits on Donilon's
desk.

Among those working on what amounts to a comparative revolutions
course is Michael A. McFaul, the National Security Council director
for Russia and Eurasian affairs, who as a professor at Stanford
University also served as director of its Center on Democracy,
Development and the Rule of Law. White House focus has been on
revolutions against U.S.-backed dictatorships, including the 1986
popular revolt against Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, the
Chilean transition from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet to
democracy in 1990, and the 1998 uprising in Indonesia that drove
out President Suharto. Officials have also looked to Serbia and
Poland for lessons.... Obama administration officials have brought
in several experts on the Indonesian revolt, which the White House
has held up as a counterargument to conservative criticism that an
Iranian-style Islamic republic could emerge in the heart of the
Arab Middle East.

White House officials have talked with Stanford University's Larry
Diamond, who studies democratic transitions; Duke University's
Donald L. Horowitz, who circulated the first chapter of his soon-to-be
published book on Indonesia; and Cornell University's Valerie Bunce,
who wrote a summary of the Indonesian case, as well as the 1989
Polish and 2000 Serbian transitions, that was distributed to senior
staff members working on Egypt....Ben Rhodes, deputy national
security adviser for strategic communications, also reached out to
Karen Brooks, the National Security Council's director for Asia
under George W. Bush who, as a State Department official, advised
President Bill Clinton during the Indonesian revolt.

Brooks said Rhodes told her that although some fear that Egypt could
turn into post-revolution Iran, he saw as many similarities to the
Indonesian experience. In the following days, she prepared papers
for Rhodes that broadly compared the uprisings in Egypt and Indonesia,
examining their militaries and bearing down on the traditions of
each country's Islamist political movements."We looked at various
slices of the issue to get some baseline assessments," said Brooks,
who serves as an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign
Relations and runs a consulting firm. "And then we moved onto the
lessons learned - what did the United States do well, and what
didn't it do well? And what did Indonesia do well to get where it
is?" Although Brooks acknowledged many differences in the cases,
she also noted that Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, like Suharto, came to
power from the military at a time of national crisis and with the
active support of the United States. "There's a million different
ways these things unfold, and there's no crystal ball," Brooks said.
"The good news at the end of the day is that there are alternative
outcomes, and that Egypt need not look like Iran, although I'm not
saying it won't." "There are ways that outcome becomes more likely
and ways it becomes less likely... that's what has been under intense
scrutiny in recent weeks.

Egypt's Youth Build A New Opposition Movement, Call for Democratic
Reform Thursday, September 16, 2010
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75374

Over the past six months, about 15,000 of these volunteers have
formed the kernel of a burgeoning youth opposition movement in Egypt
who are pinning their hopes for leadership on Mohamed ElBaradei,
the Nobel peace laureate and former chief of U.N.'s nuclear watchdog
agency....

Another 9,000 volunteers are to be trained or have applied to join
the campaign of ElBaradei supporters. After operating mainly online,
volunteers have started going door-to-door to gather signatures and
reach out to people, following the ideas of [Gene] Sharp....

Egypt's new movement has not implemented Sharp's more dramatic steps
yet. But ElBaradei said he won't hesitate to call for civil
disobedience if the government remains intransigent.

In the meantime, they have successfully avoided heavy arrests by
security services."So long as we appear weak, the security agencies
will leave us alone," said Ahmed Ezz, the lead trainer. "We just
want a space to breathe, to be free, and we are looking to create
a trend."Amr el-Shobaky, a political analyst at the Al-Ahram Center
think tank, said the signature campaign is impressive, and such
steps to gauge public opinion and set up a structure are new for
Egypt's opposition.

"

APRIL 6 ACTIVIST ON REGIME CHANGE EGYPT
http://ourmediaindymedia.blogspot.com/2011/02/wikileaks-about-mubarak-regime.html
W.L. 30-09-2009 - 05.02.2011 04:38 08CAIRO2572 2008-12-30 09:09
2011-01-31 SECRET Embassy Cairo FM AMEMBASSY CAIRO TO RUEHC/SECSTATE
WASHDC 1233 INFO RUEHXK/ARAB ISRAELI COLLECTIVE RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 CAIRO 00257
http://213.251.145.96/cable/2008/12/08CAIRO2572.html Classified By:
ECPO A/Mincouns Catherine Hill-Herndon for reason 1.4 (d).

(excerpts) IS THIS THE START OF SOMETHING?

The key question is, will the localized incident in Mahalla spark
a wider movement? The government is clearly focused on containing
unrest. Even while the riots were still winding down, PM Nazif
traveled to Mahalla, paid bonuses to factory workers and praised
those who did not join in the riots (ref D). The government has
also accelerated arrests of activists in Cairo (ref E). The organizers
of the April 6 strike have already called, via Facebook, for a
follow-on national strike on May 4, Mubarak's eightieth birthday.
Even regime insiders have acknowledged the political savvy behind
this tactic -- channeling current outrage towards the next big
event....

April 6 brought together disparate opposition forces together with
numerous non-activist Egyptians, with Facebook calls for a strike
attracting 70,000 people on-line, and garnering widespread national
attention. The nexus of upper and middle-class Facebook users, and
their poorer counterparts in the factories of Mahalla, created a
new dynamic. One senior insider mused, "Who could have imagined a
few kids on the internet could foment a buzz the entire country
noticed?...The riots introduce a new dynamic for us as well. Under
these stressful conditions, Mubarak and his regime will be even
more sensitive to US criticism. April 15, Foreign Minister Aboul
Gheit, meeting with the Ambassador, cited the Mahalla incident as
a strain and hoped US would be supportive of Egypt during this
difficult period. RICCIARDONE
http://213.251.145.96/cable/2008/04/08CAIRO783.html

Council on Foreign Relations: major U.S. think tank spells it out
Soft Power: Democracy-Promotion and U.S. NGOs
http://www.cfr.org/democracy-promotion/soft-power-democracy-promotion-us-ngos/p10164
Introduction

Democracy-promotion has long been an aspect of U.S. foreign policy,
but it became a central component after September 11. The U.S.
government has several channels for promoting democracy, most notably
the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); the State
Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and
Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI); and the Millennium
Challenge Corporation, which provides funds to nations that already
meet certain democratic standards. But a plethora of U.S. nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) also exist for this purpose, with varying
degrees of financial dependency on the government. In recent years,
their budgets have increased dramatically...However, the majority
receive funding from the U.S. government, and Justin Logan, a foreign
policy analyst at the Cato Institute, does not subscribe to
democracy-promotion as a foreign policy goal, arguing it is essentially
regime change. Private institutes like financier George Soros' Open
Society Institute may be able to make progress toward opening some
societies, but Logan says the governmentbeven if it's achieving its
aims by supporting NGOsbshould not be involved. Some argue NGOs can
hinder and even work against U.S. interests. Recently, the New York
Times accused the International Republican Institute (IRI) of
undermining U.S. government policy in Haiti by siding with the
opposition to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....NED, the
biggest American NGO focused on democracy-promotion, distributes
equal amounts of funds to four affiliated institutes: the National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), the International
Republican Institute (IRI), the Center for Independent Private
Enterprise (CIPE), and the American Center for International Labor
Solidarity ("Solidarity Center")...Open Society Institute (OSI) and
Soros Foundations network does not call itself a democracy-promoting
organization, but pursues activities contributing to this goal....

Mohamed El Baradei a member of Zbigniew Brzezinski / George Soros
International Crisis Group think tank

Brzezinski: Carter's sect'y of state, was also member of the board
of directors of Amnesty International, the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Atlantic Council, and the National Endowment for
Democracy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski

Amid Combustible Atmosphere in Egypt, 'There Could Be a Showdown'
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june11/egypt4_02-10.html
Jim Lehrer speaks with two former presidential national security
advisers about the impact of Egyptian President Mubarak's speech
and continuing political unrest on U.S.-Egypt relations. Stephen
Hadley served under President George W. Bush, and Zbigniew Brzezinski
held the post in the Carter administration.

BRZEZINSKI ... I do feel we're getting to a point in which the
options could become quite ominous, because obviously tensions are
rising. The situation is fluid. There could be a showdown. There
could be the use of fire, lots of casualties, polarization, violence.
And then the outcomes become equally unpalatable in whichever
direction they go. Either the army takes over eventually, crushes
the opposition, and we end up with Egypt a little bit like the
Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, for example. Or the army crumbles,
disintegrates and we end up with something somewhat approximating
Iran, namely, the Muslim Brotherhood from behind the scenes gains
in significance, and Egypt veers in that direction.

So, the name of the game, in my judgment, is to the extent that we
have any influence -- and we have to be very careful not to exaggerate
it -- is to try to promote, advance a political process which
transforms this is amorphous rising of the young people, the
protesters and others, into a real participation in a political
process, which means leaders become evident, programs begin to be
articulated, and eventually the existing government, whoever is
running it, and they sit down and define the rules of the game for
a transition of power by elections.

That is exactly what happened in Poland in 18 - in 1989. The communist
government, realizing that it can not crush Solidarity, was prepared
to talk. Solidarity was willing to sit down. And then you had in
effect a roundtable in which the opposition, led by trade union
leader Walesa, assisted by intellectuals, with the church participating
and the right wing and the left wing of the Communist Party together
eventually arranging for elections.

That cannot happen in Egypt overnight, because you're dealing with
an amorphous protest which isn't yet crystallized into some sort
of programs and leaderships. And that's what we have to promote as
much as we can from the outside, but quietly, and not by imperative
commands publicly.

NED http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NED

The close alignment of the NED activities with US foreign policy
interests comes as no surprise, especially when you consider the
revolving doorways between the US Government and the NED Board of
Directors, some of the most notable of which include:

"...former US Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger (Nixon) and
Madeleine Albright (Clinton), former US Secretary of Defense Frank
Carlucci (Reagan), former National Security Council Chair Zbigniew
Brzezinski (Carter), former NATO Supreme Allied Command in Europe,
General Wesley K. Clark (Clinton), and the current head of the World
Bank, Paul Wolfowitz (George W. Bush). Another notable, Bill Brock,
served as a US Senator, a US Trade Representative, and US Secretary
of Labor, and then Chairman of the Board of NED."

According to the New York Times: "The National Endowment for Democracy
is a quasi-governmental foundation created by the Reagan Administration
in 1983 to channel millions of Federal dollars into anti-Communist
'private diplomacy.'" NED was created with a view to creating a
broad base of political support for the organization. NED received
funds from the U.S. government and distributes funds to four other
organizations - one created by the Republican Party, another by the
Democratic Party, one created by the business community and one by
the "labor" movement (N.B.: the names of these organizations have
changed over time):

* International Republican Institute (IRI) * National Democratic
Institute for International Affairs (NDI) * Chamber of Commerce's
Center for Private Enterprise (CIPE) * AFL-CIO's American Center
for International Labor Solidarity

Although publicly funded, the activities of these four institutes
are not reported to Congress. According to William Robinson, "NED
employs a complex system of intermediaries in which operative
aspects, control relationships, and funding trails are nearly
impossible to follow and final recipients are difficult to identify."...

Pepe Escobar of the Asia Times, writes: "The whole arsenal of US
foundations -- National Endowment for Democracy, International
Republic Institute, International Foundation for Election Systems
(IFES), Eurasia Foundation, Internews, among others -- which fueled
opposition movements in Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine, has also been
deployed in Bishkek [Kyrgyzstan]... Practically everything that
passes for civil society in Kyrgyzstan is financed by these US
foundations, or by the US Agency for International Development
(USAID). At least 170 non-governmental organizations charged with
development or promotion of democracy have been created or sponsored
by the Americans..."

Gene Sharp: Theoretician Of Velvet Revolution Radio Free Europe
11/27/09
http://www.rferl.org/content/Gene_Sharp_Theoretician_Of_Velvet_Revolution/1889473.html
In February 2010 Iranbs Intelligence Ministry produced a broadcast
about Americans it said were plotting against the regime. The video
mentioned well-known names like Senator John McCain and financier
George Soros... also Gene Sharp...and longtime associate Robert
Helvey,

pumping up public opinion propaganda, pimping imperialist freedom-loving
'pacifists' hated by 'autocrats' gears up Gene Sharp: Shy U.S.
Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution The Power of
Pacifism http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17sharp.html

BOSTON b Halfway around the world from Tahrir Square in Cairo, an
aging American intellectual shuffles about his cluttered brick row
house in a working-class neighborhood here. His name is Gene Sharp.
Stoop-shouldered and white-haired at 83, he grows orchids, has yet
to master the Internet and hardly seems like a dangerous man.

But for the worldbs despots, his ideas can be fatal...When Egyptbs
April 6 Youth Movement was struggling to recover from a failed
effort in 2005, its leaders tossed around bcrazy ideasb about
bringing down the government, said Ahmed Maher, a leading strategist.
They stumbled on Mr. Sharp while examining the Serbian movement
Otpor, which he had influenced. When the International Center on
Nonviolent Conflict, which trains democracy activists, slipped into
Cairo several years ago to conduct a workshop, among the papers it
distributed was Mr. Sharpbs b198 Methods of Nonviolent Action,b ...
Peter Ackerman, a onetime student of Mr. Sharp who founded the
nonviolence center and ran the Cairo workshop, cites his former
mentor as proof that bideas have power.b He has been watching events
in Cairo unfold on CNN from his modest house in East Boston, which
he bought in 1968 for $150 plus back taxes. It doubles as the
headquarters of the Albert Einstein Institution, an organization
Mr. Sharp founded in 1983 while running seminars at Harvard and
teaching political science at what is now the University of
Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

Some people suspect Mr. Sharp of being a closet peacenik and a lefty
b in the 1950s, he wrote for a publication called bPeace Newsb and
he once worked as personal secretary to A. J. Muste, a noted labor
union activist and pacifist b but he insists that he outgrew his
own early pacifism and describes himself as btrans-partisan.b...

Autocrats abhor Mr. Sharp. In 2007, President Hugo ChC!vez of
Venezuela denounced him, and officials in Myanmar, according to
diplomatic cables obtained by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks,
accused him of being part of a conspiracy to set off demonstrations
intended bto bring down the government.b...

In 2008, Iran featured Mr. Sharp, along with Senator John McCain
of Arizona and the Democratic financier George Soros, in an animated
propaganda video that accused Mr. Sharp of being the C.I.A. agent
bin charge of Americabs infiltration into other countries,b an
assertion his fellow scholars find ludicrous. bHe is generally
considered the father of the whole field of the study of strategic
nonviolent action,b said Stephen Zunes, an expert in that field at
the University of San Francisco. bSome of these exaggerated stories
of him going around the world and starting revolutions and leading
mobs, a joke. Hebs much more into doing the research and the
theoretical work than he is in disseminating it.b That is not to
say Mr. Sharp has not seen any action. In 1989, he flew to China
to witness the uprising in Tiananmen Square. In the early 1990s,
he sneaked into a rebel camp in Myanmar at the invitation of Robert
L. Helvey, retired Army colonel who advised the opposition there
when Colonel Helvey was on a fellowship at Harvard...

The Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) as described in its own website
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Albert_Einstein_Institution#Funding

Founded in 1983 by Dr. Gene Sharp, The Albert Einstein Institution
is dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent
action in conflicts throughout the world. It is committed to the
defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political
violence through the use of nonviolent action. To further its
mission, the Institution has supported research projects (for
examples, see our publications section), actively consulted with
resistance and pro-democracy groups (including in Burma, Thailand,
Tibet, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Serbia, and the Occupied
Territories)...

"During most of the 1990s, the Soros foundations network developed
in the former Soviet empire, helping countries in transition from
authoritarian rule build open, democratic societies. Over the past
several years, we have expanded our geographical horizons to other
parts of the world. Together with partners that share our principles
and goals, the network is laying the foundation for a truly global
alliance for open society."[http://www.soros.org/] "The goal of the
Agency (CIA) was exactly the same as that of the Open Society Fund:
to dismantle socialism. In South Africa, the CIA sought out dissidents
who were anticommunist. In Hungary, Poland and the USSR, the CIA,
with overt intervention from the National Endowment for Democracy,
the AFL-CIO, USAID and other institutions, supported and organized
anticommunists, the very type of individuals recruited by Soros'
Open Society Fund. The CIA would have called them "assets." As Soros
said, "In each country I identified a group of people - some leading
personalities, others less well known - who share my belief..."
Soros' Open Society organized conferences with anticommunist Czechs,
Serbs, Romanians, Hungarians, Croatians, Bosnians, Kosovars. His
ever-expanding influence gave rise to suspicions that he was operating
as part of the U.S. intelligence complex. In 1989, the Washington
Post reported charges first made in 1987 by the Chinese government
officials that Soros' Fund for the Reform and Opening of China had
CIA connections."

Principals * Robert Helvey b (Col., Defence Intelligence Agency) *
Edward Atkeson b (Major General, US Army) advisor * Peter Ackerman
b advisor

Dr. Peter Ackerman, author of Strategic Nonviolent Conflict writing
in the National Catholic Reporter April 26, 2002, offered the
following... "It is not true that the only way to 'take out' such
regimes is through U.S. military action." Speaking at the "Secretary's
Open Forum" at the State Department on June 29, 2004, in a speech
entitled, "Between Hard and Soft Power:The Rise of Civilian-Based
Struggle and Democratic Change," ...Ackerman proposed youth movements,
such as those used to bring down Serbia, could bring down Iran and
North Korea, and could have been used to bring down Iraq... And he
has been working with the top US weapons designer, Lawrence Livermore
Laboratories, on developing new communications technologies that
could be used in other youth movement insurgencies... in reference
to their potential use in bringing down China, "they enable
decentralized activity. They create a digital concept of the right
of assembly."

bFrom the beginning, the April 6 Youth Movement has been allied
with the groups collaborating with ElBaradei...b Up to his opportune
return, ElBaradei and Peter Ackermanbs wife, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman,
had both been board members of the Soros-financed International
Crisis Group....

Peter Ackerman: Godfather Of Middle East Protest
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/83725/peter-ackerman-nonviolence-protest
The New Republic, February 17, 2011, Ezra Deutsch-Feldman

With the sudden success of nonviolent revolution in Egypt, attention
has turned to the seemingly ubiquitous influence of Peter Ackerman,
a former investment banker who became... intellectual godfather to
the Middle Eastern protest movements...[with] his group, the
International Center for Nonviolent Conflict...In 2005, our current
editor-at-large Franklin Foer profiled Ackerman for TNR:

The State Department has begun paying attention to Ackerman for a
good reason: His tactics are suited to the current political climate.
The wars against Saddam Hussein and the Taliban have exhausted U.S.
appetite for forcible regime change. At the same time, the goal of
promoting democracy in the Middle East and Central Asia remains.
To be sure, there is a slew of NGOs that advise and finance democratic
activists, but they specialize in working with movements as they
approach full bloom C"b,bespecially as elections near. In places
like Iran, however, there are few vibrant movements to foster.
That's where Ackerman has found his niche... Ackerman has stepped
up his involvement. He worked with Bob Helvey to train Iranian-Americans,
many of whom worked for Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed shah. Azar
Nafisi introduced him to the Iranian human rights community. And
the ICNC has made preliminary contacts with the referendum movement...
Ultimately, he envisions events unfolding as they did in Serbia,
with a small, well-trained, nonviolent vanguard introducing the
idea of resistance to the masses. When the Rose Revolution began
in the fall of 2003, there was little reason to hope for a happy
ending....

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George Soros & Egypt's New Constitution by Tony Cartalucci, 2/18/11
landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/george-soros-egypts-new-constitution.html

The United States and its allies are still feigning surprise at the
unfolding revolutionary conflagration consuming the Middle East.
However, those aware of the West's decades old network of NGOs and
how their sole purpose is reordering the world to align to Western
imperial interests can clearly see their meddling hands involved
in the current "uprisings" sweeping North Africa, Arabia, and now
Iran. While Movements.org coordinates their army of youthful cannon
fodder in the streets of foreign nations from Bahrain to Libya,
their corporate sponsors and their partners in the US State Department
put on a convincing act of carefully portrayed confusion in the
mainstream media.

MSNBC recently republished a New York Times piece titled "U.S.
scrambles to size up ElBaradei," suggesting somehow Egypt's Mohamed
ElBaradei may pose an obstacle to American and Israeli interests
in the region. The utter contempt for their readers' intelligence
is revealed when considering ElBaradei is a trustee of a prominent
US think-tank, the International Crisis Group (ICG) along side
George Soros, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Richard Armitage, and Kenneth
Aldelman.

Zbigniew Brzezinski of course is the father of MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski,
who daily feigns ignorance over the true nature of the protests and
that her father is openly involved in orchestrating them. MSNBC
itself is a corporate sponsor of Movements.org.

ICG members such as Richard Armitage and Kenneth Adelman are also
signatories of the Project for a New American Century, architects
of the extremely fake "War on Terror," and now some of the most
vocal fear mongers regarding the unrest they have not only planned
by have funded and organized as well via the National Endowment for
Democracy (NED) and Freedom House.

Though many pundits see the Egyptian military's dissolving of
parliament and the suspension of the nation's constitution as a
step backwards for the protesters, it was exactly these steps that
were demanded by ElBaradei's mobs according to the Nation Endowment
for Democracy (NED) funded Project on Middle East Democracy. The
fact that George Soros, a fellow ICG trustee along side protest
leader Mohamed ElBaradei, is funding organizations that have submitted
drafts for Egypt's new constitution adds insult to injury to the
evisceration of Egypt's national sovereignty. It turns out that the
new Egyptian Constitution has already been drafted, not by the
Egyptian people, but by the US-backed protesters who brought about
regime change in the first place. A Reuters report quoted an
opposition judge, who had been hiding-out in Kuwait until Mubarak's
ousting, as having said civil society groups had already produced
several drafts and a new constitution could be ready in a month.

These "civil society" groups include the Arabic Network for Human
Rights Information openly funded by George Soros' Open Society
Institute and the Neo-Con lined NED funded Egyptian Organization
for Human Rights. It appears that while the International Crisis
Group may be turning out the strategy, and their trustee ElBaradei
leading the mobs into the streets, it is the vast array of NGOs
their membership, including Soros, fund that are working out and
implementing the details on the ground...

The boldness and size of the globalists' [ed: u.s. imperialism]
activities in the Middle East, North Africa, and now Iran is of
such scale, it suggests the beginning of what may be the largest,
attempted premeditated reordering of the world since the World Wars.

The public's inability to wrap their minds around the reality of
what is now transpiring will only embolden the globalists to pursue
the next stage of their world domineering agenda... for people to
recognize that "Neo-Cons" and the likes of George Soros [left liberal
imperialists] work in synchronized concert to implement their new
global order.

in case you missed this...

Egyptbs Revolution: Creative Destruction for a bGreater Middle
Eastb?

by F. William Engdahl | 7 February 2011
http://www.voltairenet.org/article168381.html

Controverting majority opinion, F. William Engdahl maintains there
is nothing spontaneous about the mass protest movements in Arab
countries and sees them as a replay of the US-orchestrated colour
revolutions that triggered regime change in post-Soviet countries.
The same script and cast of characters are at hand: local opposition
leaders coached by the NED and other US-funded organizations in the
art of staging "spontaneous" uprisings. The contours of the underlying
US strategy for the region have been clear for some time. [...]

ElBaradei: Sorosbs Man in Cairo by Maidhc C Cathail,
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/12/elbaradei-soross-man-in-cairo/

In a February 3 Washington Post op-ed piece titled bWhy Obama has
to get Egypt right,b George Soros wrote that the U.S. president had
bmuch to gain by moving out in front and siding with the public
demand for dignity and democracy.b ...ElBaradei, whom he disinterestedly
described as bthe Nobel laureate is seeking to run for president.b
He neglected to mention that up to ElBaradeibs January 27 return
to crisis-torn Egypt, the former IAEA chief had been a member of
the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, which
Soros, the thirty-fifth richest person in the world, helped create
and finance...among ICGbs elite international list of senior
advisersbdefined as bformer Board Members (to the extent consistent
with any other office they may be holding at the time) who maintain
an association with Crisis Group, and whose advice and support are
called on from time to timebbwe find Shlomo Ben-Ami, former foreign
minister of Israel; Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel;
and Shimon Peres, current president of Israel...bI hope President
Obama will expeditiously support the people of Egypt,b Soros wrote
in his Post op-ed. bMy foundations are prepared to contribute what
they can.b

U.S. SOFT POWER DIPLOMACY / INFORMATION WAR 'FREEDOM': to destabilize,
divide & conquer or overthrow regimes, including its long-term
proxies, not satisfactorily serving its global dictatorship:
resisting its state terrorist dictatorship is "terrorism"

U.S. Policy to Address Internet Freedom
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/15clinton.html

Days after Facebook and Twitter added fuel to a revolt in Egypt,
the Obama administration on Tuesday announced a new policy on
Internet freedom, intended to help people get around barriers in
cyberspace while making it harder for autocratic governments to use
the same technology to repress dissent.Mrs. Clinton defended an
expansive approach that embraces a variety of tools for responding
to threats to Internet freedom.bWe support multiple tools, so if
repressive governments figure out how to target one, others are
available. And we invest in the cutting edge because we know that
repressive governments are constantly innovating their methods of
repression.b Thus, in the 2009 protest movement in Iran, demonstrators
used Web sites to organize marches and distribute galvanizing
cellphone videos of violence by paramilitary forces; but then, said
Mrs. Clinton, bthe Revolutionary Guard stalked members of the green
movement by tracking their cellphones.b Similarly, social networks
have been used by both protesters and governments in the uprisings
in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries, she said....

The State Department plans to finance programs like circumvention
services, which enable users to evade Internet firewalls, and
training for human rights workers on how to secure their e-mail
from surveillance or wipe incriminating data from cellphones if
they are detained by the police... circumvention technology...
allows Internet users to evade government firewalls by routing their
traffic through proxy servers in other countries.... backers say
they need much more [financing] to install networks capable of
handling millions of users in China, Iran and other countries..critics
said the Iranian government was able to keep censoring the Internet,
helping it muffle the protests that followed its disputed presidential
election in 2009...b The [State] departmentbs failure to follow
Congressional intent created the false impression among Iranian
demonstrators that the regime had the power to disrupt access to
Facebook and Twitter,b said Michael J. Horowitz, a senior fellow
at the Hudson Institute, who lobbies on behalf of the Global Internet
Freedom Consortium, a circumvention service with ties to Falun
Gong...Facebook does not want to alter its policy requiring users
to sign up with their real identities [that] protects its users
from fraud....human rights advocates like Susannah Vila, director
of content and outreach for Movements.org, which provides resources
for digital activists, say it could put some people at risk from
governments looking to ferret out dissent...

A report by the Republican minority of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, which was to be released Tuesday, said the State
Departmentbs performance was so inadequate that the job of financing
Internet freedom initiativesbat least related to Chinabshould be
moved to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees Voice
of America and Radio Free Europe....Mr. Horowitz organized
demonstrations of the service for legislators, journalists and
others. Jan. 27, the day before the Egyptian government cut off
access to the Internet, he said there were more than 7.8 million
page views by Egyptians on UltraSurf, one of two consumer services
under the umbrella of the Global Internet Freedom Consortium...a
huge increase from only 76,000 on Jan. 22.The trouble, Mr. Horowitz
said, is that UltraSurf and its sister service, Freegate, do not
have enough capacity to handle sudden spikes in usage during political
crises. That causes the speed to slow to a crawl...The companies
need tens of millions of dollars to install an adequate network,
he said. Under a previous government grant, the group received $1.5
million.But the experience in Egypt points up the limits of
circumvention. By shutting down the entire Internet, the authorities
were able to make such systems moot. Administration officials point
out that circumvention is also of little value in countries like
Russia, which does not block the Internet but dispatches the police
to pursue bloggers, or in Myanmar, which has sophisticated ways to
monitor e-mail accounts. Ron Deibert, the director of the Citizen
Lab at the University of Toronto, said that governments had been
shifting from blocking the Internet to hacking and disabling it.
Even in the United States, he noted, the Senate is considering a
bill that would allow the president to switch off the Internet in
the event of a catastrophic cyberattack.

bIran is awful because it is a government that routinely violates
the rights of its peopleb Secretary of State Clinton Feb 15, 2011
speech at George Washington University.

As Clinton Spoke On Freedom Of Speech, a Vet is Bloodied, Bruised
and Arrested for Silent Dissent
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27501.htm

February 17, 2011 "Justice On Line" - -As Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday
condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free
expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern, a veteran Army officer who
also worked as a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years, wearing a Veterans
for Peace t-shirt, was grabbed from the audience in plain view of
her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes,
brutalized and left bleeding in jail. She never paused speaking.

several U.S. agents Iran Detains Iranian-American Man Working for
George Soros' Open Society Institute May 23, 2007,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275059,00.html Iran detained
an Iranian-American consultant working for George Soros' Open Society
Institute, the latest U.S. citizen connected to a NGO seized in the
country, the institute said

From "Protecting Cyberspace" to "Internet Freedom"

The 221-page bill hands Homeland Security the power to issue decrees
to certain privately owned computer systems after the president
declares a "national cyber emergency."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20033717-281.html 'Kill Switch'
Internet bill U.S. officials could flip the switch if the Protecting
Cyberspace as a National Asset legislation becomes law
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2011-02-15-kill-switch_N.htm

"Clinton speech: end Internet censorship or risk the kind of social
and political unrest seen in much of the Middle East"

U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html?src=me&ref=technology&nl=technology&emc=techupdateema4
In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal
crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the Web addresses
of a number of sites that facilitate illegal file-sharing were
seized this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division
of the Department of Homeland Security.

2 Arrests: China Cracks Down on Pro-Democracy Protesters
http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/02/20/china-cracks-down-on-pro-democracy-protesters/

Chinese authorities detained several activists and boosted police
presence in key cities Sunday, after an Internet call for "Chinabs
Jasmine Revolution" around the country. Police in Beijing, Shanghai
and 11 other major cities moved quickly to isolate rights lawyers
and pro-democracy activists...Two arrests were reported in Beijing
and in Shanghai, but there were no reports of arrests in other
cities targeted in the web postings, such as Guangzhou and Chengdu...
Western analysts say many of Sunday's web postings appear to have
originated on websites based outside China, operated by exiled
dissidents. The sites urged Chinese protesters to shout out their
demands for housing, justice, freedom and democracy... the Chinese
Foreign Ministry warned the US last week not to use Internet-access
issues as a bpretextb to interfere in China's internal affairs after
U.S. Secretary of State Clinton delivered a major speech urging
governments either to end Internet censorship or risk the kind of
social and political unrest seen in much of the Middle East.

Whatbs Behind the Tumult in Egypt?

by Dr. K R Bolton, February 1, 2011
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/01/whats-behind-the-tumult-in-egypt/2/
...The Hand of Soros b Again

The UNFree Media ridicules allegations that George Soros, currency
speculator and patron of world bcolor revolutions", is a factor in
the current turmoil, dismissing such claims as bconspiracy theory.b
Yet the same article quickly goes on to state that a new monthly
opposition magazine Wasla, widely distributed to strategic quarters
such as the military and academia with an electronic edition read
throughout the Arab world:... Wasla b or bThe Linkb b touted as a
first for the Arab world, with plans for articles by bloggers as a
way of giving them a wider readership is published by the Arabic
Network for Human Rights Information and financially supported by
the Open Society Institute created by Soros, said ANHRI director
Gamal Eid. bWe want to challenge our audience, and open its eyes
to the changes society is experiencing, particularly through youths
and blogs in which they appear,b he said.[7] It might be recalled
that Sorosb Open Society Institute funded the primary opposition
voice in Tunisia, Radio Kalima. The Soros network has been working
extensively in Egypt. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
works in tandem with the Open Society Justice Initiative, and is
an bOSI grantee.b In December 2010, the OSI advised: The Open Society
Foundations will consider projects from domestic and international
NGOs or civil society groups active in Egypt. Coalitions of NGOs
are also encouraged to apply... Notes[...]

"Color Coded" Egypt; Did US-backed NGOs Help to Topple Mubarak from
interview with K.R. Bolton By Mike Whitney 2/16
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27493.htm

MW----Do we know whether foreign agents or US-backed NGOs participated
in the demonstrations in Tahrir Square? Could they have played a
part in toppling Mubarak?

K R Bolton--The revolts in Tunisia, Egypt and as they are spreading
further afield have all the hallmarks of the NED/Soros bcolor
revolutionsb that were fomented in the former Soviet bloc states,
in Myanmar and elsewhere. They all follow the same pattern and many
years of planning, training and funding have gone into the ridiculously
called bspontaneousb (sic) revolts.The organizations that have spent
years and much money creating revolutionary [sic] organizations in
Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere include the National Endowment for
Democracy, USAID, International Republican Institute, Freedom House,
Open Society Institute, and an array of fronts stemming therefrom,
including: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs,
Center for International Private Enterprise, and the American Center
for International Labor Solidarity.These organizations have for
years been backing Egyptian bactivists.b Freedom House for e.g.
trained 16 young Egyptian bactivistsb in 2009 in a two month
scholarship. A few days ago the New York reported the association
between the April 6 Youth movement, and Optor, the Serbian youth
movement that was pivotal in overthrowing Milosevic for the benefit
of globalism and the free market. Now April 6 is addressing youths
form Libya, Iran, Morocco and Algeria. (bA Tunisian-Egyptian Link
that Shook Arab History,b New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/middleeast/14egypt-tunisia-protests..html)....

There do not seem to be any bhomegrownb organisations that have
played a leading role in the revolts. The labor unions for example
were organized, trained and funded by NED. The American Center for
International Labor Solidarity works in conjunction with the Center
for International Private Enterprise, and is funded by the U.S.
Agency for International Development, National Endowment for
Democracy, U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Labor,
AFL-CIO, private foundations, and national and international labor
organizations. What kind of labor organisation collaborates with
those who promote globalisation and the free market?

One of the organizations especially created to sponsor pro-globalist
[ed: imperialist] unions is the NED-based Solidarity Center that
has been involved with recreating the labor movement in Egypt. NEDbs
2009 report for grants includes $318,75 to the American Center for
International Labor Solidarity for their program in Egypt; in
addition to an array of other organizations in Egypt, and especially
those directed at training byouth activistsb in social media
networking and other features of bspontaneous revolt.b MW---Do you
anticipate a clash between the US-backed military junta and the
growing mass of people who seem to have lost their fear of government
repression?

K R Bolton--The mass movement is doing precisely what it was created
to do by the US based globalist organizations... reminiscent of
Oswald Spenglerbs comment of certain bsocialistb organizations a
century ago: they do not function other than where and how money
dictates. These are brevolutions form aboveb ...by [affluent]
secularized youth who look on Western democracy as an ideal...using
the masses as cannon fodder by interests whom they think they are
opposing. The strategy was tried out within the New Left forty to
fifty years ago, when Foundations and the CIA backed certain
bradicalsb such as Gloria Steinem, National Students Association
etc., and the bpsychedelic revolution.b MW----Why would the
International Republican Institute (IRI) the National Endowment for
Democracy (NED), or George Soro's Open Society Institute train
activists to topple a pro-American regimen like Mubarak's?

K R Bolton-- There are long term, dialectical strategies involved
that might require even removing pro-US regimes, that are now
anomalies in the process of globalization. However, there are
indications that Mubarak was an impediment... The US and the Mubarak
regime were at loggerheads over Sudan for example, Mubarak favoring
a confederation, whereas the US sought dismemberment of the South
from the north. Egyptbs influence was gaining in the Sudan, with
investments and advisers. On Nov. 3, 2009 Egyptian Foreign Minister
Ahmed Aboul-Gheit stated that within the previous five years Egypt
had invested more than $87 million into projects in southern Sudan,
including hospitals, schools and power stations, bin hope of
convincing the people of southern Sudan to choose unity over
secession.b Towards the end of the Bush regime the U.S. Defense
Department established the Africa Command (AFRICOM), a primary
concern of this new US regional command being the establishment of
a massive military base in southern Sudan. There is a very interesting
article on this in The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs:
http://www.washington-report.org/component/content/article/363/10285-sudan-set-to-split-despite-egyptian-moves-.html
MW--How do Mohamed ElBaradei and Ayman Nour fit into to all of this?

K R Bolton-- Mohamed ElBaradei appears to be fulfilling the role
of numerous other leaders-in-waiting who have assumed the mantle
of leadership in the aftermath of bcolor revolutions.b ElBaradei
is on the Executive Committee of the International Crisis Group,
another globalist think tank promoting the bnew world orderb behind
the facade the bopen society.b ICG was founded in 1994 by Mark
Brown, former Vice President of the World Bank. Soros is a committee
member, along with such luminaries of peace and goodwill as Samuel
Berger, former US National Security Adviser; Wesley Clark, former
NATO Commander, Europe; and sundry eminences from business, academe,
politics and diplomacy of the type that generally comprise such
organizations.

bSenior advisersb of the ICG include the omnipresent Zbigniew
Brzezinski, former US National Security Adviser, and founding
director of David Rockefellerbs Trilateral Commission, an individual
up to his neck in seemingly every globalist cause and think tank
going, and de facto foreign policy adviser for Pres. Obama; and
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, former Secretary General of NATO.
Financial backers of the ICG include the Ford Foundation and Open
Society Institute....

Maj. Ralph Peters writing in Parameters, organ of the US Army War
College, that the de facto role of the American army is to keep the
world bopen to our cultural assault.b... information being the
bmost destabilising factor of our time.b... this the bAmerican
centuryb where the USA will become bculturally more lethalb&.b in
the bclash of civilisationsb. bHollywood goes where Harvard never
penetrated, and the foreigner, unable to touch the reality of
America, is touched by Americabs irresponsible fantasies itself...Bill
Gates, Steven Spielberg and Madonnab are replacing btraditional
intellectual elites.b bOur cultural empire has addicted b men and
women everywhere - clamouring for more. And they pay for the privilege
of their disillusionment.b bIf religion is the opium of the people,
video is their crack cocaineb&b bThere will be no peaceb&b bOur
military power is culturally basedb&b bOur American culture is
infectious, a plague of pleasureb& But Hollywood is preparing the
battlefield and burgers precede the bullets..."

Americabs mission as related by an influential strategist and
commentator, formerly with the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff
for Intelligence; Foreign Area Officer for Eurasia.... sounds rather
like the secularised, youthful bactivistsb spearheading revolts in
Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and elsewhere. I believe that the globalists
have unleashed their chaos upon another vast region that will be
in a state of disruption for many years to come, like the result
of their having bliberatedb (sic) Iraq...I hypothesize the problems
generated in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, etc. may be part of a regional
process directed primarily at Iran, and next Syria, two states
marked in particular for destruction by the Project for the New
American Century.

K R Bolton is a bcontributing writerb for The Foreign Policy Journal,
a Member of the Emerald Literati Network and other scholarly
societies, and has also been widely published on a variety of
subjects by: The International Journal of Russian Studies; Geopolitika,
Moscow State University; Journal of Social Economics; Journal of
Social, Political and Economic Studies; Retort International Arts
and Literary Review; Istanbul Literary Review; The Initiate: Journal
of Traditional Studies; Esoteric Quarterly; Antrocom Journal of
Anthropology; Farsee News Service; Phayul.com; Radio Free Asia
Vietnamese Service; Novosti Foreign Service; etc. Translations in:
Russian, Vietnamese, Latvian, Czech, Italian, French, Farsee.

Bolton's recent articles on NGO involvement in Egypt include "The
Globalist Web of Subversion" and "What's Behind the Tumult in
Egypt?". Both articles can be found at Foreign Policy Journal

Facebook Officials Keep Quiet on Its Role in Revolts
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/business/media/15facebook.html

Elliot Schrage, the vice president for global communications, public
policy and marketing at Facebook, declined to discuss Facebookbs
role in the recent tumult and what it might mean for the companybs
services. In recent weeks, Facebook pages and groups trying to
mobilize protesters have sprung up in Algeria, Bahrain, Morocco and
Syria. Hashtags on Twitter have also helped spread the protests,
which extended to Algeria over the weekend and to Bahrain, Iran and
Yemen on Monday.bThis is an incredible challenge and an incredible
opportunity for Facebook, Twitter and Google,b said Ethan Zuckerman,
a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
at Harvard...

In a speech that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is
scheduled to deliver Tuesday, she will once again emphasize that
Internet freedom is an inalienable right. In recent weeks, the State
Department has been sending out Twitter updates in Arabic and began
sending updates in Persian over the weekend.

Egypt: Google 'very, very proud' of cyber revolutionary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8327584/Egypt-Google-very-very-proud-of-cyber-revolutionary.html

Google is "very, very proud of what Wael Ghonim was able to do in
Egypt" the young executive at the company who emerged as a leading
voice of the Egyptian uprising, company boss Eric Schmidt said
Tuesday at the mobile phone industry's annual get-together in
Barcelona. In an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" Sunday, Mr Ghonim
said the protests which led to Mr Mubarak's ouster would not have
happened without online social networks "If there was no social
networks it would have never been sparked...Because the whole thing
before the revolution was the most critical thing. Without Facebook,
without Twitter, without Google, without You Tube, this would have
never happened."

Radio Free Europe RFE/RL's Radio Farda 'Anonymous' Hackers Help
Iranian Activists Fight The Regime
http://www.rferl.org/content/iran_hackers_anonymous_cyberarmy_opposition_internet/2313350.html

"Anonymous " Operation: Iran is providing users with special advice
forums and tools to fight the Iranian government's censorship. The
group has also encouraged Iranian users to use
distributed-denial-of-service attacks (DDOS) to take down key
government websites like khamenei.ir, the website of Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Khamenei, as well as leader.ir and president.ir...

Google's Revolution Factory: Alliance of Youth Movements: Color
Revolution 2.0 by Tony Cartalucci, February 11, 2011
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/googles-revolution-factory.html

In 2008 the Alliance of Youth Movements [AYM] held its inaugural
summit in New York City. Attending this summit was State Department
staff, Council on Foreign Relations members, former National Security
staff, Department of Homeland Security advisers, and myriad
representatives from American corporations and mass media organizations
including AT&T, Google, Facebook, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and
MTV. http://allyoumov.3cdn.net/f734ac45131b2bbcdb_w6m6idptn.pdf
One might suspect such a meeting of representatives involved in US
economic, domestic and foreign policy, along with the shapers of
public opinion in the mass media would be convening to talk about
America's future and how to facilitate it. Joining these policy
makers, was an army of "grassroots" activists that would "help"
this facilitation.

Among them was a then little known group called "April 6", Facebook
"savvy" Egyptians who would later meet US International Crisis Group
[ICG] trustee Mohamed ElBaradei at the Cairo airport in February
2010. The Alliance of Youth Movements mission statement claims it
is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping grassroots
activists to build their capacity and make a greater impact on the
world. While this sounds fairly innocuous at first, even perhaps
positive, upon examining those involved in "Movements.org," a dark
agenda is revealed...

Movement.org is officially partnered with the US Department of State
and Columbia Law School. Its corporate sponsors include Google,
Pepsi, and the Omnicon Group, all listed as members of the Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR). CBS News is a sponsor and listed on the
Chatham House's corporate membership list. Other sponsors include
Facebook, YouTube, Meetup, Howcast, National Geographic, MSNBC,
GenNext, and the Edelman public relations firm.

Movement.org's "team" includes Co-Founder Jared Cohen, a CFR member,
Director of Google Ideas, and a former State Department planning
staff member under both Condoleezza Rice and Hilary Clinton.

Founding Movements.org with Cohen is Jason Liebman of Howcast Media
which works with conglomerates like Proctor & Gamble, Kodak, Staples,
Ford, and government agencies such as the US State Department and
the US Defense Department, to create "custom branded entertainment,
innovative social media, and targeted rich-media campaigns." He was
also with Google for 4 years where he worked to partner with Time
Warner (CFR), News Corporation (FoxNews, CFR) Viacom, Warner Music,
Sony Pictures, Reuters, the New York Times, and the Washington Post
Company.

Roman Sunder, also credited with co-founding Movements.org.,founded
Access 360 Media, a mass advertising company, and organized the
PTTOW! Summit which brought together 35 top executives from companies
like AT&T (CFR), Quicksilver, Activison, Facebook, HP, YouTube,
Pepsi (CFR), and the US Government to discuss the future of the
"youth industry." He is also a board member of Gen Next, another
non-profit organization focused on "affecting change for the next
generation."...

While the activists attending the Movements.org summit adhere to
the philosophies of "left-leaning" [imperialist] liberalism...
behind the summit, funding it, and prodding the agenda of these
activists are American's mega-corporate combine that have violated
human rights worldwide, destroyed the environment, sell shoddy,
overseas manufactured goods produced by workers living in slave
conditions, and pursue an agenda of greed and perpetual expansion
at any cost. The hypocrisy is astounding unless you understand their
nefarious, self-serving agenda can only be accomplished under the
guise of genuine concern for humanity, under mountains of feel-good
rhetoric, helped along by an army of exploited, naive youth.

What we see is not a foundation from which all activists can work
from, but a foundation that has a very selective group of activists
working on "problem spots" the US State Department would like to
see "changed." Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Eastern Europe,
Venezuela, and even Thailand - where ever protesters and movements
are working to undermine governments non-conducive to corporate
America's agenda, you will find Movements.org supporting their
efforts.

The April 6 Movement of Egypt is one of them, and their role in the
apparent success of the US ousting of Hosni Mubarak that may see
their man Mohamed ElBaradei in office is a perfect example of how
this new army of prodded youth will be deployed. It is color
revolution 2.0, run directly out of the US State Department with
the support of corporate America....strongly recommend readers go
to Movements.org themselves and explore the website, in particular
the 3 summits they have held and those that were in attendance.
Everyone from the RAND Corporation to the Council on Foreign Relations
comes to "prod." Movements.org truly is a new tentacle for manipulating
and undermining the sovereignty of foreign nations. [2008 Summit
New York City .pdf 2009 Summit Mexico City .pdf 2010 Summit
London]

The Junk Bond bTeflon Guyb Behind Egyptbs Nonviolent Revolution by
Maidhc C Cathail / February 18th, 2011
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/02/the-junk-bond-bteflon-guyb-behind-egyptbs-nonviolent-revolution/

On February 9, Al Jazeera aired an episode in its People and Power
series entitled bEgypt: Seeds of Change.b The programme offers a
revealing behind the scenes look at a core group of activists from
the April 6 Youth Movement who played a crucial role in Egyptbs
nonviolent revolution. bThis is not a spontaneous uprising,b reporter
Elizabeth Jones stressed. bThe revolution has been in the making
for three years.b The key to its success was the instruction April
6 leaders received from veterans of groups like Otpor, the [U.S./Soros]
student movement that brought down Serbian president Slododan
Milosevic.

Srdja Popovic, a leader of that revolution bshared his firsthand
experience with April 6.b Mohamed Adel, one of the April 6 leaders,
describes his training in Serbia in the tactics of strategic
nonviolence resistance, including bhow to organise and get people
out on the streets.b He brought back videos and teaching aids to
help train the other leaders, who are shown bdirecting the uprising
from the start.b Since the ouster of Milosevic in 2000, Popovic has
been busy spreading the gospel of nonviolent warfare. In 2003, he
founded the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies
(CANVAS) in Belgrade. By spring 2010, the globe-trotting Serb
reportedly had bfive revolutions already under his belt.b In a
Mother Jones puff piece, Nicholas Schmidle writes: bCANVAS got off
to an impressive start, training the pro-democracy campaigners in
Georgia, Ukraine, and Lebanon who went on to lead the Rose, Orange,
and Cedar revolutions, respectively.b But who funds it all? Schmidle,
a fellow at the Soros-linked New America Foundation, quotes Popovic:
bCANVAS is b100 percent independent from any governmentb and funded
entirely by private donors.b Yet an LA Times profile of Nini
Gogiberidze, a Georgian employee of CANVAS, says the group is funded
in part by the near-governmental organisation Freedom House.
bGogiberidze,b the Times adds, bis among Georgiabs bvelvetb
revolutionaries, a group of Western and local activists who make
up a robust pro-democracy corps in this Caucasus countrybso much
of it funded by American philanthropist George Soros that one analyst
calls the nation Sorosistan.b CANVAS works closely with the
International Center for Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), with which it
has shared a number of staff membersbincluding Dr. Stephen Zunes,
who has collaborated with CANVAS in training Egyptian activists.
Founded in 2002, the ICNC is funded entirely by Peter Ackerman, its
founding chair. Ackerman, who chaired the board of Freedom House
from September 2005 until January 2009, also indirectly funds
CANVAS....

Ackermanbs wealth derives mainly from his time at Drexel Burnham
Lambert, the Wall Street investment bank that was forced into
bankruptcy in February 1990 due to its involvement in illegal
activities in the junk bond market. As special projects aide to
junk bond king Michael Milken, Ackerman cleaned up. In 1988 alone,
he took home a salary of $165 million for his critical role in
financing Kohlberg Kravis Robertsbs $26 billion leveraged buyout
of RJR Nabisco. But four months before Drexel collapsed into
bankruptcy, Ackerman bbeat a fortuitously timed retreatb to the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. While the
bkingb was sentenced to 10 years for securities fraud, bthe
highest-paid of all of Michael R. Milkenbs minionsb emerged as bthe
big winnerb with a fortune of approximately $500 millionbprompting
one of his former colleagues to complain: bPeter Ackerman is a real
Teflon guy.b Having successfully escaped bthe stench of Drexel,b
Ackerman completed what BusinessWeek called ban improbable
transformation from junk-bond promoter back to scholar.b Prior to
his financial exploits, he had written his doctoral thesis under
the guidance of Gene Sharp, the Harvard academic whose theories of
nonviolent struggle had inspired the velvet revolutionaries. In
fact, while he was still working for Milken, Ackerman had been
funding Sharpbs Albert Einstein Institution. According to the Wall
Street Journal, bA large part of ICNCbs and Canvasbs theoretical
arsenal is drawn from Mr. Sharpbs writings.b...

And for those who believe that Israel is genuinely worried about
the prospect of bdemocratic change", Ackermanbs participation in a
roundtable discussion entitled bThe Challenge of Radical Islamb at
the 2008 Herzliya Conference with Uzi LandaubAriel Sharonbs Minister
of Internal Security and current member of the Knesset for Avigdor
Liebermanbs Yisrael Beiteinubshould give pause for thought.

among left liberal imperialists, some CIA Moyers, Soros & The Company
they Keep By Bob Feldman
http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/MoyersSorosAndTheAntiNaderNationByBobFeldman.htm

Democratic Party Establishment loyalists like Bill Moyers and George
Soros using foundation money in recent years to help subsidize THE
NATION. Moyers also a board member of George Soros's Open Society
Institute which, in 1999, gave a $50,000 grant to the Nation
Institute...A top executive at The Nation Institute, Hamilton Fish
III, has also been George Soros' personal political advisor in
recent years...Schumann Foundation President Moyers was one of the
Democratic Johnson White House officials responsible for decision
to send 23,000 U.S. troops to Dominican Republic in 1965. Among the
U.S. companies investing in the Dominican Republic in 1990 was
IBM--the company from which the Schumann family obtained most of
the grant money which Bill Moyers and his foundation's board has
used to subsidize their stable of alternative media groups which
includes FAIR, Columbia Journalism Review, American Prospect, Mother
Jones and TomPaine web site, as well as The Nation...

A Warning for Egyptian Revolutionaries: Courtesy of People-Power
in the Philippines Michael Barker http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=74997&s2=15

Like Mubarak, Marcos previously provided a ray of hope for Western
elites intent on quelling popular resistance within their own
countries; after President Reagan launched his "worldwide campaign
for democracy" before the British Parliament at Westminster in June
1982, he decided to visit Marcos in the Philippines "where he
announced in a public homage to the dictator, Ferdinand Marcos,
'the Philippines has been moulded in the image of American democracy.'"
This commitment to 'democracy' in the Philippines was not new; the
previous year vice-president George Bush "raised a toast to Marcos
during his visit to Manila, declaring 'We love your adherence to
democratic principle and to the democratic process.'"[1] Little
wonder that when the US government institutionalized their commitment
to democracy, it took the form an Orwellian organization called the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) -- an organization that was
set up by the US government to overtly carry out the 'democracy
promoting' interventions that had formerly been undertaken covertly
by the Central Intelligence Agency. Since then, the NED has assumed
a pivotal position in defusing revolutionary movements all over the
world, but their central role in the eventual ouster of Marcos is
worth retelling, especially bearing in mind the similarity of his
regime of oppression to Mubarak. Thankfully the history of the US
government's 'democratic' invention in the Philippines has already
been analysed in William I. Robinson's ground breaking book Promoting
Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony (Cambridge
University Press, 1996); consequently this article merely aims to
encapsulate some of his key points[....]

U.S. IMPERIALIST HARD POWER WORKS IN TANDEM WITH SOFT POWER, DOES
NOT REPLACE IT The Conflicts in Yemen and U.S. National Security
U.S. Army War College b" Strategic Studies Institute (excerpts)
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/summary.cfm?q=1040

Yemen is not currently a failed state, but it is experiencing huge
political and economic problems that can have a direct impact on
U.S. interests in the region...The loss of Yemen would be particularly
damaging to Western interests due to its strategic location and a
population which is expected to exceed half of that of the entire
Arabian Peninsula within the next 20 years. Moreover, al-Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), headquartered in Yemen, appears to
be strengthening and showing signs of transitioning from a terrorist
group with limited capabilities to an emerging insurgent movement.

Yemen is also an especially distrustful and wary nation in its
relationship with Western nations, particularly the United States.
Most Yemenis are fiercely protective of their countrybs independence
from outside influence, especially from countries that they believe
do not always have the best interests of the Arab World in mind.
While Yemenbs government is coming to understand the dangers it
faces from al-Qaeda, the struggle against this organization is not
always popular among the Yemeni public, and any large-scale U.S.
military presence in the country could easily ignite these passions
and destabilize the regime. Under such circumstances, it is important
to help Yemen, but to do so in ways that are not viewed as intrusive
or dominating by a population that does not always identify with
U.S. concerns about international terrorism. In recent years, U.S.
policymakers have managed to maintain this balance, but the
complexities of Yemeni domestic politics will continue to require
subtlety and nimbleness in U.S.-Yemeni security relations.

President Obamabs statement that he has bno intentionb of sending
troops to Yemen is reassuring to most Yemenis and indicates reasonable
concern over the danger of falling into a significant military
intervention. Such an intervention would consume U.S. lives and
resources and could only make the security situation in the region
increasingly unstable. This set of problems does not require the
United States to remain aloof from Yemenbs problems. Rather, it
suggests that Washingtonbs involvement in Yemen must be structured
in ways that the political culture will accept. Unfortunately, for
the time being the United States may have to focus on helping Yemen
contain or manage problems rather than solve them....While paying
special attention to Yemeni sensitivities about foreign influence,
the United States must do what it can to prevent Yemen from falling
into a cauldron of radicalism before the subject of intervention
even arises....

1. The United States must not seek to Americanize the conflicts
in Yemen, and should avoid sending major combat units there. However
bad the situation may become in Yemen, Americanizing the war against
AQAP can only make it dramatically worse. Yemeni public opposition
to the presence of ground troops with combat missions is almost
universal 2. The United States needs to continue supplying
intelligence, training, and military equipment to Yemen so long as
these assets directly support counterterrorism missions...

structure military support to Yemen that continue to enhance a
long-term military relationship between the two countries and expose
the Yemenis to U.S. concepts of military professionalism.

3. The United States, and particularly the U.S. military assistance
program for Yemen, needs to recognize and respond to the changing
nature of AQAP ...no longer simply a terrorist group...It is an
insurgent organization capable of waging sustained combat against
government forces.. also apparently capable of establishing itself
in those territories where the government traditionally exercises
little authority...this danger suggests the United States may have
to expand military assistance to Yemen, while maintaining as light
a footprint as possible and avoiding the deployment of U.S. troops
for anything other than training.

4. U.S. leadership must remain aware of the severe limitations
of the Yemeni government in controlling its own territory, but must
also understand there are no serious alternatives to the Saleh
regime in dealing with the current threats to the region and the
world emanating from Yemen... possible Yemen will find cooperation
with President Obama to be less domestically controversial than
cooperation with his predecessors.

7. The United States should support the work of effective and
trustworthy nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Yemen. The
United States cannot solve the problem of al-Qaeda in Yemen with
development aid administered by U.S. personnel, but it can certainly
encourage and support the work of responsible NGOs, and ask other
developed countries to do the same.

This situation greatly magnifies the importance of NGOs.

8. The United States needs to involve Saudi Arabia in efforts
to help Yemen, while recognizing that U.S. and Saudi interests in
Yemen will not always coincide. So long as it remains Yemenbs largest
aid donor, Saudi Arabia will always have a great deal to say about
Yemenbs future actions.... Saudi Arabia can play a negative role
to the extent that it funds and encourages clerics and Islamic
organizations that engage in activities which harm Zaydi-Shafei
relations. The United States therefore needs to encourage Saudi
Arabia to follow policies that indicate respect for, or at least a
limited tolerance of, Zaydi Islam. While the Saudis may not truly
feel such respect, they have a vested interest in preventing the
Houthis from turning to Iran as their only regional sympathizer and
ally. Since current tensions between Riyadh and Tehran are quite
high, this is a concern worth repeating and emphasizing in dialogue
with the Saudis.

9. The United States may want to consider encouraging other Arab
allies beyond Saudi Arabia to take a more active role in helping
Yemen, although such plans will have to be discussed with both
Sanaba and Riyadh in considerable detail. It is, for example,
possible that the Jordanian government could serve as an increasingly
useful ally in supporting Yemen. The Amman leadership has a long
history of cooperating with Gulf Arab states working in...counterterrorism
training at the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center
(KASOTC).

Additionally, if Iraq is able to bring its own problems under control
to the point that it can direct serious attention to regional
problems, it may wish to resume military-to-military cooperation
with Yemen in ways that encourage the Yemenis to avoid total
dependency on Riyadh. Since Jordan is not a wealthy country, funding
from the United States, European Union, wealthy Arab states, or
elsewhere would be needed to move forward on such efforts.

10. The United States must remain aware of potential Iranian
activities in Yemen, while bearing in mind that Yemeni charges of
Iranian intervention in the Houthi rebellion remain unproven and
difficult to evaluate....

11. The United States must not assume that Saudi de-radicalization
programs will work well with Yemeni radicals.

12. U.S. officials, including military officials, must resist
all temptations to take public credit for and celebrate military
victories that might occur against al-Qaeda forces in Yemen. While
U.S. support for Yemen is important and must be continued and
accelerated, both the U.S. administration and the U.S. Government
agencies involved in fighting terrorism must not contribute to the
misperception that Washington is running the war....

13. As in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States will have to
be tolerant of the Yemeni governmentbs willingness to pardon and
rehabilitate former members of al-Qaeda that have not been involved
in international terrorism and show good prospects for remaining
outside of terrorist groups in the future...Foreign assistance in
the use of bio-metric data might be an option worth considering in
these instances.

MORE RESOURCES:

The NED, NGOs and the Imperial Uses of Philanthropy: Why They Hate
Our Kind Hearts, Too, Joan Roelofs,
http://www.counterpunch.org/roelofs05132006.html

Jonathan Mowat, "The new Gladio in action: Ukrainian postmodern
coup completes testing of new template"

"The Coup Plotters: The Albert Einstein Institution"

Thierry Meyssan, "The Albert Einstein Institution: non-violence
according to the CIA", Voltairenet, January 4, 2005

Full Spectrum Dominance Totalitarian Democracy in the New World
Order by F. William Engdahl,
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/PartOne_FSD_Engdahl.html

Heather Cottin, "George Soros, Imperial Wizard", Part I,
http://nationalpride.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/george-soros-imperial-wizard-part-i/
part 2,
http://nationalpride.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/george-soros-imperial-wizard-part-ii/
part 3,
http://nationalpride.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/george-soros-imperial-wizard-part-iii/

Michael Barker, "Media Manipulation and Human Rights: From Pinochet
to Human Rights in China", Center for Research on Globalization,
March 29, 2008.

"Zimbabwe and the Power of Propaganda: Ousting a President via Civil
Society", Center for Research on Globalization, April 16, 2008.

"Waging Democracy On China: Human Rights and an Endowment for
Democracy", Swans, July 28, 2008.

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

"Sharp Reflection Warranted: Nonviolence in the Service of Imperialism",
Swans, June 30, 2008

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