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NGO crackdown: Egypt Denies Licenses to 8 U.S.-based Non-profits

"Powerful NGOs like Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International are supposed to be objective monitors and not take sides, but in reality they “enter into an excessively cozy relationship with for example the United States government, but also other powerful Western allies, over Libya and over other issues,” John Laughland from the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation told RT. This is what happened in Libya and is now happening in Syria, he added."

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“NGO”: The Guise of Innocence | The Illusion of Innocent Philanthropic Activity

"The term “NGO” is used deliberately to create an illusion of innocent philanthropic activity. In this case the Egyptian government is investigating the operations of organisations in receipt of US state funding which have a proven history of covertly funding political parties, influencing elections and aiding coups against both autocratic and democratic non-compliant and left-leaning governments around the world. Yet one mention of the Egyptian government’s raid on the offices of so-called “pro-democracy NGOs” in Cairo was enough to spark an international outcry. The result has been an almost complete failure by the Western press to investigate at all the history of the organisations involved or the validity of the charges being brought against them."

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The Purpose of U.S. Soft Power Themed Revolutions: Disunity and Power Projection

14.02.2012 Wayne MADSEN Strategic-Culture.org A U.S. “alphabet soup” agency-sponsored themed revolution in...

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The politics of charity

"Aid is not designed to bring the wretched of the earth out of poverty but to pacify unrest in the donor country’s domestic sphere"

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Egypt Leads Fight Against NGO Agitators | A real revolution may be about to follow

"... NGOs are not "liberal-progressive." They are the system administrators of modern empire, an empire being forged by the wars and covert operations Boot is a chief proponent of. The absence of NGOs in any given nation, means a nation free from the influence of Wall Street & London's networks and meddling. ... Egypt's arrest and trying of 19 Americans, all of whom are directly involved in Wall Street's network of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funded NGOs, including the head of the International Republican Institute (IRI) office in Egypt, signifies a potential turning point not just in Egypt, but around the world."

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EGYPT: New Raids on NGOs Expected

“This is just the beginning,” says Khalid Ali, a prominent lawyer whose organisation, the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights, was not visited in the recent raids. “There are rumours that 100 NGOs will be subject to investigation, with some saying as many as 400 will be targeted.”... The list includes the three American NGOs – the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Republican Institute (IRI) and Freedom House – that were raided last Thursday."

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U.S. Bribery: The Egyptians “are going to be told to lay off the (nonprofit groups) or the money (for military) won’t be forthcoming”

"Officials said Dempsey would reinforce the message - echoing lawmakers on Capitol Hill - that unless Egypt scuttled its plan to try the American nonprofit workers on charges that their agencies illegally received foreign funds, the country seriously risked losing $1.3 billion annually in U.S. military aid. ... Members of the military council, typically speaking through state media, have issued ominous warnings of "hidden hands" or "foreign hands" sowing chaos under the guise of revolution."

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