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The Intercept’s Interference: Notes on Media, Capitalism, & Imperialism | Part II: Non-Governmental Force Multipliers

"So there it lies. A calculation that seeks to alleviate a suffering tacitly accepts the endurability of that suffering and ultimately prolongs it. The Israeli ruling class is, like most imperialists, not stupid; it knows that humanitarian NGOs pose zero threat, and so it tolerates them."

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WikiLeaks’ Quito Cables Show How US Worked Against Correa

Green Left Weekly September 8, 2014 By Linda Pearson President Rafael Correa...

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Imperial Civil Society: False Fronts for Wall Street

"With help from Ford, Rockefeller, Gates and Soros, imperial civil society is admittedly a formidable foe, but not an invulnerable one. Built on a foundation of fraud, the power of moral sanction they have hijacked can effectively be turned against them. While false fronts are able to dominate social media, they do not own our minds; they are merely social engineers operating under false pretenses that we can reject at will."

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Ex-CIA Agent Reveals how Venezuelan “Students” Get Putschist Training

"In a recent interview in Havana, a former CIA collaborator, Cuban Raúl Capote, revealed the strategy of the CIA in Venezuelan universities to create the kind of destabilizing opposition student movement the country is currently facing. "

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Civil Society, NGOs, and Saving the Needy: Imperial Neoliberalism

Zero Anthropology August 28, 2014 by Maximilian Forte The following is an...

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Ukraine’s Weapons in the Information War

"The authors of the document provide detailed analysis of the actions of the Ukrainian side, which has allowed one of the poorest countries in Europe to lead an active propagandistic role in the Russian blogosphere, by using Russian bloggers. The financial assistance provided to Euromaidan by Ukrainian oligarchs and U.S. government funds USAID, NED, IRI and NDI has been of considerable help in backing this goal."

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USAID & the Cuban Five: Criminalizing Counterterrorism, Legalizing Regime Change

"Havana sentenced Gross to 15 years in prison for smuggling and encouraging “acts against the integrity” of the state in December 2009. The Cuban authorities view the operations of USAID as attempts to foment regime change and consider such programs to be an affront to its sovereignty. Washington has refused even to provide operational details of its USAID projects in Cuba to various congressional committees charged with overseeing the program, which operates with a massive $20 million budget."

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Undermining Democracy Abroad

"While critics of deceptively-named agencies like United States Institute of Peace point out that the supposed peace research looks more like the study of new and potential means of aggression through trade embargoes, austerity programs, and electoral interventions, its board when it was established in 1984 looked like a who’s who of right-wing ideologues from academia, the CIA and the Pentagon."

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The Dirty Hand of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela

"The NED, a “foundation” created by Congress in 1983 to essentially do the CIA’s work overtly, has been one of the principal financiers of destabilization in Venezuela throughout the Chavez administration and now against President Maduro. According to NED’s 2013 annual report, the agency channeled more than $2.3 million to Venezuelan opposition groups and projects. "

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Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part I of an Investigative Report]

"Yes, the Fundación Pachamama is chained – with shackles that bind to it to imperial interests."

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