Print this post.A similar law was recently passed by Beijing. Independent nations are waking up to Washington’s audacious hypocrisy. Meanwhile, the operatives at NED, feeling the sting, are responding with smug accusations of “violation of international norms by resurgent authoritarian regimes,” etc., etc. This, by a front organization that is a transparent tool for the projection of subversive power by the United States, the most lawless and arrogant nation on the planet. (See sidebar)
Academic and politically-connected organizations hacks giving credibility to the NED propaganda line, castigating and denouncing Russia and China for “assaults on civil society.” If they weren’t so pathetic the whole thing would be laughable.
The National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) duplicitous mission statement indicates a “dedicat(ion) to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.”
Its practices are polar opposite – a State Department-funded agency created to undermine democracy wherever it exists.
It’s a global mischief-maker – a rogue agency financing anti-democratic groups and initiatives in scores of countries worldwide. Its objective is regime change – notably in independent nations like Russia. It subversively interferes in its electoral practices among other ways of targeting its sovereignty.
Moscow’s mid-year 2015 enacted Law on Undesirable Organizations justifiably targets foreign organizations posing a “threat to the constitutional order and defense capability or the security of the Russian state” – subversive groups no governments should tolerate.
On July 28, Russian Deputy Chief Prosecutor Vladimir Malinovsky “signed a decree recognizing the activities of the National Endowment for Democracy, a foreign non-commercial organization, as undesirable in the territory of Russia in compliance with a law on measures of impacting people linked to the violation of basic human rights and freedoms and the rights and freedoms of the citizens of Russia.”
The document was sent to Russia’s Justice Ministry – including NED in its register of undesirable foreign organizations.
Action against the organization was long overdue along with targeting other US subversive ones. More on them below. Washington works aggressively against Russian interests – a longstanding campaign to marginalize, contain, weaken and isolate Moscow, with internal subversion one of many methods used.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov called the undesirable organizations law “without any question a step in the right direction.” Many so-called NGOs (like NED) are agents of foreign governments.In late May, Putin signed the new measure into law. It lets the Prosecutor General’s Office and Foreign Ministry declare activities of “undesirable foreign organizations” illegal – ones posing a “threat to the constitutional order and defense capability, or to the security of the Russian state.”
Non-compliance is punishable by administrative penalties. Repeated violations mandate imprisonment for up to six years. Russian citizens and organizations working with banned groups face fines only.
SIDEBAR
NED cries foul, organizes campaign to denounce the “resurgent authoritarians.” As the video and information below attest, the empire can always count on some academics and intellectuals to carry its dirty water. A coven of liberaloids and neocons mouthing the State Department line. Since we are hardly afraid that their pathetic posturings and doublespeak will influence our audience in the least, we reproduce their material intact. Examine and learn. Let truth carry the day. Just click on bar below.
“THE GLOBAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST DEMOCRATIC NORMS”
July 15, 2015 12:00 pm – 02:00 pm 1025 F Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20004
Panelists Alexander Cooley, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Professor of Political Science, Barnard College Steven Heydemann, Former Vice President, Applied Research on Conflict and Senior Advisor, U.S. Institute of Peace, Professor and Janet W. Ketcham ’53 Chair in Middle East Studies, Smith College Ronald Deibert, Director, The Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab, University of Toronto Christopher Sabatini, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University, Editor, Latin America Goes Global moderated by Marc F. Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, Vice President for Research and Studies, National Endowment for Democracy Twitter: Follow @ThinkDemocracy and use #NEDEvents to join the conversation. Learn more by visiting the Forum’s website and blog on “Resurgent Dictatorship: The Global Assault on Democracy.”
ABOUT THE EVENT Using a number of justifications, including that of regional security or defending state sovereignty, authoritarian regimes are pursuing new antidemocratic norms. To shield themselves from international scrutiny, resurgent authoritarians are seeking to reshape global institutional frameworks that have been integral to the liberal post-Cold War order. Seeing regional and international rules-based bodies as a threat to regime interests, authoritarians have focused their efforts on undercutting the democracy and human rights mechanisms of institutions critical for safeguarding democratic standards. Recent developments suggest that democrats are on the defensive and that anti-democratic forces are cooperating and learning from one another with a greater degree of determination.
In Eurasia, the domestic political and governance norms of Russia and China are migrating beyond these regimes’ borders, manifesting themselves through organizations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Eurasian Economic Union. With leadership from Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Cooperation Council has reoriented its activities to include coordination among members to suppress dissent. Meanwhile, a growing list of repressive regimes are devoting their energies to reshaping Internet governance standards. Alexander Cooley, Steven Heydemann, Ronald Deibert, and Christopher Sabatini discussed the implications of the campaign against democratic norms in Eurasia, China, the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, and cyberspace. Articles on this subject by Cooley and Deibert appear in the July 2015 Journal of Democracy.[/learn_more]
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Russia’s 2012 Foreign Agents Law requires NGOs engaged in political activities to register as foreign agents or face stiff fines. They’re prohibited from supporting political parties. They’re free to engage in other activities.NED is a longstanding political meddler. It’s named in a Russian upper house Federation Council “patriotic stop-list” – groups considered potentially threatening TO national security.
Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said the list was created out of concern about foreign organizations operating subversively in Russia. A Federation Council statement said “(t)oday Russia faces its strongest attack in the past 25 years, targeting its national interests, values and institutes.”
“Its main goal is to influence the internal political situation in the country, undermine the patriotic unity of our people, undermine the integration processes within the CIS space and force our country into geopolitical isolation.”
Groups included in the Federation Council’s stop-list are “known for their anti-Russian bias.” They include:
NED, George Soros’ Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, MacArthur Foundation, Freedom House; Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Polish-based Education for Democracy Foundation, East European Democratic Center, Ukrainian World Congress, Ukrainian World Coordinating Council, and Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights.
Nations must protect themselves against foreign subversion without violating international rule of law principles. In enacting the Law on Undesirable Organizations and Foreign Agents Law, Russia acted responsibly.
FACT TO REMEMBER:
IF THE WESTERN MEDIA HAD ITS PRIORITIES IN ORDER AND ACTUALLY INFORMED, EDUCATED AND UPLIFTED THE MASSES INSTEAD OF SHILLING FOR A GLOBAL EMPIRE OF ENDLESS WARS, OUTRAGEOUS ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, AND DEEPENING DEVASTATION OF NATURE AND THE ANIMAL WORLD, HORRORS LIKE THESE WOULD HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED MANY YEARS, PERHAPS DECADES AGO. EVERY SINGLE DAY SOCIAL BACKWARDNESS COLLECTS ITS OWN INNUMERABLE VICTIMS.
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