In this Grayzone special, Max Blumenthal attends a Capitol Hill gathering of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and explores the group’s destabilizing global campaign to meddle in other countries’ affairs. The report covers the NED’s interference in foreign elections in Russia and Mongolia, its participation in coup attempts from Haiti to Venezuela to Nicaragua, and its escalating public relations efforts against China and North Korea. Help us create more videos like this by donating to Grayzone: https://www.patreon.com/Grayzone
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DANIEL DUMBRILL—In today’s episode I sit down with Max Blumenthal to discuss his book “The Management of Savagery”, his documentary on the NED, US foreign policy and propaganda.
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STEPHEN LENDMAN—Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (MZ below) slammed phony US support for free expression, assembly and peaceful protests.
It’s at a time when when its ruling authorities increasingly crack down on fundamental freedoms, tolerating no opposition to their hardline, anti-democratic rule.
MZ referred to orchestrated anti-Russia rallies for two straight weekends, more likely ahead in the spring.
Calling them “provocati(ve),” she stressed that their goal aims to destabilize the country, adding:
“These attempts are doomed to failure,” what the US-dominated West knows but pursues anyway.
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‘Stop calling them the opposition’: Russian Foreign Ministry says Navalny team are ‘agents of NATO,’ not legitimate politicians
15 minutes readP. GREANVILLE—False diversity of media content through “numerosity” (large numbers of media repeating the same story) is an old US method to manufacture verisimilitude for a total falsehood. Practicaly all Western false flag psyops use that approach. As Zakharova indicates, Alexei Navalny is a Western intel asset, whose usefulness derives from his ability to provide demonisation copy about Russia for the benefit of Western audiences in the course of an ongoing color revolution against that nation.
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Since the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 the US dollar had become the global currency – a pure fiat currency without any gold backing – and had been used widely and routinely by other states as international reserves; as monies circulating in the dollarized countries; and as a means of payment in international trade. Ever since the US had allowed its currency to float freely the US trade balance has been negative. Surplus European countries, but which also included Japan, had earned US dollars which at one time had only been redeemable in gold payments by the US. But this arrangement ended when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard in August 1971. From this time on the surplus countries could only swap their dollars for US Treasury Bills, that is to say, American debt.
In this way the US has appropriated real goods and services from the surplus countries and exported debt back to those same countries.