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by Patrick J. Buchanan, November 30, 2005
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Flush with tax dollars and tax-deductible contributions, NED,
Freedom House and their collaborator foundations and think tanks now
routinely interfere in the internal affairs of foreign nations. Under
the rubric of promoting democracy, creating free markets, etc., they
seek to dethrone recalcitrant rulers and advance to power those who
share their ideology and will advance their interests and agenda.

Democracy
is our goal, the neocons claim. But viewing their target lists in the
Middle East, Near East, Central Asia and Latin America, it is perhaps
more exact to say the Neo-Comintern seeks destabilization of any and
all regimes that fail to meet its criteria for membership in their
world democratic revolution.

Though a radical leftist
populist, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez was democratically elected. He
charges that NED had a hand in the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew his
government and in the recall election forced upon him in 2004. …

Setting
aside what we think of Pat’s argument, we are astounded that he gives
ink and credence to a liar such as Chavez. Read about Russia’s own
“NED”, below.

From the American Foreign Policy Council, November 18, 2005

Moscow’s Anti-NGO OffensiveWORRIES WHITE HOUSE.
The Washington Post reports that during his meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum
in Pusan, South Korea, President Bush planned to raise concerns over
the latest Kremlin move to tighten control over Russian democracy. A
Kremlin-backed bill introduced in the State Duma would bar foreign
non-governmental organizations from operating offices in Russia and
require all 450,000 of them to re-register with the state to ensure
that they do not engage in foreign-funded political activity. “We have
some pretty serious concerns about it, both the legislation itself and
how it would be implemented,” the newspaper quotes a Bush
administration official as saying.

The Duma, meanwhile, has approved an amendment to the 2006 budget
allocating more than $17 million to support “non-profit organizations
involved in developing the institutions of civil society” in Russia and
to protect the rights of ethnic Russians in the Baltic countries.
“Look, democracy, freedom and human rights are being violated” in the
Baltic states, Deputy Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin of the pro-Kremlin
“United Russia” party told Interfax. “It is necessary to develop
democracy in those countries.”

Compare Volodin’s comments with those of Pat Buchanan in a recent article, reproduced above.

Consider the horrors of peace.
(from Slate.com) By Christopher Hitchens, Posted Monday, Nov. 7, 2005, at 6:05 PM ET

It looks as if the realists have won the day in the matter of Darfur.
Or, to phrase it in another way, it looks as if the ethnic cleansers of
that province have made good use of the “negotiation” and “mediation”
period to complete their self- appointed task. As my friend Johann Hari
put it recently in the London Independent: “At last, some good news
from Darfur: the genocide in western Sudan is nearly over. There’s only
one problem—it’s drawing to an end only because there are no black
people left to cleanse or kill.” …

From Pedro Burelli’s blog on Venezuela, Halloween, 2005:
As a response to my letter to ABC Nightline’s Ted Koppel, I have been
in touch with members of his team and have a feeling that their
patience with Hugo Chavez’s is just about to run out. Failure … to
deliver the information he offered during the September 16th interview
is not taken lightly …
Chavez made the following offer about the US concocted invasion plans
they (assume it includes his allies in Havana) had purportedly
uncovered: