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The National Endowment for Democracy Should be Defunded on Principle (spectator.org)

submitted 7 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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The Cold War is over, and NED’s mission is complete. It is now just an anti-Trump organization that promotes endless wars and censorship.

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Why the fuck would you post literal fascist propaganda here? The more anti-Trump orgs the better I say. We’re gonna need them.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

NED is not a good organization:

Founded in November 1983, then-CIA director William Casey was at the heart of NED’s creation. He sought to construct a public mechanism to support opposition groups, activist movements and media outlets overseas that would engage in propaganda and political activism to disrupt, destabilize, and ultimately displace ‘enemy’ regimes. Subterfuge with a human face, to coin a phrase.

Underlining the Endowment’s insidious true nature, in a 1991 Washington Post article boasting of its prowess in overthrowing Communism in Eastern Europe, senior NED official Allen Weinstein acknowledged, “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”>