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Why Russia Shut Down NED Fronts
Why Russia Shut Down NED Fronts
July 30, 2015
Exclusive: The neocon-flagship Washington Post fired a propaganda broadside at President Putin for shutting down the Russian activities of the National Endowment for Democracy, but left out key facts like NEDs U.S. government funding, its quasi-CIA role, and its plans for regime change in Moscow, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
The Washington Posts descent into the depths of neoconservative propaganda willfully misleading its readers on matters of grave importance apparently knows no bounds as was demonstrated with two deceptive articles regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin and why his government is cracking down on foreign agents.
If you read the Posts editorial on Wednesday and a companion op-ed by National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman, you would have been led to believe that Putin is delusional, paranoid and power mad in his concern that outside money funneled into non-governmental organizations represents a threat to Russian sovereignty.
The Post and Gershman were especially outraged that the Russians have enacted laws requiring NGOs financed from abroad and seeking to influence Russian policies to register as foreign agents and that one of the first funding operations to fall prey to these tightened rules was Gershmans NED.
The Posts editors wrote that Putins latest move, announced Tuesday, is to declare the NED an undesirable organization under the terms of a law that Mr. Putin signed in May. The law bans groups from abroad who are deemed a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation, its defense capabilities and its national security.
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https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/30/why-russia-shut-down-ned-fronts/
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Why Russia Shut Down NED Fronts (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Aug 2015
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uhnope
(6,419 posts)1. Consortium News & Parry...
yurbud
(39,405 posts)3. so which of his facts did he get wrong?
KoKo
(84,711 posts)6. crickets.......are silent.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)5. Charleton Heston? nt
Califonz
(465 posts)2. Washington Post is now owned by Bezos
Would kinda expect it to tilt right wing now.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)4. If the NED were the only ones being crushed by Parry's idol Putin
that would be one story.
But, the Russians are persecuting pretty much any organization that promotes human rights, or reports on human rights abuses.
But, none of that bothers someone like Parry, whose job is licking the jackboots of the fascist regime in Moscow.
Note he's also a shameless liar, claiming the NED overthrow Yanukovych. That's something only fascists and their useful idiots in the anti-American whackjob fringe left believe.
Note that if Parry lived in Russia and wrote about Putin the way he writes about the United States, he'd be in prison or dead.