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    <title>US Gov. Meddling Machine Boasts of 'Laying the Groundwork for Insurrection' in Nicaragua (Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone Project)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-06-20T21:30:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" A month before the student protesters’ meetings with ultra-conservative lawmakers in Washington, a publication funded by the US government’s regime change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), bluntly asserted that organizations backed by the NED have spent years and millions of dollars “laying the groundwork for insurrection” in Nicaragua.

" This article openly boasting of US meddling was published in the Latin America-focused news website Global Americans, and was authored by US academic Benjamin Waddell, the academic director of the School for International Training in Nicaragua. Following publication of this piece, Global Americans replaced the term “insurrection” with the more innocuous word “change.” The original headline can however still be seen in the article’s URL. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>intervention democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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    <title>How the U.S. Purchased the 1990 Nicaragua Elections (S. Brian Willson)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-25T15:59:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brianwillson.com/how-the-u-s-purchased-the-1990-nicaragua-elections/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" But the level of funding for creating and sustaining the opposition parties in Nicaragua in preparation for its February 1990 elections perhaps exceeded all prior experiences of electoral intervention. The bipartisan openness may also reveal a new confidence in tolerance for “non-lethal” covert and overt intervention. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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    <title>This Beijing-Linked Billionaire Is Funding Policy Research at Washington’s Most Influential Institutions (Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | Foreign Policy)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-28T18:05:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/28/this-beijing-linked-billionaire-is-funding-policy-research-at-washingtons-most-influential-institutions-china-dc/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" What the SAIS press release did not say is that the money for the new initiatives came in part from the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), a Hong Kong-based nonprofit. CUSEF is a registered foreign agent bankrolled by a high-ranking Chinese government official with close ties to a sprawling Chinese Communist Party apparatus that handles influence operations abroad, known as the “united front.”

" The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation’s partnership with a premier U.S. academic institution comes amid a Chinese Communist Party push to strengthen its influence over policy debate around the globe. The Chinese government has sought to repress ideas it doesn’t like and to amplify those it does, and its efforts have met with growing success. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>think-tanks democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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    <title>State Department considers scrubbing democracy promotion from its mission (Josh Rogin @ Washington Post)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-01T19:57:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/08/01/state-department-considers-scrubbing-democracy-promotion-from-its-mission/?tid=ss_tw</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/01/08/been-hacking-elections-for-more-than-century/okjziXPQDiegx53ABtpUOO/story.html?event=event25">
    <title>We’ve been hacking elections for more than a century (Stephen Kinzer @ The Boston Globe)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-08T23:07:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/01/08/been-hacking-elections-for-more-than-century/okjziXPQDiegx53ABtpUOO/story.html?event=event25</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Over a period of more than a century, American leaders have used a variety of tools to influence voters in other countries. We have chosen candidates, advised them, financed their parties, designed their campaigns, bribed media outlets to support them, and intimidated or smeared their rivals. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>intervention democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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    <title>Election Interference? The U.S. Has Done It In 45 Countries Worldwide (Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | Vocativ)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-07T17:20:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vocativ.com/388500/election-interference-us-45-countries/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Levin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie-Mellon University, found that the U.S. attempted to influence the elections of foreign countries as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000. Often covert in their execution, these efforts included everything from CIA operatives running successful presidential campaigns in the Philippines during the 1950s to leaking damaging information on Marxist Sandanistas in order to sway Nicaraguan voters in 1990. All told, the U.S. allegedly targeted the elections of 45 nations across the globe during this period, Levin’s research shows. In the case of some countries, such as Italy and Japan, the U.S. attempted to intervene in four or more separate elections.

" Levin’s figures do not include military coups or regime change attempts following the election of a candidate the U.S. opposed, such as when the CIA helped overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq, Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, in 1953. He defines an electoral intervention as “a costly act which is designed to determine the election results [in favor of] one of the two sides.” According to Levin’s research, that includes: peddling misinformation or propaganda; creating campaign material for preferred candidates or parties; providing or withdrawing foreign aid, and; making public announcements that threaten or favor certain candidates. Often, it also includes the U.S. covertly delivering large sums of cash, as was the case in elections in Japan, Lebanon, Italy, and other countries.  "]]></description>
<dc:subject>intervention democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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    <title>CIA’s Hidden Hand in ‘Democracy’ Groups (Robert Parry | Consortiumnews)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-08T20:58:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/08/cias-hidden-hand-in-democracy-groups/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" One document showed senior Freedom House official Leo Cherne clearing a draft manuscript on political conditions in El Salvador with CIA Director William Casey and promising that Freedom House would make requested editorial “corrections and changes” and even send over the editor for consultation with whomever Casey assigned to review the paper. "]]></description>
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    <title>Zornak (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-12T17:13:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=3325</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thank you for your service. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy-promotion humor</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/27/a-shadow-us-foreign-policy/">
    <title>A Shadow US Foreign Policy (Robert Parry | Consortiumnews)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-28T22:54:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/27/a-shadow-us-foreign-policy/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The National Endowment for Democracy, a central part of Ronald Reagan’s propaganda war against the Soviet Union three decades ago, has evolved into a $100 million U.S. government-financed slush fund that generally supports a neocon agenda often at cross-purposes with the Obama administration’s foreign policy.

" NED is one reason why there is so much confusion about the administration’s policies toward attempted ousters of democratically elected leaders in Ukraine and Venezuela. Some of the non-government organizations (or NGOs) supporting these rebellions trace back to NED and its U.S. government money, even as Secretary of State John Kerry and other senior officials insist the U.S. is not behind these insurrections. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy-promotion Ukraine</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?_r=4&amp;hp">
    <title>U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (Ron Nixon | New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-15T17:49:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?_r=4&amp;hp</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[US "democracy promotion" through NED affiliates influenced Arab uprisings. 

" A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington, according to interviews in recent weeks and American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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    <title>U.S. Wavers on 'Regime Change' in Middle East (Adam Entonus, Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-05T22:31:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580004576180522653787198.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Instead of pushing for immediate regime change — as it did to varying degrees in Egypt and now Libya — the U.S. is urging protesters from Bahrain to Morocco to work with existing rulers toward what some officials and diplomats are now calling "regime alteration." "]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/weekinreview/13baker.html">
    <title>The Return of Pushing Democracy (Peter Baker, New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-14T13:55:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/weekinreview/13baker.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The revolution in Egypt has reopened a long-simmering debate about the “freedom agenda” that animated George W. Bush’s presidency. Was he right after all, as his supporters have argued? Are they claiming credit he does not deserve? And has President Obama picked up the mantle of democracy and made it his own? "]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ned.org/where-we-work/middle-east-and-northern-africa/tunisia">
    <title>NED grants to Tunisia 2009</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-26T04:19:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ned.org/where-we-work/middle-east-and-northern-africa/tunisia</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[@Net_News_Global @AnonNewsNet NED and USAID democracy promotion will also be worth watching in the months to come. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy-promotion intervention</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mein-parteibuch.org/blog/the-almost-invisible-hand-of-the-usa-in-tunisias-jasmine-revolution/">
    <title>The almost invisible hand of the USA in Tunisia’s “jasmine revolution” (Mein-Parteibuch.org)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-26T04:19:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mein-parteibuch.org/blog/the-almost-invisible-hand-of-the-usa-in-tunisias-jasmine-revolution/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion intervention conspiracy-theories</dc:subject>
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    <title>Canada’s Contribution to “Democracy Promotion” (Anthony Fenton, Canadian Dimension)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-11-03T23:20:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/10/28/709/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), ... is a key but under-appreciated actor in assisting Canada's foreign-policy interests for the region in the name of democracy, private enterprise and free markets."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,1860867,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=12">
    <title>US accused of bid to oust Chávez with secret funds (Duncan Campbell, Guardian)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-09-06T20:16:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,1860867,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=12</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The money is being provided by the US Agency for International Development through its Office of Transition Initiatives... USAID released copies of 132 contracts but obscured the names and other identifying details of nearly half the organisations."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.counterpunch.org/barahona08012006.html">
    <title>Reporters Without Borders and Washington's Coups (Diana Barahona, Jeb Sprague @ Counterpunch)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-08-02T00:56:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.counterpunch.org/barahona08012006.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the NED has revealed that Reporters Without Borders received grants over at least three years from the International Republican Institute. ... The discovery of the grants reveals a major deception by the group, which for years denied it was getting any..
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<item rdf:about="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0716democracy-builders-main.html">
    <title>'Democracy builders' drawing ire (Billy House @ Arizona Republic)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-07-20T13:58:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0716democracy-builders-main.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/09/AR2006070900735.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns">
    <title>A Match Made Behind Closed Doors [USAID merging w/ State Dept] (Al Kamen @ Washington Post)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-07-14T00:31:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/09/AR2006070900735.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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    <title>US and UK develop democracy strategy for Iran | In the Name of Democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2006-04-24T14:51:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://inthenameofdemocracy.org/en/node/43</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At the same time, the separate Iran Syria Operations Group was established
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/washington/15diplo.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin">
    <title>U.S. Program Is Directed at Altering Iran's Politics | Steven R. Weisman, New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2006-04-16T21:27:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/washington/15diplo.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/227/1/">
    <title>U.S. Meddling in Peruvian Presidential Race? | Upside Down World</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-16T04:13:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/227/1/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:f30cefef9b14/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-uslatin10mar10,1,4354425.story?coll=la-headlines-world&amp;ctrack=1&amp;cset=true">
    <title>U.S. More Intent on Blocking Chavez | Los Angeles Times</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-12T08:08:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-uslatin10mar10,1,4354425.story?coll=la-headlines-world&amp;ctrack=1&amp;cset=true</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&amp;y=2006&amp;m=March&amp;x=200603101313421CJsamohT8.857363e-02&amp;t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html">
    <title>Europe, U.S. Preparing Common Post-election Policies for Belarus | U.S. Department of State</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-12T08:07:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&amp;y=2006&amp;m=March&amp;x=200603101313421CJsamohT8.857363e-02&amp;t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/jacobs110306.html">
    <title>&quot;A Long Struggle&quot; Against Iran | Ron Jacobs, Monthly Review</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-12T08:06:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/jacobs110306.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,1712499,00.html?gusrc=rss">
    <title>Chávez Vows to Resist US 'Inoculation Strategy' | Guardian Unlimited</title>
    <dc:date>2006-02-18T07:55:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,1712499,00.html?gusrc=rss</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0206/p06s02-woam.html">
    <title>Democracy's 'Special Forces' Face Heat | Christian Science Monitor</title>
    <dc:date>2006-02-06T07:07:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0206/p06s02-woam.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012401901.html?nav=rss_world/asia">
    <title>The Realities of Exporting Democracy | Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2006-01-25T04:50:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012401901.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/colour_revolutions_3196.jsp">
    <title>Democratisation, NGOs and &quot;Colour Revolutions&quot; | Sreeram Chaulia, openDemocracy</title>
    <dc:date>2006-01-22T22:57:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/colour_revolutions_3196.jsp</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The principal argument is that the main and direct causes of the colour revolutions were United States foreign-policy interests ..."
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<item rdf:about="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/165/1/">
    <title>Likely U.S. Plans for Regime Change in Venezuela, Pt. II | Upside Down World</title>
    <dc:date>2006-01-09T23:55:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/165/1/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:4276814b3fdb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1419259">
    <title>Unholy Alliance? The AFL-CIO and the NED in Venezuela | Democracy Now!</title>
    <dc:date>2006-01-08T22:23:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1419259</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy-promotion</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:608e0d9c1965/</dc:identifier>
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