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Author’s
Introduction
Destroying
Nations in the Name of Democracy
In 1945, British
writer and social critic George Orwell wrote a book titled 1984on
the theme of a fictional totalitarian society. The book, one of the
most successful in publishing history, relates the aftermath of an atomic world
war in which the world is partitioned into three states. One state, Oceania,
whose capital is London, is ruled by an English Socialist Party that has total
control over all its citizens, especially over their minds. The central
mind-control program used to keep its citizens abject and obedient mind slaves
was referred to as “doublethink.”
In doublethink,
subjects were submitted to two contradictory concepts, both of which they must
accept as correct simultaneously, termed by psychologists “cognitive
dissonance.” So, although Oceania is constantly at war, its citizens act as if
there is peace too. The essence of the doublethink is summarized by Orwell at
the beginning of the novel:
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is
strength.
(George Orwell, 1984, cited in https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgeorwe141783.html)
In the following
work I chronicle what, in truth, is an adaptation of Orwell’s doublethink which
might be termed “democracy is tyranny.” It’s the chronicle of one of the most
destructive and one of the most effective operations by the intelligence services
of any modern state, including of that of Stalin’s Soviet Union or even
Hitler’s Goebbels-steered Third Reich. It’s the chronicle of a vast project
developed by US intelligence services over decades, going back to the May 1968
CIA student strikes that brought down French President Charles de Gaulle, a
determined foe of American global domination.
The Cold War between
the countries of NATO and those allied to the Soviet Union lasted nearly a half
century. Finally, exhausted and economically in dire straits, the Soviet Union,
under Mikhail Gorbachev, raised a white flag of surrender in November 1989, as
Moscow let the Berlin Wall fall. The wall had become the symbol of what Winston
Churchill, in his famous 1946 Fulton, Missouri–speech, called the Iron Curtain
dividing the West--the “Free World” as Washington propaganda was fond of ever
repeating--from the communist world dominated by Moscow.
Outside a small
circle of US CIA, State Department, and Pentagon senior officials, together
with their allies in select Washington think tanks, such as the American
Enterprise Institute or the New York Council on Foreign Relations, what few
realized was that Washington was about to unleash the most concerted effort at
regime change across the former communist countries of Eastern Europe, Ukraine,
and the newly formed Russian Federation itself. The rallying call was the
“introduction of US-style democracy, freedom, human rights, a neo-liberal free
market.” It was to become a tyranny and in some cases, such as Ukraine, it would
be far worse than anything experienced under the Soviet regime.
The Washington
regime-change operations came to be called Washington “color revolutions”
because of the distinct Madison Avenue color-logo themes each destabilization
brought with it—the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Rose Revolution in
Georgia, the Green Revolution in Iran, and so forth. Invariably, they targeted
any significant nation that stood in the way of what David Rockefeller, in
his Memoirs, referred to as a one-world government or Bill Clinton,
in the 1990s, referred to by the innocent-sounding term but not-so-innocent
process of corporate globalization.
( David
Rockefeller, Memoirs, p. 405, http://opengov.ideascale.com/a/dtd/David-Rockefeller-s-book-Memoirs-admits-secretly-conspiring-for-a-NWO/4007-4049.
The quote reads: “Some even
believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the
best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as
‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a
more integrated global political and economic structure - One World, if you
will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
In truth, what those Washington color revolution,
regime-change interventions represented was an attempt to replace former
communist leaders with handpicked, Washington-corrupted political leaders who
would be willing to sell their national crown jewels and their people to select
Western financial predators, such as the billionaire speculator George Soros.)
The Aura
of American Power
Ironically, the
greatest challenge confronting Washington, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the
powerful military–industrial and banking lobby groups, who control congressmen
and presidents with their money, was the end of the active Cold War in late
1989. There was suddenly no “enemy” to justify continued vast US military
spending or the existence of NATO.
James R.
Schlesinger, former US defense secretary and later CIA director, described the
dilemma: “American policymakers should be quite clear in their own minds that
the basis for determining US force structure and military expenditures in the
future should not simply be the response to individual threats, but rather that
which is needed to maintain the overall aura of American power.”
(Joe
Stork, New Enemies for a New World Order, MER176,
At the end of the
1980s, the economy and financial system of the US was in the throes of its
deepest crisis since the Great Depression. The largest banks of Wall
Street—Citigroup, Bank of America, and others—were technically bankrupt. The
deregulation of US Savings & Loan banks had led to a real estate
speculation bubble that collapsed in the late 1980s, at the same time as a
dramatic fall in world oil prices led to waves of bankruptcies across the US
domestic oil industry.
To demand that US
taxpayers continue to waste hundreds of billions of their tax dollars on high
levels of defense spending for an enemy that could no longer be identified
rather than to create a “peace dividend” that would allow those billions to go
to the renewal of America’s rapidly decaying economic infrastructure was a
challenge to the US military and intelligence establishment. Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell told Army Times in April
1991: “Think hard about it, I’m running out of demons. I’m running out of
villains. . . I’m down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.”
[William W. Kaufmann and John D. Steinbruner,
Decisions for Defense (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1991), p. 45.]
That dilemma was
soon to be resolved. Rather than solely relying on military overt force to
advance its global agenda, Washington unveiled a dramatic new weapon: “fake
democracy” nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that would be used to covertly
create pro-Washington regimes in strategic parts of the world after the
collapse of the Soviet Union. Democratic freedom would be the banner,
incredibly enough, to introduce a new tyranny: “free” markets in actual fact
controlled by Wall Street and European international banks, as well as Western
multinational corporations that would loot the vast state-owned resources of
the collapsed communist world.
Weaponizing
Human Rights
Instead of overt
military confrontation, the 1990s, with the brutal exception of Washington’s
war in Yugoslavia, were to see the major deployment of what was becoming a
dramatically effective new weapon for US-steered, fake democracy regime changes
around the world.
So-called “human rights” NGOs, such as Human Rights
Watch financed by billionaire speculator George Soros, Freedom House, the
International Republican Institute (IRI), Amnesty International USA, or the US
government’s supposedly private National Endowment for Democracy (NED), were to
become a primary Washington weapon for regime change to transform the newly
independent states of formerly communist Eastern Europe and Russia as well.
Later, Washington’s “fake democracy” color revolutions would be brought to China,
Central Asia, and, most dramatically, to the oil-rich states of the Middle East
as the so-called Arab Spring.
The goal was to turn
the target countries into US economic satrapies, or vassal states, by way of a
series of regime-change color revolutions. It took a while before the
unsuspecting target nations realized what was being done to them and their
economies in the name of US export of “democracy.”
The first successful
fake democracy color revolution regime change was aimed at Slobodan Milošević, then president of what had become by 1999 former
Yugoslavia—Serbia Vojvodina, Kosovo, and Montenegro.
We begin our
investigation with a description of the birth of the NGO in Washington that was
created with little fanfare by President Reagan’s CIA Director Bill Casey and
others in the early 1980s. It was called the NED. That NED has played the
central role in every Washington-backed regime destabilization aimed at
governments pursuing policies not congruent with those of Washington’s
post–Cold War new globalization order.
Table of
Contents
AUTHOR’S
INSTRODUCTION: Destroying Nations in the Name of Democracy. . .
CHAPTER ONE: Doing
What the CIA Did, but Privately. . .
CHAPTER TWO: A
Pope, the NED, and Poland Shock Therapy. . .
CHAPTER THREE: The
CIA’s Yeltsin Coup d’État: The Rape of Russia . . .
CHAPTER FOUR: Soros
and the Harvard Boys Join the KGB and Yeltsin . . .
CHAPTER FIVE: The CIA, NGOs, and the Myth of Tiananmen . . .
CHAPTER SIX: The CIA and Their NGOs Disintegrate Yugoslavia...
CHAPTER SEVEN: Otpor!’s
Fake Democracy in Serbia …
CHAPTER EIGHT: A Cold War Ended Not . . .
CHAPTER NINE: NATO
Banging on Moscow’s Door: Georgia and Ukraine Color Revolutions Shake Russia.
. .
CHAPTER TEN: “Where
the Prize Ultimately Lies”. . .
CHAPTER
ELEVEN: Arab Spring, Gold Dinars, and Energy Wars . . .
Afterword: Endless
Wars for Democracy?...
Glossary. . . Index ...
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