NED, the US-Funded Org Interfering in Elections Across the Globe
https://youtu.be/NzIJ25ob1aA
In this Grayzone special, Max Blumenthal attends a Capitol Hill gathering of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and explores the group's destabilizing global campaign to meddle in other countries' affairs. The report covers the NED's interference in foreign elections in Russia and Mongolia, its participation in coup attempts from Haiti to Venezuela to Nicaragua, and its escalating public relations efforts against China and North Korea.
I suspected that the Hong Kong riots were funded by outside interests. Now that I know about the NED I would not be surprised if they were heavily involved.
The latest NED atrocity is the violent riots in HK, aimed to prevent China from extraditing criminals to stand trail in China. The stupids in HK fell for it, heralding doom to their safety and prosperity. without the law, HK will continue to be a dream safe heaven for international criminals.
Sadly most people are š and care more about America's Got Talent and Big Brother updates than neocon psyops and power plays. I sometimes wish I could be blissfully ignorant like them.
The inimitable Mr. Max Blumenthal strikes again! Well done! This is phenomenal investigative documentary journalism, as informative as it is watchable.
How can anyone still believe a word that comes out of the bankers' owned corporate media. It is an obvious propaganda tool. Nothing more. You'd have to be willfully blind to still believe their stories.
Excellent video Grayzone. Really well done and researched. Thank you very much for your amazing and really important work.
China recently executed many CIA agents trying to undermine their government. The South Korean and North Korean gov should likewise do to these foreign agents.
After seeing how Western media distorted the true picture in the recent Hong Kong riots, I believe what you say is true. Thanks for standing up for the truth!
This is just one of the many videos showing what the so-called peaceful demonstrators did. But the Western media called this a peaceful demonstration. If this had happened in USA the rioters would have been shot by the national guards.https://youtu.be/l-OkMoAznqI
@22:09 "Are you Sidney Blumenthal's son?" = "Are you that terrible Jewish person I keep hearing about?"
The last 5 minutes, the way you wrapped up all the reporting at the beginning, was brilliant Max. The ending was icing. You damn "Sidney Blumenthal's Son" you.
West has some of the biggest psychopathic maniacs the world has ever seen, they are an abomination, nature gone wrong !
Whether it is neocons, zionists, sociopaths, Christian Zionists, military industry, wow the list is endless !
So important, Thank you Max!
The unelected power establishment needs to be held responsible and pushed to the light. I mean, how can the Chairman of the NED say "We're for open societies" and still work with taxpayer money of people who don't have a clue where their tax money is going to? It's the opposite of "open" government. It's shady!
I always have faith in Max's reports. Sometimes I wish I didn't. The Nancy Pelosi "interview" (20:24) was just sooo embarrassing. "I don't know what they do..." Where do people find hope for the future?
Great documentary, really respect your work. On another note, you should try to investigate Middle Eastern media outlets such as Radio Sawa and Al-Hurra (which are both funded by the US government). Maybe they have something to do with NED and IRI's Middle Eastern agenda since they're both pushing pro-American as well as pro-Israeli narratives on their respective media platforms.
I learned about NED when I researched the violent riots in HK. This is a shameful organization with objectives to instill riots and instability in other countries. Shameful!!!
Appreciates your afford on this reporting. It's paint a picture bigger on what happening with HK right. Another NED play toy which create conflict between HK and China.
Thanks for sharing the truth. I am feeling very sad that some evil people
In the US are causing so much grief for so many people throughout
various parts of the world.
They are terrified of Max! Those in the room that don't know him don't know what they are in for, they are flirting with peril. Brilliant Socratic dialogue with the ignorant ones!
Thanks for the information. I never heard of NED. I knew the U.S.'s corrupt methods of controlling politics globally was happening. I don't call it "meddling" that's too mild a word for it. I just wasn't sure exactly how "we" did it.
I love you Max Blumenthal, your journalism is real. It is a source of inspiration to, for once, have someone who undoubtedly delivers the truth to the masses.
I've long held that the US is effectively the world's largest, and most destructive, TERRORIST organization! Real journalism is proving me right all along...
Max (to NED official) : "May I ask you a question?" / NED: "Are you Sidney [Blumenthal]'s son?" / Max: "Yes." / NED: "I heard about you." / Max: "Is that a no?" / NED: "Yes."
Some badge of honor!! Bravo, Max Blumenthal!! Great work!!
As Ret Col L. Wilkerson put it in a nutshell (para): Right now we have two colossal battles going on between two titanic state-building efforts: one started in 1947, coming to fruition in the cold war, and now called by scholars, “The National Security State.” And the raison d’etre of that state is to have war… constant war… to keep the Military Industrial Complex, that Eisenhower warned us about, rich and bountiful!
On the other hand, you have the Koch inspired… and now the well-fueled predatory capitalistic state which is aiming at making capitalism ballistic and so forth and making billionaires the plutocrats that rule this country!
Those two states right now, having contiguous elements…that is to say the Military Industrial Complex – a company like Lockheed Martin – will be in the predatory capitalist state and vice versa. They are having a titanic struggle though, intellectually and realistically, on the ground as to who runs this country in the future. And NEITHER STATE HAS THE REMOTEST CONCERN FOR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN, FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, OR ABOUT FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY OR LIBERTY! They ONLY HAVE CONCERN FOR THEIR STATE-BUILDING EFFORTS: the one - leading to more wealth for fewer people, and the other – leading to more war and wealth to their people. [The “Permanent War State” Aims to Plunder Venezuela - Wilkerson and Jay @fjsA]
See if you can run the audio through a compressor to automatically equalize the sound levels. This is very important work. Now for the easy part. Your video software may already have "compress/expand" and "normalize" for audio. You'll be experts in 10 minutes if you practice on small clips.
Thank you Greyzone!
Thank you so much for your hard work and courage to show us the truth. Real journalism like this is truly rare and precious in the world today. Thank you! Thank you!
Max,..will you please run for president!? Thank you for your dedication to presenting the 'stubborn facts',...that the american government tries so hard to conceal behind their flimsy and unsubstantiated veil of 'democracy', and 'freedom and justice for all'. The Empire wears no cloths,....Thank you Max, and all at Grayzone.
Bari Weiss is a clueless tool doing the bidding without knowing it of the wealthy and owners of the media. She doesnt even know why she thinks things if you watch the Joe Rogan podcast with her on it.
POLOSI <MY GOD ,SHE SHOULD BE HANGED ,THAT WITCH /LIER !!US.MSM,IS THE ONE THAT KNOWS ALL THAT GOES ON IN CHINA ,LIES ,LOOK AT THESE ,LOBBYISTS ,IT IS SHAME FULL !!
All is a fabrication, nothing is real. Everyone has an agenda. Make your story sound good and you will get heard. It is the money, a power that corrupts.
no wonder fda usda and epa
AND TRUMP endorse napalming crops with glyphosatan herbicide just a few days before harvest --- it makes all of us at least a little bit sicker --- and thus keeps the vicious-cycle pharma/poizion-based economy healthy for certain privileded greedy sadistic corporate fascist motherfrackers with the sworn agenda to infiltrate, sabotage, corrupt, and enslave and destroy everything pure and natural and good just to piss off jesus --- who got whacked for exposing the synogog of satan's ( practice of selling animals for sacrificing in the temple --- as if sacrificing innocent critters is a way to have sins forgiven ! ) guess who gets to be the sacrificial animals these daze ---
all of us pesky honest to goodness indigenous schmucks . (the proverbial meek who were fortold will inherit the earth)
i'm telling all of yawl it's SABOTAGE !
"victory through deception" is on the mfn mossad logo for christsakes .
give credit where credit is due . b less gullible.
lets turn the table on those evil masterminds and not-see flunkys hellbent on imprisoning the planet in one worldwide-wireless concentration cramp.
"rejoice --- for the kingdom of heaven is at hand !" (godspeed good shepherding yawl !)
I've been studying a lot of this stuff for some time now, I didnt know the group was called NED but I knew about things like this, didn't realize what a specific and massive role they've played. The part where the founder says "I know about you..." is kind of ominous.
If you havent worked it out the CIA and America are their to put right wing pro corporate govts in charge to take the power from the workers and people and to privatise the world with the ultra wealthy corporates in charge of all the means of production and resources. And in the end the ultimate power and control of everyone.
The whole Yeltsin affair is the reason why I laugh at the US's whole debacle of "Russian interference". Good riddance, have a taste of your own medicine.
Same companies are censoring alternative medicine, NIH-sourced science, natural alternatives to pharma and education about mandatory medical procedures ... government-mandated injection of toxins with no valid science to defend the practice but a massive marketing campaign to create fear (measles or N Korea ... same mechanisms!)
That guy gave a shout out to your dad!
I have been a fan of Max Blumenthal for a while, but now I have to look up mr. Sidney Blumenthal, because I can already tell he is the kind of guy I will like!
Thanks so much for this riveting, informative programme , the question is how and do we really need scum like we have running our countries, are having psychos necessary ingredient for running countries.
Keep exposing these blood sucking vampires, keep doing the great work you do. Very illuminating video, lots of things to talk about this evening that's for sure. Btw, I just subscribed.
You guys do a phenomenal job here at the Grayzone. Just about every video I've watched has been fantastic. However, I would quibble about a couple things on this one, largely on strategic grounds. I don't think it's a good look to, at the beginning of this video, refer to the NED as a "taxpayer-funded organization...that aims to topple socialist governments" and then spend much of the rest of the video documenting the NED's efforts to undermine the governments of North Korea and Nicaragua. It seems to imply that the current North Korean and Nicaraguan regimes are socialist, when in fact they are nothing of the sort, unless one strains the definition of "socialist" so much that the term becomes meaningless. Both regimes are enemies of the left and any kind of genuine socialism. I suspect you would agree with this assessment, but I think it would help enormously if you stated this fact up front in order to defend your work against disingenuous attack dogs.
I want to stress that I have no problem with the substance of what's presented here, most of which is excellent, but when putting together these pieces, it's important to take measures to protect yourself from mainstream mudslinging, which I'm sure will become more and more often as you guys gain popularity. Keep up the good work!
...”but... but there’s only one channel on tv... and no internet”...
Good god child... you’ve no idea how fortunate that is...
“but North Korea is such a horrible country”
...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
When you defect from your socialist country and can't find a job in the US the NED might be a great place to look. Outstanding report Max. Just be ready for the inevitable lay-off and a new role as human furniture for corporate business.
It is prudent to consider American info as tainted. America needs a USSR, they can use it to frighten their taxpayers.
Weather Communism is good or bad depends on how life was, before. Most countries become communist after a period of extreme poverty, and extreme injustice. Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam …. and more. Think about all of these countries prior to becoming Communist / Socialist.
That is what's happened in Macedonia as well and they are working there with years, they corrupted politicians professors people of every segment of the society, media and everything with one purpose to make a fake picture, people to be brainwashed so many things in the country to be changed in their own interest even if that means change of the legal elected government which is happened 2016 in Macedonia with obvious influence of the American ambassador in judicial and legal matters.Now the new government is doing everything what they said they're not going to do before the elections now they have opened new TV station under control and plus most of the old one's.
Many people of the American administration are involved including SOROS open society
the most convincing argument for Max's story is that there is no way he could be making this shit up. Which says volumes about those individuals who believe it. Thank you Max, would that it would penetrate the thick fog of western imperialist propaganda
Seeing this video for the first time. All the usual suspects are involved: Thor Halversson and his 'Freedom forum', which Jimmy Dore exposed last year (that's when I first heard of them); Bari Weiss, who was exposed by Joe Rogan earlier this year when she tried to smear Tulsi. Thanks to excellent reporting like this, I don't take any testimony by anyone on matters of war and peace and human rights on face value anymore. I have started to always research who is behind these stories, who pays them, where does funding come from etc. Thanks for making me aware of this!
Our government is elected by the people, the best political system in the world and you must have it. We’ll help you get it but first you must do everything we say. We’re not interested in controlling you because our aim is the world. Oh yes, we’re NOT authoritarian so you can trust us!!! SURE America!!!
Nancy P. Has not seen real tragic and staggering poverty yet, till she comes down to ground zero of Vancouver BC’s East Hastings Street, there she will witness eye-burning and heart-wrenching poverty caused by the city/province. Seems everyone wants to cash in on politics and made up suffering tales. Nice.
free lunch is usually costly... the price of this particular free lunch is your soul and always be ready to be dumped like a piece of toilet paper when you are no more needed! never sell your soul to nobody - not demon, not god, not rich, not poor. souls ain’t for sale. lunches ain’t for free.
Do not like the WORD GESTAPO... NAZI....
But this is What we had in our History
In my Granfather Time...
In Alsace-Lorraine.... Part of France Now...
So,,,, SO called Free Democracy USA..
Is Doing ,,, Exactly the Same..
These People look like ....
SALUTATIONS
Yeonmi Park said her father died of cancer. Her mother said paid 2 people Carrie body was a lie she said she buried body in another interview Yeonmi said she buried ashes an other video Yeonmi Park said her mother went back to china get ashes that Yeonmi Park said on One Young World she buried in secret. Fabricated stories Yeonmi Park is telling.
Russia and China, as part of the Allied Forces, lost 47 million people stopping Hitler.
They are currently gathering a new Allied Forces, to stop the new Empire in town: the US/NATO Empire...taking over more land than Hitler ever dreamed of. WW3 unfolding before our eyes.
Who will join the Allied Forces? Who will join the US Empire?
US Empire is a mirror image of what happened in Germany as WW2 unfolded.
Honestly I can see the fear in the eyes of those who promote or direct in any way NED, when you question them...how they run away from you, because you uphold the truth, and therefore they see you as a vampire sees a silver bullet.
" the truth will set you free"...
It is still quite shocking to me that my media in the UK and the American media and the Canadian, German, French, Dutch, Swedish...all of the ''free'' world's establishment media (and much of the rest) is full of shit. It really can't be trusted.
there're north korean working in chinese kidnapped by south korean and forced to make false testimony about north korea. basically everything on msm about north korea is pure lie.
I don't know what Is worse. living in North Korea with Kim jug on, or here with Trump, and his crazy war monger's. the wrong #Amazon Is burning, and the wrong Ice is melting. thanks Wonka Luv'z y'all anyway.
You can have democracy, but once u have the democratic model like those of West and US, you will be always be under their world order, never to outdo them. Guess which country know this and thus was attacked by US and the West , day in , day out. I ask u, would u like a cobbler to become the CEO of a global company? Of course not, look at those ctries which followed the democratic model of US! A comedian become the President of Ukraine!A dishonest , a bankrupt , businessman, becomes the President of the most powerful ctry in the world!
americas whole foreign policy is based on liar testimony. every aspect of what goes on in washington is based on lies and half truths, both foreign and domestic.
In the western world there is so much economic inequality - so should these countries like Russia - China - Korea and some other countries get together and creat NEEE - National endowment for economic equality
just like NED
Its a terrible shame that Blumenthal pushes the lie that Trotsky somehow is responsible for the Neo cons. People that he cites are people who REJECTED Trotsky.. even though they may have once come from groups that thought of themselves as Trotskyist. Trotsky always defended and supported
the Soviet Union ..his critique of Stalin gets turned by people like Blumenthal into him being anti Socialist...and Anti Soviet. Some of the people he mentions did become anti Soviet and moved on to becoming players for the Neo Cons and Israel. Others Like the disgusting International Socialists ( ISO) turned to calling the Soviet Union just another form of Capitalism and even opposed the heroic Cuban troops that defeated South Africa in Angola...calling them an imperialist occupation force. More genuine Trotskyist Leninist's like the Spartacist League , with all their faults...praised the Cubans..and fought against Solidarnosc..they were hated by the liberal left and the ISO for this. It is just WRONG that Blumenthal and so many others push this lie and advance the falsification of history by doing so. I otherwise support much of his fine work.
you misquoted, the North Korean girl did not say she escaped with her mother only at 5:45. why r u lying? and you edited the video at that part, some screens are being cut as well.
You won't be able to get away with amazing infiltrations like this for long if they are properly dispersed among civilians. It is great that you used it to such strong effect. Keep defining yourselves and achieving such needed distinction within journalistic integrity.
Elizabeth Taylor, thank you so much for this Max, I'd never heard at all about this dreadful group tho they badly affected things I was very interested in and cared about a lot, like Nicaragua 1990.
Thank you for my government who like to interfere other countries for democratic???? Humans right???? I can tell HK peaceful rioters???? I want to join this good pay job.????? God bless America
Max be careful. Look what happened to Epstein. Almost everything which could go allegedly went wrong and Epstein was eliminated. Who knows may be Killary and her seven pervert dwarfs did it but one is for sure that he knew so much that they feared him and were desperate making up such a story. So be careful my friend in the criminal states of zionazimerica. It is like the daughter of ambassador of kuwait before the Iraq war. Those who claim that others are dictator are themselves the real dictators. Those coup makers got busted in Turkey 2015. Not anymore, said Turkish people.
Some facts are obvious: if the "blankist faces" she ever saw were the N Koreans Pelosi obviously must be dozing off in Congress - the drone, I guess.
And since Kuwait, the ante has been raised on ghoulish atrocities requiring R2P attention: an invasion over incubators and now producing babies for hungry dogs!. Don't think I can stomach the next fantasy.
