Showing posts with label foreign election interference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign election interference. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2017

Noam Chomsky on the Long History of US Meddling in Foreign Elections — C.J. Polychroniou interviews Noam Chomsky


Let me count the ways.

Truthout
Noam Chomsky on the Long History of US Meddling in Foreign Elections
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Noam Chomsky

Thursday, January 19, 2017

McClatchy — FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump


Happy Inauguration Day.

Why makes this story so bizarre is that the suspected Russian "interference" in the US election pales against the pattern of documented US interference in foreign elections for decades at least, with a well established structure for doing so and using a variety of agencies and operations. both direct and indirect. 

McClatchyDC
FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump
Peter Stone and Greg Gordon, McClatchy Washington Bureau

UPDATE:

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Dan Steinbock — The Story of the U.S. Regime Change Plan in the Philippines

As long-needed economic reforms are taking off in the Philippines, regime change plans have been prepared in the US State Department against a democratically-elected president who enjoys very high popular support.
During the Philippine presidential campaigns in spring 2016, U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg sided visibly with anti-Duterte forces, which led to several high-profile confrontations. After the controversial Ambassador left the Philippines, he wrote a “blueprint to undermine Duterte within 18 months.” Last month, the plan was leaked to The Manila Times, the oldest English-language daily in the Philippines.

It is not the first time Goldberg is associated with regime change efforts. In 2008 President Evo Morales and the Bolivian government gave him three days to leave the country after declaring him persona non grata – following Goldberg’s efforts to fund the opposition leaders, separatists and think-tanks with millions of dollars.

Yet, President Obama rewarded Goldberg by appointing him assistant secretary of state for Intelligence and Research; one of the 16 elements of the US Intelligence Community (IC). Thereafter he was sent to the Philippines, which he left in less than three years after efforts to intervene with the elections.
What that? The US interference in foreign states' elections. You must be joshing, right? (snark*)

Economonitor
The Story of the U.S. Regime Change Plan in the Philippines
Dan Steinbock, founder of the the Difference Group
* Things are so bizarre now it has become necessary to state the obvious.

RT — Lavrov slams "triple standards," names those who REALLY interfered in the US elections


Stating the obvious. 

The US, UK, German and French establishments regularly criticize others for what they do more often and more egregiously. Western liberals feel that they are morally empowered to interfere in others' affairs, while others cannot act reciprocally without violating liberal norms.

Fort Russ
Lavrov slams "triple standards," names those who REALLY interfered in the US elections
RT, translated by J. Arnoldski