-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Blum: Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 23:49:09 -0500 (CDT) From: "Gregory Elich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: AT&T Worldnet To: undisclosed-recipients:; >From Janet Eaton: Dear Mai-notters: This e-mail contains basic information [quotes, and Table of Contents and links to several chapters] that I have downloaded about a new book "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" by William Blum from a website devoted to this book. http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first "underground" newspaper in the capital. http://members.aol.com/superogue/author.htm This book is " a mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War." "As I write this in Washington, D.C., in April 1999, the United States is busy saving Yugoslavia. Bombing a modern, sophisticated society back to a pre-industrial age. And The Great American Public, in its infinite wisdom, is convinced that its government is motivated by "humanitarian" impulses." http://members.aol.com/superogue/intro.htm Five chapters of this new book by William Bloom have URL's to complete text. I have included these URLs in the Table of Contents below and as well have inserted Chapter 19 at the end of this e-mail for your possible interest. Ckapter 19. Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy [NED] http://members.aol.com/superogue/ned.htm "The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization. " I think this book and Chapter 19 should mesh nicely with the present dialogue Janice has initiated on mai-not about the power structure of the New World Order. all the best, Janet p.s. To further illuminate "Bill Blum came by his title easily. He simply tested America by the same standards we use to judge other countries. The result is a bill of wrongs -- an especially well-documented encyclopedia of malfeasance, mendacity and mayhem that has been hypocritically carried out in the name of democracy by those whose only true love was power." -- Sam Smith, Editor, The Progressive Review, Washington, DC ========================================= ========================================== Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum, author of Killing Hope:US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2 ========================================= If you believed that the NATO (read U.S.) bombing of Yugoslavia for 78 days and nights in 1999 was a "humanitarian" act, Rogue State hopefully can serve as a wake-up call to both your intellect and your conscience. It is a mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War. Never before in modern history has a country dominated the earth so totally as the United States does today. America is now the Schwarzenegger of international politics: showing off muscles, obtrusive, intimidating. The Americans, in the absence of limits put to them by anybody or anything, act as if they own a kind of blank check in their McWorld. Der Spiegel, Germany's leading newsmagazine, 1997 The United States is good. We try to do our best everywhere. Madeleine Albright, 1999 A world once divided into two armed camps now recognizes one sole and pre-eminent power, the United States of America. And they regard this with no dread. For the world trusts us with power, and the world is right. They trust us to be fair, and restrained. They trust us to be on the side of decency. They trust us to do what's right. George Bush, 1992 How can they have the arrogance to dictate to us where we should go or which countries should be our friends? Gadhafi is my friend. He supported us when we were alone and when those who tried to prevent my visit here today were our enemies. They have no morals. We cannot accept that a state assumes the role of the world's policeman. Nelson Mandela, 1997 When I came into office, I was determined that our country would go into the 21st century still the world's greatest force for peace and freedom, for democracy and security and prosperity. Bill Clinton, 1996 Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame. Amnesty International, 1996 _________________________________________________________________ "Rogue State forcibly reminds us of Vice President Agnew's immortal line: 'The United States, for all its faults, is still the greatest nation in the country'." Gore Vidal, author, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire "Critics will call this a one-sided book. But it is an invaluable corrective to the establishment portrait of America as the world's greatest force for peace. Even confirmed opponents of U.S. interventionism can find much in this important book that will both educate and shock them." Peter Dale Scott, former Professor at UC Berkeley, poet, and author, Deep Politics and The Death of JFK "Bill Blum came by his title easily. He simply tested America by the same standards we use to judge other countries. The result is a bill of wrongs -- an especially well-documented encyclopedia of malfeasance, mendacity and mayhem that has been hypocritically carried out in the name of democracy by those whose only true love was power." Sam Smith, Editor, The Progressive Review, Washington, DC "Bravo Blum! A vivid, well-aimed critique of the evils of US global interventionism, a superb antidote to officialdom's lies and propaganda." Michael Parenti, author, History as Mystery and To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia ______________________________________________________ See Table of Contents and read selected chapters below ________________________________________________________________ Rogue State was published in 2000 by Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine 308 pages, fully documented and indexed For a copy signed to you personally, and shipped immediately, send a check to: William Blum, 5100 Connecticut Ave., NW, #707, Washington, DC 20008-2064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] All prices shown are in U.S. dollars. Price for the paperback, including postage: United States: book rate $15 priority rate $17 Canada/Mexico: surface mail $15 priority rate (2-3 days) $18 Western Europe: surface mail (4-6 weeks) $15 priority rate (3-4 days) $19 Italy: (no priority rate) airmail (1 week) $20 Australia/New Zealand: surface mail (4-6 weeks) $15 priority rate (5-6 days) $19 Other countries: request price, specifying surface or priority; no credit cards ------------------- Table of Contents Introduction [can be found in entirety at] http://members.aol.com/superogue/intro.htm Ours and Theirs: Washington's love/hate relationship with terrorists and human rights violators: 1. Why do terrorists keep picking on the United States? 2. America's gift to the world -- the Afghan terrorist alumni 3. Assassinations 4. Excerpts from US Army and CIA training manuals 5. Torture 6. The Unsavories 7. Training new unsavories 8. War criminals: Theirs and Ours http://members.aol.com/superogue/warcrime.htm#beginning 9. Haven for terrorists 10. Supporting Pol Pot United States Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction: 11. Bombings http://members.aol.com/superogue/bomb.htm 12. Depleted Uranium 13. Cluster bombs 14. Chemical and Biological Weapons abroad 15. Chemical and Biological Weapons at home 16. Encouraging the use of CBW by other nations A Rogue State versus the world: 17. A Concise History of US Global Interventions, 1945--present 18. Perverting elections 19. Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy http://members.aol.com/superogue/ned.htm 20. The US versus the world at the United Nations 21. Eavesdropping on the planet 22. Kidnapping and looting 23. How the CIA sent Nelson Mandela to prison for 28 years 24. The CIA and Drugs: Just say Why Not? 25. Being the World's Only Superpower means never having to say you are sorry http://members.aol.com/superogue/sorry.htm 26. The US invades, bombs and kills for it ... but do Americans really believe in free enterprise? 27. A Day in the life of a free country ... or ... How does the United States get away with it? About the author To read parts of William Blum's other book, Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2, as well as some of his essays, click here. return to beginning return to order book ================= Chapter 19. Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy http://members.aol.com/superogue/ned.htm go to end Trojan Horse The National Endowment for Democracy How many Americans could identify the National Endowment for Democracy? An organization which often does exactly the opposite of what its name implies. The NED was set up in the early 1980s under President Reagan in the wake of all the negative revelations about the CIA in the second half of the 1970s. The latter was a remarkable period. Spurred by Watergate -- the Church committee of the Senate, the Pike committee of the House, and the Rockefeller Commission, created by the president, were all busy investigating the CIA. Seemingly every other day there was a new headline about the discovery of some awful thing, even criminal conduct, the CIA had been mixed up in for years. The Agency was getting an exceedingly bad name, and it was causing the powers-that-be much embarrassment. Something had to be done. What was done was not to stop doing these awful things. Of course not. What was done was to shift many of these awful things to a new organization, with a nice sounding name -- The National Endowment for Democracy. The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities. It was a masterpiece. Of politics, of public relations, and of cynicism. Thus it was that in 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to "support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts". Notice the "nongovernmental" -- part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to refer to itself as an NGO (Non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO. Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, was quite candid when he said in 1991: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."{1} In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED. The Endowment has four principal initial recipients of funds: the International Republican Institute; the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; an affiliate of the AFL-CIO (such as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity); and an affiliate of the Chamber of Commerce (such as the Center for International Private Enterprise). These institutions then disburse funds to other institutions in the US and all over the world, which then often disburse funds to yet other organizations. In a multitude of ways, NED meddles in the internal affairs of foreign countries by supplying funds, technical know-how, training, educational materials, computers, faxes, copiers, automobiles, and so on, to selected political groups, civic organizations, labor unions, dissident movements, student groups, book publishers, newspapers, other media, etc. NED programs generally impart the basic philosophy that working people and other citizens are best served under a system of free enterprise, class cooperation, collective bargaining, minimal government intervention in the economy, and opposition to socialism in any shape or form. A free-market economy is equated with democracy, reform, and growth; and the merits of foreign investment are emphasized. From 1994 to 1996, NED awarded 15 grants, totaling more than $2,500,000, to the American Institute for Free Labor Development, an organization used by the CIA for decades to subvert progressive labor unions.{2} AIFLD's work within Third World unions typically involved a considerable educational effort very similar to the basic NED philosophy described above. The description of one of the 1996 NED grants to AIFLD includes as one its objectives: "build union-management cooperation".{3} Like many things that NED says, this sounds innocuous, if not positive, but these in fact are ideological code words meaning "keep the labor agitation down ... don't rock the status-quo boat". The relationship between NED and AIFLD very well captures the CIA origins of the Endowment.{4} NED has funded centrist and rightist labor organizations to help them oppose those unions which were too militantly pro-worker. This has taken place in France, Portugal and Spain amongst many other places. In France, during the 1983-4 period, NED supported a "trade union-like organization for professors and students" to counter "left-wing organizations of professors". To this end it funded a series of seminars and the publication of posters, books and pamphlets such as "Subversion and the Theology of Revolution" and "Neutralism or Liberty".{5} ("Neutralism" here refers to being unaligned in the cold war.) NED describes one of its 1997-98 programs thusly: "To identify barriers to private sector development at the local and federal levels in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and to push for legislative change ... [and] to develop strategies for private sector growth."{6} Critics of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have been supported by NED grants for years.{7} In short, NED's programs are in sync with the basic needs and objectives of the New World Order's economic globalization, just as the programs have for years been on the same wavelength as US foreign policy. Because of a controversy in 1984 -- when NED funds were used to aid a Panamanian presidential candidate backed by Manuel Noriega and the CIA -- Congress enacted a law prohibiting the use of NED funds "to finance the campaigns of candidates for public office." But the ways to circumvent the spirit of such a prohibition are not difficult to come up with; as with American elections, there's "hard money" and there's "soft money". As described in the "Elections" and "Interventions" chapters, NED successfully manipulated elections in Nicaragua in 1990 and Mongolia in 1996, helped to overthrow democratically elected governments in Bulgaria in 1990 and Albania in 1991 and 1992, and was busy working in Haiti in the late 1990s on behalf of right wing groups who were united in their opposition to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his progressive ideology.{8} NED has made its weight felt in the electoral- political process in numerous other countries. NED would have the world believe that it's only teaching the ABCs of democracy and elections to people who don't know them, but in all five countries named above there had already been free and fair elections held. The problem, from NED's point of view, is that the elections had been won by political parties not on NED's favorites list. The Endowment maintains that it's engaged in "opposition building" and "encouraging pluralism". "We support people who otherwise do not have a voice in their political system," said Louisa Coan, a NED program officer.{9} But NED hasn't provided aid to foster progressive or leftist opposition in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, or Eastern Europe -- or, for that matter, in the United States -- even though these groups are hard pressed for funds and to make themselves heard. Cuban dissident groups and media are heavily supported however. NED's reports carry on endlessly about "democracy", but at best it's a modest measure of mechanical political democracy they have in mind, not economic democracy; nothing that aims to threaten the powers-that-be or the way-things-are, unless of course it's in a place like Cuba. The Endowment played an important role in the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, funding key components of Oliver North's shadowy "Project Democracy" network, which privatized US foreign policy, waged war, ran arms and drugs, and engaged in other equally charming activities. At one point in 1987, a White House spokesman stated that those at NED "run Project Democracy".{10} This was an exaggeration; it would have been more correct to say that NED was the public arm of Project Democracy, while North ran the covert end of things. In any event, the statement caused much less of a stir than if -- as in an earlier period -- it had been revealed that it was the CIA which was behind such an unscrupulous operation. NED also mounted a multi-level campaign to fight the leftist insurgency in the Philippines in the mid-1980s, funding a host of private organizations, including unions and the media.{11} This was a replica of a typical CIA operation of pre-NED days. And between 1990 and 1992, the Endowment donated a quarter-million dollars of taxpayers' money to the Cuban-American National Fund, the ultra-fanatic anti-Castro Miami group. The CANF, in turn, financed Luis Posada Carriles, one of the most prolific and pitiless terrorists of modern times, who was involved in the blowing up of a Cuban airplane in 1976, which killed 73 people. In 1997, he was involved in a series of bomb explosions in Havana hotels.{12} The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization.{13} NOTES 1. Washington Post, September 22, 1991 2. NED Annual Reports, 1994-96. 3. NED Annual Report, 1996, p.39 4. For further information on AIFLD, see: Tom Barry, et al., The Other Side of Paradise: Foreign Control in the Caribbean (Grove Press, NY, 1984), see AIFLD in index; Jan Knippers Black, United States Penetration of Brazil (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1977), chapter 6; Fred Hirsch, An Analysis of Our AFL-CIO Role in Latin America (monograph, San Jose, California, 1974) passim; The Sunday Times (London), October 27, 1974, p.15-16 5. NED Annual Report, November 18, 1983 to September 30, 1984, p.21 6. NED Annual Report, November 18, 1983 to September 30, 1984, p.21 7. See NED annual reports of the 1990s. 8. Haiti: Haiti Progres (Port-au-Prince, Haiti), May 13-19, 1998 9. New York Times, March 31, 1997, p.11 10. Washington Post, February 16, 1987; also see New York Times, February 15, 1987, p.1 11. San Francisco Examiner, July 21, 1985, p.1 12. New York Times, July 13, 1998 13. For a detailed discussion of NED, in addition to the sources named above, see: William I. Robinson, A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (Westview Press, Colorado, 1992), passim This is a chapter from Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, by William Blum return to homepage: http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm To write to the author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] return to beginning ========================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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