Koch Whores / October 17, 2011
Wikileaks Expose: Kochs, Neocons and Covert Regime Change Ops
By Yasha Levine
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'Anti-interventionalist' Kochs 'democracy building' in downtown Dushambe and former Soviet surrounds?
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Dushanbe Capital Tajikistan
Largest city. Dushanbe means "Monday" - from market town on Mondays
Saturday, 7 Mar - 3:20 pm, 5°C
Sunni Islam / Secular
Among others:
- Achaemenid, 1st Persian Empire
- Hephthalite, Iranian/Turkic
- Samanid, Sunni Persian
- Mongol
- Timurid dynasty, Sunni Persianate
- Russia Empire
Lang: Tajik = dialect of Modern Persian
'Stan' = 'place' {Persian}
Tajikistan = Land of Tajik
Islamisation = 7thC
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ROUGH SUMMARY - LEVINE ARTICLE
CHARLES KOCH 'libertarian' think tank: FREEDOM HOUSE
one of the most notorious CIA / US State Dept front groups for American Empire
Funding pro-Western opposition movements & seeding regime change across former Soviet Union[2]
INSTITUTE OF HUMANE STUDIES (IHS)
- 'Libertarian recruitment & educational' organisation
- 2005 - Takes over Tajikistan running and funding of evicted FREEDOM HOUSE NGO
- IHS - ensconced in Tajikistan & controlled by Charles Koch
New NGO - FREEDOM - founded to continue to meddle in local 'human rights community'[2]
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN STUDIES keen to fund
- >Tajik think tank to facilitate journalists and academics looking at domestic problems & solutions
- >Tajik think tank focused on 'economic & legal rights' and intellectual debate[2]
FREEDOM HOUSE[2]
Not charity, feeding starving third-world children or educating them
- Founded by Eleanor Roosevelt.
- Part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt domestic propaganda initiative.
- WWII propaganda to enthuse Americans to fight Nazis.
- Evolved into semi-covert ops arm of CIA / State Dept.
- Staff run by intelligence personnel.
- Funded almost exclusively by US federal govt.
Mission:
"to challenge regimes hostile to US interests and values".
By way of trojan:
"promoting the cause of political and economic freedom outside the US"
FREEDOM HOUSE[2]
Provided covert support to:
- >Afghanistan mujahadeen (jihadists)
- >Contras in Nicaragua (various rebel groups, contra revolution / counter-revolutionaries)
- >Highly in Cube, aiming to subvert Castro govt.
Cuba UN Rep:
"[FREEDOM HOUSE] ... a machinery of subversion, closer to an intelligence service than an NGO."
- >Brief coup - President Hugo Chavez 2002
- >Main focus (Bush years): Russia & former Soviet Union.
FREEDOM HOUSE - FORMER SOVIET UNION - 2000-04[2]
Three Musketeers of regime change & US corporate colonisation:
- Freedom House
- Open Society Institute (Soros)
- National Endowment for Democracy
manipulated political opposition movements that brought down remnants of Soviet-era leadership in:
- >Serbia
- >Georgia
- >Ukraine
Reformers, hand-picked by US business interests, were installed.[2]
[Hey, this is very much what is happening before our eyes in Ukraine and also what appears to have also gone down to some extent in Romania, by the look of the politics, the players, the reforms and the European Union / Western interests overreach in Romania, right down to a Eurocentric reformer politician recently arguing that Romania's head of intelligence ought to be approved by NATO, before his appointment.
Monica Macovei
Romania - argues appointment of Romania security head without NATO consultation unacceptable.
"I understand that our NATO partners have not been consulted on this appointment and I consider this unacceptable ..."
Romania parliament to vote on new intel head:
Eduard Hellvig for Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI)
http://www.ziare.com/monica-macovei/stiri-monica-macovei/macovei-propunerea-lui-hellvig-la-sefia-sri-fara-consultarea-nato-inacceptabila-1350600 ]
American NGO Musketeers' MO:
- Installing US corporate interests hand-picked reformers.
- Funding & establishment of political groups, NGOs & media organisations that chorus freemarket ideas & promote Western-friendly politicians.
- Training of activists and organisers.
- Broadcasting of catchy slogans & logos.
- By tapping into:
(a) genuine desire for reform;
(b) naive trust in West;
channelling votes to politicians who took "marching orders directly from the IMF".[2]
FREEDOM HOUSE
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Helped elect[2]:
- > Georgia - Mikheil Saakashvili,
groomed by State Dept to play role of Washington stooge
- > Ukraine - Viktor Yushchenko
Ukraine Central Bank (UCB) head
[ * Yushchenko = married to State Dept. spook & former Reagan admin. member [2]]
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Mrs. Yushchenko
by Peter Robinson December 6, 2004 12:16 PM
“Do you know who Yushchenko’s wife is?” John Podhoretz just asked in an email.
“Turns out he’s married to Kathy Chumachenko, who worked in public liaison when we were at the White House!” Kathy Chumachenko, now Kathy Yushchenko, was one of the most completely delightful people in the Reagan White House, a Reaganite’s Reaganite.
From Reagan staffer to first lady of Ukraine. How the Gipper would have loved it.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/91560/mrs-yushchenko-peter-robinson
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Viktor Yushchenko
- Former President of Ukraine
- Third President of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010
- Career in Ukrainian politics
- Head National Bank Ukraine
- 1999 to 2001 = Prime Minister
- Dismissal as PM
- 2004 Ukrainian presidential election
= repeat (two-round / runoff) election (vs PM Viktor Yanukovych)
- Ukrainian Supreme Court called for the runoff election to be repeated
- allegations of widespread electoral fraud in favour of Viktor Yanukovych in original vote
Public protests over alleged electoral fraud played major role in presidential election & led to: Ukraine's Orange Revolution.[1]
- Assassination attempt in late 2004 during election campaign
Yushchenko ingested hazardous amounts of TCDD (a contaminant in Agent Orange)
= suffered disfigurement as a result of the poisoning - slowly recovering.
SLOGANS
Yushchenko went into opposition to President Leonid Kuchma
Founded the Our Ukraine bloc
2002 parliamentary election
= Ukraine's most popular political force (on just short of 25% votes)
"Yushchenko had slightly modernized his political platform, adding social partnership and other liberal slogans to older ideas of European integration, including Ukraine's joining NATO and fighting corruption. Supporters of Yushchenko were organized in the "Syla Narodu" ("Power to the People") electoral coalition, which he and his political allies led, with the Our Ukraine coalition as the main constituent force." [1]
[Going by Levine's article, that sure looks like something CIA NGOs would have arranged in Ukraine, right down to the 'liberal slogans'.]
INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES[2]
'Home' of Kochite Reaganites (eg Nick Gillespie, Radley Balko)
est. over 40 years
primo liberatarian org & homebase for Friedrich Von Hayek, economist / libertarian thought proponent (and presumably devotee of bad news neo-classical economics - see Four Horsemen doco)
Libertarian = anti-state intervention
Kochs / Cato Institute
>seen to be 'staunch anti-interventionists' (even by Glenn Greenwald)[2]
INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES[2]
+ Koch libertarian orgs (eg CATO INSTITUTE)
may have history of smuggling banned libertarian literature into Soviet Union
However: FREEDOM HOUSE stands apart
Not merely spreading ideas; it is about:
"taking over for a CIA arm designed for foreign intervention and regime change."[2]
Tajikistan involvement =
"Just the fact that they were on the scene, buddying up with war-crazed neocons, CIA goons and State Department bureaucrats famed for their covert regime change ops tells us all we need to know: the anti-interventionist/anti-empire position of libertarianism is just another Koch con meant to give libertarians credibility, and bowl over gullible lefties and progressives into supporting the Kochs’ brutal 19th century economic policies." [2]
COMMENT
The key information contained in Yasha Levine article (which I really enjoyed), has been summarised above. Best to read the article, in case my understanding's off. And it's an enjoyable read. Must be so nice being clever.
Tinkered a bit with the notes by putting in some info from Wikipedia, as I did quickie look-ups.
The thing about 'three musketeers' wasn't in the article; it's my way of trying to remember the NGOs.
Hoping this note taking will help my recall, but I've got a memory like a sieve. By next week, I'll probably forget most of what I've learned.
As those discussing Wikipedia on Reddit may attest, Wikipedia should be known as as 'Sneakipedia' because of the preposterous spin and editing of entries by PR types and various people with political agendas doing the edits.
Relied on some information regarding the Libyan army the other day, accepting without question what was before me:
Libyan National Army
= newly assembled
by National Transitional Council (transit. govt)
fm rebel forces that defeated Gaddafi 2011
#Libya
Somebody corrected me by pointing out that it wasn't a LNA win rebel win; Libya was bombed by the US and NATO. And so it was. But the entry I was looking on the LNA itself, described it as 'forces aligned' to the Transitional National Council 'win' (the entry for which indicates a 'rebel forces' overthrow), which I just regurgitated without thinking (even though I vaguely know about Western intervention).
I'm bashing this out quickly, so I'm not going to take the time to check whether the entry maintains it was an rebel win (despite intervention) or take the time to read about the intervention itself. Intervention looks very one sided: NATO forces are MASSIVE versus Libya. Does that seem fair? And look what it's produced; it's 2015 and Libya is still in chaos. Putin was right.
Couldn't help myself. Checked the Libyan National Army entry (quickly) to see what it said. Was at first horrified, thinking I'd misunderstood the entry and had presented something that wasn't in the entry. As I scanned further down, it looks like LNA has been credited with the Gaddafi defeat, so I didn't make I didn't make it up:
The Libyan National Army was founded in 2011 by the National Transitional Council, after forces aligned to it defeated the previous Libyan Army and overthrew Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
... Transitional National Council,[3] was the de facto government of Libya for a period during and after the Libyan Civil War, in which rebel forces overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
No time to check the rest of the entries properly. For all I know, I'm at fault because I'm just jumping on the first information I see. But 'rebel forces which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi' is arguable, I suppose, if you consider the role of NATO.
Somebody recently suggested I check out 'cultural Marxism'. So I did. During my travels, I found the entries on Reddit pointing out the bias etc, regarding Wikipedia entries. Thought it was interesting reading in relation to the Sneakipedia failings as well as cultural Marxism, which I think I'm opposed to because I'm not huge on being told what to think. But I've got a bit more reading to do on that before I know what the deal is; that's just my initial impression.
Someone suggested a counter Wikipedia, I think. A counter internet would also be good. The internet as we know it doesn't accommodate truth. It's censored like crazy. Not too big on that.
Also not big on the prospect of Google being the 'Ministry of Truth' of the internet. Proposal to index searches based on the 'accuracy' of information rather than popularity of hits. That is just WRONG and totalitarian. We should all bail and start using other platforms, avoiding Google like the plague.
[Excuse any typos. In a mad rush. Too tired to stay up and edit.]
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