ZIMBABWE: 29 NGOs Suspected of a Regime Change Agenda, Banned in Crackdown

14/02/2012

by New Zimbabwe Staff Reporter

TWENTY-NINE non-governmental organisations have been de-registered in Masvingo province after they failed to submit certain paperwork to the local provincial administrator.

Masvingo governor Titus Maluleke said 11 others – mainly dealing with children, HIV/Aids and disability issues – had been reported to the Department of Social Welfare.

The crackdown has sparked fears that the move is political after Zanu PF threatened just that at its December conference held in Bulawayo.

The party’s central committee report to the conference delegates claimed that there were about 2,500 NGOs operating in Zimbabwe and some of them were pushing a “regime change” agenda.

“Some of these NGOs are working day and night to remove President (Robert) Mugabe and Zanu PF from power. They are being funded by Britain and some European Union countries, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand,” the report claimed. →

WHY ARE PRO-REGIME CHANGE LEFTIES IN THE LEADERSHIP OF THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT?

7 February 2012

Introduction by Sukant Chandan, Sons of Malcolm

This is a good article from ‘Socialist Action’ which outlines the latest developments with Syria in relation to the Arab League, the west and the UN.  Importantly it also focuses on a small group of people presenting themselves as leftists in the anti-war movement around a group – Counterfire – who were expelled/left the organisation called the ‘Socialist Workers Party’.

 The SWP heralded the lynching of Gadafi – which was facilitated by two nato air-strikes on Gadafi’s convoy – as something to be welcomed comparable to the killing of Italian fascist leader Mussolini. Obviously these people cannot get their heads around this, but to compare the death of the most important anti-imperialist leader of Africa and of the Global South of recent times with the leader of Italian colonialism, who colonised Libya wiping out a massive part of the Libyan population, just shows one how far from any understanding of the people of the Global South organisations like the swp are. →

U.S. Bribery: The Egyptians “are going to be told to lay off the (nonprofit groups) or the money (for military) won’t be forthcoming”

Editor’s note: Not surprising, US “aid” to Egypt benefits the US much more than Egypt on many levels. It would be completely self-defeating for the US to cut this “aid”, therefore they won’t. Regarding the military, this is also an empty threat as this “aid” is a subsidy to US defence contractors which gives them much leverage, access, etc. Besides, without this “aid”, Egypt would likely turn to China and Russia … you can almost smell Washington sweating. Special thanks to Dr. Maximilian C. Forte, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University for his comments and insight.

U.S. Gen. Dempsey heads to Egypt with relations on line

By NANCY A. YOUSSEF, JONATHAN S. LANDAY AND HANNAH ALLAM

McClatchy Newspapers

02.07.12

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Furthering the Funding of Foreign Interference: U.S. to establish new fund supporting NGOs in Russia

How to Start a (Wall Street-backed) Revolution

Documentary Whitewashes Wall Street’s Global Blitzkrieg

by Tony Cartalucci

November 26, 2011 – Gene Sharp of the Albert Einstein Institution penned the book “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” originally designated for the destabilization and recolonization of Myanmar, still called “Burma” throughout much of the West. Sharp’s book would then be utilized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) throughout Eastern Europe, throughout Asia, and eventually, in 2011, for the US-engineered “Arab Spring.”

According to Sharp’s own Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) 2000-2004 annual report, AEI had been sponsored by the US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its funded subsidiary International Republican Institute (IRI) to train activists in Serbia (page 18) Zimbabwe (page 23) and Myanmar (page 26) to help overthrow their respective sovereign governments.

Australia’s Southern Cross University’s “Activating Human Rights & Peace (AHRP)” conference had put out a revealing account of their 2008 proceedings illustrating that all of Gene Sharp’s work, beyond what was even mentioned in his own institution’s annual report, had been fully funded and in support of the US government and its global domineering agenda. Beginning on page 26, Sharp’s affiliations, in particular with the National Endowment for Democracy, which is described as carrying out “a lot of work that was formerly undertaken by the CIA,” as well as the Ford Foundation, and billionaire Wall Street patriarch George Soros’ Open Society Institute are fleshed out in immense detail. →

DESTABILIZATION | U.S. to Establish New Fund Supporting NGOs in Russia

December 15, 2011

Source: Panarmenia

Editor’s Note: I take it that the Obama Administration is taking all this Russian Spring talk seriously. They pumped millions into the Egyptian elections and now they see a weakened Putin caught flat-footed by the large response (most likely hired force) so it is time to take advantage. Most Russians pawned their freedom for scarce security long ago so any anger directed at United Russia is temporary at best.

The U.S. administration is in talks with Congress on the establishment of a new organization supporting NGOs in Russia, Philip Gordon, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, said on Wednesday, December 14.

“As part of our democracy strategy, the administration has been consulting with Congress on an initiative to create a new fund to support Russian non-governmental organizations that are committed to a more pluralistic and open society,” Gordon said.

“The fund would not require an additional appropriation, as necessary funding would be drawn from the liquidated proceeds of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund – an example of successful U.S. foreign assistance to Russia,” he said at a meeting of a subcommittee in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Gordon said the United States provides financial support to Russian civil society.

“Since 2009, the U.S. government has given approximately $160 million in assistance to support programs on human rights, rule of law, anti-corruption, civil society, independent media, good governance, and democratic political processes,” he said.

“Most recently, U.S. funding was used to support independent Russian monitoring of the [State] Duma elections and education for independent media on professional and unbiased reporting, encourage informed citizen participation in elections, and enhance the capacity to conduct public opinion polling,” Gordon said, RIA Novosti reported.

On December 8, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed toughening responsibility for those who interfere in Russian political life on foreign orders.

“When money from abroad is invested in political activities inside another country, this concerns us,” he said, adding that “hundreds of millions of dollars” of foreign money have been spent to influence the election process in Russia.

“We are not against foreign observers monitoring out election process,” Putin said. “But when they begin motivating some organizations inside the country which claim to be domestic but in fact are funded from abroad… this is unacceptable.”

The ruling United Russia party won the Russia’s December 4 parliamentary elections, gaining about 50 percent of the vote. Tens of thousands of people went to the streets to protest the vote results, which they say were rigged.

http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/3043

Putin calls ‘color revolutions’ an instrument of destabilization

Source: KyivPost

December 15, 2011

MOSCOW – ‘Color revolutions’ are a well-tested scheme of destabilizing society, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.

“As far as ‘color revolutions’ are concerned, I think that everything is clear. It is a well-tested scheme for destabilizing society. I do not think it appeared by itself,” Putin said during his annual Q&A session broadcast live on Thursday.

“We know the events of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. By the way, some of our opposition members were in Ukraine and officially worked as advisers to its then President [Viktor] Yuschenko. They are now transferring this practice to Russian soil in a natural manner,” he said.

Putin urges Russians not to destabilize country

December 15, 2011

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Thursday urged Russian citizens not to participate in the ‘destabilization’ of the country, in his first public comments on the mass protests against alleged electoral fraud. Speaking at a televised question-answer session, Putin said that while legal protests and dissent were necessary, it was wrong for people to ‘allow themselves to be sucked into schemes to destablize society’. Russia saw anti-government rallies Dec 10, as thousands of people took to the streets to protest suspected poll violation at the Dec 4 parliamentary elections. Putin hit out at revolutions that swept former Soviet republics in the 2000s. He hinted at foreign involvement in the 2004-05 unrest in Ukraine that led to the toppling of the country’s pro-Russia authorities.

http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/15-Dec-2011/Putin-urges-Russians-not-to-destabilize-country

The Pro-Israel NGO Behind NATO’s War on Libya is Targeting Syria

Who will watch the watchdog?

By Maidhc Ó Cathail
December 10, 2012

On December 2, the Geneva-based UN Watch welcomed that day’s “strong condemnation” of Syria by a UN Human Rights Council emergency session, and its establishment of a special rapporteur to monitor the situation there following what it called “a global campaign to create the post by a coalition of prominent democracy dissidents and human rights groups” led by UN Watch itself. The non-governmental organization, whose self-appointed mandate is “to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter,” expressed regret, however, that the UNHRC resolution “paid special deference” to Syria’s “territorial integrity” and “political independence,” decrying the provision as “a clear jab at NATO’s intervention in Libya, and a pre-emptive strike against the principle of the international community’s responsibility to protect civilians under assault.”

On the same day, UN Watch delivered a speech to the Human Rights Council plenary session in which it denounced the UN Security Council’s “shocking silence on Syria’s atrocities,” calling on it to take “urgent action to protect the civilian population before thousands more are beaten, tortured and killed.” It also urged UNESCO to reverse its recent decision to elect Syria to two human rights committees. Submitting that day’s UNHRC resolution to UNESCO’s Executive Board, the NGO demanded that they “expel the Assad government from those panels immediately.” The statement went on to berate the UNHRC for its “longtime policy, and that of the old Commission, of turning a blind eye to Syria’s gross and systematic violations.” Also “wrong and harmful,” in UN Watch’s view, was the UN body’s “policy of supporting Syria’s cynical and transparent ploy each year to condemn Israel for alleged violations of human rights, which should not be repeated this March.”

For those familiar with the NGO’s unmistakable governmental ties, it will come as no surprise that UN Watch could downplay Israel’s extensively documented human rights abuses as “alleged” while at the same time confidently asserting that “the facts are clear” regarding Syria’s “gross and systematic violations of human rights.” As Ian Williams, a former president of the United Nations Correspondents Association, wrote in a 2007 Guardian opinion piece, “UN Watch is an organization whose main purpose is to attack the United Nations in general, and its human rights council in particular, for alleged bias against Israel.”

Founded in 1993 under the chairmanship of Ambassador Morris B. Abram, the former US permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, UN Watch is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee. Described by one expert on US-Israeli relations as “the foreign policy arm of the Israel lobby,” the AJC also takes a keen interest in the UN’s alleged bias against Israel. According to a 2003 article in the Jewish Daily Forward, a “sustained effort” by the lobby’s foreign policy arm resulted in the United States “embarking on the most comprehensive campaign in years to reduce the number of anti-Israel resolutions routinely passed by the United Nations General Assembly.”

In February, UN Watch

Undoubtedly the most significant signatory of the UN Watch-sponsored letter was Carl Gershman, president of the “misnamed” National Endowment for Democracy. Funded by American taxpayers but outside Congressional oversight, the Endowment has been meddling in other countries’ internal politics since its inception in 1983. As Allen Weinstein, NED’s architect and first acting president, famously told the Washington Post in 1991, “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” A lot of what NED does today can also be understood by observing its longtime president’s career path. A former head of the neo-Trotskyite Social Democrats-USA who steadily evolved into neoconservatives, Gershman is no stranger to pro-Israel lobbying, having worked in the research department of the Anti-Defamation League in 1968 and served on the governing council of the American Jewish Committee in the early 1970s.

Although UN Watch purports to believe in the United Nations’ mission to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” the pro-Israel NGO bears significant responsibility for inducing a devastating war on the current generation in one Arab country already this year and is clearly determined to repeat the carnage in another. As long as UN Watch’s motto of “Monitoring the United Nations, Promoting Human Rights” continues to obscure its real mission of “Manipulating the United Nations, Promoting Israel’s Interests,” the warning of a Roman poet becomes increasingly pertinent: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”

Maidhc Ó Cathail is a political analyst and editor of The Passionate Attachment.

http://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/who-will-watch-the-watchdog/

The Leaders of the March Lied to Indigenous Grassroots | Especial – Los Dirigentes de la Marcha Mintieron a los In dígenas de Base

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Los dirigentes de la marcha mintieron a los indígenas de base

Especial

2011-11-25

Las comunidades desconocieron a los dirigentes Adolfo Chávez, Pedro Nuni y Fernando Vargas. Revelaron que ellos dijeron que el presidente Morales no los quiso recibir en el Palacio de Gobierno para dialogar, entre otras mentiras.

Los dirigentes que representaron a los originarios del Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (Tipnis), en la denominada VIII Gran Marcha Indígena, sólo desinformaron a las bases y velaron por sus propios intereses, por lo que ahora son desconocidos en sus regiones, afirmaron ayer, en declaraciones separadas, representantes de organizaciones sociales y corregidores del departamento del Beni.

Las declaraciones de los indígenas fueron vertidas durante una reunión que tuvieron con el presidente Evo Morales. En el encuentro reiteraron su pedido de realizar la carretera Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos.

“Los dirigentes nos dicen allá (en Beni) que el Gobierno es un cochino, que no sirve para nada, que no es un gobierno para ellos, para los dirigentes, y eso nos duele, que vayan con mentiras, que nos mientan”, señaló la presidenta del Club de Madres de la Comunidad Río Sécure, Clara Gutiérrez.

Aseguró que dichos dirigentes “siguen diciendo mentiras. Por eso ya no queremos creerles, ya no queremos que los dirigentes nos manejen; queremos despertar”.

Por su parte, el corregidor de la comunidad San Ignacio de la Curva, Ilario Canchi Credo, lamentó que los dirigentes indígenas no quieran el progreso de las comunidades y sólo busquen figurar ante los medios de información masiva

“Todo el tiempo los dirigentes nos dicen ‘que no haya carretera, que no haya carretera’. Nos están quitando el derecho de que tengamos carretera, porque ellos no viven en nuestras comunidades, viven en las ciudades. Ellos utilizan a la prensa, a los medios de comunicación para figurar. Dicen que tenemos desarrollo cuando no tenemos nada”, manifestó.

Llegada a La Paz

Los dirigentes indígenas llegaron a la ciudad de La Paz el 19 de octubre para dialogar con el presidente Evo Morales luego de 65 días de caminata.

Sin embargo, la reunión se dilató más de tres días debido a que los indígenas solicitaron insistentemente que la reunión se realice en instalaciones del Palacio de Gobierno, se negaron a reunirse en la Vicepresidencia, y la dirigencia marchista pidió algunos elementos como una pantalla gigante en la plaza Murillo —donde se instaló por días una vigilia indígena— para que se vea el diálogo, hecho que no era posible de atender.

Sin embargo, según Gutiérrez y el primer cacique de la comunidad de Natividad, Armando Nolvandi, los dirigentes decían que era el Presidente el que no los quería recibir para dialogar.

“Había sido mentira lo de aquellos dirigentes dijeron del Presidente (Morales), que no quería estar con nosotros, la gente indígena. Mire cómo ellos hablan, mire cómo ellos lo distorsionan”, dijo Nolvandi.

En ese sentido, los más de 30 representantes de las comunidades del Tipnis coincidieron en desconocer a los dirigentes indígenas como Pedro Nuni, Adolfo Chávez y Fernando Vargas.

También pidieron a esos dirigentes rendir cuentas económicas sobre las actividades con la madera y otros recursos provenientes directamente del Tipnis.

VOTO RESOLUTIVO

Varias organizaciones sociales y representantes de las comunidades del Tipnis realizaron un voto resolutivo que señala en sus puntos más importantes:

En reunión de coordinación de corregidores indígenas originarios de tres territorios, Tipnis, TIM y TIMI, organizaciones sociales, instituciones vivas de la provincia Moxos, realizada en fecha 23 de noviembre de 2011 en los salones de la Escuela de Música del municipio de San Ignacio de Moxos, determinamos lo siguiente:

1: Trasladarnos a la ciudad de La Paz a reunirnos con el señor Presidente en el Palacio de Gobierno, nosotros, los Corregidores y las bases de nuestras comunidades Tipnis, TIM y TIMI, y las autoridades de la provincia Moxos

2: Solicitamos al señor Presidente gestionar de manera inmediata la modificación de los párrafos de la ley en la que se prohíbe la construcción de la carretera y declara intangible el territorio del Tipnis. Modificar para que permita la construcción de la carretera entre Isinuta y Monte Grande (tramo II), y que permita que trabajemos nuestras tierras que están dentro del territorio Tipnis. Modificar el término de intangibilidad.

3: No permitiremos más el avasallamiento de Justa Cabrera y Adolfo Chávez, estamos viendo por la tele que estas personas, sin conocernos, están hablando a nuestro nombre, nosotros no los hemos elegido para que nos representen y peor aún no los conocemos. Estas personas no conocen nuestro territorio y pedimos al señor Presidente que de ahora en adelante nos consulte a nosotros, que somos los dueños del Tipnis, para decidir qué hacer con nuestro territorio. Pedimos a Fernando Vargas, Pedro Nuni, los dirigentes de la Subcentral Sécure Tipnis y al presidente de la Cepib y de la CPMB que, antes de hablar a la opinión pública sobre el Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure, bajen a nuestras comunidades a rendir cuentas económicas, venta de madera y otros, también sobre las acciones actuales. Asimismo, para consensuar las posiciones que se deben plantear de manera consensuada para que planteen cualquier posición a nombre de nuestros pueblos indígenas.

4. Pedimos a los señores de la prensa que nos visiten en el Tipnis y nos pregunten si queremos o no la carretera, no les den cobertura a esos dirigentes que no nos representan y que viven en las ciudades, que nos engañan, nos hacen firmar documentos que ni sabemos de qué se trata.

7. Rechazamos las declaraciones mal intencionadas de esos dirigentes de Santa Cruz, donde indican que los que quieren carretera son solamente los cocaleros y los gremialistas de San Ignacio. Dirigentes, no confundan, nosotros no somos cocaleros ni gremiales, somos gente humilde que necesita el desarrollo de nuestros pueblos indígenas, pero si estas organizaciones nos apoyan para que nuestro territorio, nuestra provincia de Moxos, tenga desarrollo, bienvenido; pero aquellos que le niegan el derecho al progreso, esos siempre serán malditos para esta tierra y no tendrán perdón y nunca contarán con nuestro apoyo.

8. Brindar todo el apoyo al señor Presidente Constitucional del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia para que proceda con la construcción de la mencionada carretera como elemento fundamental para el desarrollo de la provincia de Moxos y el departamento del Beni en general.

The leaders of the march lied to indigenous grassroots
Special

Date: 25/11/2011

The unknown community leaders Adolfo Chavez, Pedro Nuni and Fernando Vargas. Revealed that they said that President Morales would not receive the Presidential Palace to discuss, among other lies.

The leaders who represented the Indian Territory and originating Isiboro Secure (Tipnis), the so-called Long March VIII Indigenous misled only to the bases and ensured their own interests, so that they are now strangers in their regions, said yesterday, in separate statements, representatives of social organizations and magistrates of the department of Beni.

The statements of the natives were made during a meeting he had with President Evo Morales. The meeting reiterated their request to make the road Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos.

“The leaders tell us there (in Beni) that the Government is a pig, which is good for nothing, which is not a government for themselves, leaders, and that hurts us, to be lies, we lie” said the president of the Mothers Club River Community Sécure, Clara Gutierrez.

He said that these leaders “are telling lies. Therefore we do not want to believe them, because leaders do not want us to handle, we want to wake up.”

For its part, the mayor of the San Ignacio de la Curva, Ilario Canchi Creed, lamented that the Indian leaders do not want the progress of communities and seek only appear to the mass media

“All the time the leaders tell us’ there is no road, no road.” They’re taking the right road that we have because they do not live in our communities, live in cities. They used the press, media to appear. They say that we develop when we have nothing, “he said.

Arrival in La Paz

Indigenous leaders came to the city of La Paz on October 19 for talks with President Evo Morales after 65 days of hiking.

However, the meeting took longer than three days because the Indians repeatedly requested that the meeting be held in facilities of the Government Palace, refused to meet in the vice presidency and the leadership walker asked some elements such as a giant screen Murillo Square where a vigil set up by Indian-days so you can see the dialogue, a fact that was not possible to attend.

However, according to Gutierrez and the first chief of the Nativity community, Armando Nolvandi, the leaders said it was the President who did not want to receive for dialogue.

“He was amazing what those leaders told the President (Morales), who would not be with us, the indigenous people. Look how they talk, look how they distort it,” said Nolvandi.

In that sense, more than 30 community representatives agreed Tipnis unaware of indigenous leaders like Pedro Nuni, Adolfo Chavez and Fernando Vargas.

They also called upon those leaders accountable economic activities on timber and other resources directly from the Tipnis.

RESOLUTE VOTE

Several social organizations and representatives of communities made a vow Tipnis resolution that states in its most important points:

In coordination meeting corregidores three original indigenous territories, Tipnis, TIM and TIMI, social organizations, institutions Moxos living in the province, held as of November 23, 2011 in the halls of the Music School in the municipality of San Ignacio de Moxos, we determined the following:

1: Transfer to the city of La Paz to meet with the President at the Palace of Government, we the Corregidores and the foundations of our communities Tipnis, TIM and TIMI, and the authorities of the province Moxos

2: We request the President to immediately manage the modification of the paragraphs of the law prohibiting the construction of the road and declared the territory of Tipnis intangible. Modified to allow the construction of the road between Isinuta and Monte Grande (section II), and allows us to work our lands are within the territory Tipnis. Modify the term of intangibility.

3: Do not allow any more the subjugation of Fair Cabrera and Adolfo Chavez, we are seeing on TV that these people, without knowing they are speaking on our behalf, we would not have chosen to represent us and do not know them worse. These people do not know our country and ask the President that from now on we will refer to us, that we own the Tipnis, to decide what to do with our territory. We ask Fernando Vargas, Pedro Nuni, the leaders of the Subcentral Sécure Tipnis and President of the CPMB Cepib and that, before talking to the public about Indigenous Territory and National Park Isiboro Secure, lower our communities to pay economic accounts, sale of timber and also on current actions. Also, to agree on the positions to be asked by consensus to raise any position on behalf of our peoples.

4. We ask the gentlemen of the press to visit us in the Tipnis and ask us whether we want the road, do not give coverage to those leaders who represent us and who live in cities, who deceive us, make us sign documents nor do we know what it is.

7. We reject the malicious statements of the leaders of Santa Cruz, where they want to indicate that road are only unions of coca growers and San Ignacio. Leaders, no mistake, we are not growers and unions, we are humble people who need to develop our indigenous people, but if these organizations that we support our country, our province Moxos, keep developing, welcome, but those who would deny the right to progress, these will always be cursed for this land and will not have forgiveness and never will have our support.

8. Provide full support to the President of the State of Bolivia to proceed with the construction of that road as a key to the development of the province of Moxos and the department of Beni in general.
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