By Madison Ruppert:
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko in December 2007 (Image credit: NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
Member nations of the European Union have agreed to create a fund for “pro-democracy” purposes, which is nothing less than a thinly-veiled regime change slush fund.
While regime change has been big business
for quite a while, in recent years it has been kicked up a notch or two
thanks to the covert activities of groups of terrorist operatives like al Qaeda, the MEK, and armed opposition groups which are used to destabilize foreign governments which refuse to bow down before the Western powers.
Furthermore, considering the global expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it is hardly surprising that such a fund was created to be used to overtly undermine sovereign nations.
According to Charter 97,
the fund will likely be up and operational by as early as next year. It
will mostly be leveraged to target the nations on the edge of the European Union who have not been so friendly to NATO and Western demands in general.
Such a nation is Belarus where President Alexander Lukashenko runs a
nation where individuals are allegedly “routinely jailed for showing
opposition.”
While we also see such activities in so-called “free” nations like assassinations and the brutal, coordinated nationwide crackdown on the Occupy movement; it appears that only nations unfriendly to the West seem to be the focus of media criticism.
The idea for the fund dates back to just last June and will supposedly operate as an institution to award grants on a “low-profile” case-by-case basis.
The funds cannot be applied for; instead the distribution is determined by European Union bureaucrats located in Brussels.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that this is a perfect mechanism to
funnel funds solely to those who the EU officials believe will serve
their purposes and work for their interests in the non-EU border states.
Some of the potential beneficiaries,
according to Charter 97, are, “Pro-democracy and social movements,
young leaders, civil society, independent media, foundations and
educational institutions.”
Of course, this does not mean pro-democracy and social movements
which run counter to Western interests or young leaders who speak out
against imperialism, war mongering and regime change.
Instead, these funds are meant solely for those who will kowtow to the European Union, NATO, the United States, and allied nations.
Take, for instance, Nasta Palazhanka, the 21-year-old Belarusian
leader of the banned “Youth Front” organization who claims that the
support from the EU could move forward their attempts to “awaken” the
people of Belarus.
Palazhanka claimed that young Belarusians often keep a low profile
because they fear arbitrary and pre-emptive arrests. Sound like the
United States, anyone? Unsurprisingly, no such parallels will likely
ever be drawn.
“Lukashenka is afraid of an awakening among this indifferent mass.
This is why he frequently expels students and threatens to fire their
parents,” claimed Palazhanka.
Another voice in support of this regime change fund is Radoslaw
Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, who told reporters in Luxembourg
that this new institution “will carry swift and effective assistance” to
the nations surrounding the EU.
Oddly enough, this endowment will supposedly be funded by the member states of the European Union
themselves, as well as the European Commission. I find this strange
since we are constantly hearing that all of these states are absolutely
broke and in desperate need of bailouts.
Sikorski seems quite optimistic about the institution, saying that if
all goes as planned, they could choose the headquarters, appoint staff
and propose programs “by the end of the year.”
It appears that all of these efforts are in response to the recent
unrest in the Middle East, as well as the color revolutions in Europe.
“The overthrow of autocratic regimes in Europe in 1989 and the public
uprisings during the Arab Spring show that the power of the people is
ultimately more significant than the people in power,” said Lotte
Leicht, the European Union’s director of Human Rights Watch (HRW).
“Tomorrow, the hard work begins of turning words into action, and we
will be watching to see that EU member states and institutions practice
what they preach,” Leicht added.
All of this talk about human rights, evidenced by calls for a new EU
special representative on human rights, is odd considering that there
have been recent accusations of withering human rights for disabled
persons in the EU.
It will be interesting to see who ends up being the first nation targeted by this institution. Whichever country ends up in the crosshairs, I would not be surprised to see it quickly descend into total chaos and violence in the name of “democracy.”
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