NED (National Endowment for Democracy) Offical US Gov agency for foreign Coups

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Can't believe Ron Paul Forums haven't idenfied this & discussed all of it's current activities.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Shadow-US-Foreign-Policy-by-Robert-Parry-Foreign-Policy_Neocons_Putin_Russia-140227-162.html

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But America did more than support and protect the protests: it helped finance them. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created by Ronald Reagan in 1983 to, according to Robert Parry, "promote political action and psychological warfare against targeted states." Allen Weinstein, its original project director, said in 1991 that "a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA" Perry reports that the NED lists a staggering 65 projects that it funds inside Ukraine. He says that the NED has created "a shadow political structure of media and activist groups that could be deployed to stir up unrest when the Ukrainian government didn’t act as desired." NED funding helped fuel projects that helped drive the coup. In December 2013, Victoria Nuland told her audience at the Ukraine Foundation Conference that

Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, the United States has supported Ukrainians as they build democratic skills and institutions, as they promote civic participation and good governance, all of which are preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations. We’ve invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.

But Nuland revealed more than U.S. funding for "democracy promotion" in Ukraine. She also accidentally revealed the American handwriting on the Ukrainian coup script. She was caught plotting who the Americans want to be the winner of the regime change. She can be heard on an intercepted call telling the American ambassador in Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt, that Arseniy Yatsenyuk is America’s choice to replace Yanukovych (and he did). Most importantly, Pyatt refers to the West needing to "midwife this thing," a metaphorical admission of America’s role in the coup. At one point, Nuland even seems to say that Vice President Biden, himself, would be willing to do the midwifery.

And it may even have been, in part, an American hand that opened the doors to the government buildings and let the mob in. Rinat Akhmetov is the wealthiest man in Ukraine and the oligarch who has long allied with Yanukovych and bankrolled his party. According to the influential Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, Akhmetov met privately with Nuland. The paper reports that Nuland warned the man who bankrolls Yanukovych’s party that the US was prepared to impose sanctions, not just against the leaders of Yanukovych’s party, but also against its financial backers if force was used to block the protesters. The police and military would decide to stop guarding presidential buildings, opening the doors to the protesters.

http://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2014/03/09/ukraine-and-twenty-first-century-coups/

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Can't believe Ron Paul Forums haven't idenfied this & discussed all of it's current activities.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Shadow-US-Foreign-Policy-by-Robert-Parry-Foreign-Policy_Neocons_Putin_Russia-140227-162.html

I think maybe the lack of reaction is because it's already been pretty well established that we are hip deep in this.

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I have never heard Dr.Paul directly address this agency. I guess he purposely crafts his message to be vague.

But after Ukraine, it's time to shine the flashlight on NED, get some NEO-CONS out of power & stop pushing us into WW3.