South Brooklyn DSA

[thread] The U.S. regime's meddling in foreign countries' domestic affairs via @NEDemocracy in 2017: Venezuela: $2,651,000 Cuba: $2,413,000 Bolivia: $1,039,000 The DPRK: $2,471,000 Russia: $6,732,000 Colombia: $1,723,000

The National Endowment for Democracy originates from the 98th U.S. congress in 1983 with H.R. 2915. It was signed by Reagan on November 22nd, 1983. The NED receives tens of millions of dollars in funding from congress each year to meddle in other countries' domestic affairs.

In Venezuela, the NED spent $415,000 to spread "cohesive and coordinated messages that accurately inform them [Venezuelan citizens] about the situation in Venezuela" through non-traditional media... in other words, to spread Spanish language anti-Maduro pro-U.S. propaganda.

Through the NED, the U.S. regime spent $35,000 in one instance for "Promoting Factual Information Dissemination during Colombia's 2018 Elections". $225,000 to CubaNet News, Inc., for the purpose of "Supporting Independent Journalism", which spreads U.S. propaganda in Cuba.

With the NED, the U.S. spent 597,500 USD by funding "The Unification Media Group", which is a "daily radio broadcast to North Korea" and pushes Korean language U.S. imperialist propaganda.

In 2017, the U.S. spent $99,680 with the NED for the purpose "to support civic activists" in Russia. Another $100k "to provide support for civic debate" and hundreds of thousands of dollars to "provide information" about such topics and issues as "foreign policy developments".