Liam Jones

BREAKING NEWS: DONALD TRUMP said last night he will defund the National Endowment for Democracy, the CIA-adjacent body responsible for the Uyghur genocide hoax and multiple other political scams in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Moldova and other places. “The Budget eliminates wasteful and dangerous spending for NED, an unchecked, partisan organization that… attempts to destabilize sovereign governments with whom America is not at war,” a new White House document said, using unusually honest language. Trump’s budget cutters want to remove the NED’s US$315 million funds, among others, so it can lift the US military budget, already the world’s highest, to a staggering US$1.5 trillion a year. . WE ADMIT: NED CREATES UNREST NED circles the world cultivating conflicts, as independent reporters have repeatedly said. The new US budget document doesn't hide this. “NED has no Senate-confirmed leadership and routinely funds programs that undermine the foreign policy of the elected President of the United States and his Senate-confirmed Secretary of State, endangering trade deals and threatening peaceful relations with partner governments,” the document said. “The United States does not need a shadow State Department fomenting anti-American sentiment and global unrest with no constitutional oversight and ready access to hard-earned taxpayer funds.” The admission that the NED fomented unrest is astonishing. Independent reporters, from Brian Berletic to Max Blumenthal to the present writer, have been saying this for years. But not a single western mainstream media outlet has mentioned this. The New York Times said claims of foreign involvement in the Hong Kong unrest was “a shopworn canard”, although records showed that NED had been building up to it for years, working with the Oslo Freedom Foundation and cash distributed by Jimmy Lai and Mark Somon. . POLITICAL INTERFERENCE No one will miss the NED. It has engaged in regime change since its first operation, targeting China, in 1984. It has committed acts of political interference in more than 100 places—acts which would be illegal in the US or other western countries. Its most frequent target has been China. The Uyghur hoax was launched in 2019, and from that date, the western mainstream media printed countless reports from “independent” groups with names such as the World Uyghur Congress, the Uyghur American Association, the Uyghur Human Rights Project, the Campaign for Uyghurs, the Uyghur Transitional Database, and so on. In fact, none were independent. All were NED projects. The western corporation media routinely hid the funding of these groups from their audiences. When data showed that there was the opposite of a genocide in China, with Uyghur numbers growing faster than those of Han Chinese, NED breezily abandoned the theme and switched to pushing a “slave labor” narrative – which was equally false. . TRUMP’S REAL REASON But Donald Trump is not doing this to benefit the world. He is angry because staff at the NED leaned left. The CIA and the NED financed press indexes, such as RSF and the GDI. The second of these widely criticized not just foreign press, but right-leaning newspapers popular with MAGA readers. This was specified in the new paper released yesterday as one of the reasons for the shut-down. “NED funded the Global Disinformation Index, that has been integrated by major U.S. ad exchanges to demonetize conservative media outlets and advocacy organizations, falsely labeled as ‘hate groups,’ including: the American Family Association; Alliance Defending Freedom; The American College of Pediatricians; the Center for Family and Human Rights; and the Center for Immigration Reform,” the document says. . BUDGET FIGHT AHEAD Records show that the US Democratic Party used the NED as much as the US Republican Party. But it is unlikely that they will fight hard to save it in the forthcoming fight over this budget. The new budget document lists many hundreds of organizations which Trump intends to defund, some of which will attract more attention. And as for the US$1.5 trillion a year military budget, even the Democrats may realize that this is an insane amount of money. That’s going to be their focus.