Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Using a front to hide illegal or immoral activities has been a feature of human criminality since the beginning of human civilization itself. Facades, both ideological and economical, have helped criminal enterprises conceal the true nature of their activities for centuries.
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New Eastern Outlook
Using a front to hide illegal or immoral activities has been a feature of human criminality since the beginning of human civilization itself. Facades, both ideological and economical, have helped criminal enterprises conceal the true nature of their activities for centuries.
In ages past, organized religion would
often take systems of legitimate philosophy and spirituality, and
transform them into a means of organizing the masses for the benefit of
an elite few, often those heading empires, kingdoms, or nation-states.
More recently, patriotism and now the notion of “democracy” have been
used successfully by similar cadres of special interests to conceal
their self-serving agendas behind notions likely to recruit support from
large segments of a population that would otherwise be disinterested.
There is no example of this more transparent than that of the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED). According to its own website, it claims:
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, NED makes more than 1,200 grants to support the projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 90 countries.
“The growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world” sounds
noble enough. One would expect, then, that the NED would be led by a
collection of some of the most notable activists involved in the
empowerment of “the people.” Instead, upon NED’s board of directors, we
find people representing corporate-financier interests notorious for
instead, exploiting and subjugating “the people.”
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