US NGO Teams Up with Gulf Terror Sponsor to Target Asia

January 4, 2019 (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Fortify Rights is one of several fronts posing as nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) operating across Asia.

Such fronts are in actuality extensions of US and European "soft power." Fully funded by the US, British and various European governments as well as US and European corporate foundations like convicted financial criminal George Soros' Open Society, Fortify Rights positions itself as self-appointed arbiter regarding human rights, democracy and the rule of law at the heart of the sovereign internal political affairs of nations like Myanmar (still called Burma by many Western media organisations and politicians), Thailand, Bangladesh and Malaysia.

Human Rights Org Partners with State Sponsor of Terrorism... 

Recently, Fortify Rights' founder American Matthew Smith announced a new and "exciting" partnership with Doha Debates. Doha Debates is a project of the Qatar Foundation which in turn was founded by the Al Thani family, the unelected rulers of Qatar, a notorious Middle Eastern dictatorship, abuser of human rights and state sponsor of terrorism.

The "exciting" partnership between Fortify Rights (a supposed human rights advocacy group) and the Qatari front "Doha Debates" is particularly troubling considering the area of cooperation involves Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority.

On Doha Debates' website it describes its partnership with Fortify Rights:

Together, Fortify Rights and Doha Debates are training a group of Rohingya refugees on the basics of photography and Instagram, and we are equipping them with mobile phones to document their lives in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, for an entire year. Through this partnership, Fortify Rights and Doha Debates hope to empower Rohingya refugees to share their stories with the world.

Despite the relatively benign stated nature of this partnership, it is troubling because it signals a possible vector through which money, training and even weapons can pass, behind a "human rights' façade, inflaming already tense ethnic troubles in Myanmar's western Rakhine state.

At the very least, influence operations by Fortify Rights and Qatar's "Doha Debates" could be used to further divide communities along ethnic lines while mounting pressure on Myanmar's government and military by exploiting the resulting chaos.

Fortify Rights founder Matthew Smith refused to respond to questions of how his supposed cause of advancing human rights is served by partnering with Doha Debates funded by a dictatorship and notorious state sponsor of terrorism. Smith regularly blocks critics on social media concerned with the nature of his organisation's activities, including many in Myanmar whom he claims he's "helping."

Myanmar: Trading in the Devil You Know...

December 18, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Myanmar held elections early November as the capstone of a wider range of "reforms" it has undertaken as an apparent means of escaping decades of sanctions leveled against it by the West. Predictably, the National League of Democracy (NLD) headed by the Western vaunted, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was declared the winner in a "landslide" by Western papers even before the official count was revealed. 

Western headlines hailed the election results as "historic" with the BBC in its article, "Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi: NLD has won election majority," claiming: 

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC she believes her party has won a parliamentary majority, in her first interview since the historic elections.

Early results point to a sweeping victory for her National League for Democracy (NLD), but final official results will not be known for days.

The election was seen as the most democratic in Myanmar for 25 years.

In an nterview with the BBC's Fergal Keane, Ms Suu Kyi said the polls were not fair but "largely free".

She said there had been "areas of intimidation".

Suu Kyi's comments regarding "areas of intimidation" are particularly ironic, with the BBC itself reporting  before the elections that Suu Kyi's own followers had protested the sitting government's attempts to grant Myanmar's Rohingya minority identification cards and the right to vote in these very polls.

In the BBC's February article titled, "Myanmar revokes Rohingya voting rights after protests," it stated:

Rohingya Muslims will not be able to vote in Myanmar's referendum after President Thein Sein withdrew temporary voting rights following protests. 

Hundreds of Buddhists took to the streets following the passage of a law that would allow temporary residents who hold "white papers" to vote.

These "Buddhists" cited by the BBC are of course Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD's "Saffron" foot soldiers who led the pro-NLD riots during the "Saffron Revolution" in 2007. Their support for Suu Kyi's political party explains Suu Kyi's own hypocritical silence over the unjust treatment the Rohingya have suffered at their hands - the same sort of injustice Suu Kyi has claimed to be standing up against as part of her "pro-democracy" platform.

Images: Recycled US State Department gags make their rounds in Myanmar. Suu Kyi uses them to call for the release of fellow foreign-funded traitors, while her "Saffron" street mobs uses them to call for genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya minority - a genocide Suu Kyi is silently complicit in. 

So compromised is Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Suu Kyi, that even the Western press has noted it in recent months. The same BBC who now claims recent elections are "historic" despite the fact that the winning NLD benefited from its supporters' campaign to disenfranchise over a million Rohingya from casting their votes, had previously noted her silence.

In its article, "Aung San Suu Kyi: Where are you?," the BBC reports:

In parliament, where she sits as an opposition MP, the 69-year-old frequently criticises the government for the slow pace of reform, and restates her increasingly forlorn demands for constitutional change. 

But on the persecution of Myanmar's most famously forgotten minority Ms Suu Kyi is silent.

The report continues by claiming:

...there are currently about 800,000 people in western Myanmar, denied the most basic of rights and discriminated against due to the circumstances of their birth. They've been fleeing into the hands of cruel trafficking rings because they're poor and desperate. 

From a simple human rights perspective it's a continuing outrage that should shame us all. 

So why, despite the calls from around the world is Ms Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, reluctant to raise her voice?

The report goes on to admit Suu Kyi's self-serving agenda, and that her image as a "human rights activist" is merely an illusion:

The simplest explanation, voiced repeatedly over the last few weeks, is that she's always been a pragmatic politician not a human rights activist. 

By defending the Rohingya, Ms Suu Kyi would immediately put herself at odds with powerful Buddhist nationalist groups, potentially changing the dynamics of this year's all important general election.  

If Not for Human Rights, Why Does the West Love Suu Kyi So? 

It is quite clear that Suu Kyi's image as a "pro-democracy" "human rights activist" is a facade. Her largest bloc of supporters, these "powerful Buddhist nationalists" represent the darkest elements of Myanmar society, responsible for decades of violence, discrimination, genocide, racism, and bigotry. Besides "human right" and "democracy," Suu Kyi's only other notable campaign promise is to bring in "foreign investment."

Myanmar's New Dictator: Aung San Suu Kyi

Suu Kyi disenfranchised a million voters before elections, and has declared herself above the constitution afterwards. What about that seems "democratic?" 

November 21, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The Western media is portraying Myanmar's recent elections as historic. One commentator described Myanmar as an "exuberant nation prepared for a new era of democracy and political freedom." But one wonders what sort of democracy and political freedom can be borne of elections in which nearly a million voters were banned from casting their ballots and with the apparent victor already declaring herself above the law.

Sidestepping these inconvenient facts, the West is nonetheless excited about the prospect of Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) taking power in Myanmar.

This is in part due to the fact that Suu Kyi herself, along with the NLD she leads and a vast network of supporting "civil society" nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have all been created and sustained annually by billions of dollars worth of backing from the United States and United Kingdom for years.

In exchange for this support, Suu Kyi's long-standing proclivity toward "foreign investment" will lead to the wholesale feeding of Myanmar's nationalized resources, industry, and infrastructure into the maw of the Wall Street corporations and institutions that have long underwritten Suu Kyi's rise to power.

"Democracy" and "political freedom," in this context, appear only to be convenient facades to hide a more obvious and logical explanation for the West's current post-election exuberance.

"Democracy," But Only When Convenient 

In reality, Suu Kyi and her NLD's supporters helped disenfranchise nearly a million Rohingya from voting even before the elections took place.  Through widespread protests and threats of violence if their demands that the Rohingya remain stripped of their voting rights were not met, the ruling military-led government backed down from a scheme to grant the Rohingya minority long-sought after rights, including the ability to vote.

3 Stops on America's Asian Tour of Shame

America's new Asian allies: Dictator-for-life Hun Sen of Cambodia, Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi and her genocidal "Saffron monks," and the despotic hereditary Shinawatra regime of Thailand.

November 19, 2012 (AltThaiNews) - US President Barack Obama is embarking on what the Western media is calling a "historic trip." In reality he is coddling dictators and human rights abusers of the highest caliber, even while waging proxy-war against Syria based on alleged "human rights" concerns.

1. Thailand: President Obama and US Secretary Hillary Clinton first arrived in Bangkok, Thailand in efforts to legitimize and prop up politically, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of deposed despot Thaksin Shinawatra, who is using her to run the country by proxy as he evades a 2 year jail sentence and 2 arrest warrants.

Image: "The Thai Gov'ts War on Drugs: Dead Wrong. Stop the Murder of Thai Drug Users." During Thaksin Shinwatra's 2003 "War on Drugs" it wasn't only drug users who were brutally, extra-judicially murdered in the streets, but over 50% of the 2,800 killed during the course of 3 months, were completely innocent, involved in no way with either drug use or trade. This atrocity has been overlooked as he and now his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra have proven their utility to advancing the interests of Wall Street and London.

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US-Funded Activsts Exposed as Genocidal Bigots

Myanmar's "pro-democracy" front now leads calls for genocide of ethnic minorities - Aung San Suu Kyi's silence is complicity.

September 3, 2012 - In Myanmar (still called by its British colonial nomenclature "Burma"), ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims have been once again targeted by violence and the threat of relocation. Self-proclaimed "Buddhist monks" have taken to the streets in cities across Myanmar, reminiscent of the 2007 "Saffron Revolution," to call for the expulsion of the Rohingya from the country. 

AFP claims in their article, "Monks stage anti-Rohingya march in Myanmar," that the marching "monks" support President Thein Sein's plan to expel the Rohingya, before paradoxically admitting that Thein Sein has accused the marchers of "kindling hatred toward the Rohingya."

Image: Hands up for recolonization and genocide. One of the US State Department's favorite "activism 2.0" gags is having activists write on their hands and photographing it to show solidarity for a cause across social media. Aung San Suu Kyi (photo courtesy of Soros.org) herself promoted the recolonization of Myanmar by Western interests in this way. Ironically, her supporters who had used the tactic to support Suu Kyi and others in her movement, are now writing pro-genocide slogans on their hands.

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The recent campaign carried out not only by "monks," but other stalwart supporters of "pro-democracy icon" Aung San Suu Kyi, has shocked uninformed, though well-meaning people around the world - however it only exposes the illegitimacy and true nature of yet another Western-backed, neo-imperial, faux-democracy movement that has been evident for years.  

Who are Myanmar's Bigoted Champions for Ethnic Cleansing? 

In a grave lapse of journalistic integrity, AFP doesn't just project the agenda of a bigoted ethnic-cleansing mob dressed as monks onto the president of Myanmar, it also refers to the leader of this mob as merely "a monk named Wirathu."

However, this isn't merely "a monk named Wirathu," but "Sayadaw" (venerable teacher) Wirathu who has led many of "democratic champion" Aung San Suu Kyi's political street campaigns and is often referred to by the Western media as an "activist monk."

In March of this year, Wirathu had led a rally calling for the release of so-called "political prisoners," so designated by US State Department funded faux-NGOs. Wirathu himself was in prison, according to AFP, for inciting hatred against Muslims, until recently released as part of an amnesty, an amnesty US State Department-funded (page 15, .pdf) Democratic Voice of Burma claims concerned only "political prisoners."

Image: Real monks don't do politics. The "venerable" Wirathu (front, left) leads a rally for "political prisoners" loyal to Aung San Suu Kyi's "pro-democracy" movement in March, 2012. Wirathu himself has been often portrayed as an "activist monk" and a "political prisoner" who spent years in prison. In reality, he was arrested for his role in violent sectarian clashes in 2003, while Suu Kyi's "pro-democracy" front is actually US-funded sedition. Wirathua has picked up right where he left off in 2003, and is now leading anti-Rohingya rallies across the country.

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Human Rights Watch itself, in its attempt to memorialize the struggle of "Buddhism and activism in Burma" (.pdf),  admits that Wirathu was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 25 years in prison along with other "monks" for their role in violent clashes between "Buddhists and Muslims" (page 67, .pdf). This would make Wirathu and his companions violent criminals, not "political prisoners."

While Western news agencies have attempted to spin the recent violence as a new phenomenon implicating Aung San Suu Kyi's political foot soldiers as genocidal bigots, in reality, the sectarian nature of her support base has been back page news for years. AFP's recent but uncharacteristically honest portrayal of Wirathu, with an attempt to conceal his identity and role in Aung San Suu Kyi's "Saffron" political machine, illustrates the quandary now faced by Western propagandists as the violence flares up again, this time in front of a better informed public.

Image: An alleged monk, carries an umbrella with Aung San Suu Kyi's image on it. These so-called monks have played a central role in building Suu Kyi's political machine, as well as maintaining over a decade of genocidal, sectarian violence aimed at Myanmar's ethnic minorities. Another example of US "democracy promotion" and tax dollars at work.

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During 2007's "Saffron Revolution," these same so-called "monks" took to the streets in a series of bloody anti-government protests, in support of Aung San Suu Kyi and her Western-contrived political order. HRW would specifically enumerate support provided to Aung San Suu Kyi's movement by these organizations, including the Young Monks Union (Association), now leading violence and calls for ethnic cleansing across Myanmar.

The UK Independent  in their article, "Burma's monks call for Muslim community to be shunned," mentions the Young Monks Association by name as involved in distributing flyers recently, demanding people not to associate with ethnic Rohingya, and attempting to block humanitarian aid from reaching Rohingya camps.

The Independent also notes calls for ethnic cleansing made by leaders of the 88 Generation Students group (BBC profile here) - who also played a pivotal role in the pro-Suu Kyi 2007 protests. "Ashin" Htawara, another "monk activist" who considers Aung San Suu Kyi,  his "special leader" and greeted her with flowers for her Oslo Noble Peace Prize address earlier this year, stated at an event in London that the Rohingya should be sent "back to their native land." 

The equivalent of Ku Klux Klan racists demanding that America's black population be shipped back to Africa, the US State Department's "pro-democratic" protesters in Myanmar have been revealed as habitual, violent bigots with genocidal tendencies. Their recent violence also casts doubts on Western narratives portraying the 2007 "Saffron Revolution's" death toll as exclusively caused by government security operations. 

Like their US-funded (and armed) counterparts in Syria, many fighting openly under the flag of sectarian extremism held aloft by international terrorist organization Al Qaeda, we see the absolute moral bankruptcy of Myanmar's "pro-democracy" movement that has, up until now, been skillfully covered up by endless torrents of Western propaganda - Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize and recent "Chatham House Prize" all being part of the illusion. 

Aung San Suu Kyi is a Western Proxy

In "Myanmar (Burma) "Pro-Democracy" Movement a Creation of Wall Street & London," it was documented that Suu Kyi and organizations supporting her, including local propaganda fronts like the New Era Journal, the Irrawaddy, and the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) radio, have received millions of dollars a year from the Neo-Conservative chaired National Endowment for Democracy, convicted criminal and Wall Street speculator George Soros' Open Society Institute, and the US State Department itself, citing Britain's own "Burma Campaign UK (.pdf)."

Image: The Myitsone Dam, on its way to being the 15th largest in the world until construction was halted in September by a campaign led by Wall Street-puppet Aung San Suu Kyi, a stable of US-funded NGOs, and a terrorist campaign executed by armed groups operating in Kachin State, Myanmar.

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And not only does the US State Department in tandem with Western corporate media provide Aung San Suu Kyi extensive political, financial, and rhetorical backing, they provide operational capabilities as well, allowing her opposition movement to achieve Western objectives throughout Myanmar. The latest achievement of this operational capability successfully blocked the development of Myanmar's infrastructure by halting a joint China-Mynamar dam project that would have provided thousands of jobs, electricity, state-revenue, flood control, and enhanced river navigation for millions. Suu Kyi and her supporting network of NGOs, as well as armed militants in Myanmar's northern provinces conducted a coordinated campaign exploiting both "environmental" and "human rights" concerns that in reality resulted in Myanmar's continual economic and social stagnation.

The ultimate goal of course is to effect regime change not only in Myanmar, but to create a united Southeast Asian front against China.

As reported in June, 2011's "Collapsing China," as far back as 1997 there was talk about developing an effective containment strategy coupled with the baited hook of luring China into its place amongst the "international order." Just as in these 1997 talking-points where author and notorious Neo-Con policy maker Robert Kagan described the necessity of using America's Asian "allies" as part of this containment strategy, Clinton goes through a list of regional relationships the US is trying to cultivate to maintain "American leadership" in Asia.

Image: (Top) The "Lilliputians" though small in stature were collectively able to tie down the larger Gulliver from the literary classic "Gulliver's Travels." In the same manner, the US wants to use smaller Southeast Asian nations to "tie down" the larger China. (Bottom) From SSI's 2006 "String of Pearls" report detailing a strategy of containment for China. While "democracy," "freedom," and "human rights" will mask the ascension of Aung San Suu Kyi and others into power, it is part of a region-wide campaign to overthrow nationalist elements and install client regimes in order to encircle and contain China.

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The US backing of puppet-regimes like that of  Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra, his sister Yingluck, or Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, installing them into power, and keeping them there is central to projecting power throughout Asia and keeping China subordinate, or as Kagan put it in his 1997 report, these proxy regimes will have China "play Gulliver to Southeast Asia's Lilliputians, with the United States supplying the rope and stakes." Two of these "Lilliputians" are Yingluck Shinawatra and Aung San Suu Kyi, the rope and stakes are the street mobs and disingenuous NGOs funded by the US State Department to support their consolidation of power.

It is essential to look past the empty rhetoric of "democracy," "human rights," and "progress" used to justify foreign-funding and meddling to install servile autocrats like Thailand's Thaksin, Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, or even Malaysia's proxy dictator-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim, and see the greater geopolitical game at play. It is also essential to expose the disingenuous organizations, institutions, and media personalities helping promote this global corporate-fascist agenda.

With Suu Kyi's movement now being exposed as violent, sectarian-driven mobs rather than the "pro-democracy" front it was claimed to be by its sponsors in the West, it remains to be seen whether well-meaning people worldwide turn their backs on this carefully crafted hoax and the corporate-financier interests that created it - and instead seek genuine causes that abandon political struggle for pragmatic solutions.

A New Front: Myanmar’s Role in the Geopolitics of Empire

Eric Draitser 

Stop Imperialism

June 21, 2012 

 

Myanmar has been gripped by abhorrent ethnic violence in recent weeks – violence which has begun to cast doubt on the democratic future of the country.  The sectarian and religious bloodletting between the Buddhist Rakhine people and the Muslim minority known as the Rohingya, has led to an international outcry and a swift military response from the government. This sort of violence, something which is not entirely new in the region, threatens to tarnish the reforms made by the nation in the last twelve months.

However, with the eyes of the world focused on the Southeast Asian country, a much more significant and covert war is taking shape: a proxy war in which the United States and its allies use a variety of violent and non-violent means in their quest to block Chinese economic investment and development in Myanmar.  It is against this backdrop that the recent changes, ranging from the ascension of Aung San Suu Kyi to the current ethnic strife in Sittwe, must be understood.

Violent Conflict and Chinese Interests 

The armed conflicts in Myanmar correspond directly to large-scale Chinese development projects throughout the country.  Essentially, long-standing ethnic and sectarian conflicts are being fomented by international forces which seek to destabilize the country, thereby loosening the grip of Chinese economic investment on the country.  This is not to say that the conflicts are entirely fabricated but, as in Syria, Libya, and countless other examples around the world, the issue is spun by corporate-controlled media to obscure the reality that the issue is being manipulated from behind the scenes by the forces of Western imperialism.

 

The violence that has erupted among the Rakhine and Rohingya groups has shocked the world.  However, seen from a more objective, less emotional perspective, the recent violence serves a vital geopolitical function for the United States.  The center of the recent violence has been the city of Sittwe, capital of the Rakhine State on the northwestern coast of the country.  This city is at the center of one of China’s most crucial international investments, the Sittwe port and pipeline project.  This project, a twin oil and gas pipeline which would traverse Myanmar to link China’s southwestern Yunnan province with the Indian Ocean would, consequently, provide the Chinese land-based access to energy imports from Africa and the Middle East.  Because of US naval dominance, not being completely reliant on commercial shipping is an integral aspect of the overall Chinese strategy.

The pipeline itself is not the only issue for the Chinese.  Sittwe is the site of the major Chinese-funded port which, aside from being the starting point of the pipeline, is a vital access point to Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.  Imports such as minerals and other raw materials from Africa as well as oil from the Middle East would be shipped through this port (along with the Pakistani port of Gwadar) for sale on the Chinese market.  It is for this reason that Sittwe is of crucial significance to Chinese economic development.  Naturally, as Sittwe and the rest of the Rakhine state descends into chaos and the international community clamors for some form of intervention, the port, pipeline and other projects cannot continue as planned.

 

Sittwe and the Rakhine region are not the only flashpoint in this proxy war against Chinese economic development.  The Kachin province in northern Myanmar has seen its own share of violent conflict.  The Kachin rebels, fighting the central government, have only recently stepped up their guerilla war against the government.  This increased violence is understood to be a serious threat to the stability of the region and, consequently, the viability and security of the Chinese pipeline which must travel through Kachin before terminating in Southwest China. In fact, the Chinese are reportedly paying Burmese soldiers in the North to provide additional security for the project in light of the recent violence.  This fact indicates not only the strategic necessity of the project for the Chinese but also their understanding that the violence in the region is aimed as much at them as it is at the government of Myanmar.

Image: The Myitsone Dam, on its way to being the 15th largest in the world until construction was halted in September by a campaign led by Wall Street-proxy Aung San Suu Kyi, a stable of US-funded NGOs, and a terrorist campaign executed by armed groups operating in Kachin State, Myanmar.

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Aside from the pipeline, the Chinese are heavily invested in a number of hydroelectric dam projects, none bigger or more economically significant than the Myitsone Dam Project, a large scale investment estimated at upwards of $4 billion.  The dam, which would provide power primarily for Southwest China but also for Myanmar to a lesser extent, is part of a development plan by the Chinese to address the vital issue of energy generation, particularly for interior China.  However, due to the violence in the region as well as environmental concerns raised by local residents (as well as the possibility of Western arm-twisting), the project was recently put on hold.  Naturally, this is a source of tremendous irritation for Beijing, which sees this as yet another example of Western meddling in the affairs of Chinese economic development.

 

The armed conflicts throughout the country have made the investment climate in Myanmar very difficult for the Chinese.  In spite of this however, the Chinese are still determined to reassert their influence.  They remain close allies of the government which, despite recent overtures to the United States and the West more generally, still remains somewhat skeptical of the motivations of Washington.

Western “Soft Power” to Block the Chinese

 

One might ask how the United States actually fits into these various conflicts in Myanmar.  It is true that there are no “boots on the ground” as far as anyone knows, nor is Washington directly intervening in the country. Instead, as with so many other strategically crucial regions of the world, the US employs soft power to achieve its strategic aims.  One prime example of this sort of power-projection comes in the form of NGOs operating inside Myanmar with funding from the US government.  Additionally, we see India, and other nations traditionally at odds with China, being used as a wedge to pry Myanmar out of the Chinese sphere of influence.  However, there is no better example of the use of soft power in Myanmar than the rise of Aung San Suu Kyi to international superstardom.

Image: Suu Kyi (right) has spent a lifetime championing Western-style "governance" and has been the most vocal voice within Myanmar praising, not condemning crippling sanctions that have left Myanmar and its people in abject poverty for decades. 

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It would not be fair to argue that Aung San Suu Kyi and the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar is entirely a tool of the West.  It certainly has merits and has evolved out of a genuine desire of much of the population to see democratic reforms and the liberalization of their country.  However, it would be intellectually dishonest not to point out the obvious connections between the policies of the US State Department, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the pro-democracy movement embodied by the Nobel Prize winner and darling of the West, Suu Kyi.

For more than a decade, the National Endowment for Democracy has been active inside the country, ostensibly supporting the pro-democracy movement.  However, considering the fact that that the NED and its various subsidiary organizations are directly funded by the US State Department, it is logical, and indeed correct, to conclude that the groups receiving their funding and support are aligned with US interests.  In fact, we’ve seen this as recently as this week, when Suu Kyi made her public remarks warning against investment with Chinese firms while supporting dealing with Western oil companies such as Chevron and Total.  This is a prime example of the way in which Suu Kyi and her supporters represent the interests of the United States as much as they represent those of the people of Myanmar.

Beyond just Suu Kyi and her political influence in the country, the National Endowment for Democracy has a strong grassroots presence in the country, helping to shape discourse by funding dozens of “educational institutions”; naturally these institutions are amenable to US interests in the country.  Additionally, the NED uses innocuous phrases such as “freedom of Information”, “transparency”, and “NGO strengthening” to describe the multitude of activities in which it is engaged.  Here, it should be noted that I am not arguing that all of these initiatives are bad.  On the contrary, some of them empower local people in various fields or help raise important issues.  However, the overall scope of the engagement illustrates not just an interest in the future of Myanmar, but an active participation in shaping the next generation of leaders who will look away from China and towards Washington.

It is important to note that the NED has been active in the Rakhine region for years, working precisely with the Rohingya population now embroiled in this violent conflict.  In fact, in a 2006 report funded by the NED, we see clearly the way in which the United States uses the cover of human rights and the rights of children to undermine and otherwise subvert the government.  This should not be taken as suggesting that this ethnic minority is irrelevant or that their struggle is without some merit.  Rather, it is simply to point out the way in which the US, under the auspices of human rights and children, is able to entrench itself inside the country and its institutions.

As Myanmar undergoes the transition to a more open, democratic society, so too does it open itself to the dangers and fruits of international engagement.  While the country has the opportunity to enrich itself and bring economic and social benefits to the people, it also runs the risk of allowing itself to be part of the global strategy of the United States to contain China and prevent its economic expansion.  As its geographical location indicates, Myanmar finds itself at the center of a geopolitical and economic proxy war.  As the imperialist ruling class of the West desperately clings to power in hopes of extending their hegemony for another century, so too does China seek to gain the status of superpower on the world stage.  For Myanmar, this could be an economic boon: the chance for wealth and prosperity for a people who have suffered under the yoke of imperialist domination for the last three centuries.  However, equally important, will be the decisions made in the next few years which will have serious implications for Myanmar’s present and its future.

Wall Street Proxy "Mother Suu" Begins World Tour

Aung San Suu Kyi: Poster Child of US-British Recolonization.
by Tony Cartalucci

May 31, 2012 - In perhaps the most misleading headline of the day, the Guardian's "Aung San Suu Kyi offers hope to Burmese migrants in Thailand" continues a narrative meant solely to build up the Wall Street-London contrived personality cult of "Nobel laureate" global "democracy icon" Aung San Suu Kyi, or as she is known to millions of horrifically exploited Burmese, "Mother Suu." Suu Kyi (pronounced "Sue Chi") began a global tour starting in Bangkok in neighboring Thailand after winning a parliamentary seat during a recent by-election.

During Suu Kyi's visit to Bangkok, she addressed thousands of migrant workers from Myanmar who have fled Myanmar's underdeveloped infrastructure and struggling economy after years of crippling Western sanctions, Western-backed insurrections, and political destabilizations. Suu Kyi addressed the weeping crowds holding signs saying "we want to go home," promising them, "I will try my best for you," while Andy Hall of the Institute for Population and Social Research claimed, "they have no voice, they can never speak up or stand up. So for Aung San Suu Kyi to visit is like a dream come true, someone who finally may be able to bring attention to their suffering."

Image: Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (Burma) shamelessly addresses migrant workers in Thailand who fled economic stagnation brought about by sanctions and "activism" supported by Suu Kyi herself. Designed to undermine and overthrow Suu Kyi's political opponents, the only change coming to Myanmar is a foreign-proxy working her way toward the levers of power.

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In reality,Suu Kyi has been the primary facilitator of that suffering, playing a leading role in Wall Street and London's decades-long undermining and attempted overthrow of the Myanmar government. This in hope of installing Suu Kyi as head of a newly recolonized Southeast Asian client-regime.

Suu Kyi has been a vocal supporter of the very crippling sanctions, which she maintains were "a tool for change," that have scattered fleeing migrant workers across Southeast Asia where they have faced unsafe working conditions, exploitation by their employers, and low salaries. In a statement of servile fealty to her Western backers, Suu Kyi recently said of the suspension of those sanctions upon her election into parliament, "I'm not against the suspension of sanctions as long as the people of the United States feel that this is the right thing to do at the moment."

And fealty Suu Kyi must show, as her public image, her entire opposition movement, and the vast propaganda network that supports it both within Myanmar and beyond, has been entirely funded by the US State Department and the British government for years.

In "Myanmar (Burma) "Pro-Democracy" Movement a Creation of Wall Street & London," it was documented that Suu Kyi and organizations supporting her, including local propaganda fronts like the New Era Journal, the Irrawaddy, and the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) radio, have received millions of dollars a year from the Neo-Conservative chaired National Endowment for Democracy, convicted criminal and Wall Street speculator George Soros' Open Society Institute, and the US State Department itself, citing Britain's own "Burma Campaign UK (.pdf)."

Image: The Myitsone Dam, on its way to being the 15th largest in the world until construction was halted in September by a campaign led by Wall Street-puppet Aung San Suu Kyi, a stable of US-funded NGOs, and a terrorist campaign executed by armed groups operating in Kachin State, Myanmar.

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And not only does the US State Department in tandem with Western corporate media provide Aung San Suu Kyi extensive political, financial, and rhetorical backing, they provide operational capabilities as well, allowing her opposition movement to achieve Western objectives throughout Myanmar. The latest achievement of this operational capability successfully blocked the development of Myanmar's infrastructure by halting a joint China-Mynamar dam project that would have provided thousands of jobs, electricity, state-revenue, flood control, and enhanced river navigation for millions. Suu Kyi and her supporting network of NGOs, as well as armed militants in Myanmar's northern provinces conducted a coordinated campaign exploiting both "environmental" and "human rights" concerns that in reality resulted in Myanmar's continual economic and social stagnation.

So while throngs of people, expelled from their home nation of Myanmar due to dismal prospects seek refuge and hope in Wall Street and London's created character, "Aung San Suu Kyi," it is her, and everything she represents in reality that have caused, and will continue to perpetuate their plight indefinitely. Her world tour, unwarranted for a mere member of parliament, including a speech before the British Parliament in London, is another attempt to build up yet another fictional character to mislead and exploit world opinion worldwide.

Like fellow "Nobel laureate" US President Barack Obama who has managed to lead America's left from progressive hope and into an orgy of warmongering and global blood-lust dwarfing in scope and ambition that of previous proxy-in-chief George W. Bush, Suu Kyi attempts to pull at the strings of well-intentioned humanitarians everywhere. This is not for realizing the democratic aspirations of the people of Myanmar, but to use such aspirations as cover for the recolonization of Britain's lost colony of Burma, and the perpetuation of global disparity and inequities the very same well-intentioned people pulled into this ploy believe they are fighting against.

Wall Street Proxy Aung San Suu Kyi's Ascension to Power

West prepares rhetorical grounds for unrest in Myanmar should Suu Kyi lose elections.
by Tony Cartalucci

April 1, 2012 - Without so much as a shred of evidence to explain why, citing no polls or rationale, the Western corporate-media has prematurely declared Wall Street-London proxy Aung San Suu Kyi the winner in a limited parliamentary election in Myanmar, still referred to by its colonial nomenclature of "Burma" by Western powers as well as Suu Kyi herself.



Photo: Soros-funded Mizzima proudly reports Myanmar "pro-democracy" leader Aung San Suu Kyi phoning-in to the 2011 "Liberal-Progressive" Clinton Global Initiative confab, fully-funded by big-oil, big-banks, and other elements of the corporate-fascist Wall Street-London combine.

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Associated Press' article titled, "Myanmar's Suu Kyi poised to win parliamentary seat," is yet another example of election outcomes preemptively decided by the West in order to call any result contrary to Western desires a "fraud." This has been seen in the lead up to Thailand's July 2011 elections as well as recent elections in Russia that saw Vladimir Putin brought back into power as president. Even in cases such as in Russia where every poll indicated Putin was sure to win, most likely in the first round of elections and by a significant margin, the West still used this ploy to cast doubt on the veracity of electoral outcomes.

Image: From SSI's 2006 "String of Pearls" report detailing a strategy of containment for China. While "democracy," "freedom," and "human rights" will mask the ascension of Aung San Suu Kyi to power, it is part of a region-wide campaign to overthrow nationalist elements and install client regimes in order to encircle and contain China has been long underway.

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Leading the charge is a network of poseur NGOs funded and directed by the US State Department through its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its subsidiaries, in particular Freedom House. It should be noted that despite the "progressive" and "humanitarian" veneer used by these organizations, their boards of directors are veritably filled with overt warmongers, certified Neo-Conservatives, corporate-financier directors, corporate-lobbyists, and both current and former members of the US State Department itself.

It is important to keep the true nature of this false "humanitarian-front" in mind when reading articles out of Freedom House, like the recent, "Burma Election Is Test of Progress," which is already wringing its hands over its NGO front being ejected from Myanmar ahead of elections. Freedom House director David Kramer who has more recently openly plotted to support the destabilization of Russia in the wake of Putin's uncontested reelection, admits that poll monitors are not in place to observe the elections - casting further doubts on corporate-media headlines declaring Suu Kyi a winner of a parliamentary seat prematurely.

The Freedom House piece clearly backs what it calls "the primary opposition party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy (NLD)." It is clear that Suu Kyi's failure to secure a seat will be used as impetus to put further pressure on the Myanmar government and possibly justify Western-backed regime change efforts in the form of another staged "popular uprising" similar to the failed 2007 "Saffron Revolution."

To explain why US State Department fronts like Freedom House are so supportive of Suu Kyi, it helps to understand that her entire image and indeed her opposition movement is a creation of Wall Street and London with an incredible amount of resources systematically poured into both her political campaigns as well as a subversive network of NGOs across Myanmar dedicated to undermining the national government, foiling infrastructure projects including the recent halting of a dam project that would have provided significant benefits for Myanmar's tragically underdeveloped countryside, and of course armed separatist movements both inside and beyond Myanmar's borders. All of this aims not only at installing a pro-Wall Street-London regime in Myanmar, but ousting advances by China to co-develop the nation's natural resources - resources the West prefers instead to be exclusively pilfered by the Fortune 500.



Image: The 2006 Burma Campaign UK report, "Failing the People of Burma?" (.pdf) reveals the entire "pro-democracy" movement, including Aung San Suu Kyi herself, is a product of US and British funding and the building of neo-imperial networks designed to overthrow and replace the government of Myanmar.

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A 2006 36-page document out of the "Burma Campaign UK" explicitly details the enormous amount of money and resources both the US government and its corporate-funded foundations have poured into Suu Kyi's image and her "movement." It also details the complicity of then Thai Prime Minster and verified Wall Street-proxy Thaksin Shinwatra's government in aiding the West in their Myanmar agenda.

Specifically mentioned is both the US State Department's National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros' Open Society Institute, illustrating once again the reality that both "liberal" and "Neo-Conservative" interests serve a singular concerted agenda in instituting a global neo-liberal corporate-financier hegemonic empire.

Throughout the "Burma Campaign UK" report, NED is cited as behind the creation of the New Era Journal, the Irrawaddy, and the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) radio, all posing, just as the recently exposed Thai-US propaganda front, Prachatai, as "independent" media sources despite the fact they are in reality fully-funded by the US government.

The role of US State Department-run Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA) is also discussed in detail, including the revelation that US foreign policy specifically supports and actively promotes Aung San Suu Kyi and "her" agenda.

As by-elections approached, the corporate-media increasingly lent exposure to building up Suu Kyi's "pro-democracy" image with public relation stunts engineered to lend her otherwise non-existent credibility. This includes the farcical awarding of the corporate-financier funded "Chatham House Prize" presented by British Foreign Secretary William Hague who most recently presided over the destruction and handing over to terrorists of the entire nation of Libya.

Photo: Hague hands Suu Kyi the "Chatham House Prize." Nothing quite says "democracy promotion" like a prize from an organization consisting of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BP, Exxon, Chevron, BAE, Boeing, Lockheed, and many more. This is just the latest in a long line of self-aggrandizing stunts the global elite pull to lend themselves otherwise non-existent legitimacy.

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To illustrate the contrived, corporate-financier serving nature of the "Chatham House Prize" it is important to remember that notorious corporate interests including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BP, Exxon, Chevron, BAE, Boeing, Lockheed, and many others, including corporate-media organizations, constitute Chatham House's "corporate membership." The Chatham House itself is a think-tank that represents not the democratic aspirations of the populations of the Western nations it decides policy for, but rather the collective interests of the corporations that fund and constitute its membership.

With Wall Street-proxy Thaksin Shinawatra running the neighboring Thai government through his own sister serving as his personal proxy, Thailand is once again poised to provide support for Western ambitions verses Myanmar. In fact, Thaksin's sister, Yingluck Shinawatra upon visiting Suu Kyi in Myanmar was hailed as "Suu Kyi's first-ever meeting with the leader of a foreign country."



Photo: Wall Street's grotesque puppet show: making a mockery out of the human dignity of those drawn in by the facade of hope and democratic reform Yingluck Shinawatra of Thailand and Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar both disingenuously sell their followers. (AFP/Pool, Soe Zeya Tun)

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Yingluck Shinawatra and Thai Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul (Thaksin's cousin through marriage) pledged full support for the US agenda throughout Asia including a nuclear non-proliferation act opposed by China and the sovereignty-crushing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) economic integration.

Yingluck has also pledged support for US designs toward Myanmar, ahead of Secretary Clinton's visit with Aung San Suu Kyi last December. Previously, during Yingluck's brother Thaksin's regime, Thailand, and in particular, the northern city of Chiang Mai, played a pivotal role hosting US corporate-funded "NGOs" working to foment sedition, unrest, and eventually regime change in neighboring Myanmar.

These developments implicate a US moving to line up Southeast Asia against Chinese interests and expansion throughout the region as covered in Neo-Conservative Robert Kagan's "What China Knows That We Don't: The Case for a New Strategy of Containment," and again more recently by Hillary Clinton in a Foreign Policy article, "America's Pacific Century."

While Western "imagineered" ideals of "democracy," "freedom," and "human rights" will be used to mask Aung San Suu Kyi's ascension into power, the underlying agenda is one of Wall Street-London hegemony across Asia, the premeditated encirclement and subsequent containment of China, and the full-scale regional exploitation of Asia and its resources by Western corporate-financier interests. As the supranational bloc "ASEAN" nears completion, this exploitation will unfold under a conveniently consolidated regional feeding trough Western interests are already lining up to bury their snouts in.

Aung San Suu Kyi Receives Corporate Fascist Seal of Approval

British FM William Hague awards her the "Chatham House Prize."
by Tony Cartalucci

January 7, 2012 - In the first visit to Myanmar by a British foreign minister in 56 years - William Hague took it upon himself to present "democracy icon" Aung San Suu Kyi with the "Chatham House Prize."

Photo: Hague hands Suu Kyi the "Chatham House Prize." Nothing quite says "democracy promotion" like a prize from an organization consisting of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BP, Exxon, Chevron, BAE, Boeing, Lockheed, and many more. This is just the latest in a long line of self-aggrandizing stunts the global elite pull to lend themselves otherwise non-existent legitimacy.

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The "Chatham House Prize" is given annually to a "statesperson who is deemed by Chatham House members to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year." The decision process is conducted by research teams and the Chatham House's presidents who are currently John Major, Patricia Scotland, and none other than Paddy Ashdown, who just finished defiling the spirit of innovation and pragmatism at the TED Talks with his sales pitch for global governance run by the corporate-financier elite.

The Chatham House membership is described as "individuals, companies and organizations who share a deep interest in international affairs, independent thinking and debate." Their membership includes, "academics, diplomats, the media, NGOs, politicians, policy-makers, researchers and business people."

Of course, an actual look at Chatham House's membership reveals what is essential a fraudulent convergence of corporate-financier elitist interests, government, so-called "NGOs," and media. Their "corporate & NGO membership" includes Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, British Petroleum, Amsterdam & Peroff, Bloomsberg, BBC, Coca-Cola, Dutsche Bank, BAE Systems, the Economist, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Total, Texco, Reuters, Boeing, Standard Chartered Bank, Thales, Lockheed Martin, World Vision, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Barclays Capital.

When we look at the fraudulent concert with which these converging interests operated in the persecution of war against Libya and the subsequent genocide, destruction, and installation of a Petroleum Institute representative as "prime minister" of the nation as it began handing out the above mentioned big-oil interests exclusive contracts, it is quite clear the potential conflicts of interest present at the Chatham House have bred atrocious improprieties. That it would later turn out that the claims of "humanitarian intervention" were based on admitted lies by "human rights activists" in Libya who were in fact working directly for/with the opposition, illustrates the absolute lack of legitimacy with which these global elite operate.

From the lies told by Chatham House media members, to policies crafted by government members, to the immense profits now being reaped by its big-business members - the Chatham House is an interlocking criminal enterprise of unprecedented proportions.

The Chatham House is one of many corporate-financier round tables that represent the collective interests of the global corporate-financier elite. Their policy papers and the agendas they support directly represent their collective corporate-financier interests. The "Chatham House Prize" therefore is in no shape, form, or manner, a testament to a recipient's service to the people, but rather their service to the powers that be - globally.

Aung San Suu Kyi has just been granted the seal of global corporate-fascist approval, accepting the prize from Hague who has played an instrumental role in the destruction and genocide brought upon Libya, and a man who is busy attempting a repeat performance in Syria and Iran.

As described in depth in "Burmese "Pro-Democracy" Movement a Creation of Wall Street & London," Aung San Suu Kyi's entire political movement, the NGOs supporting her both inside Myanmar and abroad, as well as domestic and foreign media fronts that ceaselessly promote her and her agenda, are entirely funded by the US and British governments. A 2006 36-page document out of the "Burma Campaign UK" explicitly details the enormous amount of money and resources both the US government and its corporate-funded foundations have poured into Suu Kyi's image and her "movement."

The goal of course is to remove anti-Western, pro-nationalist cliques within the Myanmar government and replace them with compliant stooges like Aung San Suu Kyi. It is then ironic that 56 years after the British last visited Myanmar, they are now back along with the likes of George Soros, US-stooge Yingluck Shinawatra, and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, bestowing accolades, praise, and support upon Aung San Suu Kyi, a proxy holding enormous potential to usher in a new age of neo-colonialism managed by Wall Street and London - all part of the so-called American "Pacific Century" aiming at encircling and containing the rise of China.

The age of British imperialism never truly ended, its global spanning megalomania never went extinct - rather it has evolved into a system of global corporate-financier fascism.

For those interested in what can be done to stop the building of this insidious empire, please see "Solutions."

Wall Street to "Open" Up Myanmar

Wall Street bankster Soros to open “official presence” in Myanmar.
by Tony Cartalucci

January 7, 2012 - Following a Dec 26-Jan 3 visit to Wall Street and London's proxy of choice, "democratic icon" Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, billionaire banker/speculator George Soros has declared his intentions to set up a permanent mission in Myanmar, still called "Burma" by neo-colonial advocates and Aung San Suu Kyi herself. US State Department-funded "Democratic Voice of Burma" reported that Soros' mission was an effort to aid Myanmar in "the transition from a closed to a more open society."

Image: Soros is just the latest globalist to rain accolades, praise, and support down upon "democracy icon" Aung San Suu Kyi, whose entire movement is in fact created and funded by the US State Department and corporate-financiers like Soros. Here Suu Kyi consorts with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, head of a department Suu Kyi would not exist politically without.

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By "open," of course, Soros means open to the forces of globalization and exploitation by the "international order" contrived by the corporate-financier elite that run it. It should be noted that "democracy icon" Aung San Suu Kyi's entire movement including the network of NGOs that support her political movement as well as the domestic and foreign media fronts that build up her image is entirely funded by Wall Street and London.


Image: Activating Human Rights & Peace (AHRP) 2008 proceedings, page 8. The .pdf has been taken down by the university, however it is available upon request from Land Destroyer. (click image to enlarge)

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It should also be noted that Soros works in tandem with many of these Wall Street/London organizations, including the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) which was descibed by Australia's Southern Cross University's "Activating Human Rights & Peace (AHRP)" as carrying out "a lot of work that was formerly undertaken by the CIA" in a revealing account of AHRP's 2008 proceedings.

Myanmar's Wall Street Puppet

Every aspect of Aung San Suu Kyi is the creation of a carefully orchestrated, immensely funded propaganda campaign carried out not within Myanmar but from Washington and the city of London. Every NGO associated with Suu Kyi, every pro-Suu Kyi news service in Myanmar, and every opposition movement supporting her, is either funded by, or a whole cloth creation of, the British and US government.

Soros' recent trip to Myanmar to meet with this unelected, though defacto "point of contact" for the West, signifies an attempt to conduct this support more openly and possibly attempt to dispel suspicion resulting from Soros and NED's omnipresent sedition sown worldwide, often operating behind the scenes. However, as we will see, regardless of how open or secretive Wall Street and London attempt to be as they carry out their agenda, the trend of manipulating the destiny of a sovereign nation-state for the sake of their own financial and political benefit is apparent.

A 2006 36-page document out of the "Burma Campaign UK" explicitly details the enormous amount of money and resources both the US government and its corporate-funded foundations have poured into Suu Kyi's image and her "movement." It also details the complicity of then Thai Prime Minster and verified Wall Street-stooge Thaksin Shinwatra's government in aiding the West in their Burmese agenda.

The most telling information begins on page 14 of 36 of the report's .pdf. Titled, "Failing the People of Burma?" the report enumerates the vast resources the West has invested in building a "pro-democracy" movement, in tandem with similar disingenuous movements throughout the region, and indeed throughout the world, and insists that even more support be given to initiate a "transition" in Myanmar. It states:

"The restoration of democracy in Burma is a priority U.S. policy objective in Southeast Asia. To achieve this objective, the United States has consistently supported democracy activists and their efforts both inside and outside Burma…Addressing these needs requires flexibility and creativity. Despite the challenges that have arisen, United States Embassies Rangoon and Bangkok as well as Consulate General Chiang Mai are fully engaged in pro-democracy efforts. The United States also supports organizations, such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the Open Society Institute (nb no support given since 2004) and Internews, working inside and outside the region on a broad range of democracy promotion activities. U.S.-based broadcasters supply news and information to the Burmese people, who lack a free press. U.S. programs also fund scholarships for Burmese who represent the future of Burma.

The United States is committed to working for a democratic Burma and will continue to employ a variety of tools to assist democracy activists."

The report then continues detailing the specifics of each organization mentioned, including the National Endowment for Democracy:

"The National Endowment for Democracy (NED – see Appendix 1, page 27) has been at the forefront of our program efforts to promote democracy and improved human rights in Burma since 1996. We are providing $2,500,000 in FY 2003 funding from the Burma earmark in the Foreign Operations legislation. The NED will use these funds to support Burmese and ethnic minority democracy-promoting organizations through a sub-grant program. The projects funded are designed to disseminate information inside Burma supportive of Burma’s democratic development, to create democratic infrastructures and institutions, to improve the collection of information on human rights abuses by the Burmese military and to build capacity to support the restoration of democracy when the appropriate political openings occur and the exiles/refugees return."

NED is cited as behind the creation of the New Era Journal, the Irrawaddy, and the above mentioned Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) radio, all posing, just as the recently exposed Thai-US propaganda front, Prachatai, as "independent" media sources despite the fact they are in reality fully-funded by the US government.

The role of US State Department-run Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA) is also discussed in detail, including the revelation that US foreign policy specifically supports and actively promotes Aung San Suu Kyi and "her" agenda.

"Both Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) have Burmese services. VOA broadcasts a 30-minute mix of international news and information three times a day. RFA broadcasts news and information about Burma two hours a day. VOA and RFA websites also contain audio and text material in Burmese and English. For example, VOA's October 10, 2003 editorial, "Release Aung San Suu Kyi" is prominently featured in the Burmese section of VOAnews.com. RFA's website makes available audio versions of 16 Aung San Suu Kyi's speeches from May 27 and 29, 2003. U.S. international broadcasting provides crucial information to a population denied the benefits of freedom of information by its government."

The US also pours vast resources into organizations affiliated with Aung San Suu Kyi, including "Prospect Burma," a London-based Soros-funded organization:

"The State Department provided $150,000 in FY 2001/02 funds to provide scholarships to young Burmese through Prospect Burma, a partner organization with close ties to Aung San Suu Kyi. With FY 2003/04 funds, we plan to support Prospect Burma’s work given the organization’s proven competence in managing scholarships for individuals denied educational opportunities by the continued repression of the military junta, but committed to a return to democracy in Burma."

Of course, billionaire-bankster and geopolitical meddler George Soros not only funds and coordinates with the above mentioned "Prospect Burma" organization, but also directly funds activities through his "Open Society Institute" literally training an army of subversion meant to return to Myanmar and overthrow the government:

"Our assistance to the Open Society Institute (OSI) (until 2004) provides partial support for a program to grant scholarships to Burmese refugee students who have fled Burma and wish to continue their studies at the undergraduate, or post-graduate level. Students typically pursue degrees in social sciences, public health, medicine, anthropology, and political science. Priority is given to students who express a willingness to return to Burma or work in their refugee communities for the democratic and economic reform of the country."

Throughout the period covered in the "Burma Campaign UK" report, includes a description of then Thaksin Shinawtra's government and its support of Western activities to subvert the government of neighboring Myanmar. The Thai Ministry of Public Health, also implicated in grants to the US propaganda front, Prachatai, is mentioned specifically:

"Last year the U.S. government began funding a new program of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to provide basic health services to Burmese migrants outside the official refugee camps in cooperation with the Thai Ministry of Public Health. This project has been supported by the Thai government and has received favorable coverage in the local press. Efforts such as this that endeavor to find positive ways to work with the Thai government in areas of common interest help build support for U.S.-funded programs that support Burmese pro-democracy groups."

While many may be tempted to claim that such work is humanitarian in nature, it is mentioned several times that the actual goal of dolling out scholarships and other aid is specifically to create a pro-Western bloc meant to overthrow the anti-West regime in Myanmar. With names like "National Endowment for Democracy" people are meant to believe that a benign, benevolent agenda is being carried out that is in the best interest of all involved. In reality, the National Endowment for Democracy is packed wall-to-wall with corporate-fascist interests, warmongering elitists, and confessed imperialists.

Historical Pattern of Domineering Dressed up as "Democratization."

Students of history will recognize the immense network Wall Street and London are building, not only in Myanmar, but in nations around the world, as the imperial administrative networks that had managed the British Empire for centuries. While "civilizing" the world was the excuse used by British elite to justify their megalomania and empire building during the glory days of the British Empire, Wall Street and London are now using the term "democratization" or the "opening of society" to justify their equally unjustified, criminal consolidation of power and the dominion they seek to hold over mankind.

This racket is perhaps best described by Noam Chomsky in 1993 during the "Covert Action Quarterly Anniversary Dinner" where he noted of NED's projects in Nicaragua, "It's about what you would expect from a bipartisan democracy campaign - it's an attempt to impose what is called democracy, meaning rule by the rich and the powerful, without interference by the mob but within the framework of formal electoral procedures."

In other words - "sham democracy" to placate the people with the illusion of choice, while a system perpetually run by and for the elite lords over the masses. A gilded cage kept by a global empire.

For those interested in what can be done to stop the building of this insidious empire, please see "Solutions."

Wall Street's Puppet Show Begins in Asia

Wall Street's Shinawatra and Aung San Suu Kyi pledge mutual support.
by Tony Cartalucci

December 21, 2011 - AFP reported that Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra met with and pledged full support for Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, still called by its British imperial name of "Burma" by many Western media outlets and even Suu Kyi herself. The meeting was hailed as, " Suu Kyi's first-ever meeting with the leader of a foreign country." On face value - we are expected believe this to be a landmark in "democratic development." In reality, it should be troubling to everyone from Myanmar to Thailand, and Asia as a whole.

Thailand's Wall Street Puppet

Current Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra squeaked into office earlier this year with a meager 35% of eligible voters actually picking her Peua Thai Party. While she is hailed as the "first female prime minister of Thailand," it is clear that she is merely a placeholder for her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra who runs the party from abroad while avoiding a 2-year jail sentence for corruption and a parade of pending legal cases resulting from his autocratic, mass-murdering 6-years in office.


Photo: Wall Street's grotesque puppet show: making a mockery out of the human dignity of those drawn in by the facade of hope and democratic reform Yingluck Shinawatra of Thailand and Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar both disingenuously sell their followers. (AFP/Pool, Soe Zeya Tun)

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Thaksin rose to power through a series of business deals and political maneuvering, as well as leveraging foreign support clearly aimed at shaking up Thailand's political order and replacing it with a more servile clique. Thaksin was an adviser to the US equity firm Carlyle Group and while serving as prime minister, attempted to ram through a Fortune 500 initiated US-Thai free trade agreement that would have gutted Thailand's economic sovereignty. In 2006 he was swept from power by a peaceful military coup, on the eve of which he was in New York City consorting with the corporate-funded Council on Foreign Relations.

Since the 2006 coup that removed him from power, Thaksin has been represented by Wall Street, London, and Washington via their lobbying firms, including Kenneth Adelman of the Edelman PR firm (Freedom House, International Crisis Group, PNAC), James Baker of Baker Botts (CFR), Robert Blackwill of Barbour Griffith & Rogers (CFR), Kobre & Kim, and currently Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Peroff (Chatham House). The above mentioned Edelman, it should be noted, is also a sponsor of the US State Department's project, Movements.org which is on record training the Egyptian April 6 Movement that triggered the now admittedly US-engineered "Arab Spring."

Meanwhile, Thaksin's street mobs dubbed the "red shirts" who have attempted to overthrow his opposition while they were in power, have received rhetorical support by US-funded NGOs like Prachatai which received 1.5 million baht from the Neo-Con lined National Endowment for Democracy. Prachatai has also received funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, George Soros' Open Society, and the Sigrid Rausing Trust (who also funds the International Crisis Group) via the Global Human Rights Fund (2008). Additionally, a recent addition to Thaksin's red shirt mob's leadership includes Sombat Boonngamanong who has spent a lifetime in the service of UN projects and Fortune 500-funded foundations like "Ashoka."

Thaksin's "red shirt" leaders would even find their way to Washington D.C. earlier this year in April, where they met the same representatives from America's Fortune 500 that proposed the FTA Thaksin tried to pass during his term as PM, as well as Soros' Human Rights Watch and the above mentioned National Endowment for Democracy. The nature of their visit was to seek support ahead of Thailand's summer elections, from which Thaksin's sister tenuously came to power.

It is safe to say that Thaksin represents and works not for the Thai people, but for the foreign interests that have kept him relevant and politically viable for the last decade. The fact that he was "elected by proxy" through his own sister, who literally ran on the campaign slogan, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai [Party] Does," makes an utter mockery out of "democratic developments" as well as the rule of law.

Myanmar's Wall Street Puppet

Every aspect of Aung San Suu Kyi is the creation of a carefully orchestrated, immensely funded propaganda campaign carried out not within Myanmar but from Washington and the city of London. Every NGO associated with Suu Kyi, every pro-Suu Kyi news service in Myanmar, and every opposition movement supporting her, is either funded by, or a whole cloth creation of, the British and US government.

A 2006 36-page document out of the "Burma Campaign UK" explicitly details the enormous amount of money and resources both the US government and its corporate-funded foundations have poured into Suu Kyi's image and her "movement." It also details the complicity of then Thai Prime Minster and verified Wall Street-stooge Thaksin Shinwatra's government in aiding the West in their Burmese agenda.

The most telling information begins on page 14 of 36 of the report's .pdf. Titled, "Failing the People of Burma?" the report enumerates the vast resources the West has invested in building a "pro-democracy" movement, in tandem with similar disingenuous movements throughout the region, and indeed throughout the world, and insists that even more support be given to initiate a "transition" in Myanmar. It states:

"The restoration of democracy in Burma is a priority U.S. policy objective in Southeast Asia. To achieve this objective, the United States has consistently supported democracy activists and their efforts both inside and outside Burma…Addressing these needs requires flexibility and creativity. Despite the challenges that have arisen, United States Embassies Rangoon and Bangkok as well as Consulate General Chiang Mai are fully engaged in pro-democracy efforts. The United States also supports organizations, such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the Open Society Institute (nb no support given since 2004) and Internews, working inside and outside the region on a broad range of democracy promotion activities. U.S.-based broadcasters supply news and information to the Burmese people, who lack a free press. U.S. programs also fund scholarships for Burmese who represent the future of Burma.

The United States is committed to working for a democratic Burma and will continue to employ a variety of tools to assist democracy activists."

The report then continues detailing the specifics of each organization mentioned, including the National Endowment for Democracy:

"The National Endowment for Democracy (NED – see Appendix 1, page 27) has been at the forefront of our program efforts to promote democracy and improved human rights in Burma since 1996. We are providing $2,500,000 in FY 2003 funding from the Burma earmark in the Foreign Operations legislation. The NED will use these funds to support Burmese and ethnic minority democracy-promoting organizations through a sub-grant program. The projects funded are designed to disseminate information inside Burma supportive of Burma’s democratic development, to create democratic infrastructures and institutions, to improve the collection of information on human rights abuses by the Burmese military and to build capacity to support the restoration of democracy when the appropriate political openings occur and the exiles/refugees return."

NED is cited as behind the creation of the New Era Journal, the Irrawaddy, and the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) radio, all posing, just as the recently exposed Thai-US propaganda front, Prachatai, as "independent" media sources despite the fact they are in reality fully-funded by the US government.

The role of US State Department-run Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA) is also discussed in detail, including the revelation that US foreign policy specifically supports and actively promotes Aung San Suu Kyi and "her" agenda.

"Both Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) have Burmese services. VOA broadcasts a 30-minute mix of international news and information three times a day. RFA broadcasts news and information about Burma two hours a day. VOA and RFA websites also contain audio and text material in Burmese and English. For example, VOA's October 10, 2003 editorial, "Release Aung San Suu Kyi" is prominently featured in the Burmese section of VOAnews.com. RFA's website makes available audio versions of 16 Aung San Suu Kyi's speeches from May 27 and 29, 2003. U.S. international broadcasting provides crucial information to a population denied the benefits of freedom of information by its government."

The US also pours vast resources into organizations affiliated with Aung San Suu Kyi, including "Prospect Burma," a London-based Soros-funded organization:

"The State Department provided $150,000 in FY 2001/02 funds to provide scholarships to young Burmese through Prospect Burma, a partner organization with close ties to Aung San Suu Kyi. With FY 2003/04 funds, we plan to support Prospect Burma’s work given the organization’s proven competence in managing scholarships for individuals denied educational opportunities by the continued repression of the military junta, but committed to a return to democracy in Burma."

Of course, billionaire-bankster and geopolitical meddler George Soros not only funds and coordinates with the above mentioned "Prospect Burma" organization, but also directly funds activities through his "Open Society Institute" literally training an army of subversion meant to return to Myanmar and overthrow the government:

"Our assistance to the Open Society Institute (OSI) (until 2004) provides partial support for a program to grant scholarships to Burmese refugee students who have fled Burma and wish to continue their studies at the undergraduate, or post-graduate level. Students typically pursue degrees in social sciences, public health, medicine, anthropology, and political science. Priority is given to students who express a willingness to return to Burma or work in their refugee communities for the democratic and economic reform of the country."

Throughout the period covered in the "Burma Campaign UK" report, includes a description of then Thaksin Shinawtra's government and its support of Western activities to subvert the government of neighboring Myanmar. The Thai Ministry of Public Health, also implicated in grants to the US propaganda front, Prachatai, is mentioned specifically:

"Last year the U.S. government began funding a new program of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to provide basic health services to Burmese migrants outside the official refugee camps in cooperation with the Thai Ministry of Public Health. This project has been supported by the Thai government and has received favorable coverage in the local press. Efforts such as this that endeavor to find positive ways to work with the Thai government in areas of common interest help build support for U.S.-funded programs that support Burmese pro-democracy groups."

While many may be tempted to claim that such work is humanitarian in nature, it is mentioned several times that the actual goal of dolling out scholarships and other aid is specifically to create a pro-Western bloc meant to overthrow the anti-West regime in Myanmar. With names like "National Endowment for Democracy" people are meant to believe that a benign, benevolent agenda is being carried out that is in the best interest of all involved. In reality, the National Endowment for Democracy is packed wall-to-wall with corporate-fascist interests, warmongering elitists, and confessed imperialists.

Wall Street's Puppet Show

Again, what on face value looks like a landmark victory for "democratic developments" turns out to be an astounding mockery of such principles made by those with verifiably no interest in either democracy or human rights. Instead, the meeting between Yingluck Shinawatra, a puppet of her brother, who in turn is a stooge of Wall Street and London corporate-financier interests, and Aung San Suu Kyi, a verified, well-documented fraud - perhaps the most breathtaking example of such fraud in recent history - signifies the execution of what US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared as "America's Pacific Century," a Hitlerian declaration of imperial intent for American "leadership" in Asia for the next 100 years.

Upon reading Clinton's declaration of intent for American leadership into the next century, readers may recall the similarly named, ranting "Project for a New American Century" signed off on by some of America's most notorious Neo-Conservatives, which almost verbatim made the same case now made by Clinton. In fact, America's evolving confrontation with China, marked acutely by Obama's announcement of a permanent US military presence in Australia just this week, is torn directly from the pages of decades old blueprints drawn up by corporate-financier funded think-tanks that truly rule America and its destiny.

As reported in June, 2011's "Collapsing China," as far back as 1997 there was talk about developing an effective containment strategy coupled with the baited hook of luring China into its place amongst the "international order." Just as in these 1997 talking-points where author and notorious Neo-Con policy maker Robert Kagan described the necessity of using America's Asian "allies" as part of this containment strategy, Clinton goes through a list of regional relationships the US is trying to cultivate to maintain "American leadership" in Asia. The US backing of puppet-regimes like Thaksin, his sister Yingluck, or Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, installing them into power, and keeping them there is central to projecting power throughout Asia and keeping China subordinate, or as Kagan put it in his 1997 report, these proxy regimes will have China "play Gulliver to Southeast Asia's Lilliputians, with the United States supplying the rope and stakes." Two of these "Lilliputians" are Yingluck Shinawatra and Aung San Suu Kyi, the rope and stakes are the street mobs and disingenuous NGOs funded by NED to supporter their consolidation of power.

It is essential to look past the empty rhetoric of "democracy," "human rights," and "progress" used to justify foreign-funding and meddling to install servile autocrats like Thailand's Thaksin, Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, or even Malaysia's stooge dictator-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim and see the greater geopolitical game at play. It is also essential to expose the disingenuous organizations, institutions, and media personalities helping promote this global corporate-fascist agenda. Above all, it is important not to allow ourselves and our countrymen to be manipulated and their lives wasted in the inevitable conflicts that are sure to arise as Wall Street and London struggle to maintain, or even expand their global financial, economic, and military hegemony.