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NED The Coup Maker – NGO Funding Is A Civil Right

Posted on by Helena

Coup Maker, National Endowment for Democracy’s subset, The World Movement for Democracy, has an interesting article, “The Right To Receive Funding”.   “International and regional human rights laws protect civil society’s right to receive resources. Yet, many governments restrict CSOs’ access to funding to strangle civil society.” 

The article is so rife with bizarre pronouncements under the guise of human rights it is glaringly borderline psychotic. 

March 2025, NED sued the Trump government for failing to give them $240 million in previously allotted funding.  In May 2025, Rep. Crane introduced a bill to defund NED.  Tabled.   February 2026, Congress approved $315 million for NED and its affiliates within a $50 billion appropriation for ‘diplomacy and assistance’.   A heading that includes every Democracy Program NGO known to mankind.  Like a code word.  It doesn’t matter what you are doing as long as you frame it as Democracy and Human Rights.

What is Civil Society?  In its broadest sense, Civil Society is the people outside of government and business, as in Taxpayers.  Along comes the dragon and suddenly NGO’s are defined as Civil Society because they frame the words – human rights and democracy.  When an organization receives the majority of its funding from governments, when an organization takes money and pays no taxes, when an organization interferes in the political and government environment of other countries as well as its own – it is NOT Civil Society.

Technically, as Taxpayers we have the right of refusal to have our money given to anyone or any country because we are Civil Society.  Congress should not have the right to designate our funds to ANY charity/NGO without our approval and permission.  Taking Taxpayer funds under the guise of an NGO is not a Human Right!    But National Endowment for Democracy has challenged this Protocol by proclaiming every NGO can take whatever it wants from ‘every government’ as an international human right proffered via Civil Society.

The fact that NED uses this money to initiate coups, regime changes, and civil strife is simply another stranglehold on Taxpayers by the government.  The Board of NED is as follows:

  • Damon Wilson – CEO:  “Under Wilson’s leadership, NED has sharpened its strategy, making venture capital-style investments in freedom entrepreneurs advancing democracy in their own countries.”  His background includes NATO, Atlantic Council, Bush, and Save The Children in Rwanda…
  •  Peter Roskam – Chair:  Lawyer.  Task Force to combat antisemitism.  House Leadership Trump 2017.
  • Eileen Donahoe – Vice Chair:  Lawyer. Former UN ambassador, Director at Soros Human Rights Watch.
  • Kenneth Wollack – Vice Chair:  USAID.  Brookings.  National Democratic Institute (NED subsidiary).
  • Stuart Apellbaum:  Lawyer.  VP AFL-CIO.  President, Jewish Labor Committee

Etc…  None of these people seem to have any background in societal functions such as human rights or development from a nonpartisan view, but instead are more Deep State players with an Agenda.  Looking to absorb noncharitable money from taxpayers under the heading of NGO.  Shouldn’t Taxpayers get at minimum a write-off? 

The last financial statement filed by NED was for FYE September 2024.  Government Revenue was $354.1 million.  $238,000 was earned as nontaxed Investment Income.  Grantmaking was nearly equal between domestic and foreign entities.  Domestic Entities are listed and include (Foreign entities are NOT listed on their Form 990, instead they list a broad area served): 

  • Eye Media Group – provides entertainment and current affairs television in Afghanistan – based out of “CIA”? headquarters in VA as a ‘for-profit’. Oddly – they have no executives, Leaders, Board, or team members running the Show. Gift – $770,000.
  • DIRECTORIO DEMOCRATICO CUBANO, INC. – funds opposition against the regime in Cuba. Based in Miami, they also seem to have no leaders, executives or Board to moderate funding…  $650,000.
  • China Digital Times, Inc. – Led by Berkeley professor and Vice Chair for World Movement for Democracy, Xiao Qiang, promotes China propaganda. $1,247,000.
  • The Solidarity Center – founded by the AFL-CIO as a voice on job security. Other than it’s Director – there are no leaders or executives at the Solidarity Center according to their website.   However, it has secured funding from Norway for their work in – Ukraine since USAID funding was knifed.  $34.26 million…
  • Center For International Private Enterprise – Online Publication owned by The National Interest. Founded by Irving Kristol, father of Bill Krystol, atheist Trotskyist Jews, coined the godfather of neoconservatism.  $33.4 million. 

Taxpayers are paying for Unions. We are paying for regime change in Cuba.  We are paying for groups that don’t exist.  We are paying for online publications of propaganda.  And if we don’t give them the money that is their ‘human right’ they sue the US Government, aka Taxpayers.  Because it is their inherent right to take our money!  Unabashedly. 

DOGE?  We know DOGE tore apart USAID and the State Department money laundering throughout NGO’s, but USAID was still awarded $50 billion FY 2026.  Accountability is nonexistent.  The slush fund is alive and well!     

The Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project

Posted on by Helena

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) was created in 2006 as an NGO reporting on crime and corruption across the globe.  It’s founders include: Paul Radu, a Romanian, and Drew Sullivan, an American.   Their mission statement is their commitment to Truth in a world of disinformation and wrong information.  Funding is thru:  USAID, US State Department via National Endowment For Democracy, Open Society Foundation, Knight Foundation, the ICFJ, Google Ideas and the Swiss Confederation.

The majority of their funding is from US Taxpayers.  Each year OCCRP selects their Person Of The Year Award for MOST CORRUPT.  True to form, that title has been bestowed upon:  Trump, Putin, Lukashenko, Bolsonaro, Maduro, Assad, etc…    Something akin to the other Soros project, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  Like all things Soros, the SPLC was created initially to help the poor in court proceedings, what it is today is a far left ‘smear factory’.

Today the OCCRP is no different, it is a Washington controlled apparatus run by USAID and NED which controls all aspects of their internal organization and gives them the leads to inherit their title as the ‘largest global network of investigative journalists’.  The initial $1.7 funding grant from the US State Department was funneled thru Drew Sullivan’s agency, “The Journalism Development Group”.  Which is NOT a charity.   

While the OCCRP claims to work in Moldova, Montenegro, and Sweden, its focus is primarily Russia.   Undermining Putin’s integrity and creating/uncovering corruption within Putin’s circle.   One such source being the Panama Paper Caper wherein their reporting focused exclusively on President Putin and the Troika Laundromat. 

One such scheme uncovered by OCCRP was coined the Troika Laundromat.  This scheme allowed the flow of some $8.8 billion of funds from Russian companies and figures into Europe and the US between 2003 and early 2013.  One person named by the OOCRP was Erich Rebasso of Austria who turned himself in to the Vienna police.   His criminal confession named names.  Vienna police claimed the criminal activity was committed by foreigners out of their jurisdiction.  Four years later he was ambushed and killed.

The $8.8 billion Laundromat let oligarchs and politicians from the EU and US to secretly buy from state-owned companies, so as to buy real-estate both in Russia and abroad, to buy yachts, to hire music superstars for private parties etc.  Despite perhaps hundreds of shell companies operating within this Laundromat, throughout Europe, the focus of the OCCRP report focused on one;  Ruben Vardanyan.  He was the CEO of Troika Dialog Investment Bank co-founded by Peter Derby, an American and Bernard Sucher, an American.  

The stories produced by the OCCRP under the guidance of NED and USAID are used as the basis for the US Government to sanction – RUSSIA.  As such the organization is simply another tool of the US Government much like WAPO, USA Today, Newsweek, NBC, NPR etc…  All for the purpose of providing Soros with US Taxpayer funds to libel and slander Russia so as to support coups, including in Ukraine, and including the deceased Navalny as prime instigator in the attempt to destroy and/or assassinate President Putin.

This also reveals that the State Department, USAID, NED, the CIA and Soros work in conjunction.  Samantha Power is the Director of USAID.  Anthony Blinken is head of the State Department.  Damon Wilson heads NED.  William Burns heads the CIA.  They answer to Soros. 

A diehard Clintonite, William Burns was the ambassador to Russia during the Troika Laundromat scandal.    Anthony Blinken was the Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee overseeing ‘foreign aid’ during the Troika Laundromat.  And Samantha Power was working for Senator Obama during the Laundromat period.  She exposed Obama to the Sudan Darfur War.  A revolution – an uprising – a coup.  NED funds the rebels in Sudan.

At the same time period, Damon Wilson was assigned to the State Department’s NATO Office under the tutelage of Madeleine Albright. Wilson views authoritarian Russia and China as “the main geopolitical challenge of the 21st century,” and that “there is no possible successful strategy to confront Putin’s aggression without a strong NATO”.  He helped coordinate the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.

TO SUMMARIZE:  The information used by Congress to make decisions on Russia comes from an organization run by the State Department and USAID – OCCRP, under the auspices of George Soros, funded by the State Department and USAID, funneled thru a for-profit organization via OCCRP’s co-founder Sullivan, which is given awards by variants of the World Economic Forum sustainability agenda, to support the approval of coups and revolutions funded by The State Department and NED – BY CONGRESS. 

ALL VIA TAXPAYER FUNDING.