{"id":46461,"date":"2022-02-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=46461"},"modified":"2022-02-22T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:33:40","slug":"biden-and-the-adulterated-hirak-of-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/biden-and-the-adulterated-hirak-of-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden And The Adulterated Hirak of Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ahmed Bensaada<\/a><\/p>\n

While chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joe Biden (Democrat) actively collaborated with the Bush Jr. administration (Republican) and played a major role<\/a> in launching the war against Iraq. At the same time, he was also very close to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), as indicated by his participation in the annual ‘Democracy Awards’ ceremony of this ‘Made in USA’ democracy promotion organisation. On the NED website, the following statement can be read<\/a> :<\/p>\n

“At a ceremony on Capitol Hill on July 9, 2002, First Lady Laura Bush presented the NED’s annual Democracy Awards to four outstanding women activists from the Muslim world. Joined by NED Chairman Vin Weber, Under Secretary of State for International Affairs Paula Dobriansky, and Senators Joseph Biden and Bill Frist, Mrs. Bush paid tribute to the courageous work of these women in promoting democracy, human rights and the growth of civil society in their respective countries.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It should perhaps be recalled that the NED is part of a large US facility specifically designed to ‘export’ democracy in the service of the State Department and US foreign policy. In addition to the NED, which was created to replace the CIA<\/a> in some of its “missions”, the best known actors in this field are the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), Freedom House (FH) and the Open Society Foundation (OSF). These organisations are all funded by the US budget or by US private capital and their leading role in fomenting the ‘coloured’ revolutions<\/a> and the Arab ‘spring’<\/a> has been clearly established.<\/p>\n

After this necessary parenthesis, let’s return to the NED press release. But who were these four laureates whose countries were specified as ‘Muslim’? Their names were listed in the text:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Nadjet Bouda<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Alg\u00e9rie<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Mehrangiz Kar<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Iran<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Mariam Hussein<\/h4>\n

Mohamed<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Somalie<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Muborak Tashpoulatova<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Ouzb\u00e9kistan<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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And here is the official NED photo of the event:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Souvenir photo from the 2002 NED Democracy Awards ceremony (Washington, 9 July 2002).<\/p>\n

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Notes :<\/h6>\n
Carl Gershman was President of the NED for 37 years(!). He recently retired.<\/h6>\n
Vin Weber served as Chairman of the NED Board from 2001 to 2009.<\/h6>\n
Paula Dobriansky was Under Secretary of State for Democracy and International Affairs (2001-2009) under George W. Bush, a member of the Board of Freedom House and a founding member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neoconservative think tank that had considerable influence on the Bush Jr.<\/h6>\n

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Joe Biden and Bill Frist do not appear in this photo, but they were present at the ceremony, as confirmed by the Los Angeles Times article<\/a> in which the current US President said:<\/p>\n

“I think [National Endowment for Democracy] has done more to promote democracy around the world than any other organisation. You know we [in Congress] debate and vote and take controversial positions. If we lose, we are defeated and we get a pension. If you lose, you get shot. If you lose, you are imprisoned. This is the real test, the real authentic test of a commitment to democracy.<\/p>\n

A fine future promised by a hawk for ladies, some in their prime, who are being pushed to concoct “regime change” in their own countries!<\/p>\n

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Nadjet Bouda receiving the ‘Democracy Award’ from Laura Bush, the First Lady of the United States (Washington, 9 July 2002).<\/p>\n

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A little more digging in the NED archives yields the biographies of the recipients<\/a>. Here is what it says in the paragraph about Nadjet Bouda:<\/p>\n

“Nadjet Bouda, at 23 years old, is already a well-known human rights activist. She is currently working with ‘SOS Disparus’, an organisation that defends the interests of hundreds of Algerians who have ‘disappeared’ due to the ongoing civil war in Algeria. At the age of 16, Ms Bouda joined Rassemblement Actions Jeunesse (RAJ), an NGO that develops and implements civic education and human rights awareness programmes with and for Algerian youth; by the age of 20, she was the organisation’s president and spokesperson. Her activism reflects the importance of youth in the effort to spread democratic values in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n

It is thus learned that the Algerian laureate, Nadjet Bouda, was an activist within the RAJ and “SOS Disparus”, two Algerian NGOs heavily funded by the NED (for more details see the following articles: article 1<\/a>; article 2<\/a>; article 3<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Both organisations were involved<\/a> in 2011 in the ‘National Coordination for Change and Democracy’ (CNCD), a coalition created in the wake of the Arab ‘spring’ but which quickly collapsed. They are also among the groups that surfed on the Algerian Hirak to lead it to a dangerous impasse that is harmful to Algeria’s sovereignty and integrity. RAJ was banned<\/a> because of its illegal activities, but ‘SOS Disparus’ continues (along with other entities of the adulterated Hirak) its undermining of the Algerian nation state. To the constitutional path wisely chosen in Algeria, these activists oppose a degagism that would have led the country to inevitable chaos.<\/p>\n

On her LinkedIn profile<\/a>, Nadjet Bouda gives details:<\/p>\n

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  • October 1994 – January 2000: Member, then president and interim spokesperson of the RAJ<\/li>\n
  • November 2001 – June 2002: Assistant Director of ‘SOS Disparus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    And that’s not all, because Mrs Bouda’s CV is diverse. We also learn that<\/a> she worked for the NDI from 2002 to 2005 (in Algeria) and for Amnesty International from 2005 to 2008 (in the United Kingdom).<\/p>\n

    The NDI is one of the four satellites of the NED. It is chaired by none other than Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State in Bill Clinton’s administration. Albright became famous for her statement about Iraqi children: sacrificing 500,000 was a price that was “worth paying<\/a>“, she said in an interview.<\/p>\n

    Amnesty International, for its part, is an organisation that is funded by G. Soros’ Open Society Foundation<\/a> and it will be recalled that it was part of that group of human right entities that were behind the European Parliament’s resolution against Algeria<\/a>, just a few days before the referendum on the new constitution.<\/p>\n

    Ms. Bouda currently works as “Senior Program Officer, North Africa and Middle East<\/a>” at Equitas, a Canadian human rights education organisation<\/a> formerly known as the Canadian Human Rights Foundation.<\/p>\n

    Like many human rights organisations, Equitas is funded<\/a> by a myriad of national and international bodies, including, of course, the NED. Well, well…NED once, NED forever!<\/p>\n

    This Algerian activist was very involved in the adulterated Hirak in Montreal. Numerous videos posted on social networks show that she participated in the demonstrations that took place in Montreal and, regularly (for several years!), in front of the Algerian Consulate General in Montreal.<\/p>\n

    The video below, for example, is filmed in front of the consulate on 12 December 2019.<\/p>\n