{"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