COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
The United States is
complaining about alleged foreign interference in its elections? That's rich.
Yes, exactly.
America has, non-stop, actively interfered in elections
since WWII.
I'm not speaking of the numerous coups engineered against
even democratic parties America did not like, coups in places such as
Guatemala, Iran, and Chile.
And I'm not speaking of the assassinations and attempted
assassinations of a number of leaders, such as Castro or Gaddafi or Allende or,
as it has long been rumored, the serious attempt on de Gaulle.
There was also close, secret cooperation with dictatorships
and juntas to suppress democracy in many places - these include the former
military junta in Argentina which used to "disappear" dissidents, the
PRI Party which ruled Mexico for seventy years of corruption, the Shah of Iran
and the torture chambers of his Savak secret police, President Mubarak of Egypt
who ruled a totally corrupt government for 30 years, President Ceausescu of
Romania who was called by his people "the Dracula," and many, many
others.
I am speaking of just plain interference on a large scale in
other people's elections, and very much including elections in advanced
countries such as those of Europe.
Young, promising politicians in any country of interest are
spotted and given secret “pensions" early in their careers. To turn one
down would not be viewed graciously and could easily spark future secret
disinformation or other operations against you.
So, it is pretty much an offer you cannot refuse, but anyone
taking it is instantly made vulnerable to future exposure much as by the
revelation of a record of payments made to a spy in another country.
Favored foreign political parties get money channeled to
them through many murky routes, as well as receiving favorable press treatment
– all combined with avoiding an implicit threat of poor press treatment or a
future manufactured scandal.
By the way, no country in fact more openly interferes with
American elections and politics than does Israel, yet never a word is heard in
America against, or even about, the fact, there always being great selectivity
in any attack America makes against anyone abroad. Israel interferes through both direct words
and acts of its government and through the workings of the Israel Lobby.
America’s well-financed and well-organized Israel Lobby acts almost as a kind
of intelligence operation inside America aimed against politicians who might in
any way question Israel, closely paralleling what the CIA does in other
countries.
NGOs, run or at least financed by known CIA collaborators,
such as George Soros, routinely play dark political games in many countries,
all the while pretending to be doing good works.
Newspapers like the New York Times frequently act as CIA
assets with the stories they run or the emphasis they give to stories. They
have often hurt people's reputations through suggestive material planted by the
CIA. In other cases, they build up the reputations of undeserving politicians.
The total amount of CIA and CIA assets’ cheap tricks and
skullduggery done to the politics of other countries is, I am sure, phenomenal,
yet whenever there is even a hint that another country might have done anything
similar inside the United States, again except for the case of Israel, we get a
storm of righteous indignation from American politicians, bureaucrats, and
newspapers who, as if on cue, begin a campaign of nonsense.
Remember the American whining and outrage in 1996 over
never-proved accusations that China had played secret games with American political
fund-raising? Self-righteous chest-thumping about democracy went on and on,
while, meanwhile, the CIA continued its regular and well-funded work of
interfering in many democracies.
