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Arkansas Online
April 21, 2018
The case has prompted calls for an independent investigation from Amnesty International and the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy, which noted that Li had been "detained and physically attacked many times" for his work and cited reports he had recently appeared to be in goodÃâà...
FAIR
April 20, 2018
Orttung is on the International Forum for Democratic Studies Council at the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization set up in 1983 by the US government—specifically Ronald Reagan—as a “soft power” tool in the Cold War. NED's budget is almost entirely provided by the US government ($170Ãâà...
Center For American Progress
April 18, 2018
The National Endowment for Democracy and the State Department have provided funding for capacity-building programs, which train civil society to engage in the political process. Both offices should direct funding and personnel to Iraqi religious minorities to ensure that they have the tools to interact withÃâà...
The American Conservative
April 18, 2018
But the goal for Charles Krauthammer, Joshua Muravchik, Elliot Abrams and the National Endowment for Democracy has always been the same, converting the globe to American-style democracy. Presumably countries will continue to fight until this noble goal can be attained. Since democraciesÃâà...
The New Economy
April 18, 2018
In 2015, the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy became the first NGO to be banned in Russia. The group aims to strengthen democratic institutions around the world and receives most of its funding from the US Congress, which alone would probably have been enough to raise Putin'sÃâà...
Saudi Gazette
April 13, 2018
Rahman Al-Jobori, a senior researcher at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, told Al-Monitor, “After thousands of years of Iraqi civilization, the state comes up with such an initiative for electoral purposes, instead of enacting a proper law approved by the state.” Jobori said, “This project isÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 13, 2018
Rahman al-Jobori, a senior researcher at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, told Al-Monitor, “After thousands of years of Iraqi civilization, the state comes up with such an initiative for electoral purposes, instead of enacting a proper law approved by the state.” Jobori said, “This project isÃâà...
Greensboro News & Record
April 13, 2018
... abandoning human rights improvement as a policy objective anywhere in the world; proposing to gut funding for the National Endowment for Democracy; failing to nominate an assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor; and so on. It could be worse. The administration, including asÃâà...
Sumter Item
April 13, 2018
The case has prompted calls for an independent investigation from Amnesty International and the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy, which noted Li had been "detained and physically attacked many times" for his work and cited reports he had recently appeared to be in good health.
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
April 13, 2018
The following reports were filed Thursday by the Lee County Sheriff's Office. A Sunningdale Road Belden woman said someone on Facebook is using her name and profile photo to call acquaintances as part of a scam saying people have won grant money from the National Endowment for Democracy.
The News Tribune
April 4, 2018
The case has prompted calls for an independent investigation from Amnesty International and the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy, which noted Li had been "detained and physically attacked many times" for his work and cited reports he had recently appeared to be in good health.
South China Morning Post
March 26, 2018
Former chief executive Leung Chun-ying and other leftist politicians were widely mocked for claiming foreign bodies were behind the Occupy movement of 2014. They exaggerated, but were not completely off the mark. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), for example, is a pretty naughtyÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
March 19, 2018
The White House has submitted a FY19 budget that aims to drastically slash funding for the National Endowment for Democracy and other democracy promotion programs, cutting funding overall for democracy and rights promotion by 40 percent and seemingly trying to reduce the power of the NationalÃâà...
The Boston Globe
March 14, 2018
Trump's budget for the coming fiscal year proposes to gut the National Endowment for Democracy by cutting two-thirds of its budget. The endowment is one of the main instruments by which the United States subverts and undermines foreign governments. In a less Orwellian world, it might be called theÃâà...
