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National Endowment for Democracy

National Endowment for Democracy

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Sep 20, 2026

Michael McFaulGUEST
32:14
promote ideas of democracy.
Michael McFaulGUEST
32:16
U.S. Agency for International Development, Radio for Europe, Voice of America, National Endowment for Democracy, those were all fantastic institutions created during the Cold War that we're not investing in now.
Michael McFaulGUEST
32:29
And I think the blueprint is... bring the Democrats together and then support democratic ideas.
Michael McFaulGUEST
32:37
And by the way, get our own democracy here at home in order.
Michael McFaulGUEST
32:05
It was 1992.
Michael McFaulGUEST
32:06
I worked for something called the National Democratic Institute, which is one of the affiliates of something called the National Endowment for Democracy that Ronald Reagan established when he was president.
Michael McFaulGUEST
32:18
And we were working directly with the author of the Constitution.
Michael McFaulGUEST
32:22
We were literally providing constitutional experts to talk about the pluses and minuses of a presidential system versus parliamentary system.
Joe WilsonGUEST
37:33
And that's what it's all about.
Joe WilsonGUEST
37:37
And I'd like to point out, I got my story with the International Republican Institute, working with the National Endowment for Democracy to be an election observer in Plovdiv in Bulgaria.
Joe WilsonGUEST
37:51
And 1990.
Joe WilsonGUEST
37:51
And it was life changing to me.
Mel KHOST
18:27
But immunity of any foreign organization should preclude them from having an office on U.S. soil.
Mel KHOST
18:35
If the United States does not have jurisdiction over a bank, a development bank, or an international organization that gets tons of our taxpayer money through the garbage USAID, which is not aid, it is international development organization, i.e. soft power for regime change with its partner National Endowment for Democracy and the International Republican Institute and the Democratic Institute that aligns with all of them.
Mel KHOST
19:02
They don't care about America.
Mel KHOST
19:03
They frankly don't care about citizens anywhere.
Aaron GoodHOST
48:25
I mean, my sense was for a long time that these protests, that the Arab Spring thing was just a massive region wide color revolution.
Aaron GoodHOST
48:33
And you could trace it back to actors in Egypt who had previously visited the U.S. government, flown to the U.S. and had been working with the National Endowment for Democracy.
Aaron GoodHOST
48:44
It was pretty clear that pretty obvious if you're paying attention that this was not what it seemed to be.
Sam HusseiniGUEST
48:50
I think that was a huge chunk of it and also the way that Arab media drove it so that you had the dominance of Al Jazeera and other Gulf media at the time and they basically kept the uprisings from happening in the pro-US monarchies and only happening in certain ways in Libya, in Syria and so on in the governments that were challenging at least to some respect.
Aaron GoodHOST
50:04
Well, it really is just a question of in what way would you like to fail to move things in a positive way? That was how I tried to and failed in 2008.
Aaron GoodHOST
50:15
But when I was a political organizer, one of the things that we would do is use this voter database and you would know who your big supporters were and everything.
Aaron GoodHOST
50:22
And the National Endowment for Democracy, when they were organizing to create these forces for the Arab Spring, I can see they were active in Bahrain.
Aaron GoodHOST
50:32
But the revolution was – but the uprising was put down very easily there.
Somin TheNARRATOR
0:10
The National Endowment for Democracy honored Myanmar's Supreme Revolution with the 2026 Democracy Award on September 10.
Somin TheNARRATOR
0:23
Prominent activist Nan Lin accepted the award on behalf of Myanmar's pro-democracy community organizers, according to NED.
Nan LinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
0:31
It is my privilege to accept the NED Democracy Award on behalf of my fellow community organizers of Burma's Supreme Revolution.
Andrew CollingwoodHOST
38:39
And the U.S. start through their energy.
Andrew CollingwoodHOST
38:42
I mean, people talk about U.S. aid in places like South America and Eastern Europe and certainly in Russia and the National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
Andrew CollingwoodHOST
38:54
But it was incredibly powerful in the United Kingdom, as I believe it's been in Ireland as well, Philip.
Andrew CollingwoodHOST
39:00
And it really groomed and put in place an elite in Britain that was educated, taught, refined, everything to fit in with this new American world.
Mel KHOST
22:14
But you brought up 1953.
Mel KHOST
22:16
And I will say, I believe that America ceased to have a State Department or, and along with it, the CIA, National Endowment for Democracy, and later also USAID became tentacles of this global governance model.
Mel KHOST
22:32
to push all nations when the Dulles brothers walked into the two highest unelected positions from Switzerland and Germany and decided that we were going towards a one world government.
Mel KHOST
22:43
And I think that everything since then has been pushed towards that.

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Mel KHOST
53:57
So like you said about Germany, America is the exact same way.
Mel KHOST
54:00
The amount of money that has disappeared from the American taxpayer, first of all, we were told that by Bassett that we have $600 billion in tax fraud of taxpayer money every single year.
Mel KHOST
54:12
Well, like I said about the banks that have immunity, there's also the CIA, National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, all these black holes of money.
Mel KHOST
54:21
Well, that is how this supranational financial system functions.
Piero TozziGUEST
54:18
And that's something I think that hasn't been fully reported.
Piero TozziGUEST
54:21
But, you know, last week, the National Endowment for Democracy had an event where they honored a number of people, including his envoy on this issue in Belarus, who was telling the audience how many people have been freed there.
Piero TozziGUEST
54:38
There's also another, an American citizen named Min Xin, who's an expert on Burma, who had gone to China yesterday.
Piero TozziGUEST
54:46
And he was arrested and disappeared.
Piero TozziGUEST
17:16
And that's something I think that hasn't been fully reported.
Piero TozziGUEST
17:19
But, you know, last week, the National Endowment for Democracy had an event where they honored a number of people, including his envoy on this issue in Belarus, who was telling the audience how many people have been freed there.
Piero TozziGUEST
17:36
There's also another, an American citizen named Min Xin, who's an expert on Burma, who had gone to China, and he was arrested and And that's an issue of concern.
Piero TozziGUEST
17:47
Just a couple of weeks ago, the State Department, Marco Rubio, issued a statement calling for the release of this American citizen.

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