Radio War Nerd #275 — National Endowment for Democracy, Part 2 (Patreon)

Recorded: March 26, 2021

In part two of our series on the National Endowment for Democracy, we look at how the Reagan's subversion weapon created havoc in Haiti and Venezuela to undermine rulers deemed unfriendly to US interests & business. We also recover the famous quote by NED co-founder Allen Weinstein — "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA" — told to the Washington Post in 1991, and trace how an NED investment in subverting trust in Russia's 2011 elections led to blowback in America's 2016 elections and beyond.

Previous episodes referenced: 

-EP #274: National Endowment for Democracy, Part 1 

-EP #216: Passenger Airliner Shootdowns 

-EP #181: Gene Sharp, Color Revolutions & Empire 

-EP #110: Disinformation Warfare 

-EP #51: The Spike & Reagan's "Disinformation" Panic 

Interlude music by Brendon Anderegg. Check out his group Mountains here.

Buy John Dolan's book "The War Nerd Iliad" and his audiobook "Pleasant Hell".

Total time: 1:40:01

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