Wall Street, Pro-Israel Groups Support Malaysian Opposition
Editor’s Note: Nile Bowie had written this piece exposing the Malaysian opposition’s foreign funding and the duplicitous implications involved, in the midst of what is an increasing public awareness of the role foreign-funded NGOs play in destabilizing and destroying the sovereignty of a nation targeted by Wall Street and London corporate-financier interests.
In response to this increasing awareness, these very Wall Street-funded NGOs have published a ridiculous rebuttal featured in the image below.
Image: An absurd demand for an “apology” aimed at Malaysian journalists simply exercising the “freedom of speech” foreign funded NGOs like Bersih and the Centre for Independent Journalism have claimed to be fighting for. In reality the facade that these NGOs are “humanitarians” is collapsing, exposing the fact that they instead work subversively for the corporate financier interests of Walll Street and London toward the recolonization of Malaysia and the installation of a Western client regime headed by Anwar Ibrahim or one of his associates.
It should be noted that Bersih at the top of the signatory list, is funded by the US State Department and convicted criminal George Soros’ Open Society. Each subsequent signatory is also funded either directly or by NGOs that are directly funded by Wall Street, the US State Department, and George Soros’ Open Society.
Regardless of the rhetoric put out by these NGOs on a daily basis, the common thread that unites them is a concerted effort to both undermine the current Malaysian government, while promoting opposition groups led by IMF, Wall Street, and US State Department proxy, Anwar Ibrahim. These affiliations have been explored at great length in “Wall Street Fills Malaysian Streets With Unrest.”
Nile Bowie
NileBowie.blogspot.com
September 26, 2012
As
Malaysia approaches its highly anticipated 13th General Elections set
to take place at some point before late June 2013, a tense political
climate and a sense of unpredictability looms over the nation. The
significance of these upcoming elections cannot be understated. During
Malaysia’s 2008 General Elections, the ruling Barisan Nasional
coalition, which held power continuously since the nation’s
independence, experienced its worst result in decades, while the
opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition won 82 parliamentary seats. For the
first time, the ruling party was deprived of its two-thirds
parliamentary majority, which is required to pass amendments to
Malaysia’s Federal Constitution. As the United States continues to
militarily increase its presence in the Pacific region inline with its
strategic policy shift to East Asia, Washington’s leaders would like to
see compliant heads of state who will act to further American interests
in the ASEAN region.
The outcome of the approaching
elections could have significant ramifications for Malaysia’s foreign policy,
economy, and trade relations. While allegations of corruption and economic
mismanagement hinder the credibility of ruling Prime Minister Najib Razak,
foreign organizations affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) and funded by the United States government, have contributed
support toward bolstering the influence and status of the Malaysia’s opposition
groups, in addition to the controversial Bersih coalition for electoral reform,
led by Ambiga Sreenevasan. Opponents of this information may dismiss these
claims as the “propaganda” of Barisan Nasional, however the validity of these
accusations have been highly documented, and constitute an attempt by foreign
governments to undermine Malaysia’s independent political process. On June
27th, 2011, Bersih coalition leader Ambiga Sreenevasan conceded that her
organization received financial assistance from two private American
organizations:
In addition to providing
funding to the Bersih coalition through the National Democratic Institute, the
National Endowment for Democracy’s Malaysian operation provides $100,000 (RM
317,260) for political news website Malaysiakini,
considered to be the nation’s most pro-opposition news outlet. [12] Premesh Chandran, Malaysiakini
CEO, is a grantee of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and launched
the news organization with a $100,000 grant from the Bangkok-based Southeast
Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), a recipient of funds from the Open Society
Institute, the NED, and Freedom House, an organization reliant on US federal
government grants for a significant percentage of its funding. [13][14] NED also provides $90,000 (RM 285,516) to SUARAM, an organization
promoting human rights. [15]
The most significant recipient of NED’s
Malaysia programs is the International Republican Institute (IRI), who annually
receives $802,122 (RM 2,544,670) and is tasked to “work with state leaders
in Penang and Selangor to provide them with public opinion research, training
and other resources to enable them to be more effective representatives of
their constituents.” [16] IRI’s mention of these specific regions is unsurprising, as Penang
is held by the Malaysian Democratic Action Party, while Selangor is held by
Parti Keadilan Rakyat, two of the three organizations comprising the opposition
coalition Pakatan Rakyat, led by Anwar Ibrahim. US Senator John McCain, an
ardent supporter of American militarism who boasts of being “proudly
pro-American and proudly pro-Israel”, chairs the International Republican
Institute, whose mission statement in Malaysia reads:
Since Malaysia’s
independence in 1957, the country has experienced a series of national
elections, but never a change in national government. The ruling coalition, known as Barisan
Nasional (BN) since 1973, has held power continuously during Malaysia’s
post-independence era. In the 2008 general elections, for the first time, the
BN lost its two-thirds majority in parliament and control of five state
assemblies to the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (PR). Subsequently, in
April 2011 in Sarawak (the only state holding assembly elections before
national elections occur) the BN retained control of the state assembly but
suffered a reduction in its majority. It is in this context that IRI provides
technical assistance, training, and consultation to political parties to build
knowledge and impart skills that enable both ruling and opposition Malaysian
political leaders to more effectively address citizen concerns. IRI’s current
work in this area started in 2009 when the Institute began a groundbreaking
series of training sessions designed to assist political parties in developing
the in-house capacity to conduct and analyze focus group discussions. These
sessions were followed by workshops which allowed focus group moderators to
present their findings to their colleagues and craft messages that were used to
recruit new political party members and retain existing ones. [17]
Building a patriotic civil society
cannot be outsourced. Democratic processes and national security cannot be
outsourced – all the more so to openly hostile governments. [26]
See the complete list of notes at Nile Bowie’s website here.
