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The Ford Foundation- NGOs -AAP Nexus
Long before the Modi government put the Ford Foundation (FF) on the watch list of NGOs suspected of having unstated agenda, France's Stonor Saunders wrote in 2001: ". The Ford Foundation had a record of close involvement in covert actions in Europe, working closely with Marshall Plan and CIA officials on specific projects.". The very next year, James Petras, retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, wrote a damning article on 18 September 2002, exposing the Ford Foundation’s sinister choice of beneficiaries of its donations. Citing a US Congressional investigation in 1976 that said the CIA considered foundations such as Ford “the best and most plausible kind of funding cover” he revealed that beginning the 1950s, “50 per cent of the 700 grants in the field of international activities by the principal foundations were funded by the CIA, The crux of professor' s accusation was to the efect that the Ford Foundation-CIA connection was a deliberate, conscious joint effort to strengthen U.S. imperial cultural hegemony. Naomi Klein ("The Shock Doctrin") speaks of a double game By FF of intellectual sponsorship of fascist intellectuals and in the aftermath that follows, sponsorship of human rights organizations. Most of the projects looked innocuous but had American soft imperialism as its motive
McCloy, while chairman of the Ford Foundation's board of trustees from 1958 to 1965, had at that time itself said of the Ford Foundation as a quasi-extension of the U.S. government. Ford and similar foundations played a key role in co-opting opposition movements. The doctrine that guided in that was: "While dissent from ruling class ideas is labeled 'extremism' and is isolated, individual dissenters may be welcomed and transformed. Indeed, ruling class hegemony is more durable if it is not rigid and narrow, but is able dynamically to incorporate emergent trends".
R Vaidyanathan of the Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru, in his investigative article ‘Is India safe: What is Ford Foundation?’ mention the following as having recieved Ford foundation grants:
There are other Leftist noise makers who are beneficiaries of the Ford Foundation:
Activists in Gujarat allege that Sarabhai runs an ‘empire of trusts’ in the State. Mallika Sarabhai is a trustee in several trusts that own miles and miles of plots of land across Ahmedabad. The book, Toward Sustainable Development: Struggling Over India’s Narmada River, edited by William F Fisher, shows special interest of these American outfits in Medha Patkar’s Narmada Bachao Andolan: Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Indo-US Sub-Commission on Education and Culture and the US Department of Education
Sarajith Dasgupta, Edior, National Affairs of Swarajya.describes the various nefarious connections Arvind Kejriwal and his cohorts have with FF extracting funds from it. According to him there is also a suspect nexus of CIA- Indian National Congress. He cites the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) - MongoDB contract as an example for this.
A check up with the web site of Ford Foundation would suggest that almost all NGOs have some Government, then National Advisory Council (NAC) or AAP connection: In fact AAP or close association with it seems to be the major conduit of FF dispensation of grants in India. The book, Toward Sustainable Development: Struggling Over India’s Narmada River, edited by William F Fisher, shows special interest of these American outfits in Medha Patkar’s Narmada Bachao Andolan: Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Indo-US Sub-Commission on Education and Culture and the US Department of Education.
The CIA’s unusual interest in the AAP is evident in the fact that in 2012, right after the party was registered by the Election Commission of India, the American spy agency released a list of “significant” parties in this country. Every party that featured in the list except the AAP was a recognized party — one that has participated in elections in at least four States of the country and secured 6 per cent of the total votes polled. This, when the AAP was just one month old with no record of participation in elections!
Simlilarly Sisdia's NGO Kabir got FF funds before it was registered Later, Kabir resurfaced in newspapers with evidence of Sisodia misappropriating the foreign funds received by Kabir. Moreover, the papers revealed that Kejriwal is a part of Kabir, too.
Stichting Hivos, the Netherlands, part funded by FF is also a donor who maintains a full-fledged country office in India, and one of the co-financing agencies to the Government of the Netherlands, whose embassy funds Kejriwal and Sisodia’s NGO, Kabir. AAP’s Yogendra Yadav has been associated with two bodies both recipients of the Ford Foundation’s grants.
A larger network of miscreants, Maoists, Marxists, evangelists, tablighis, terrorists, India bashers and financiers of disruptive activities in this country helping the AAP has surfaced. To understand how the entire international network works, the personnel connecting one nefarious organisation to another must be studied.
On 19 July 2011, two people of Pakistani origin were arrested in Washington DC. The US Department of Justice records describe one of them, Ghulam Nabi Fai, as an agent of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The New York Times reported that Fai was coordinating between the activities of several ultra-communist groups, Islamist outfits and Christian missionaries in India.
Fai once worked closely with Rajmohan Gandhi, the AAP’s paratrooped candidate from the East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. Gandhi was one of the prominent signatories to the petition by 53 odd well-networked ‘liberals’ like Ved Bhasin and Gautam Navlakha that defended Fai and demanded his release from the American jail. . This Fai had enlisted the support of anthropologist-activist Angana P Chatterji, who supports the cause of Kashmir’s separation from India, to further his agenda. Angana is the one who was given the Tipu Sultan Award in 2008 by US-based advocacy group Indian Muslim Council (IMC)
Chatterji happens to be a co-author of the book, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom, whose other authors are Arundhati Roy, Pankaj Mishra, Hilal Bhatt and Tariq Ali. Forum of Inquilabi Leftists (FOIL, earlier called Federation of Indian Leftists), and the Association for India’s Development (AID). both floated by elements of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) [CPI(ML)] who moved to the US after the collapse of Naxalism in India, They are alleged to be closely collaborating with AAP nd facilitate funding to various leftist extremist outfits by showing the financiers legally valid ways of routing the money, and also collects funds for the AAP
According to Dasgupta, in 1999, Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand’s magazines Sabrang and Communalism Combat had, through their channels in the Indian National Congress, Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], extracted $ 15 million to project the BJP as an anti-minority, anti-woman party. Recently, the couple accepted that they had diverted part of the fund for their NGO for personal use. All these people and their shady organisations are connected to each other and international rackets..
The overwhelming presence of the then Government, NAC and AAP functionaries among the beneficiaries of the Ford Foundation is not a mere coincidence
The Ford Foundation- NGOs -AAP Nexus
Long before the Modi government put the Ford Foundation (FF) on the watch list of NGOs suspected of having unstated agenda, France's Stonor Saunders wrote in 2001: ". The Ford Foundation had a record of close involvement in covert actions in Europe, working closely with Marshall Plan and CIA officials on specific projects.". The very next year, James Petras, retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, wrote a damning article on 18 September 2002, exposing the Ford Foundation’s sinister choice of beneficiaries of its donations. Citing a US Congressional investigation in 1976 that said the CIA considered foundations such as Ford “the best and most plausible kind of funding cover” he revealed that beginning the 1950s, “50 per cent of the 700 grants in the field of international activities by the principal foundations were funded by the CIA, The crux of professor' s accusation was to the efect that the Ford Foundation-CIA connection was a deliberate, conscious joint effort to strengthen U.S. imperial cultural hegemony. Naomi Klein ("The Shock Doctrin") speaks of a double game By FF of intellectual sponsorship of fascist intellectuals and in the aftermath that follows, sponsorship of human rights organizations. Most of the projects looked innocuous but had American soft imperialism as its motiveMcCloy, while chairman of the Ford Foundation's board of trustees from 1958 to 1965, had at that time itself said of the Ford Foundation as a quasi-extension of the U.S. government. Ford and similar foundations played a key role in co-opting opposition movements. The doctrine that guided in that was: "While dissent from ruling class ideas is labeled 'extremism' and is isolated, individual dissenters may be welcomed and transformed. Indeed, ruling class hegemony is more durable if it is not rigid and narrow, but is able dynamically to incorporate emergent trends".
R Vaidyanathan of the Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru, in his investigative article ‘Is India safe: What is Ford Foundation?’ mention the following as having recieved Ford foundation grants:
- Sampoorn Parivartan (later christened Parivartan) of Arvind Kejriwal and Kabir of both Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia.
- ICSSR of Jawaharlal Nehru University that funded Yogendra Yadav.
- PRADAN of Meera Sanyal.
There are other Leftist noise makers who are beneficiaries of the Ford Foundation:
- Mallika Sarabhai’s NGO Darpana.
- Amartya Sen for his book, The Idea of Justice.
- Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand’s Sabrang Communication.
Activists in Gujarat allege that Sarabhai runs an ‘empire of trusts’ in the State. Mallika Sarabhai is a trustee in several trusts that own miles and miles of plots of land across Ahmedabad. The book, Toward Sustainable Development: Struggling Over India’s Narmada River, edited by William F Fisher, shows special interest of these American outfits in Medha Patkar’s Narmada Bachao Andolan: Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Indo-US Sub-Commission on Education and Culture and the US Department of Education
Sarajith Dasgupta, Edior, National Affairs of Swarajya.describes the various nefarious connections Arvind Kejriwal and his cohorts have with FF extracting funds from it. According to him there is also a suspect nexus of CIA- Indian National Congress. He cites the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) - MongoDB contract as an example for this.
A check up with the web site of Ford Foundation would suggest that almost all NGOs have some Government, then National Advisory Council (NAC) or AAP connection: In fact AAP or close association with it seems to be the major conduit of FF dispensation of grants in India. The book, Toward Sustainable Development: Struggling Over India’s Narmada River, edited by William F Fisher, shows special interest of these American outfits in Medha Patkar’s Narmada Bachao Andolan: Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Indo-US Sub-Commission on Education and Culture and the US Department of Education.
The CIA’s unusual interest in the AAP is evident in the fact that in 2012, right after the party was registered by the Election Commission of India, the American spy agency released a list of “significant” parties in this country. Every party that featured in the list except the AAP was a recognized party — one that has participated in elections in at least four States of the country and secured 6 per cent of the total votes polled. This, when the AAP was just one month old with no record of participation in elections!
Simlilarly Sisdia's NGO Kabir got FF funds before it was registered Later, Kabir resurfaced in newspapers with evidence of Sisodia misappropriating the foreign funds received by Kabir. Moreover, the papers revealed that Kejriwal is a part of Kabir, too.
Stichting Hivos, the Netherlands, part funded by FF is also a donor who maintains a full-fledged country office in India, and one of the co-financing agencies to the Government of the Netherlands, whose embassy funds Kejriwal and Sisodia’s NGO, Kabir. AAP’s Yogendra Yadav has been associated with two bodies both recipients of the Ford Foundation’s grants.
A larger network of miscreants, Maoists, Marxists, evangelists, tablighis, terrorists, India bashers and financiers of disruptive activities in this country helping the AAP has surfaced. To understand how the entire international network works, the personnel connecting one nefarious organisation to another must be studied.
On 19 July 2011, two people of Pakistani origin were arrested in Washington DC. The US Department of Justice records describe one of them, Ghulam Nabi Fai, as an agent of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The New York Times reported that Fai was coordinating between the activities of several ultra-communist groups, Islamist outfits and Christian missionaries in India.
Fai once worked closely with Rajmohan Gandhi, the AAP’s paratrooped candidate from the East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. Gandhi was one of the prominent signatories to the petition by 53 odd well-networked ‘liberals’ like Ved Bhasin and Gautam Navlakha that defended Fai and demanded his release from the American jail. . This Fai had enlisted the support of anthropologist-activist Angana P Chatterji, who supports the cause of Kashmir’s separation from India, to further his agenda. Angana is the one who was given the Tipu Sultan Award in 2008 by US-based advocacy group Indian Muslim Council (IMC)
Chatterji happens to be a co-author of the book, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom, whose other authors are Arundhati Roy, Pankaj Mishra, Hilal Bhatt and Tariq Ali. Forum of Inquilabi Leftists (FOIL, earlier called Federation of Indian Leftists), and the Association for India’s Development (AID). both floated by elements of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) [CPI(ML)] who moved to the US after the collapse of Naxalism in India, They are alleged to be closely collaborating with AAP nd facilitate funding to various leftist extremist outfits by showing the financiers legally valid ways of routing the money, and also collects funds for the AAP
According to Dasgupta, in 1999, Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand’s magazines Sabrang and Communalism Combat had, through their channels in the Indian National Congress, Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], extracted $ 15 million to project the BJP as an anti-minority, anti-woman party. Recently, the couple accepted that they had diverted part of the fund for their NGO for personal use. All these people and their shady organisations are connected to each other and international rackets..
The overwhelming presence of the then Government, NAC and AAP functionaries among the beneficiaries of the Ford Foundation is not a mere coincidence
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