https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/foreign-meddling-in-elections-yankee-imperialist-style\/5631197<\/a><\/p>\nHere\u2019s just a handful of these interventions:<\/p>\n
2018 Venezuela; US declared elections illegitimate ironically even before people cast their votes. An attempt to assassinate Venezuelan President was also made via a drone attack<\/p>\n
2014 Ukraine: After Ukranian President rejected EU offer of closer economic cooperation & pursued closer ties with Russia. US then decided to deliver \u2018democracy\u2019 via an illegal process in Kiev where US is said to have handpicked leaders of this new illegal government. The country plunged into a civil war which continues to this day.<\/p>\n
2013 Kenya: Obama administration<\/p>\n
2009 Lebanon: Obama administration<\/p>\n
2009 Afghanistan: Obama administration tried to defeat Afghan President Karzai but failed.<\/p>\n
2009 Fiji\u2019s PM Frank Bainimarama gave Australia & New Zealand 24hours to get their high commissioners out of Fiji and recalled his own envoys from Australia & New Zealand. The reason for expelling the two foreign envoys was their meddling in Fiji\u2019s judiciary. Incidentally, the envoys had warned a Sri Lankan judge of being banned from entering Australia if she accepts a job offer by the Fijian judiciary!<\/p>\n
2008 Serbia: Presidential elections Western support for Boris Tadic<\/p>\n
2005 Iraq: Sham elections. US delivered democracy to Iraq but it is in ruins. A hurried undemocratic election was held to write a new constitution. Scott Ritter, a UN official in Iraq claims US changed the results after the election.<\/p>\n
2004 Ukraine: Orange Revolution<\/p>\n
Ukrainians in general were against Western interference in its elections. Much of this interference came through NGOs as is seen in the case of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
2000 Serbia: US helped oust Milosevic using NGO George Soros\u2019s Open Society Institute staff.<\/p>\n
1990 Nicaragua: CIA helped defeat ruling Sandinista-led government<\/p>\n
1973 Chile: Deposing Allende<\/p>\n
1964 Brazil: deposing Goulart<\/p>\n
1954 Guatemala: Operation PBSUCCESS overthrew elected President Jacobo Arbenz to protect corporate interests of US company United Fruit Company, plan was devised by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who arrived in Ceylon in 1956 too.<\/p>\n
1946 Argentina: US published Blue book on Argentina\u2019 just before elections accusing Presidential candidate Juan Peron of being a Nazi. The plan backfired Peron made the US interference his propaganda & won the election. A good tip for Sri Lanka too.<\/p>\n
Prof. Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon university analyzing data from 117 elections from 1946-2000, claims US has interfered in U.S. has intervened 81 times worldwide between 1946 and 2000\u201d. Not counting covert coup d’etats such as the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 or Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954,<\/p>\n
Prof. Levin says that US has meddled in elections of: <\/strong><\/p>\nAmericas: Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Uruguay, Panama, Nicaragua, Grenada, Jamaica, El Salvador<\/p>\n
Africa: Somalia, Lebanon, Iran,<\/p>\n
Europe: Italy, West Germany, Iceland, Greece, Malta, UK, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia\/Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine, Slovakia, Russia,<\/p>\n
Asia:Japan, Philippines, Indoensia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Haiti, Cambodia, South Vietnam, Mauritius & Sri Lanka<\/p>\n
According to Prof Levin, UNP had sought assistance from US embassy for elections & US sent campaign advisors to help UNP & gave covert funding to UNP.<\/p>\n
\n- US help 1: May 1956 elections when UNP was facing defeat \u2013 US promised $5m to help UNP campaign. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles even arrived in then Ceylon on 11 May 1956 to meet PM Kotelawala & help install UNP in power. But SWRD won with a landslide victory.<\/li>\n
- US help 2: 1960 election \u2013 UNP won with slim majority but lost it in July<\/li>\n
- US help 3: 1965 election \u2013 US helped UNP capture 65 seats of the 151 seat parliament & form a \u2018national government\u2019 with ITAK. In 1965 SLFP won just 41 seats. The UNP victory was described as a \u2018crushing victory\u2019 and a triumph for America. Dudley Senanayake went on to compensate American oil companies Esso & Caltex & British oil company Shell which Mrs. Bandaranaike had nationalized under her government.<\/li>\n
- US help 4: UNP 2000 election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Prof Levin says that these election interventions come with the approvals of the highest levels in US govt and that they use US embassy staff, smear campaigns, NGOs to do the job.<\/p>\n
Late Robert Keeley, who served as US ambassador to Greece said that the template used by US embassy staff in 1965 for UNP was used in Greece elections in 1967. However, Keeley\u2019s book The Colonel\u2019s Coup & the American Embassy: A diplomats view of the Breakdown of Democracy in Cold War Greece\u201d says that Mrs B\u2019s party won an overwhelming victory driving our clients from power most ignominiously\u201d.<\/p>\n
That USAID requested $3.4m to assist UNP in 2015 was revealed by Ms. Hassina Leelaratna. The funds had been requested from the Complex Crisis Fund (CCF) & was part of a $40m US funding package to \u2018support governance, rule of law & economic reform in Sri Lanka\u201d.<\/p>\n
Enough & more examples can be given to show how US, UK & alliances have joined to oust leaders they think are a headache to their imperial goals & wish to install puppets in their place. If they too don\u2019t toe the line, its kaput for them too \u2013 Egypts Hosni Mubarak found that out too late.<\/p>\n
What is the lesson for Sri Lanka in all this? A good look into each of the elections that the US, CIA, UK & other western alliances have meddled in, what is clear is that they all work in tandem & to a well-coordinated plan. With mainstream media in their pockets it is easy to create the necessary hysteria projecting foreign leaders as despots megalomaniacs, dictators \u2013 these are often the favorite buzzwords used. Then they pump plenty of funding to various glorified initiatives that their local NGOs are tasked to do well ahead of any election \u2013 these are data gathering, information sourcing & quantitative research which all get collected to a central room that uses the data to decide what type of democracy to deliver. Depending on the emotional triggers & other psychological tricks at their disposal people are led to believe in a point which picks up on a bit of truth & bloats it to unbelievable heights that can generate varied types of emotions all of which will impact negatively on the candidate they oppose. To match this the Western bandwagon of diplomats, officials, UN, foreign experts, panelists will all be chirping the same idea making the locals believe and accept the lies as truth.<\/p>\n
From what Prof Levin says Sri Lanka has been a victim of US election meddling 6 times counting 2 elections in 2015 & it should be now more than obvious that these diplomats by regular visits to Temple Trees, visiting the other members of the UNP coalition, regular meetings with the local NGO heads, media etc that we are going to see them meddling again. How can we deal with the situation? The best way to do so is for the People to rally around the candidate this foreign meddlers are against because he is the main obstacle to them realizing their plans. Iraq\u2019s new constitution has become their undoing & we know the part US\/West has played in Sri Lanka\u2019s \u2018new constitution\u2019.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka must realize by understanding the chaos that the countries that the West has meddled in to ensure the same is not repeated in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
West & UN tells the world to respect \u2018democratic values\u2019 & then delivers democracy via bombs. US has bombed 21 countries & invaded 22 in 20 years. If this is the type of democracy West & UN are asking of us, then we have to say \u2018no thank you\u2019.<\/p>\n
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