World-wide campaign 11.08. 12:52 Lauri Kojo It looks to undermine "opposite actions" to Bush and multinationals foreign policy World-wide campaign against "liberal" and "progressives" ONGs is undertaken in USA In the sight, Amnesty International, Oxfam, CARE and Friends of the Earth HERMANN BELLINGHAUSEN In order to resist the world-wide influence of some international nongovernmental organizations (NGO) "opposed to USA foreign policy and the multinational companies", experts close to the George W. Bush administration sent a world-wide campaign of monitoring the activities of these organizations. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) announced recently, along with the rightist Federalist Society of Studies on Laws and Public Policies, the launching of a new site in Internet, in which they will expose information on these civil organisms (habitually with broken ties with the governments, as its name indicates). "NGOwatch" will watch with special attention those organizations with progressive "and" liberal "agenda" who promote the "global government" and other concepts also endorsed by the United Nations and some multilateral agencies. The alternative agencies of information Ecoceanos News and IPS have reviewed the plans of the american government to fight the ONGs, because presumably they represent a "program of global and antinational left". AEI expressed their preoccupation over what it considers a "naivete" of the government of Bush and several companies, when providing financing for the ONG. "In many cases, ingenuous reformers of the private sector, as well as companies and civil employees of government, receive them as if nothing", affirmed John Entine, of the mentioned enterprise institute. When presenting/displaying its site, AEI gave a conference with the title The ONG: the growing power of a few chosen ones, in which it portray these organizations as "a great threat" to the government of Bush, the capitalism of free market and Washington's foreign policy. The conference was also cosupported by the rightist Australian Institute of International Affairs. "The ONG created their own rules and now they want that the governments and the corporations are put under them. Enterprise and political leaders are forced to respond to the mediatic machinery of the ONG, and the resources of the contributors and investors are used to aims what that they never guaranteed ", indicated the organizers of the conference. "The extraordinary growth of the ONG in liberal states has the potential to undermine the sovereignty of the constitutional democracies", added. In the conference participated about 40 civil employees of foreign policy , judicial authorities and prominent figures, like the ex- head of the political advisers of the Pentagon, Richard Per, and Lynne Cheney, wife of vice-president Dick Cheney. This suggests Washington prepares a true attack against the ONG. The message was that some ONG, like Amnesty International, CARE, Oxfam and Friends of Earth International "have made a valuable work in the promotion of the human rights, the development and the protection of the atmosphere, but their policies, in particular the international, could undermine the interests of the United States and the principles of the free enterprise". The international ONG promote "a new and penetrating form of conflict" against the multinational corporations or "biz-war" (of English bussiness, businesses, and to war, war), maintained the professor of Political Sciences of the University George Washington, Jarol Manheim. The ONG work with institutional investments like union and ecclesiastical pension funds in the denominated movement "social investment", that sponsors respectful enterprise policies of the atmosphere and the human rights in assemblies of shareholders. Those efforts, said Manheim, must be considered "part of a greater anticompany campaign ", that also includes boicots and other measures to influence the behavior of corporations. On the other hand, indicates this analyst more bushian than Bush himself, the companies participate in joint projects with the ONGs, they appeal to advisers of such organisms and they even contract their employees "to protect themselves against negative publicity". That position was shared by Entine, of AEI, for whom the movement of social investment is "a disguised wolf in lamb". The ONG "which oppose the free market extend their reach even to the the meetings of the corporations", he said. On the other hand, the professor of Government Affairs Jeremy Rabkin, of the Cornell University, questioned the companies that try to maintain good relations with the ONGs. "Their program is to the left. It is global and antinational ". For Rabkin, just the notion of nongovernmental organization is a "stalinist concept". Edellinen: Liityimme sotakoalitioon Seuraava: Vaikuttava tietotoimisto on keskeyttänyt toimintansa Tulostusversio Kommentit: 1 kpl Re: World-wide campaign ) Oskari 11.08. 23:07 Netissä kaikki on "world wide campaign". Onko tässä kyse jostain hälyttävämmästä kuin AEI:n ja muiden kumppaneiden filosofoinnista?