India-US Strategic News and Discussion

Vayutuvan · Post by **Vayutuvan** » 27 Apr 2014 03:43

Wikipedia entry on Rep. Ellison wrote: Promoting US with the State Department

Ellison with Minnesota Disabled Veterans
Two months after taking office, Ellison met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other top State Department officials to talk about "showcasing his story as part of their public diplomacy efforts in the Muslim world."[79] According to the Star Tribune, Ellison was "profiled three times by the State Department’s overseas press bureau." He also "did a Voice of America interview from his office, where an American flag was placed conspicuously behind his desk for the cameras."[79] In the interview which was set to play in the Middle East and South Asia, Ellison stressed global inclusiveness and quoted verse 49:13 of the Qur'an "Oh humanity, we created you from a single pair..."[79] Ellison also accepted the Bush administration's request to be part of a "teleconference with Karen Hughes, the State Department's undersecretary for public diplomacy. The White House has asked that the teleconference promote American values and confront ideological support for terrorism around the world."[79] The Voice of America’s Faiz Rehman, ("a Pakistani native and senior political producer"[79]) applauded Ellison's cooperation saying "He is the most famous freshman congressman in the world."[79]
It was noted that after he took his oath of office he was surrounded by the foreign press, intrigued in part by the oath controversy, who "had to be ushered out of his office after he took his oath to make room for home-state news crews."[79] Ellison has been "featured in a series of articles written for foreign dissemination by the Department's Bureau of International Information Programs."[79] Including an article that was translated into Persian and Arabic that "highlighted the diversity of his constituents in Minnesota, ranging from Swedes and Norwegians to 'the largest Somali immigrant community in America.'"[79] In his work in cooperation with the state department, Ellison stresses the religious freedom available in the US, saying things like "religious tolerance has a much longer pedigree in America than some of the intolerance we've seen lately."[79] Even in his work with the State Department he remained critical of President Bush's Iraq policy saying "he wants people around the world to know that 'there are many Americans who want to relate to the rest of the world in terms of cooperation, not military domination.'"[79] Ellison staffers told reporters that "the State Department has shown no signs of squeamishness about publicizing his criticism of the war."[79] When asked about working with elements of the Bush administration Ellison said "Hey, my country first. We can work out our political differences later. I've said I'm willing to do whatever I can to make some friends for America."[79]

Looks like President Obama, Sec. Kerry and Representative Ellison are doing a great job of making India an US friend.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 27 Apr 2014 05:15

Rajiv Lather wrote:
Bodhita wrote:New WikiLeaks Cable reveals Subramaniyan Swamy to be a US Agent
In political circles this has been known since long... I have been hearing it since 1980s. A real slimy character !

In teetar actaully there are

depending on what you believe.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 27 Apr 2014 08:21

cross post
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WikiLeaks on Sanjay Jha's CIA lie on Subu

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#IndiaVotes2014: Best right wing perspective on @Swamy39 Indira Gandhi cable by @drankuag http://indiarightwing.blogspot.in/2014/ ... truth.html … #india #WikiLeaks

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#IndiaVotes: Saeed Naqvi on Rahul Gandhi in #Wikileaks: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05NE ... 661_a.html … Will @JhaSanjay also call Saeed Naqvi a CIA Agent? #india

panduranghari · Post by **panduranghari** » 27 Apr 2014 14:17

svinayak wrote: The rise of the young generation in Asia is faster and they are catching up to the west faster than others had anticipated. Global leaders are behind in catching up wth the younger Asian population. India and Asean younger population are in the economy faster than anticipated.

Amber G. · Post by **Amber G.** » 28 Apr 2014 03:33

..In 2012, when 5 brave members of Congress - Bachmann, Gohmert, Rooney, Franks and Westmoreland - exposed the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the U.S. government

UBji ... Bachmann and the gang also exposed things like $200,000,000 per DAY was spent on Obama's trip to india..

Bachmann (and the gang) is very well known about making the most outrageous claims like this.. ..

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 28 Apr 2014 04:57

No endorsement of Bachmann implied.

UBCNews take: Hakim bin Elli appears to be "out to win friends for the US" where the GWB administration failed. i.e., Ummah. He is fundamentally anti-white-establishment. But he is not above scoring some brownie points, no pun intended, by doing things that the EJs approve.

putnanja · Post by **putnanja** » 28 Apr 2014 06:14

What happened to the back taxes? Looks like it was all talk and no action by MEA as usual

US Embassy school to abide by Indian tax laws

The American Embassy School (AES) in New Delhi is set to raise its tuition fees by a steep 24 per cent largely to meet additional requirement for abiding by the tax laws of India, after the elite institution came under scanner for allegedly flouting rules and not paying the government its dues.

India and United States are understood to have come closer to an understanding over the school and New Delhi has started renewing visas of its teachers after the institution promised “100 per cent compliance” with the tax laws of the country.
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Paul Chmelik, the director of the AES, however, on April 17 informed the board that some of the school’s teachers, who had left the country, had now received renewed visas in the US. “We remain hopeful that others presently abroad will join us soon. We do anticipate that a few more faculty members may leave the country pending visas approvals,” he wrote in his report to the AES board.
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“As part of these negotiations, commitments have been made to ensure the long term success and viability of AES and the school’s intention to be fully compliant with the host country laws,” said Verloop, according to the minutes of the board meeting put up on the school’s website
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The AES is also said to be contemplating to raise fund from the corporations and the diplomatic missions in New Delhi. The parents of the students studying in the school have set up a task force to focus on corporate donations.

vic · Post by **vic** » 28 Apr 2014 09:56

putnanja wrote:What happened to the back taxes? Looks like it was all talk and no action by MEA as usual

US Embassy school to abide by Indian tax laws

The American Embassy School (AES) in New Delhi is set to raise its tuition fees by a steep 24 per cent largely to meet additional requirement for abiding by the tax laws of India, after the elite institution came under scanner for allegedly flouting rules and not paying the government its dues.

India and United States are understood to have come closer to an understanding over the school and New Delhi has started renewing visas of its teachers after the institution promised “100 per cent compliance” with the tax laws of the country.
...
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Paul Chmelik, the director of the AES, however, on April 17 informed the board that some of the school’s teachers, who had left the country, had now received renewed visas in the US. “We remain hopeful that others presently abroad will join us soon. We do anticipate that a few more faculty members may leave the country pending visas approvals,” he wrote in his report to the AES board.
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“As part of these negotiations, commitments have been made to ensure the long term success and viability of AES and the school’s intention to be fully compliant with the host country laws,” said Verloop, according to the minutes of the board meeting put up on the school’s website
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The AES is also said to be contemplating to raise fund from the corporations and the diplomatic missions in New Delhi. The parents of the students studying in the school have set up a task force to focus on corporate donations.

We should have expatriate students study in Indian Schools offering International Curriculum to expose them to India. Why are we letting US Embassy harness this goodwill, money and intellectual capital through AES? It seems Munna is dropping AES case to oblige his US handlers.

vic · Post by **vic** » 28 Apr 2014 09:57

putnanja wrote:What happened to the back taxes? Looks like it was all talk and no action by MEA as usual

US Embassy school to abide by Indian tax laws

The American Embassy School (AES) in New Delhi is set to raise its tuition fees by a steep 24 per cent largely to meet additional requirement for abiding by the tax laws of India, after the elite institution came under scanner for allegedly flouting rules and not paying the government its dues.

India and United States are understood to have come closer to an understanding over the school and New Delhi has started renewing visas of its teachers after the institution promised “100 per cent compliance” with the tax laws of the country.
...
...
Paul Chmelik, the director of the AES, however, on April 17 informed the board that some of the school’s teachers, who had left the country, had now received renewed visas in the US. “We remain hopeful that others presently abroad will join us soon. We do anticipate that a few more faculty members may leave the country pending visas approvals,” he wrote in his report to the AES board.
...
...
“As part of these negotiations, commitments have been made to ensure the long term success and viability of AES and the school’s intention to be fully compliant with the host country laws,” said Verloop, according to the minutes of the board meeting put up on the school’s website
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The AES is also said to be contemplating to raise fund from the corporations and the diplomatic missions in New Delhi. The parents of the students studying in the school have set up a task force to focus on corporate donations.

We should have expatriate students study in Indian Schools offering International Curriculum to expose them to India. Why are we letting US Embassy harness this goodwill, money and intellectual capital through AES? It seems Munna is dropping AES case to oblige his US handlers.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 28 Apr 2014 11:13

Done before the change in government. Who knows what the big bad wolf would do so munna/massa keen to to get this chapter closed.

anmol · Post by **anmol** » 29 Apr 2014 17:26

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv42xG-gE7M

LIVE WEBCAST -- Reimagining India: What’s at Stake in the World's Largest Democracy?

When: Tuesday, April 29, 9:00 to 11:00 AM EST

Where: http://www.brookings.edu/events/2014/04 ... -elections

What:

As Indians head to the polls to elect a new government, the country and its leaders – in government, business, civil society, the media and beyond – face critical choices that will impact India’s political, business, technology, social, cultural and foreign policy spheres. .

On April 29, the Asia Society, The India Project at Brookings and McKinsey & Company will host a discussion examining these choices and exploring the challenges and opportunities facing India outlined in the publication, Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower. Published by McKinsey & Company, the volume provides insights from Gurcharan Das, Sonia Faleiro(used to work for Rapepal@tehelka..), Bill Gates, Shekhar Gupta, Vinod Khosla, Mallika Sarabhai, Eric Schmidt and Fareed Zakaria, among others.

India’s Ambassador to the United States Dr. S. Jaishankar will give a keynote address, and will be followed by a panel of experts who will explore what is at stake in the election and beyond for India’s people, its economy and security and for the U.S.-India relationship. Panelists will include Brookings President Strobe Talbott; Senior Fellow Stephen P. Cohen; Christopher Graves, global CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations; and Adil Zainulbhai, senior advisor to McKinsey India. Tom Nagorski, executive vice president at the Asia Society will provide introductory remarks.

After the program, panelists will take audience questions.

This event will be live webcast. Join the conversation on Twitter at #IndiaElections.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 29 Apr 2014 23:01

^^^ Looks like packed with usual anti-India suspects. So how can the re-imagine when they have no imagination in first place?

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 29 Apr 2014 23:20

Shouldn't that be about what world can learn from India and how the world can cooperate? How about inviting a few blabbering spectacular idiots from USA's munna so we can see how 'international' community deals with democracy in reality, while lecturing the biggest democracy India!

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 30 Apr 2014 07:21

In total desperation to stop the Modi/NDA juggernaut,the combined opposition from extreme Left to extreme crony capitalists,Congress,to extreme anarchists,AAP,are like "rats" displaying their "sinking ship" survival instincts by jumping aboard the same wagon,jostling for political space to remain relevant after the elections. They are allegedly taking their cue from their firang instructors and patrons,who have been shocked and worried about a Modi led NDA govt. after insulting and abusing him for a decade+. True,Mr.Modi might forgive the US for denying him a visa,but will he ever forget?!

http://greatgameindia.com/cias-trojan-h ... -of-india/
CIA’s Trojan Horse enters the Heart of India

The CIA uses philanthropic foundations as the most effective conduit to channel large sums of money to Agency projects without alerting the recipients to their source. From the early 1950s to the present the CIA’s intrusion into the foundation field was and is huge. A U.S. Congressional investigation in 1976 revealed that nearly 50% of the 700 grants in the field of international activities by the principal foundations were funded by the CIA. The CIA considers foundations such as Ford “The best and most plausible kind of funding cover”. The collaboration of respectable and prestigious foundations, according to one former CIA operative, allowed the Agency to fund “a seemingly limitless range of covert action programs affecting youth groups, labor unions, universities, publishing houses and other private institutions”. The latter included “human rights” groups beginning in the 1950s to the present. One of the most important “private foundations” collaborating with the CIA over a significant span of time in major projects in the cultural Cold War is the Ford Foundation.

CIA & The Ford Foundation
By the late 1950s the Ford Foundation possessed over $3 billion in assets. The leaders of the Foundation were in total agreement with Washington’s post-WWII projection of world power. A noted scholar of the period writes:

“At times it seemed as if the Ford Foundation was simply an extension of government in the area of international cultural propaganda. The foundation had a record of close involvement in covert actions in Europe, working closely with Marshall Plan and CIA officials on specific projects”. This is graphically illustrated by the naming of Richard Bissell as President of the Foundation in 1952. In his two years in office Bissell met often with the head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, and other CIA officials in a “mutual search” for new ideas. In 1954 Bissell left Ford to become a special assistant to Allen Dulles in January 1954. Under Bissell, the Ford Foundation (FF) was the “vanguard of Cold War thinking”.

One of the FF first Cold War projects was the establishment of a publishing house, Inter-cultural Publications, and the publication of a magazine Perspectives in Europe in four languages. The FF purpose according to Bissell was not “so much to defeat the leftist intellectuals in dialectical combat (sic) as to lure them away from their positions”. The board of directors of the publishing house was completely dominated by cultural Cold Warriors. Given the strong leftist culture in Europe in the post-war period, Perspectives failed to attract readers and went bankrupt.

Another journal Der Monat funded by the Confidential Fund of the U.S. military and run by Melvin Lasky was taken over by the FF, to provide it with the appearance of independence.

In 1954 the new president of the FF was John McCloy. He epitomized imperial power. Prior to becoming president of the FF he had been Assistant Secretary of War, president of the World Bank, High Commissioner of occupied Germany, chairman of Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank, Wall Street attorney for the big seven oil companies and director of numerous corporations. As High Commissioner in Germany, McCloy had provided cover for scores of CIA agents.
Than CIA’s head Allen Dulles’ best bud, John McCloy,is shown here with David Rockefeller and Chase Manhattan executives after he successfully merged the Warburg’s Manhattan bank with Rockefeller’s Chase bank. A top Rockefeller leutenant, McCloy acted for decades on the family’s behalf as an adviser to presidents and dictators. He even shared a box with Hitler and Goering at the 1936 Olympics.

Than CIA’s head Allen Dulles’ best bud, John McCloy,is shown here with David Rockefeller and Chase Manhattan executives after he successfully merged the Warburg’s Manhattan bank with Rockefeller’s Chase bank. A top Rockefeller leutenant, McCloy acted for decades on the family’s behalf as an adviser to presidents and dictators. He even shared a box with Hitler and Goering at the 1936 Olympics.

McCloy integrated the FF with CIA operations. He created an administrative unit within the FF specifically to deal with the CIA. McCloy headed a three person consultation committee with the CIA to facilitate the use of the FF for a cover and conduit of funds. With these structural linkages the FF was one of those organizations the CIA was able to mobilize for political warfare against the anti-imperialist and pro-communist left.

Official photo of Warren Commissioners that covered-up JFK Assassination. Allen Dulles(than head of the CIA) is seen second from left. To his right is John J. McCloy, lawyer and troubleshooter for both the Warburg and Rockefeller family. McCloy was appointed as a member of the Warren Commission, purely for the purposes of disguising Rockefeller’s crime.

Numerous CIA “fronts” received major FF grants. Numerous supposedly “independent” CIA sponsored cultural organizations, human rights groups, artists and intellectuals received CIA/FF grants. One of the biggest donations of the FF was to the CIA organized Congress for Cultural Freedom which received $7 million by the early 1960s. Numerous CIA operatives secured employment in the FF and continued close collaboration with the Agency.
McCloy (extreme left) with the rest of the gang, the other six hacks & fraudsters, of the Warren Commission, as they present the phony report to President Ford.

From its very origins there was a close structural relation and interchange of personnel at the highest levels between the CIA and the FF. This structural tie was based on the common imperial interests which they shared. The result of their collaboration was the proliferation of a number of journals and access to the mass media which pro-U.S. intellectuals used to launch vituperative polemics against Marxists and other anti-imperialists. The FF funding of these anti-Marxists organizations and intellectuals provided
a legal cover for their claims of being “independent” of government funding (CIA).

One prominent journalist, Andrew Kopkind, wrote of a deep sense of moral disillusionment with the private foundation-funded CIA cultural fronts. Kopkind wrote

“The distance between the rhetoric of the open society and the reality of control was greater than anyone thought. Everyone who went abroad for an American organization was, in one way or another, a witness to the theory that the world was torn between communism and democracy and anything in between was treason. The illusion of dissent was maintained: the CIA supported socialist cold warriors, fascist cold warriors, black and white cold warriors. The catholicity and flexibility of the CIA operations were major advantages. But it was a sham pluralism and it was utterly corrupting”.

When a U.S. journalist Dwight Macdonald who was an editor of Encounter (a FF-CIA funded influential cultural journal) sent an article critical of U.S. culture and politics it was rejected by the editors, working closely with the CIA. In the field of painting and theater the CIA worked with the FF to promote abstract expressionism against any artistic expression with a social content, providing funds and contacts for highly publicized exhibits in Europe and favorable reviews by “sponsored” journalists. The interlocking directorate between the CIA, the Ford Foundation and the New York Museum of Modern Art lead to a lavish promotion of “individualistic” art remote from the people — and a vicious attack on European painters, writers and playwrights writing from a critical realist perspective. “Abstract Expressionism” whatever its artist’s intention became a weapon in the Cold War.

The Ford Foundation’s history of collaboration and interlock with the CIA in pursuit of U.S. world hegemony is now a well-documented fact. The remaining issue is whether that relationship continues into the new Millenium after the exposures of the 1960s? The FF made some superficial changes. They are more flexible in providing small grants to human rights groups and academic researchers who occasionally dissent from U.S. policy. They are not as likely to recruit CIA operatives to head the organization. More significantly they are likely to collaborate more openly with the U.S. government in its cultural and educational projects, particularly with the Agency of International Development.

The FF has in some ways refined their style of collaboration with Washington’s attempt to produce world cultural domination, but retained the substance of that policy. For example the FF is very selective in the funding of educational institutions. Like the IMF, the FF imposes conditions such as the “professionalization” of academic personnel and “raising standards.” In effect this translates into the promotion of social scientific work based on the assumptions, values and orientations of the U.S. empire; to have professionals de-linked from the class struggle and connected with pro-imperial U.S. academics and foundation functionaries supporting the neo-liberal model.

As in the 1950s and 60s the Ford Foundation today has developed a sophisticated strategy of funding human rights groups (HRGs) that appeal to Washington to change its policy while denouncing U.S. adversaries their “systematic” violations. The FF supports HRGs which equate massive state terror by the U.S. with individual excesses of anti-imperialist adversaries. The FF finances HRGs which do not participate in anti-globalization and anti-neoliberal mass actions and which defend the Ford Foundation
as a legitimate and generous “non-governmental organization”.

In the current period of a major U.S. military-political offensive, Washington has posed the issue as “terrorism or democracy,” just as during the Cold War it posed the question as “Communism or Democracy.” In both instances the Empire recruited and funded “front organizations, intellectuals and journalists to attack its anti-imperialist adversaries and neutralize its democratic critics. The Ford Foundation is well situated to replay its role as collaborator to cover for the New Cultural Cold War.
CIA’s Trojan Horse reaches India
India had been sucked into the spiral of this Cultural Cold War since a long time. However with the US economy already bust and the EU falling like dominos; it is again the East where the West would anchor it’s sinking ship of so called Exceptionalism that fuels the Western Civilization. The game on the Indian side is very well crafted and carried out through CIA’s Trojan Horse which has entered into the heart of Indian Politics – Delhi.

A new political party pledging to sweep corruption from the Indian capital made surprising gains in state elections, grabbing a huge share of votes from the incumbent Congress party and leaving Delhi with no clear leader on Monday — and no party willing to form a coalition.

The fledgling Aam Aadmi Party, or Common Man’s Party, seized 28 of Delhi’s 70 assembly seats just nine months after its formation. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party took first place with 31, while Congress was left with a meagre eight, a stunning decline from its previous 43.

All three ruled out entering into a governing alliance, leaving the capital in a leadership lurch and raising the possibility of new elections.
CIA lays the “Foundation” of Indian Policymaking

The Ford Foundation, which completes six decades in India next year, provides a continuing flow of grants to institutions, think-tanks, civil society, and even farmer groups, to carry out research and advocacy work. The sums are not inconsequential—about $15 million (about Rs 70 crore) a year. And the recipients—320 grants, over the past four years—are the who’s who of civil society and advocacy groups in India.

Its representative, Steven Solnick, said the Foundation’s last installment to Kabir (an NGO run by Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia) was in 2010. “Our first grant to the NGO was of $1,72,000 in 2005 ; the second was in 2008 of $1,97,000,” he told Business Standard.
Steven Solnick – Ford Foundation’s representative in India

Kabir, run by Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, key figures in AAP(Aam Aadmi Party), has received $400,000 from the Ford Foundation in the last three years.

Link for $197,000 – now removed by Ford. Refer screenshot of the same below.

http://www.fordfoundation.org/grants/gr ... tid=107117

GreatGameIndia kabir-ford-foundation-ciaIn reply to an RTI query that questioned the funding and expenditure of Kabir, the organisation has disclosed that they have received funds from the Ford Foundation (Rs 86,61,742), PRIA (Rs 2,37,035), Manjunath Shanmugam Trust (Rs 3,70,000), Dutch Embassy (Rs 19,61,968), Association for India’s Development (Rs 15,00,000), India’s friends Association (Rs 7,86,500), United Nationals Development Programme (Rs12,52,742) while Rs 11,35,857 were collected from individual donations between 2007 to 2010.
Kejriwal Admits, His NGO Took Money From Ford Foundation 2 Years Back

Interestingly, a major part of the funding to an organisation that is prominent in the “War against corruption” has come from abroad and mainly from the United States. Apar from the UNDP, Ford Foundation and the India Friends Association are US-based organisations, while PRIA and Association for India’s Development are headquartered in Asia.

The foundation, on its part, makes no bones about its neo-liberal agenda, broadly pro-market, seeking accountability in governance, and promoting marginalised groups. It funds a small number of institutions, but chooses effectively. At a post-budget meeting two years back, it was noted that all the think-tanks represented (NCAER, NIPFP, ICRIER and the Centre for Policy Research) on the dais received grants from the foundation. Academicians and scholars from these think-tanks are regularly
consulted by the government on various policy issues.

On whether the views of these intellectuals actually get reflected in subsequent policies, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia declines to comment. “I don’t really have a view on it,” he says. He does, however, concede that India’s association with the foundation “is something that has been on for a long time”.

Moreover, three of core members ( Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia) are also Magsaysay award winners which are endowed by the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller.
The Three Stooges

As far as the Magsaysay Award winners are concerned, this award is an American award for Asians established and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation ostensibly in memory of Ramon Magsaysay, the former President of Philippines.

According to well-placed sources in the U. S. Intelligence community opposed to the State Department’s policy toward the Philippines, $30 million in covert funds was supplied to the Philippine opposition to help finance its presidential campaign. This $30 million was laundered through Hong Kong, where the money was converted into the Philippine peso at the black market rate of 20 pesos to the dollar.

Philippine sources reported that the money had, been in part funneled into the CIA-controlled citizens election watch group, called Namfrel , the National Movement for a Free Election, which was originally created in 1953 in order to bring Ramon Magsaysay into power. Namfrel was central in the State Department’s policy of intervening into the Philippines election.

In 1957, the Rockefeller Foundation established the Ramon Magsaysay Prize for community leaders in Asia. It was named after Ramon Magsaysay, president of the Philippines, a crucial ally in the US campaign against Communism in Southeast Asia. In 2000, the Ford Foundation established the Ramon Magsaysay Emergent Leadership Award. The Magsaysay Award is considered a prestigious award among artists, activists and community workers in India. M.S. Subbulakshmi and Satyajit Ray won it, so did Jayaprakash Narayan and journalists, P. Sainath. In general, it has become a gentle arbiter of what kind of activism is “acceptable” and what is not. In reality the award is the living memory of the dictatorial president of Philippines known for the murder of thousands of communist guerrillas during the Huk Rebellion under US-planned anti-communist counter-insurgency operations. It explains the silence of the anti-corruption group against corporations and the private sector.

For more details read : CIA manipulation of 1953 elections

This perfectly fits in with a recent shift in the US policy of association with India, which is now focusing on building state-to-state partnerships by “engaging Indian state and local leaders” throughout the country on “topics of mutual interest”. Civil society groups and think-tanks are expected to play an important role in this. As Prof Anil Gupta of IIM-Ahmedabad observes, “Their influence is far beyond what is recognized, and not always benign.”

Should NGOs receiving grants from international agencies like the Ford Foundation and others be barred from participating in the shaping of public policy?

And are these civil society groups working as stooges of the West to execute an “American agenda” ?
These are the question the Aam Aadmi has to answer.

Not the copyrighted ones; but the real Aam Aadmi.
Report by Shelley Kasli

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 30 Apr 2014 09:40

O'Bomber,aka O'Bumbler's latest "doctrine".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 03424.html

US foreign policy: President defends his 'Obama doctrine' where military intervention is a last resort

Mr Obama is confounding impatient critics by failing to intervene in the situations in Syria and Ukraine
Rupert Cornwell
Washington
Tuesday 29 April 2014

Was it less than five years ago that Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, thrust upon him by a Scandinavian committee convinced, like so many others, that this cool and articulate new American president - so different from his cowboy predecessor - would make world a better, more peaceful place?

Scan the headlines this spring of 2014, and that hope would seem to lie in ruins. And this week that same American president, older, wiser and indisputably greyer, was goaded into delivering, from the distant shores of the Philippines, a ringing inpromptu defence of a US foreign policy where everything, virtually simultaneously, seems to be going wrong.

The peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, so painstakingly fostered by Secretary of State John Kerry have effectively collapsed. The Syrian nightmare continues, and President Assad whose demise Mr Obama once so confidently predicted, grows stronger. Yet Washington, implored to intervene, stays on the sidelines.

Neighbouring Iraq meanwhile, from which Mr Obama withdrew the last American troops in 2011, is descending anew into sectarian violence that, coupled with Syria, might plunge the entire region into turmoil. In Ukraine, the most serious European crisis since the depths of the Cold War has erupted, as a Russian president openly taunts his US counterpart. And last but not least, China grows ever more assertive, to the alarm of Washington's allies in Asia - ever more clearly a rival, not partner, of the Western superpower.

Nonetheless, Mr Obama declared in Manila, there was an “Obama doctrine.” It was cautious and incremental, and saw military intervention as the last, not the first resort. This approach to world affairs might not be “sexy,” he continued, using baseball metaphors to explain. The goal was to avoid errors. Foreign policy progress consisted of “singles and doubles…. every once in a while we may be able to hit a home run.”

Anti-US protesters clash with riot police near the US embassy in Manila (Getty) Anti-US protesters clash with riot police near the US embassy in Manila (Getty)
The problem alas, is that in today's impatient world of sound bites and 24/7 chatter, foreign policy is judged solely in terms of home runs and clearcut failures. True, this has been a bad spell, and in some respects the fruit of Mr Obama's own shortcomings: his inexperience, a perhaps naive belief that no problem is so intractable it will not yield to reason, and a seeming failure to grasp that power lies largely in the perception of power.

These difficulties are compounded by the domestic climate in which he operates. For one thing, second term presidents tend to have less clout. For another, old conventions have died. Once partisanship in Washington, “stopped at the water's edge,” in the words of Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee who in the early Cold War worked closely with Harry Truman, a Democratic president.

But in hyperpartisan 2014 an Arthur Vandenberg is unthinkable. The same Republicans who accuse Mr Obama of being a quasi-dictator at home lambast him for pusillanimity abroad. “Why is it that everyone is so eager to use military force,” the president retorted in Manila, “after a decade of war at enormous costs to our troops and to our budget?”

It should furthermore be noted that “everyone” does not include the voters who re-elected Mr Obama 18 months ago. After Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans are weary of foreign engagement, especially military engagement. If he did opt for the use of force, in Syria or Ukraine say, his margin for error would be virtually non-existent.

But that is not the Obama way - and he took on his critics head-on over both crises. In Syria, even advocates of US action are not calling for US boots on the ground. Well what did they want? Ditto Ukraine. No-one was calling for American troops to be sent to Kiev, but some wanted to arm the Ukrainians.

“Do people actually think,” the president asked, “that sending some additional arms… could potentially deter the Russian army? Or are we more likely to deter them by applying the sort of pressure, diplomatic and economic, that we're applying?” The answer, according to the Obama doctrine, is self-evident. Moreover, precisely that may be happening over Iran, and the US-led efforts to so secure a peaceful deal to rein in Iran's nuclear programme.

But the headlines are not pretty - and they reflect two truths about America and its foreign policy. The first has long been obvious. In an increasingly multipolar world, America's relative power, economic and even military, is declining. No longer does it have the power to resolve every crisis, if it ever did. To the irritation and frustration of his critics, Mr Obama gets this.

Second, foreign policy unfolds over time, often with unforeseen consequences. Maybe Vladimir Putin regards this American president as a soft touch. But the policies which have stoked Mr Putin's grievances - the expansion of Nato into Russia's backyard and the attempt to marginalise a weakened Moscow - were put in place by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush before him. The Obama version of Cold War 'containment' of Moscow, reinforced by sanctions, may work. But first even his admirers will have to wait, the hardest thing of all.

Success or failure? The problem areas

Middle East: The US can't be blamed for collapse of the peace process: but should it have invested so much effort on a problem that had already defied 60 years of attempts to solve it? 5/10

Syria: If there was to be effective US intervention, it should have happened long ago. As it is, President Assad seems to be getting the upper hand. 3/10

Iran: Just conceivably, a major success in the making. Both sides want a nuclear deal. Sanctions are really biting, and the negotiations over curtailing Teheran's enrichment programme are for real, not a charade. Time will tell. 7/10

Iraq: US troops have left, as promised. But sectarian violence grows, ever clearer proof of the folly of ill-thought-through military intervention by the US. 5/10

Russia: Maybe Mr Obama has compounded his problems with Vladimir Putin, but could any US president have done better? 4/10

North Korea: Kim Jong-Un appears even more erratic and unpredictable than his father and grandfather. But if anyone has real leverage on Pyongyang, it is not the US but China. 5/10

China and the pivot to Asia: Obama seeks to switch focus to economically vibrant Asia and its emerging superpower. But events elsewhere get in the way. 5/10

anmol · Post by **anmol** » 30 Apr 2014 20:07

Delhi's American School hikes fees by a quarter to cover taxes
by Rezaul Hasan Laskar, dailymail.co.uk
April 29th 2014

The American Embassy School (AES) in New Delhi, which came under the scanner recently for suspected tax and visa violations following a stand-off between India and the US over senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade, has hiked its fees by a whopping 24 per cent to cover taxes it will have to pay under the Indian laws.

The increase in tuition and other fees was part of the budget for 2014-15 approved by the school's Board of Governors during a meeting earlier this month, following diplomatic negotiations between India and the US on affairs of the educational institution that has about 1,500 students, a majority of them Americans and of other nationalities.
Renewing visas

According to the minutes of the Board of Governors' meeting, held on April 2, accessed by Mail Today, the school has made a "commitment of 100 per cent compliance" with Indian taxes and laws.

This is believed to be part of an arrangement whereby the Indian government will start renewing the visas of the teachers of the American Embassy School.

Sources said about 20 foreign teachers had to leave India last month after their visas were not renewed over the alleged violation of laws by the school.

Amid reports that more foreign teachers may have to leave the country, classes were assigned to assistant teachers of Indian origin.

The school has now decided to hike tuition, registration, application and other fees by 20 to 67 per cent, with the average hike for tuition fees being 24 per cent and "19 per cent of this is towards compliance" with Indian tax laws, according to the minutes of the meeting.

School director Paul Chmelik recently informed the Board of Governors that some teachers who had left India had now been granted renewed visas in the US.

"We do anticipate that a few more faculty members may leave the country pending visas approvals," Chmelik had written in an internal report.

Marja Verloop, the US envoy's representative in the Board, said during the April 2 meeting that progress had been made in the diplomatic negotiations between the US and India.

"In the next few months, the school will be working closely with the legal counsel to iron out details. As part of these negotiations, commitments have been made to ensure the long term success and viability of American Embassy School and the school's intention to be fully compliant with the host country's laws," she said.

She said the visas of all those who need renewal in April "will be renewed and then we will move to the next".
Diplomatic row

The Indian government focussed on suspected tax violations by the school after a bitter diplomatic spat that erupted following the arrest of Devyani Khobragade in New York last year.

The former Deputy Consul General in New York, Khobragade, was arrested and strip-searched for allegedly making false declarations in a visa application for her maid.

anmol · Post by **anmol** » 30 Apr 2014 20:12

Hmm.... lot of AES teachers are on twitter. Search:"#aesdelhi" in twitter

anmol · Post by **anmol** » 30 Apr 2014 20:28

This guy is a "history teacher at AES"
https://i.imgur.com/EdkMOcY.png

On Devyani:
https://i.imgur.com/YTLGHX2.png

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 30 Apr 2014 20:45

^^^^Straight forward lessons in critical thinking. He knows he's being monitored by enemies of AES but chooses to use the internet anyway. And certainly an innovative approach I might add.

Virupaksha · Post by **Virupaksha** » 30 Apr 2014 20:54

TSJones wrote:^^^^Straight forward lessons in critical thinking. He knows he's being monitored. And certainly an innovative approach I might add.

I am not soo sure that he knows it. The american diplomats showed their clueless when their racism was exposed during the getting away in a friendly country and strip search controversy.

That racism exposed person was a community relations manager of the embassy for crying out loud. This guy seems to be quite low on the totempole.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 30 Apr 2014 21:35

Maybe he should teach the SD about India?

Vayutuvan · Post by **Vayutuvan** » 30 Apr 2014 21:50

Independent of UK wrote:But the headlines are not pretty - and they reflect two truths about America and its foreign policy. The first has long been obvious. In an increasingly multipolar world, America's relative power, economic and even military, is declining. No longer does it have the power to resolve every crisis, if it ever did. To the irritation and frustration of his critics, Mr Obama gets this.

I think lot of self-contradictory logic in there. On one hand he says that Sec. Kerry put together a peace plan that is falling apart and President Obama needs to be blamed. On the other the above. What has been obvious is UK egging on the US to enter into Iraq and sacrificing the blood of their soldiers. If it was that obvious, then why did UK support the ill-fated Iraq adventure? Now that they think that China could be a customer for their BAT products, they would love to see the US to go down. This will enable them to start the "new opium" (unbridled conspicuous consumption of technology designed in their own labs which are fast degrading due to all those sociology and humanities academics being made more important than the STEM people) addiction so that their lords and ladies, counts and countesses, dukes and duchesses can keep their hold on the 60% of the land and live in huge palaces in the center of London.

Vayutuvan · Post by **Vayutuvan** » 30 Apr 2014 22:14

TSJones wrote:^^^^Straight forward lessons in critical thinking. He knows he's being monitored by enemies of AES but chooses to use the internet anyway. And certainly an innovative approach I might add.

My dear TSJ, critical thinking you say? The people in India might have been outraged about the strip search but no the foreign minister - he was outraged because International Conventions were flouted brazenly. Where is the lesson on the US embassy breaking India's tax laws? I would like my kids' teachers to teach them not only critical thinking of the kind taught in English departments of US but also some amount some Civic Sense and Ethics. Instead of spoon feeding his conclucions after several hours of "critical thinking" preparing for the class, our man should have laid out what he read in the news (or better still ask the students to actually go out and read the news for themselves - I am sure they have access to all the world news papers of left and right leaning kinds) and pose a few pointed questions and let the students reach their own conclusions and put them down. On the other hand if he is teaching to lower grade students, then politics should not be taught.

That is how my kids get taught in public/private schools where I live. They are not spoon fed "US uber alles" propaganda.

member_22733 · Post by **member_22733** » 30 Apr 2014 22:21

Matrimc dont you know the fundamental rule of the Anglo-Saxon world that parallels the Islamic principles:

Any laws that exists in a non-white non-Anglo-Saxon country/community are not applicable to an individual who is white and Anglo-Saxon. It is justified to break and twist the law to any form you wish, especially if they benefit you and the Anglo-Saxon world.

The Islamic version:
Any laws that exist in a kaffir society are not applicable to a Muslim. It is justified to break and twist the law to any form you wish, especially if it benefits you AND the Islamic world. (aka Taqqiya).

The kids are being thought that we SDREs are unwashed people who dont have laws, or even if we do have laws it is justified to break them.

No difference between white-pakis and pakis in this respect

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 01 May 2014 09:51

Subfusced ‏@subfusced 1h

Country that killed the most Muslims since Crusades still wondering how to put Modi's unproven role in 2002 behind: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/ ... led-india/ …

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 01 May 2014 10:33

TSJones wrote:^^^^Straight forward lessons in critical thinking. He knows he's being monitored by enemies of AES but chooses to use the internet anyway. And certainly an innovative approach I might add.

Or he could be a Moron as usual, like we saw many from USSD, USDOJ, or BSD morons during DK saga . Anyway it is low IQ morons that you select for your creme de la creme for SOPs prepared by Higher IQ minions so critical thinking is ruled out. And still wonder why Americans are loved world over.

member_28352 · Post by **member_28352** » 01 May 2014 11:14

Critical thinking, really? Distortion of facts is more like it. Lady enjoyed full diplomatic immunity when she was arrested and violated. Maid was on Indian Govt passport and not subject to US laws. These are the facts. To put it mildly, the AES teacher is distorting facts.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 01 May 2014 13:33

Shake up in the US DIA.As Uncle Sam beats the retreat from the world's hotspots,unable to win both the "battle on the fields of war as well as the battle of the budget",the inevitable internal feeding frenzy upon themselves by the dogs of war has begun.The blame game has started for the debacles and as the report says,the Snowden expose has caused a massive setback for the US where evn its allies have been enraged at the US's global snooping even of the leaders of its closest allies.The Congress-UPA regime has silently ducked the issue,but the new dispensation ready to take over in Delhi may not be so forgiving of the US which has tried to armtwist India on issues across the board.

US Defense Intelligence Agency director reportedly being forced out
Published time: April 30, 2014 20:45
Defense Intelligence Agency director U.S. Army Lt. General Michael Flynn (Reuters / Gary Cameron)

Both the director and deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon announced on Wednesday that they are to leave their jobs by early fall. The move is thought be the result of mounting pressure by top Washington officials.

United States DIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn announced to Pentagon staff that he is walking away from that role a year earlier than anticipated.

The news came via a joint statement made by Flynn and the agency's deputy director, David Shedd, who will also be vacating his post.

"We are proud of the legacy of sustained superb performance of the thousands of men and women we have served alongside throughout these many years," they said.

According to Washington Post reporters Greg Miller and Adam Goldman the director’s unexpected announcement is the result of increased pressure coming from the likes of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others who reportedly did not agree with Flynn’s managerial style.

“His vision in DIA was seen as disruptive; he’s not a guy to take the agency forward in a coordinated and comprehensive manner,” one former Pentagon official told the Post of Flynn, a former colleague.

Flynn, the source said, wanted to push DIA analysts and operators “up and out of their cubicles into the field to support war fighters or high-intensity operations.”

Critics of Flynn, the journalists wrote, considered his management style to have “sowed chaos, setting aggressive plans for changes without adequate follow-through” within the agency.

“I’m not sure DIA sees itself as that,” their source said to the paper.

According to Miller and Goldman, the decision to take Flynn out of his DIA role comes in the midst of other major changes within both the US intelligence community and military, both of which have been shaken up in recent months after former government contractor Edward Snowden began releasing a trove of sensitive material to the media.

“I think if I'm concerned about anything, I'm concerned about defense capabilities that he may have stolen from where he worked, and does that knowledge then get into the hands of our adversaries,” Flynn said of Snowden during a NPR interview that aired last month.

Previously, Flynn served in the US Army and participated in tours that brought him to Grenada, Haiti, Afghanistan and Iraq. US President Barack Obama picked Flynn to be DIA director two years ago this month, and he was expected to depart from that role in 2015.

The agency has yet to select who will succeed either Flynn or Shedd, reported the AP.

Vayutuvan · Post by **Vayutuvan** » 01 May 2014 19:26

I heard his npr interview came across as a reasonable man who would have judicious mx of intelligence gathering but respect privacy. Based on that interview I would have said I am sorry to see him go but forcing analysts to go on to the field or no-followthrough of aggressive chaos is a recipe for disasters Jesus what happened in Crimea. what was his view on India? Well that probably doesn't matter except that if he was positive and new hire reverses all policies to be different for the sake of being different by design or by chance then indo-us di on pakistan shafting may take a beating (if it going on at all).

putnanja · Post by **putnanja** » 01 May 2014 22:03

Fear and questions in US over prospect of Narendra Modi becoming prime minister

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The anti-Modi coalition of Christian evangelists, left-leaning Indian Americans and Muslim activists is gearing up to mount pressure through the US Congress. They will keep the heat on even though the old fervour is gone, especially among Republicans.
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Unfortunately, the last phase of the UPA government left the impression that India will reverse its policies in the face of pressure and noise from Washington. It did so on preferential market access and transfer pricing. This has emboldened US lobbies out to draw more blood. After all who wouldn't use a tactic that works?

Over the past three years, Washington has also come to believe it did India too big a favour with the nuclear deal and received little payback. This premise conveniently ignores the many tangibles (Indian purchases of US defence platforms to the tune of $10 billion in less than a decade) and intangibles (India's decision not to criticise wholesale spying by NSA). A strong government in New Delhi is unlikely to be as patient or as yielding.
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It has attacked India at the behest of big pharma and other business interests whose maximalist agenda has been repeatedly exposed. Their game is to scotch any serious attempt to keep medicine affordable while discrediting India's generic drugs industry through means both fair and foul. In their calculation, if India bends, it would scare smaller, weaker countries from ever contemplating a compulsory licence.

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This reflects a post-Khobragade realism, a push-back, even a new equilibrium. India will give but also take. For every US demand to open the Indian economy, there would be an equal and opposite demand on completing a "totalisation agreement". India may find it useful to cross-link and leverage defence contracts for something tangible. Surely $10 billion worth of arms can buy relief on H-1B visas or a more honest policy towards a certain neighbour that remains the hub of terrorism. The truth is if Washington can be transactional, so can others.

But this new phase should not obscure the larger logic behind India and the US coming together because the many reasons for convergence remain. Those with a wider window than a four-year election cycle understand that. Equally importantly, those who make national security policy in India know what balance of power is more beneficial.
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Shreeman · Post by **Shreeman** » 02 May 2014 02:31

This should go somewhere else, but given the lack of relevant options, we rely on the visibility here.

The score on MH370 stands:

<sarc>
Not-find-anythingeee=NaNaNa::Consipracies=0
</sarc>

same as day 1. Match over?

Excuse for posting here: The plane was US built (and might we add, poorly maintained -- old batteries even on the blackboxes). Our sympathies to the families, but the profit motive doesn't always lead to "results".

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 02 May 2014 02:36

CNN last night was claiming something near Bangla Desh coast....

Shreeman · Post by **Shreeman** » 02 May 2014 02:57

ramana wrote:CNN last night was claiming something near Bangla Desh coast....

Sorry, nope. Already discounted.

saip · Post by **saip** » 02 May 2014 03:03

It was an Australian company that is claiming to have found 'a plane'. They were using some spectral technology for this search.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 02 May 2014 21:11

Brookings ‏@BrookingsInst 20h

VIDEO: Experts discuss India's growing role on global stage, what Modi would do as PM: http://bit.ly/1mievc9

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 03 May 2014 01:46

I don't c how the CTs are disproven by NOT finding anything (NOTHING) after a month of wild-goose-chasing in the south seas. Someone (INMARSAT included) has effectively prevented searches in other relevant places, and pursuit of the right CTs for the past month. The failure to find a single piece from the plane after all this investment tells me that there was nothing ever there in that part of the world.

Shreeman · Post by **Shreeman** » 03 May 2014 02:36

UlanBatori wrote:I don't c how the CTs are disproven by NOT finding anything (NOTHING) after a month of wild-goose-chasing in the south seas. Someone (INMARSAT included) has effectively prevented searches in other relevant places, and pursuit of the right CTs for the past month. The failure to find a single piece from the plane after all this investment tells me that there was nothing ever there in that part of the world.

The game was setup from day 1 to be "not-findee-anythingee" vs. all OTHER CTs. Can't go back and change it now. We have changed the scores against "not-findee-anythingee" whre even a hint of "findee-anythingee" has emerged (e.g. the Maylasian PM news conference). Unfortunately, life is more imperfect than we would like it to be.

Non-sequitor: They have taken to dredging the bay near by for sunken crashed aircraft now, which by the way collided with another. And in the last year, B777s safety record (2 crashes) ranks below the Saras, the C919 or the Ulanbator Khatola. So there might be something more systemic wrong here, for all we know.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 03 May 2014 05:25

Kevin Spacey IIFA Lungi Dance - YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRiZYKYgMRo

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 03 May 2014 09:07

After being so exercised about workers rights (rich, coming from the US) and exploitation of labour, one would have thought Rugnetta could at least spell "underpaid" correctly... He ought to have come across the word often... Speaks to his thought bubble drawing skills, certainly... Catering for his reading public no doubt..

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 03 May 2014 18:16

I have finally begun to understand the Communication Problem here. The SD needs to have things explained in pictures!!!!

Wonder if some kind person could sketch up the following situation for the children attending AES and post it on FB like the SD prefers to communicate:
1. American Embassy school teachers and administrators no pay taxes, for 20 years.
2. For 20 years, not a single Faculty member at the AES stood up and say: "This is wrong. We should pay taxes". This is called "Integrity". You should all grow up and Stand Tall and Talk Big and likewise, dodge taxes.
3. Now AES is raising FEES so that YOU, children, can pay the overdue taxes and fines of YOUR teachers and Administrators.
4. This shows the United States of American to be a Nation That Respects The Law. YOUR teachers and administrators are shining examples of that, just like other famous Americans such as Richard "Tricky D1ck" Nixon, Henry "7th Fleet* Kissmyassinger, and The Mays.