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National Endowment for Democracy

Chuck Manatt, One of America's Great Democracy Activists, Both Here and Abroad

John Sullivan | Posted 10.04.2011 | World
Read More: National Democratic Institute, Republican National Committee, Lane Kirkland, Arab Spring, Ronald Reagan, National Endowment for Democracy, American Institute for Labor, Afl-Cio, Frank Fahrenkopf, Solidarity Center, Madeline Albright, Democratic National Committee, International Republican Institute, Chuck Manatt, Dante Fascell, Manatt Phelps and Phillips, World News
John Sullivan

Charles T. (Chuck) Manatt passed away late last month at the age of 75. As Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 1981 to 1985, Chuck rebuilt that organization into a much more powerful force in the national political scene.

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Elise Foley

Obama Proposes Cuts To Democracy-Promoting Programs Abroad, Despite GOP Rebukes Over Egypt

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Egypt, 2012 Budget, National Endowment for Democracy, Budget, Gop, Obama Budget, Funding, Mubarak, Democracy, Democracy Fund, Ngos, Civil Society, Democracy in Egypt, Republicans, Middle East Protests, World News

WASHINGTON -- Amid the tumultuous revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, Republicans have criticized President Barack Obama for failing to adequately suppo...

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Haiti Elections -- Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

Jane Regan | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Slidepollajax, Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Foreign Aid, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, National Endowment for Democracy, Haiti Cholera, United Nations, U.S. Agency for International Development, Tomas, Humanitarian Aid, Foreign Policy, Ngo, Elections, Video, Military, Haiti, Cholera, Investigative Journalism, U.S. Army, Haiti Aid, Refugees, Humanitarianism, Aristide, Thanksgiving 2010, World News
Jane Regan

2010-11-26-Screenshot20101126at6.19.18PM.pngGo ahead and vote on these photos... since you can't vote in the questionable elections funded by US tax dollars to be held in Haiti on Nov. 28.

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China Roiled by Washington's October Surprise

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Wal-Mart, National Endowment for Democracy, Cybersecurity, Human Capital, Twitter, Nobel Peace Prize, China, Barack Obama, Currency Manipulation, Freedom, Oprah Winfrey, Jonathan Franzen, Robert Gates, Liu Xiaobo, Ned, Hewlett Packard, Pen, Public Diplomacy, Hp, Kwame Appiah, Michael Moore, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Robert Gates agreed to hold talks with China next year. Cybersecurity, oil politics, and China's expanding role in Latin America will all be on the agenda. And if Liu Xiaobo doesn't have his 'get out of jail' card by then, he might be too.

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Losar: Celebrations Ceased in Defiance

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: The Dalai Lama, Students for a Free Tibet, Losar, National Endowment for Democracy, International Campaign for Tibet, President Barack Obama, Impact News
Heidiminx

While I was in Dharamsala last year, and with friends -- what I experienced was both a protest and a solidarity movement, it was Black Losar.

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Obama Shares Bush's Goals in Foreign Policy

Hossein Derakhshan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Empire, Biden, National Endowment for Democracy, Chomsky, Iran, Obama, Ned, Democracy, Ahmadinejad, Bush, Foreign Policy, Ukraine, Politics News
Hossein Derakhshan

While Obama objects to military intervention, he is, like Bush, a big supporter of the kind of activity that NED is doing -- and interestingly enough, more avidly than Bush.

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Bush Calls Mugabe "Undemocratic"

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: George Bush, Justin Frank, Jeremy Rosner, John Bolton, Dick Morris, Carlos Maria Aznar, National Endowment for Democracy, James Carville, Mark Penn, John Roberts, James Baker, Felipe Calderon, Anders Rasmussen, Katherine Harris, Silvio Berlusconi, Viktor Yuschenko, Aleksandr Yukashenko, Angela Merkel, Alvaro Uribe, Mark Mellman, Robert Mugabe, Jeb Bush, Usaid, Rob Allyn, Happiness, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

As a former advisor to Morgan Tsvangirai, I want to offer observations on the recent attempt by President Bush to appear less despotic than the reviled president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.

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