The decline of democracy in Asia is especially severe, with many former success stories now backsliding. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/27/world/democracy-collapsing-in-asia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #asia #democracy #india #indonesia #us #usaid #ned #aid
A win: "The State Department has paid out $97M to the National Endowment for Democracy and is putting another $72M out the door imminently.
It appears this will head off a lawsuit that would have been a test of President Trump's impoundment authority."
-K Cheney
Teitanblood – Accursed Skin (Vinyl)
Amping up for the new release. Teitanblood are one of those bands that manages to push the envelope of heaviness and extremity in a time where doing that doesn't even seem like it's relevant or possible in metal anymore, and their name makes you feel like a goddamn warrior king when you say it out loud. Never before has the band sounded so complete and fully fleshed out in one moment as they do in these two songs.
If you think #Uyghurs in #Xinjiang are oppressed, and even commited genocide against by #China, then you're believing into lies of #CIA (#NED, #RadioFreeAsia, etc), and of course Christo-fascist founder of the #VictimsOfCommunismMemorialFoundation, #AdrianZenz.
I've been recently given that same #GenocideWatch document shown in the video as "evidence". Absolutely insane that someone would believe this garbage. Same site diminishes an actual genocide in #Palestine.
NED grant database, which provided detailed records of Washington-funded NGOs, civil society, and media projects worldwide, has been removed from the web.
This resource was invaluable for tracking and exposing #US involvement in foreign politics and has been a significant victory for governments and actors targeted by #NED.
NED's true nature was acknowledged by the mainstream media in the 1980s, but its status as a CIA front is vehemently denied by Western journalists.
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/collapsing-empire-rip-overt-operations
