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What is the National Endowment for Democracy and how does it promote regime change around the world?
KENNY COYLE takes a look at the NED, its staff and its shady mission to promote US foreign policy interests
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
MANY activists involved in international solidarity campaigns will be familiar with the name of the US regime change organisation the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
But where did it come from and how does it work?
The NED is the overt, traceable and trackable agency for US-backed regime change.
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