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Headlines : Government

Summary:

While the title of the article is perhaps mildly alarmist, this piece reporting on what very well may be the twilight days of the Mugabe regime does support claims by the increasingly paranoid dictator that ‘the West’ has been plotting the downfall of his government. A recent State Department report on U.S. efforts to ‘promote democracy’ around the world lists financial contributions to opposition groups within Zimbabwe in its yearly United States Agency for International Development (USAID) audit. USAID channels money to ‘democratic opposition’ groups in countries where the U.S. seeks the emergence of leaders more attuned to the ‘Washington Consensus’ and has been one of the NGOs responsible for the ‘color revolutions’ that have seen pro-Western governments spring up in such nations as Georgia, Ukraine and Lebanon.

Mugabe will likely use this announcement for political ends in an attempt to deflect criticism of his failed social and agricultural programs towards a vague Western conspiracy. Be that as it may, the days of his government’s rule in Zimbabwe are numbered – as anger towards his failed policies continues to grow in a country in the midsts of a dizzying economic free-fall.

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By Ewen MacAskill
Republished from The Guardian

State Department report tells of funding of opposition groups

The US admitted openly for the first time yesterday that it was actively working to undermine Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe.

Although officially Washington does not support regime change, a US state department report published yesterday acknowledged that it was supporting opposition politicians in the country and others critical of Mr Mugabe.

The state department also admitted sponsoring events aimed at “discrediting” statements made by Mr Mugabe’s government.

The report will be seized on by Mr Mugabe, who has repeatedly claimed that the US and Britain are seeking regime change.

The comments are contained in the state department’s fifth annual Supporting Human Rights and Democracy report. It sets out in detail actions the US government is taking worldwide to promote human rights.

The report has had a troubled history. Three years ago publication had to be hastily delayed when details emerged about US human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.

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A jaded Raskolnikov waiting in disgust for this sick society's imminent paradigm shift.

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