Source: Land Destroyer ReportTony Cartalucci
Wall Street's poorly hidden, poorly coordinated agenda in Russia. Who is behind it?
1. Wall Street-London's Defense Team for Jailed Russian Oligarch Khodorkovsky
The
background of jailed Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his
"Open Russian Foundation" fashioned after George Soros' Open Society
Institute and chaired by both Jacob Rothschild and Henry Kissinger, can
be found in William Engdahl's, "The Real Crime of M. Khodorkovsky," as well as in the London Telegraph's humorously titled, "This man is now the people's billionaire," reflecting the paid-for rhetoric of Khodorkovsky's Wall Street-London-appointed lawyer Robert Amsterdam.
In the latest round of attempted destabilization in Russia, it may be instructive to look at the "Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Center," a website developed in part by Robert Amsterdam and what is called an "international legal team." Coincidentally, it fully embraces the narrative peddled by the West and its corporate media that the Russian elections were "rigged." However, this accusation tenuously hinges on the work of US-funded NGOs including Golos - fully funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Just as Robert Amsterdam is doing in Thailand, where he is using his "defense" of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as a point of leverage to in fact induce regime change in the Southeast Asian country, his defense of Khodorkovsky also aims not at defending his client legally, but at using his case to undermine and ultimately overturn the leadership of Russia. It is done in a concerted effort with the US State Department, the corporate media, and a vast network of US and European subsidized NGOs sowing sedition within Russia itself.
In the latest round of attempted destabilization in Russia, it may be instructive to look at the "Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Center," a website developed in part by Robert Amsterdam and what is called an "international legal team." Coincidentally, it fully embraces the narrative peddled by the West and its corporate media that the Russian elections were "rigged." However, this accusation tenuously hinges on the work of US-funded NGOs including Golos - fully funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Just as Robert Amsterdam is doing in Thailand, where he is using his "defense" of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as a point of leverage to in fact induce regime change in the Southeast Asian country, his defense of Khodorkovsky also aims not at defending his client legally, but at using his case to undermine and ultimately overturn the leadership of Russia. It is done in a concerted effort with the US State Department, the corporate media, and a vast network of US and European subsidized NGOs sowing sedition within Russia itself.
khodorkovskycenter.com
2. Neo-Conservatives Attempting to Encircle Russia with NATO
The
Neo-Conservative Foreign Policy Initiative, whose membership has helped
engineer and promote every war in at least the last 30 years of
American history, clearly enumerates what it believes the next steps the US should take toward Russia should be.
These include continuing the encirclement of Russia with NATO and its
controversial "missile defense" efforts, continuing to build up the
Republic of Georgia as a menacing proxy-threat lying on Russia's
borders, and "supporting human rights" focusing on the "Sergei Magnitsky
Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2011" which seeks yet again to
sanction members of the Russian government based on disingenuous "human
rights" concerns, just as the FPI and its collaborators did in Libya.
Foreign Policy Initiative's Board of Directors
FPI Analysis: Moving Beyond the U.S.-Russian “Reset”
