March 11, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
Numerous so-called “front groups” operate in the
United States. A front group is very simply an
organization that pretends to have a certain program
while at the same time using that identity as cover
to promote a hidden agenda that is something quite
different, often opposed to what is being said
publicly. The Global Climate Coalition is, for
example, an organization funded by fossil fuel
providers that works to deny climate change and
other related issues. The Groundwater Protection
Council does not protect water resources at all and
instead receives its money from the fracking
industry, which resists any regulation of water
pollution it causes. The Partnership for a New
American Economy has nothing to do with protecting
the U.S. economy and instead seeks to replace
American workers with H1B immigrant laborers. Even
the benign sounding National Sleep Foundation, is in
reality a Big Pharma creation intended to convince
Americans that they need to regularly use sleep
inducing drugs.
Front groups in a political
context can be particularly dangerous as they
deceive the voter into supporting candidates or
promoting policies that have a hidden agenda. The
Washington-based Foundation for Defense of
Democracies, is, for example, uninterested in
preserving democracies unless that democracy is
Israel, which many observers would prefer to
describe as an apartheid state. It is funded by
Zionists billionaires and its leadership meets
regularly with Israeli officials. The American
Enterprise Institute is likewise a neocon mouthpiece
for economic imperialism and regime change
disguising itself as a free market advocate and the
Brookings Institution is its liberal interventionist
counterpart.
Front groups are sometimes
largely fictional, on occasion creations of an
intelligence agency to give the impression that
there exists in a country a formidable opposition to
policies pursued by the governing regime. Recent
developments in Venezuela and Bolivia rather suggest
the CIA creation of front groups in both countries
while the Ukrainian regime change that took place in
2014 also benefited greatly from a U.S. created and
supported opposition to the legitimate Viktor
Yanukovych government.
