Pierre Omidyar co-funded Ukraine revolution
groups with US government, documents show
By Mark Ames
On February 28, 2014
http://pando.com/2014/02/28/pierre-omidyar-co-funded-ukraine-revolution-groups-with-us-government-documents-show/
Just hours after last weekend's ouster of
Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, one of
Pierre Omidyar's newest hires at national
security blog "The Intercept," was already digging for the truth.
Marcy Wheeler, who is the new site's "senior
policy analyst," speculated that the Ukraine
revolution was likely a "coup" engineered by
"deep" forces on behalf of "Pax Americana":
"There's quite a bit of evidence of coup-ness. Q
is how many levels deep interference from both sides is."
These are serious claims. So serious that I
decided to investigate them. And what I found was shocking.
Wheeler is partly correct. Pando has confirmed
that the American government - in the form of the
US Agency for International Development (USAID) -
played a major role in funding opposition groups
prior to the revolution. Moreover, a large
percentage of the rest of the funding to those
same groups came from a US billionaire who has
previously worked closely with US government
agencies to further his own business interests.
This was by no means a US-backed "coup," but
clear evidence shows that US investment was a
force multiplier for many of the groups involved in overthrowing Yanukovych.
But that's not the shocking part.
What's shocking is the name of the billionaire
who co-invested with the US government (or as
Wheeler put it: the "dark deep force" acting on behalf of "Pax Americana").
Step out of the shadows.... Wheeler's boss, Pierre Omidyar.
Yes, in the annals of independent media, this
might be the strangest twist ever: According to
financial disclosures and reports seen by Pando,
the founder and publisher of Glenn Greenwald's
government-bashing blog,"The Intercept,"
co-invested with the US government to help fund regime change in Ukraine.
[Update: Wheeler has responded on Twitter to say
that her Tweets were taken out of context, but
would not give specifics. Adam Colligan, with
whom Wheeler was debating, commented on Pando
that "while Wheeler did raise the issue of
external interference in relation to a discussion
about a coup, it was not really at all in the
manner that you have portrayed." Further "[Pax
Americana] appeared after the conversation had
shifted from the idea of whether a coup had been
staged by the Ukrainian Parliament to a question
about the larger powers' willingness to weaken
underlying economic conditions in a state."
Neither Wheeler or Colligan has commented on the
main subject of the story: Pierre Omidyar's
co-investment in Ukrainian opposition groups with the US government.]
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When the revolution came to Ukraine, neo-fascists
played a front-center role in overthrowing the
country's president. But the real political power
rests with Ukraine's pro-western neoliberals.
Political figures like Oleh Rybachuk, long a
favorite of the State Department, DC neocons, EU,
and NATO--and the right-hand man to Orange Revolution leader Viktor Yushchenko.
Last December, the Financial Times wrote that
Rybachuk's "New Citizen" NGO campaign "played a
big role in getting the protest up and running."
New Citizen, along with the rest of Rybachuk's
interlocking network of western-backed NGOs and
campaigns-- "Center UA" (also spelled "Centre
UA"), "Chesno," and "Stop Censorship" to name a
few -- grew their power by targeting
pro-Yanukovych politicians with a
well-coordinated anti-corruption campaign that
built its strength in Ukraine's regions, before massing in Kiev last autumn.
The efforts of the NGOs were so successful that
the Ukraine government was accused of employing
dirty tricks to shut them down. In early
February, the groups were the subject of a
massive money laundering investigation by the
economics division of Ukraine's Interior Ministry
in what many denounced as a politically motivated move.
Fortunately the groups had the strength - which
is to say, money - to survive those attacks and
continue pushing for regime change in Ukraine. The source of that money?
According to the Kyiv Post, Pierrie Omidyar's
Omidyar Network (part of the Omidyar Group which
owns First Look Media and the Intercept) provided
36% of "Center UA"'s $500,000 budget in 2012--
nearly $200,000. USAID provided 54% of "Center
UA"'s budget for 2012. Other funders included the
US government-backed National Endowment for Democracy.
In 2011, Omidyar Network gave $335,000 to "New
Citizen," one of the anti-Yanukovych "projects"
managed through the Rybachuk-chaired NGO "Center
UA." At the time, Omidyar Network boasted that
its investment in "New Citizen" would help "shape public policy" in Ukraine:
"Using technology and media, New Citizen
coordinates the efforts of concerned members of
society, reinforcing their ability to shape public policy.
"... With support from Omidyar Network, New Citizen
will strengthen its advocacy efforts in order to
drive greater transparency and engage citizens on
issues of importance to them."
In March 2012, Rybachuk -- the operator behind the
2004 Orange Revolution scenes, the Anatoly
Chubais of Ukraine -- boasted that he was preparing a new Orange Revolution:
"People are not afraid. We now have 150 NGOs in
all the major cities in our 'clean up Parliament
campaign' to elect and find better
parliamentarians....The Orange Revolution was a
miracle, a massive peaceful protest that worked.
We want to do that again and we think we will."
Detailed financial records reviewed by Pando (and
embedded below) also show Omidyar Network covered
costs for the expansion of Rybachuk's
anti-Yanukovych campaign, "Chesno" ("Honestly"),
into regional cities including Poltava,
Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, Sumy, and
elsewhere, mostly in the Ukrainian-speaking west and center.
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