This smear content is produced by Khodorkovsky [1], oligarch in exile who is now for many years after release from jail in 2013 on a mission to destabilise Russian society trough various NGO and nonprofits.<p>In comparison, USA with its national state security policy and foreign power would never allow for any individual to destabilise country from foreign land for so many years.<p><pre><code> NGOs give the impression that they are filling the vacuum created by a retreating state. And they are, but in a materially inconsequential way. Their real contribution is that they diffuse political anger and dole out as aid or benevolence what people ought to have by right. They alter the public psyche. They turn people into dependent victims and blunt the edges of political resistance. NGOs form a sort of buffer between the government and the public, between empire and its subjects. They have become arbitrators, the interpreters, the facilitators. In the long run, NGOs are accountable to their funders, not to the people they work among. They're what botanists would call an indicator species. It's almost as though the greater the devastation caused by neoliberalism, the greater the outbreak of NGOs. Nothing illustrates this more poignantly than the phenomenon of the US preparing to invade a country and simultaneously readying NGOs to go in and clean up the devastation. In order to make sure their funding is not jeopardized and that the governments of the countries they work in will allow them to function, NGOs have to present their work in a shallow framework, more or less shorn of a political or historical context. – Arundhati Roy, the Indian writer, about the NGO influence in India.[2]
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[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky</a><p>[2] <a href="https://socialistworker.org/2004-2/510/510_06_Roy.php#Top" rel="nofollow">https://socialistworker.org/2004-2/510/510_06_Roy.php#Top</a>