Thai Opposition Leader Paid Lobbyists to Arrange Meeting with USAID, NED

US-backed billionaire opposition leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit visited the US in mid-2019 before Thailand’s general elections.Show more

He hired APCO Worldwide - a US-based lobbying firm - to arrange his trip which included meetings with several representatives from US Congress, the US State Department, USAID, and most disturbingly - Freedom House - a subsidiary of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

The NED and Freedom House are chaired by pro-war, pro-regime change representatives of some of the largest and most influential corporate-financier interests in the West and fund opposition groups in pursuit of regime change around the globe.

From late 2019 to the time of this video being published (April 2021) - the US government has funded and supported the core organizations leading anti-government protests aimed at overthrowing the current government and placing Thanathorn into power.

The meeting was clearly more than a mere coincidence. Will the Thai government investigate Thanathorn’s 2019 trip - especially now that the US NED’s role behind violent protests initially led by Thanathorn himself is clearly understood?

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References:

Khaosod English - Future Forward Admits to Hiring A Lobbyist for Thanathorn’s US Visit:
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2019/09/27/future-forward-admits-of-hiring-a-lobbyist-for-thanathorns-us-visit/
US Department of Justice - Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), Search (Thanathorn):
https://search.justice.gov/search?query=thanathorn&op=Search&affiliate=justice_fara
US Department of Justice - FARA, Exhibit A to Registration Statement:
https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6582-Exhibit-AB-20190703-3.pdf
US Department of Justice - FARA, Supplemental Statement (page 26 of PDF):
https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6582-Supplemental-Statement-20190930-2.pdf
Freedom House - Board and Leadership:
https://freedomhouse.org/about-us/board-leadership
Freedom House - Board Biographies (Michael Chertoff):
https://freedomhouse.org/about-us/board-and-leadership/board-trustees-member-biographies#Chertoff
Huffington Post - Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed For Cashing In On Government Experience:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fear_pays_chertoff_n_787711
Freedom House - Board Biographies (Carol Adelman):
https://freedomhouse.org/about-us/board-and-leadership/board-trustees-member-biographies#Adelman
Freedom House - Board Members (2011):
https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/BoardMembers.pdf
Prachatai (via The Nation) - Thaksin still fighting:
https://prachatai.com/english/node/221
Independent - John Negroponte: The most powerful man in Iraq?:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-negroponte-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-45658.html
Freedom House - FIW Acknowledgements (2017):
https://freedomhouse.org/fiw-2017-acknowledgements
Freedom House - FIW Acknowledgements (2020):
https://freedomhouse.org/fiw-2020-acknowledgements
Thai PBS - Thanathorn vows to bring people onto streets after rally in downtown Bangkok:
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thanathorn-vows-to-bring-people-onto-streets-after-rally-in-downtown-bangkok/
BBC - Thai protests: Lawyer Anon Nampa among nine arrested in sweep against activists:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53844232
Frontline Defenders - Arnon Nampa:
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/arnon-nampa#:~:text=Arnon%20Nampa%20is%20a%20human,coup%20of%2022%20May%202014.
US National Endowment for Democracy - Thailand (2014):
https://web.archive.org/web/20150810021157/https://www.ned.org/region/asia/thailand-2014/
Voice of America - Thai Protest Leader: 'Our Demands Are Supremely Clear':
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/thai-protest-leader-our-demands-are-supremely-clear
The Nation - iLaw launches petition for charter rewrite:
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30392491
iLaw - About Us:
https://www.ilaw.or.th/about

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