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(TALKZIMBABWE) Joke of The Year: Tsvangirai receives the Averell Harriman Award

COMMENT - For more on the National Republican Institute, read Stephen Gowans' "Overthrow Inc.: Peter Ackerman’s quest to do what the CIA used to do, and make it seem progressive". For more on the Averell Harriman award and it's role in 'effecting regime change', read Michael Barker's "Promoting Humanitarian Imperialism in Cuba and Beyond".

Joke of The Year: Tsvangirai receives the Averell Harriman Award
By: Sixpence Manyengavana
Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 2:28 am

THE National Democratic Institute for international Affairs (NDI) of America conferred Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai with Averell Harriman Award in the United States on 10 May 2010 at its 25th Anniversary celebration.

The award ceremony hosted by former US Secretary of State, former award winner and NDI chairperson, Madeleine Albright is honouring PM Tsvangirai for his “tireless efforts to restore democracy, human rights and the rule of law to Zimbabwe.”

The National Democratic Institute for international Affairs was founded as a non-profit organisation with the purpose of working to strengthen and expand “democracy” throughout the world. With the help of volunteer experts, NDI provides assistance to civic and political leaders deemed as advancing democratic values and practices.

The organisation works with democrats in every region throughout the world with the aim of building political and civic organisations and promoting citizen participation and accountability.

The Averell Harriman Award was founded in 1913 by Mary Averell Harriman in honour of her late husband Edward Harriman who was a renowned politician.

The award is currently being sponsored by the Edward Harriman Memorial Awards Institute. The award is NDI’s highest honour that is presented every year to an individual or organisation that is deemed as having demonstrated a commitment to “democracy and human rights.”

By conferring this award, NDI is actually paying tribute to Edward Harriman’s legacy and his so called dedication to democracy and internationalism. The awarding criterion is based on the following attributes; the recipient must have advanced the cause of democracy and human rights for a sustained period. The recipient must have reflected a respect for universal human values and has served as a catalyst for democratic transition.

The incumbent must be a leader in any political arena who is recognized internationally for their courageous behaviour. The incumbent must represent a large organisation of coalition that has played a central role in advancing democratic change. Lastly, the candidate must come from a country or group with which NDI has worked.

The award has been won by more than forty seven (47) people including Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa who once urged the international community to intervene in Zimbabwe by force through deployment of UN forces and also urged African Union leaders to refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the administration of President Mugabe.

Another recipient of the award is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the iron lady of Liberia who promptly enslaved the indigenous people using the social system of her old American masters when she became President of Liberia. Former US President Jimmy Carter who once said that Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis was far worse than he could have imagined and was a member of the group of Elders who were denied entry into Zimbabwe under the guise of assessing humanitarian crisis, is amongst former recipients. Madeleine Albright the US Ambassador to the UN who co-authored a bad report of humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe together with Desmond Tutu is again a recipient of the notorious award. The caliber of the recipients of this award speaks for itself.

The United States considers that the preservation of its interests could better be achieved through election of what it considers to be democratic governments formed by political elites who identify with the political class in the United States.

This is done by supplying election observers who will validate the election of someone who the U.S. government would like to see elected or they can undermine election results of someone opposed by the US government. The US creates a political framework compatible with its interests by providing funding for the parties.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) spent US$80 million on voter education and training in Iraq through two organisations, the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI). These organisations have a long history in places like Haiti of favouring groups that are friendly to Washington and undermining “unfriendly” or dissident groups.

The NDI is one of the many organisations used by America to further its foreign policy interests, as such the recipients of the Averell Harriman Award given by NDI are the agents that are used to expand “American democracy” worldwide. It is not by coincidence that the Prime Minister has been chosen as the recipient of such an award.

The award is given to people who offer themselves to be used as puppets in regime change agendas; people who are prepared to denounce their kinsfolk; sellouts who do not appreciate and recognize illustrious work done by revolutionary movements in Africa.

These are people who wine and dine with the enemy like the Bible’s Judas Iscariot; people who acknowledge sovereign rights of their western masters at the expense of their own motherland.

Labels: AWARDS, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, NEOCOLONIALISM, PETER ACKERMAN, USAID

posted by MrK @ 4:43 AM