*SeaLight, formerly Project Myoushu (‘transparency’)

**Presidential Communications Group:

The Philippine Information Agency is the main development communication arm of the government.

The PIA directly serves the Presidency…

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Its tagline is “Empowering Communities”. The PIA works with community stakeholders, including local government units, line agencies, private entities, schools, colleges and universities, civil society organizations, and other groups in ensuring proper dissemination of information at the grassroots level. The agency advocates responsible sharing of information and responsible use of social media. Its current management and personnel work with the mantra and belief that “a well-informed Filipino is an empowered Filipino”.

Currently, the PIA is under the direct supervision of the Office of the President and absorbed offices previously under the PCOO, namely the Bureau of Communications Services, the Freedom of Information – Project Management Office, and the Good Governance Office.

***Jose Torres, Jr:

Jose Torres, Jr., is editor-at-large of the Catholic Asian news site LiCAS.news. He is also editorial consultant of Radio Veritas Asia. He finished his Multimedia Journalism studies at the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Radio Veritas (People Power Revolution was a ‘color revolution’):

REAGAN AND THE PHILIPPINES: Setting Marcos Adrift

The claim was specious. William H. Overholt, an American banker based in Hong Kong, whose wife was the daughter of a retired Filipino general, raised money for Aquino’s campaign and provided for her security by recruiting former operatives from British and Australian intelligence. James B. Reuter, a Jesuit priest from New Jersey, ran Radio Veritas, which broadcast Aquino’s speeches and other opposition messages in Manila. Radio Veritas was supported with United States Agency for International Development funds that had been funneled through the Asia Foundation. Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, also played a key role as co-chairman of a delegation of 20 American congressmen, state officials, clergymen and others chosen to observe the voting.

Konrad Adenauer Foundation:

The Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University (ACFJ) opens multimedia program

Wikipedia:

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (German: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, KAS) is a German political party foundation associated with but independent of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). … It is a member of the Martens Centre, the official foundation and think tank of the European People’s Party (EPP).

SourceWatch:

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) is a German Christian Democrat (CDU) party affiliated, state-funded, foundation that seeks to influence political outcomes in lesser developed world by influencing political parties or moulding civil society. KAS is similar organization to the multiple political manipulation organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy (in the US), Westminster Foundation for Democracy (in the UK), Friedrich Naumann Foundation (also in Germany); Canada, the Netherlands, France… all have similar organizations. Organizations like KAS or NED attempt to influence political outcomes in countries where they might have economic or political interests. All these groups aim to foster civic groups and political parties in lesser developed countries that play along with the Western favored model of neoliberalism (in politics and economics).

NED et. al.: The CIA’s Successors and Collaborators (archived):

The battle of ideas

In 1975 the CIA was investigated by the Senate, particularly its involvement in plots against political leaders throughout the world, including Patrice Lumumba, Allende and Fidel Castro. The success of revolutionary movements in Africa and Latin America forced the US to recognise that although the strategy of infiltrating social organisations remained crucial, the tactics were counter-productive. So, “to wage the battle of ideas, the Johnson administration recommended the establishment of a public-private mechanism to fund overseas activities openly” (3).

The American Political Foundation (APF), established in 1979, was a coalition of the Democratic and Republican parties, union leaders and employers, conservative academics and institutions relating to foreign policy. It was based on a model developed in West Germany, where the four major political parties had set up government-funded foundations as a response to the cold war. The most important of these was the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, linked to the Christian Democratic Union (4).

In January 1983 President Ronald Reagan signed the secret directive NSDD-77 (5), the result of what he described in a speech to the British parliament as a process designed “to foster the infrastructure of democracy” and “to determine how the United States can best contribute… to the global campaign for democracy” (6). The directive called for “close collaboration with foreign policy efforts – diplomatic, economic, military – as well as a close relationship with sectors of the American society – labour, business, universities, philanthropy, political parties, press.”

Reagan kept quiet about the directive when he presented an APF proposal, the Democracy Programme, to Congress. An act of 23 November 1983 ratified the creation of the NED. At a ceremony at the White House in December he announced: “This programme will not be hidden in shadows. It’ll stand proudly in the spotlight. And, of course, it will be consistent with our own national interests” (7).

American Political Foundation:

The American Political Foundation is described by Rightweb as being “a bipartisan commission” that was “established by the State Department that began to address the problem of having U.S.-funded ‘soft-side’ operations overseas perceived as CIA fronts.”