‘US, UK undermine Egypt sovereignty’

A total of 43 foreign and Egyptian activists, including the son of the US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, accused of receiving illegal funds and carrying out political activities in the country, will stand trial in a Cairo court on Sunday.

The case, which involves American employees of 4 US-based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) has caused a crisis in US-Egypt relations as Egyptian authorities called it US meddling in the country’s internal affairs.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Edward Spannaus, editor of the Executive Intelligence Review, to share his opinion on this issue.

The following is a transcript of the interview:

Press TV: Sir, among these NGOs are the US funded NDI [the National Democratic Institute] and the IRI [the International Republican Institute]. Tell us more about these institutions and what type of activities they were conducting in post-Mubarak Egypt.

These organizations specifically the IRI are coupled with attempts to what influence political outcomes in the countries that they are operating, aren’t they?

Spannaus: Yes, well this is actually a British operation, this is un-American. These groups came out of a meeting and a speech that President Ronald Reagan had in London with Margaret Tachter in 1982 at Chatham House, the world institute of international affairs and this launched something called project democracy which is just an outright attack on national sovereignty.

It is an extension of the old British Empire game that comes out of Oxford University, the Rhodes Trust of Cecil Rhodes and of its devout perpetuating to British Empire which today means free trade and globalization.

So these groups go in and they are funded by the US but as I said, it is not really an American agenda. This is a British agenda and their role is to undermine existing governments in the name of free trade, so-called democracy and globalization.

Press TV: Well Sam Lahood I believe is in the US embassy in Egypt. If the Egyptian rulers insist and ask on him to stand trial for the pending charges, how will the US respond to that and where will it lead US-Egyptian relations?

Spannaus: Well it will undoubtedly lead to a deterioration. I think the best thing would be for the United States to pull these people out. I am not in favor of saying somebody necessarily goes on trial and be put in jail but the US should pull them out, they should pull these people out of every country.

These are the people that are behind the so-called colored revolutions around the world particularly at Natchez case is in Russia where the US ambassador, the new US ambassador Michael McFaul is not an expert on Russia.

He is an expert on democracy so-called, and he comes out of this same group, out of Oxford as does the US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, well of course is meddling in all kinds in Syria and in all over the place.

So the US should pull these people back, should shut this operation down because they are not promoting true American values. As I said, they are promoting the values of British free trade, globalization and the end of national sovereignty.

That is what these so-called democracy groups are really all about.

AHK/JR

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