From New left Project
"The increasingly close relationship between Google and the US “democracy promotion” apparatus recently took a new turn with the launch of a new, private, non-profit organisation designed to leverage the resources of major US corporations in manipulating democratic movements in (initially) four nations: Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Russia.
Strengthening America’s Global Engagement (SAGE) marks the latest permutation of the long-established nexus of US foreign policy and the interests of capital. It represents a new blueprint for US “strategic communication” which promises to create a new arm for US propaganda, able to do things that traditional government-led operations can’t, to work more quickly, and to insulate propaganda efforts from partisan wrangling, budget cuts and elections. In the words of the SAGE business plan, as a 5013c non profit private corporation, “SAGE will be independent of government, nonpartisan, and will transcend presidential administrations”[i]."
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