Fortune 500 Awards Tunisian President Chatham House PrizeCorporate-financier think-tank Chatham House showers Tunisias President Moncef Marzouki with accolades and praise. The Chatham House, a corporate-financier funded think-tank based in the United Kingdom, announced on its website earlier this week that it had awarded President Moncef Marzouki of Tunisia their 2012 Chatham House Prize. Chatham House claimed on their website that Marzouki has ensured that Tunisia remains at the forefront of the new democratic wave in the Middle East and North Africa. Marzouki, who accepted the award in person (presented by the Duke of York in London) was one of several nominees which also included Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Previous recipients include US-British backed democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar. Image: Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki speaks in London before the Chatham House, a think-tank representing the collective interests of the largest corporations and financial institutions on Earth. Many of these special interests are responsible for the years of support he received while in exile, laundered through fronts such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), cultivating him as the future head of the Wests new client-regime in Tunisia. Ironically, Tunisias streets are now, just days later, filled with protesters decrying the very same economic conditions that spurred protests early in 2011 leading to Moncefs ascension to power. Marzoukis security forces have begun cracking down using teargas and birdshot, leaving 250 wounded. Protesters claim that some have also been killed, but government sources deny this, and the Western media, unlike in 2011, has granted Tunisias new strongman the benefit of the doubt. Marzouki, who had been living in exile in Paris France for years, was head of the Tunisian League for Human Rights, a US National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros Open Society-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) member organization. He was also founder and head of the Arab Commission for Human Rights, a collaborating institution with the US NED World Movement for Democracy (WMD) including for a Conference on Human Rights selfnewss in Exile and a participant in the WMD third assembly alongside Marzoukis Tunisian League for Human Rights, sponsored by NED, Soros Open Society, and USAID. Image: A visual representation of the National Endowment for Democracys corporate-financier ties found across their Board of Directors. Far from human rights advocates, they are in fact simply leveraging such issues to disguise what is in reality corporate-financier hegemonic expansion. Like the Chatham House, NED is run by and for immense Western corporations and financial institutions, and features upon its board of directions a combination of pro-war Neo-Conservatives and representatives of some of the largest corporate-financier interests in America. Marzouki, like the heads other Western client regimes installed in the wake of the US-engineered Arab Spring, has been long-cultivated, well-funded, and vigorously supported for assuming his role in the creation of subservient Tunisian proxy government. Even as he repeats the very abuses his predecessor, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was accused of, he will continue to receive the Wests support, along with his counterpart in Egypt Mohammed Morsi, in direct contradiction of nearly two years of US State Department rhetoric, rhetoric still being sounded against Syria, Russia, China, Iran, and a myriad of other nations still slated for destabilization and regime change. Marzoukis Chatham House Prize is just the latest exhibit in a long history of servile obedience to the West. While Egypt currently is taking the spotlight, it would be wise to keep the Wests other proxy in the region under close scrutiny, especially as his security forces begin sending protesters to the hospital and to their graves. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 