“Not My President! Not My President!” Day after day, in cities from coast to coast, the chanting mobs of rioters have illegally blocked streets and freeways, set fires, thrown Molotov cocktails, injured police officers, destroyed property, and defaced public buildings with graffiti. Portland, Oregon, a bastion of “progressive” Democrats, has been the epicenter of much of the violent action aimed at president-elect Donald Trump. Of course, as we have previously reported, not only did most of the Portland rioters who were arrested fail to register to vote, a large percentage of them appear to be professional, paid protesters.
Many of them, no doubt, were hired in response to the advertisements for paid anti-Trump protesters that appeared on Craigslist and other media in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere. Many of these “spontaneous” protests/riots would not have occurred without organized efforts involving hundreds of busses transporting thousands of protesters/rioters, many of whom appear to have travelled across state lines.
Many of the anti-Trump rioters, then, would appear not only to have violated state laws against rioting and inciting to riot, but also federal law against the same crime. Specifically, the rioters could be (and should be) charged under Title 18 U.S. Code § 2101, which provides
(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent —
(1) to incite a riot; or
(2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or
(3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or
(4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot....
Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
The definition section of 18 U.S. Code § 2102 defines the crime of rioting this way:
(a) As used in this chapter, the term “riot” means a public disturbance involving (1) an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual.
Obviously, the anti-Trump rioters who were arrested for starting fires and committing other acts of violence and public disturbance should be prosecuted under applicable state laws, and those who traveled interstate to do the same should also be prosecuted under federal law as well. But what about the organizers of the riots, those who hired the rioters and transported the perpetrators across state lines to engage in this criminal activity? Are they not also culpable under the “aid and abet” provisions cited above? Are they not also liable for prosecution under the federal conspiracy statute (18 U.S. Code § 371) which provides:
If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
The Obama Department of Justice had no problem with charging Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond — respected, hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding citizens — with terrorism and arson, for accidentally burning a few acres of “public land” while carrying out a controlled burn on their own land. The Obama/Lynch DOJ prosecuted these dangerous “terrorists” and threw them into federal prison. (See here and here).
When supporters of the Hammonds, led by Nevada ranching family members Ammon and Ryan Bundy peacefully occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in protest earlier this year, the Obama administration mobilized all its resources in response, including an ambush that resulted in the shooting death of Hammond supporter Robert LaVoy Finicum.
The Obama administration and its media allies were stunned a few weeks ago when an Oregon jury acquitted the Bundy brothers and their five additional co-defendants of all charges, including charges of conspiracy to use “force, intimidation, and threats” against federal employees. Will the Obama/Lynch DOJ show any similar zeal to prosecute the thugs who carried out the violent riots in Portland, Oregon — or in the many other venues around the country? Will they prosecute the co-conspirators who financed and planned the riots? That is highly unlikely, since the financiers of the “#NotMyPresident” anti-Trump rallies are some of the Democrat Party’s biggest donors. Heading the list of the Rioters-R-Us financiers is top Obama/Clinton fundraiser George Soros (shown at right), the Daddy Warbucks of all causes socialist and subversive.
Over the past couple of decades, the hedge fund billionaire and globalist gadfly has poured hundreds of millions of dollars of his ill-gotten gains into hundreds of organizations and dozens of schemes aimed at empowering global government through the United Nations and destroying our constitutional limitations on government. Here is a short list of the many violent, illegal, and/or unethical rent-a-mob actions and Astroturf “movements” for which “philanthropist” George Soros should be called to account:
• The recent anti-Trump riots have been reliably reported as the handiwork of paid “protesters” organized by MoveOn.org, Planned Parenthood, #BlackLivesMatter, and other groups that have been heavily funded by Soros.
• Top Hillary Clinton Campaign and Democratic National Committee operatives have been exposed in the undercover videos by Project Veritas boasting of their illegal activities, including voter fraud, inciting riots, and instigating violence at Trump rallies. Soros’ funding ties to these operations and his past funding of similar illicit activities indicate that, at the very least, he be investigated for possible prosecution regarding these serious crimes as well.
Various organizations, including those funded by Soros, have announced plans for massive demonstrations leading up to, and on, Inauguration Day, January 21. Based upon the rhetoric of the organizers and the recent record of their activities across the country, there is very good reason to believe that these upcoming “protests” will be as violent and lawless as those we have already witnessed.
George Soros has been allowed to operate above the law for too long. It is time that he — and other uber-rich activist financiers like him — be put on notice that they will be held accountable for funding criminal activity. These “Lords of Chaos” must find out that they too are subject to the same rule of law that is binding on the rest of us mere mortals.
INTRODUCING
GEORGE SOROS. AFTER READING THIS LONG DOCUMENTED "RESUME" OF ANTI
AMERICA GEORGE SOROS... IF ANY OF YOU QUESTION HIS LONG TERM PLAN YOU
ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
How this evil man has lived in our midst for so many years untouched is beyond me.
I
call on some Patriotic American do do the Patriotic thing. His version
of America is not what our Forefathers created as the UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA. This interloper arrive in America 1959 and has worked on
destroying America since then.
Do we let him destroy us or do we Destroy him and his demon seed ? Thats the choice you must make after reading this post.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
New York hedge
fund manager George Soros is one of the most politically powerful
individuals on earth. Since the mid-1980s in particular, he has used his
immense influence to help reconfigure the political landscapes of
several countries around the world—in some cases playing a key role in
toppling regimes that had held the reins of government for years, even
decades. Vis à vis the United States, a strong case can be made for the
claim that Soros today affects American politics and culture more
profoundly that any other living person.
Much of Soros's influence derives from his multi-billion-dollar personal fortune, which is further leveraged by at least another $25 billion in investor assets controlled by his firm, Soros Fund Management.
An equally significant source of Soros's power, however, is his
passionate messianic zeal. Soros views himself as a missionary with
something of a divine mandate to transform the world and its
institutions into something better—as he sees it.
Over the years, Soros has given voice to this sense of grandiosity
many times and in a variety of different ways. In his 1987 book The Alchemy of Finance,
for instance, he wrote: “I admit that I have always harbored an
exaggerated view of self-importance—to put it bluntly, I fancied myself
as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes or, even better,
a scientist like Einstein.” Expanding on this theme in his 1991 book Underwriting Democracy,
Soros said: “If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic
fantasies with me from childhood,” fantasies which “I wanted to indulge …
to the extent that I could afford.” In a June 1993 interview with The Independent, Soros, who is an atheist, said he saw himself as “some kind of god, the creator of everything.” In an interview
two years later, he portrayed himself as someone who shared numerous
attributes with “God in the Old Testament” — “[Y]ou know, like
invisible. I was pretty invisible. Benevolent. I was pretty benevolent.
All-seeing. I tried to be all-seeing.”
Soros told his biographer Michael Kaufman that his “goal” was nothing
less ambitious than “to become the conscience of the world” by using his
charitable foundations, which will be discussed at length in this pamphlet, to bankroll organizations and causes that he deems worthwhile.
“I realized [as a young man] that it's money that makes the world go
round,” says Soros, “so I might as well make money.… But having made it,
I could then indulge my social concerns.”
Invariably, those concerns center around a desire to change the world
generally—and America particularly—into something new, something
consistent with his vision of “social justice.” Claiming to be “driven”
by “illusions, or perhaps delusions, of grandeur,” Soros has humorously described himself as “a kind of nut who wants to have an impact” on the workings of the world. The billionaire's longtime friend
Byron Wien, currently the vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory
Services, offers this insight: “You must understand [Soros] thinks he’s
been anointed by God to solve insoluble problems. The proof is that he
has been so successful at making so much [money]. He therefore thinks he
has a responsibility to give money away”—to causes that are consistent
with his values and agendas.
GEORGE SOROS'S ROOTS AND DEVELOPMENT
George Soros was born to Tividar and Erzebat Schwartz, non-practicing
Jews, in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930. Tivadar was an attorney
by profession, but the consuming passion of his life was the promotion
of Esperanto—an artificial, “universal” language created during the
1880s in hopes that people worldwide might be persuaded to drop their
native tongues and speak Esperanto instead—thereby, in theory at least,
minimizing their nationalist impulses while advancing intercultural
harmony. In 1936, Tivadar changed his family surname to Soros—a
future-tense Esperanto verb meaning “will soar.”
When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, Tivadar decided to split up
his family so as to minimize the chance that all its members would be
killed together. For each of them—his wife and two sons—he purchased forged papers identifying them as Christians; paid government officials to conceal his family's Jewish heritage from the German and Hungarian fascists; and bribed Gentile families to take them into their homes. As for George in particular, the father paid a Hungarian government official named Baumbach to claim George as his Christian godson, “Sandor Kiss,” and to let
the boy live with him in Budapest. One of Baumbach's duties was to
deliver deportation notices to Hungary's Jews, confiscating their
property and turning it over to Germany. Young George Soros sometimes
accompanied the official on his rounds.
Many years later, in December 1998, a CBS interviewer would ask Soros
whether he had ever felt any guilt about his association with Baumbach
during that period. Soros replied: “… I was only a spectator ... I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.”
Soros today recalls the German occupation of Hungary as “probably the
happiest year of my life.” “For me,” he elaborates, “it was a very
positive experience. It's a strange thing because you see incredible
suffering around you and the fact you are in considerable danger
yourself. But you're fourteen years old and you don't believe that it
can actually touch you. You have a belief in yourself. You have a belief
in your father. It's a very happy-making, exhilarating experience.”
In 1947 the Soros family relocated from Hungary to England, where
George attended the London School of Economics (LSE). There, he was
exposed to the works of the Viennese-born philosopher Karl Popper, who
taught at LSE and whom Soros would later call his “spiritual mentor.” Though Soros never studied
directly under Popper, he read the latter's works and submitted some
essays to him for review and comment. Most notably, Popper's 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies
introduced Soros to the concept of an “open society,” a theme that
would play a central role in Soros's thought and activities for the rest
of his life.
The term “open society” was originally coined in 1932 by the French
philosopher Henri Louis Bergson, to describe societies whose moral codes
were founded upon “universal” principles seeking to enhance the welfare
of all mankind—as opposed to “closed” societies that placed
self-interest above any concern for other nations and cultures.
Popper readily embraced this concept and expanded upon it. In his view,
the open society was a place that permitted its citizens the right to
criticize and change its institutions as they saw fit; he rejected the
imposed intellectual conformity, central planning, and historical
determinism of Marxist doctrine.
By Popper's reckoning, a society was “closed”—and thus undesirable—if
it assumed that it was in any way superior to other societies. Likewise,
any belief system or individual claiming to be in possession of
“ultimate truth” was an “enemy” of the open society as well. Popper
viewed all knowledge as conjectural rather than certain, as evolving
rather than fixed.
Thus, by logical extension, Popper did not
share the American founders' confident assertion that certain truths
were “self-evident,” and that certain rights—such as the right to “life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” as referenced in the
Declaration of Independence—were “unalienable” and thus not subject to
doubt, because they had been granted to mankind by the ultimate
authority, the “Creator.”
We shall see that George Soros, as he grew to maturity, would likewise
reject the founders' premise. Indeed Soros would harbor great disdain
for modern-day American political figures who displayed unshakable
confidence in their own culture's nobility, and who embraced the tenets
of the Declaration and the U.S. Constitution as timeless, immutable
truths. To Soros, “Popper's greatest contribution to philosophy” was his
teaching that “the ultimate truth remains permanently beyond our
reach.”
After graduating in 1952 from LSE, Soros joined the London brokerage
firm Singer and Friedlander, where he became proficient in international
arbitrage, which he defines as “buying securities in one country and
selling them in another.”
Four years later, he relocated to New York to work as a stock trader on
Wall Street. Because Soros “did not particularly care for” the
“commercial, crass” United States, he had no intention of settling
permanently in America. Rather, he had devised a “five-year plan” to
save some $500,000 and then return to Europe.
His plan changed, however, when he found work as a portfolio manager at
the investment bank Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Inc., where his
career—as if to fulfill the prophecy embedded in the family surname his
father had adopted two decades earlier—soared to new heights.
In 1959 Soros moved to Greenwich Village, New York, where early
stirrings of the Sixties counterculture were already being felt. In
September 1960 he married Annaliese Witschak, who would be his wife until the couple divorced 23 years later.
In 1961 Soros became a U.S. citizen, and two years later he and
Annaliese had their first child, a son. In the Village, it is likely
that Soros was exposed to the ideas of the prominent socialist Michael
Harrington, who mingled with fellow radicals and socialists almost nightly at a tavern situated barely a stone's throw from Soros's residence. In 1962 Harrington wrote The Other America,
a book lamenting the fact that a substantial “invisible” underclass
continued to exist even as the country at large prospered, and
suggesting that a “war on poverty” was needed to rectify this. President
Lyndon Johnson read and admired the book, and its ideas greatly
influenced his Great Society policies of government-imposed
redistribution of wealth.
Another prominent Village personality
of the era—the poet, New Left radical, and psychedelic-drug guru Allen
Ginsberg—would eventually become a “lifelong friend” of Soros. Though
Soros may not have formally met Ginsberg until around 1980—long after
his years in the Village—the billionaire today credits Ginsberg for
having opened his eyes to the benefits of drug legalization, which has
been one of Soros's pet projects throughout his philanthropic career.
In 1969 Soros established the “Double Eagle Fund” for Bleichroeder with
$4 million in capital, including $250,000 of his own money. Four years
later, Soros and his assistant at Bleichroeder, Jim Rogers, set up a
private partnership called Soros Fund Management. They subsequently
changed the Double Eagle Fund's name to The Soros Fund. In 1979 they
renamed it again—The Quantum Fund; its value grew to $381 million by
1980, and more than $1 billion by 1985.
SOROS THE PHILANTHROPIST
It was in 1979 that Soros began testing the proverbial waters of
philanthropy. Five years later he launched, in the country of his birth,
the first of his many Open Society Foundations—named after the concept
advanced by Karl Popper—to help “build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.”
But it was not until 1987, the year he opened his Moscow office, that
Soros began to disseminate truly large amounts of money to various
groups and causes. “My spending rose from $3 million in 1987 to more
than $300 million a year by 1992,” he said. During this period, Soros established a series of foundations throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
He happily observed that because of his extraordinary wealth, major
political figures “suddenly became very interested in seeing me…. [M]y
influence increased.” Today Soros's Open Society Foundations are active in more than 70 countries around the world.
In 1993 Soros established the flagship of the Soros foundation network—the New York City-based Open Society Foundations (OSF),
which went by the name of the Open Society Institute until 2010. While
OSF's philanthropy extends to a number of nations around the world, it
is chiefly devoted to injecting capital into American groups and causes.
In his book Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, Soros
explains that the “open society” which he seeks to advance by means of
philanthropy, “stands for freedom, democracy, rule of law, human rights,
social justice, and social responsibility as a universal idea.”
But of course, abstract concepts like these, draped in vestments of
lofty rhetoric, can mean radically different things to different people.
Entrusted with the task of defining the foregoing terms for the OSF,
and for articulating OSF's agendas from the outset, was Aryeh Neier,
whom Soros appointed to serve as president not only of OSF, but of the
entire Soros Foundation Network. Thirty-four years earlier, Neier had
created the Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS), which became the largest and most important radical group of the
1960s. SDS aspired to overthrow America's democratic institutions,
remake its government in a Marxist image, and undermine the nation's war
efforts in Vietnam. (A particularly militant faction of SDS would later
break away to form the Weather Underground, a notorious domestic terror organization with a Marxist-Leninist agenda.) Following his stint with SDS, Neier worked fifteen years for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—including eight years as its national executive director. After that, he spent twelve years as executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), an organization he founded in 1978.
THE SOROS AGENDAS
Both the ACLU and HRW have long promoted one of the central contentions
of Soros's Open Society Foundations: the notion that America
is institutionally an oppressive nation and a habitual violator of human
rights both at home and abroad—indeed, the very antithesis of the type
of “open society” Soros reveres. Consider first the ACLU, whose advisory
board once included the former Weather Underground terrorist Bernardine Dohrn.
The ACLU has opposed virtually all post-9/11 national security measures
enacted by the U.S. government, depicting those measures not only as
excessively harsh and invasive generally, but also as discriminatory against Muslims in particular.
Moreover, the organization has filed numerous lawsuits seeking to limit
the government's ability to locate, monitor, and apprehend terrorist
operatives. It consistently depicts American society as one that is rife
with intractable racial injustice. And it works tirelessly to protect illegal immigrants against “governmental abuse and discrimination.”
These (and many other) ACLU activities and policy positions are
entirely consistent with those of Aryeh Neier and George Soros, as
evidenced by the fact that between 1999 and 2008, OSF awarded $8.69
million in grants to the ACLU Foundation.
Neier's other training ground, Human Rights Watch,
has a long history of pointing an accusatory finger at America's
allegedly numerous transgressions. Most notably, HRW has derided the
U.S. war on terror as a foolhardy endeavor rooted in blindness to the
realization that terrorism stems, in large measure, from America's
failure “to promote fundamental rights around the world.” In a March 2007 speech, HRW executive director Kenneth Roth charged
that the United States, by routinely “using torture and inhumane
treatment” to deal with its foes, had “severely damaged its credibility
when it comes to promoting human rights” in other nations.
Between 2000 and 2008, the Open Society Foundations awarded grants and
other contributions to HRW that collectively totaled $6,386,477. Then, in September 2010, Soros announced that he would soon be giving HRW another $100 million. Notably, Soros himself once served on HRW's Europe and Central Asia Advisory Committee.
OSF's total assets today exceed $1.9 billion.
Each year, the Foundations award scores of millions of dollars in
grants to organizations that—like the ACLU and HRW—promote worldviews
and objectives accordant with those of George Soros.
Following is a sampling of the major agendas advanced by groups that
Soros and OSF support financially. Listed under each category heading
are a few OSF donees fitting that description.
Organizations that accuse America of violating the civil rights and liberties of many of its residents:
- The Arab American Institute impugns many of the “sweeping” and “unreasonable” post-9/11 counterterrorism measures that have unfairly “targeted Arab Americans.”
- The Bill of Rights Defense Committee has persuaded
the political leadership in more than 400 American cities and counties
to pledge noncompliance with the anti-terrorism measure known as the
Patriot Act, on grounds that the legislation tramples on people's civil
liberties.
Organizations that depict America as a nation whose enduring racism must be counterbalanced by racial and ethnic preferences in favor of nonwhites:
Organizations that specifically portray the American criminal-justice system as racist and inequitable:
- The Sentencing Project asserts that prison-sentencing patterns discriminate against nonwhites, and seeks “to reduce the reliance on incarceration.”
- Critical Resistance contends that crime stems from “inequality and powerlessness,” which can be rectified through wholesale redistribution of wealth.
- The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights charges that criminal laws “are enforced in a manner that is massively and pervasively biased.”
Organizations that call for massive social change, and for the
recruitment and training of activist leaders to help foment that change:
- The Center for Community Change is “dedicated to finding the [progressive] stars of tomorrow and preparing them to lead.”
- The Gamaliel Foundation teaches social-change “techniques and methodologies.”
- The Ruckus Society promotes “nonviolent direct action against unjust institutions and policies.”
- The American Institute for Social Justice aims to “transform poor communities” by agitating for increased government spending on social-welfare programs.
- The Institute for America's Future “regularly convenes and educates progressive leaders, organizations, candidates, opinion makers, and activists.”
- People for the American Way, founded by television producer Norman Lear to oppose the allegedly growing influence of the “religious right,” seeks “to cultivate new generations of leaders and activists” who will promote “progressive values.”
- Democracy For America operates an academy
that has taught more than 10,000 recruits nationwide how to “focus,
network, and train grassroots activists in the skills and strategies to
take back our country.”
- The Midwest Academy
trains radical activists in the tactics of direct action,
confrontation, and intimidation. Author Stanley Kurtz has described this
academy as a “crypto-socialist organization” that was “arguably the
most influential force in community organizing from the seventies
through the nineties.”
Organizations that disparage capitalism while promoting a
dramatic expansion of social-welfare programs funded by ever-escalating
taxes:
- The Center for Economic and Policy Research asserts
that “the welfare state has softened the impact” of “the worst excesses
and irrationalities of a market system” and its “injustices.”
- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities advocates greater tax expenditures on such assistance programs as Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, food stamps, and low-income housing initiatives.
- The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights was founded by the revolutionary communist Van Jones.
This anti-poverty organization claims that “decades of disinvestment in
our cities,” coupled with America's allegedly imperishable racism, have “led to despair and homelessness.”
- The Emma Lazarus Fund: In 1996 George Soros said he was “appalled”
by the recently signed welfare-reform law that empowered states to
limit legal immigrants' access to public assistance. In response to this
“mean-spirited attack on immigrants,” he launched an Open Society
Foundations project known as the Emma Lazarus Fund and endowed it with $50 million.
Organizations that support socialized medicine in the United States:
- Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a vast network of organizations supporting,
ideally, a “single-payer” model where the federal government would be
in charge of financing and administering the entire U.S. healthcare
system.
During the political debate over “Obamacare” in 2009 and 2010, HCAN’s
strategy was to try to achieve such a system incrementally, first by
implementing a “public option”—i.e., a government insurance agency to
“compete” with private insurers, so that Americans would be “no longer at the mercy of the private insurance industry.”
Because such an agency would not need to show a profit in order to
remain in business, and because it could tax and regulate its private
competitors in whatever fashion it pleased, this “public option” would
inevitably force private insurers out of the industry. In August 2009,
Soros pledged to give HCAN $5 million to promote its campaign for reform.
Organizations that strive to move American politics to the left by promoting the election of progressive political candidates:
- Project Vote
is the voter-mobilization arm of the notoriously corrupt ACORN, whose
voter-registration drives and get-out-the-vote initiatives have been
marred by massive levels of fraud and corruption.
- Catalist seeks “to help progressive organizations realize … electoral success by building and operating a robust national voter database.”
- The Brennan Center for Justice aims to “fully restore voting rights following criminal conviction”—significant because research shows that ex-felons are far likelier to vote for Democratic political candidates than for Republicans.
- The Progressive States Network seeks
to “pass progressive legislation in all fifty states by providing
coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to forward-thinking
state legislators.”
- The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, to which George Soros personally donated $8,000 in 2010, works “to elect bold progressive candidates to federal office … more often.”
Organizations that promote leftist ideals and worldviews in the media and the arts:
In May 2011, the Media Research Center reported
that from 2003-2011, Soros had spent more than $48 million "funding
media properties, including the infrastructure of news -- journalism
schools, investigative journalism and even industry organizations." Among the beneficiaries of Soros's money were such entities as: ABC, The American Prospect Inc. (the owner and publisher of The American Prospect magazine), the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Columbia School of Journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Free Press, the Independent Media Center, the Independent Media Institute, The Lens, the Media Fund, Media Matters For America, the Nation Institute, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, National Public Radio, NBC, the Organization of News Ombudsmen, the New York Times, the Pacifica Foundation, ProPublica, and the Washington Post, . Below are some brief descriptions of a few of these organizations:
- The American Prospect, Inc. is the owner and publisher of The American Prospect magazine, which tries to “counteract the growing influence of conservative media.”
- Free Press is a “media reform” organization co-founded by Robert McChesney, who calls for “a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system” and to “rebuil[d] the entire society on socialist principles.”
- The Independent Media Institute aims to “change the world” via projects like AlterNet, an online news magazine calling itself “a key player in the echo chamber of progressive ideas and vision.”
- The Nation Institute operates synergistically with the far-left Nation magazine, which works “to extend the reach of progressive ideas” into the American mainstream.
- The Pacifica Foundation owns and operates Pacifica Radio, awash from its birth with the socialist-Marxist rhetoric of class warfare and anti-capitalism.
- Media Matters For America: For a number of years, the Open Society Foundations gave indirect funding—filtering its grants first through other Soros-backed operations—to this “progressive research and information center” which “monitor[s]” and “correct[s] conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” In October 2010, Soros announced that he would soon donate $1 million directly to Media Matters.
- Sundance Institute: In 1996, Soros launched
his Soros Documentary Fund to produce “social justice” films that would
“spur awareness, action and social change.” In 2001, this Fund became
part of actor-director Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. Between 1996
and 2008, OSF earmarked at least $5.2 million for the production of
several hundred documentaries, many of which were highly critical of
capitalism, American society, or Western culture generally. In 2009, Soros pledged another $5 million to the Sundance Institute.
Organizations that seek to inject the American judicial system with leftist values:
- The Alliance for Justice consistently depicts Republican judicial nominees as “radical right-wing[ers]” and “extremists” whose views range far outside the boundaries of mainstream public opinion.
- The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy seeks to indoctrinate young law students to view the Constitution as an evolving or “living” document, and to reject “conservative buzzwords such as 'originalism' and 'strict construction.'”
- Justice at Stake
promotes legislation that would replace judicial elections with a
“merit-selection” system where a small committee of legal elites,
unaccountable to the public, would pick those most “qualified” to serve
as judges. OSF has spent at least $45.4 million on efforts to change the way judges are chosen in many American states.
Organizations that advance leftist agendas by infiltrating churches and religious congregations:
Think tanks that promote leftist policies:
- The Institute for Policy Studies
has long supported Communist and anti-American causes around the world.
It seeks to provide a corrective to the “unrestrained greed” of
“markets and individualism.”
- The New America Foundation tries to influence public opinion on such topics as healthcare, environmentalism, energy policy, and global governance.
- The Urban Institute favors socialized medicine, expansion of the federal welfare bureaucracy, and tax hikes for higher income-earners.
Organizations that promote open borders, mass immigration, a
watering down of current immigration laws, increased rights and benefits
for illegal aliens, and ultimately amnesty:
- The American Immigration Council—formerly
known as the the American Immigration Law Foundation—supports
“birthright citizenship” for children born to illegal immigrants in the
U.S.
- Casa de Maryland periodically sponsors “know your rights” training sessions to teach illegals how to evade punishment in the event that they are apprehended in an immigration raid.
- The Immigrant Legal Resource Center belongs to the sanctuary movement that tries to shield illegal aliens from the law.
- The Migration Policy Institute
advocates a more permissive U.S. refugee admissions and resettlement
policy, as well as more social-welfare benefits for illegals residing in
the U.S.
- LatinoJustice PRLDF is a legal advocacy group that “protects opportunities for all Latinos … especially the most vulnerable—new immigrants and the poor.”
- The Immigration Policy Center
states that “[r]equiring the 10-11 million unauthorized immigrants
residing in the U.S. to register with the government and meet
eligibility criteria in order to gain legal status is a key element of
comprehensive immigration reform.”
- The National Immigration Forum opposes the enhancement of the U.S. Border Patrol and the construction of a border fence to prevent illegal immigration.
- The National Immigration Law Center works to help low-income immigrants gain access to government-funded welfare programs on the same basis as legal American citizens.
Organizations that oppose virtually all post-9/11 national-security measures enacted by the U.S. government:
- The Center for Constitutional Rights, founded by four longtime supporters of communist causes, has condemned
the “immigration sweeps, ghost detentions, extraordinary rendition, and
every other illegal program the government has devised” in response to
“the so-called War on Terror.”
- The National Security Archive Fund
collects and publishes declassified documents (obtained through the
Freedom of Information Act) to a degree that compromises American
national security and the safety of intelligence agents.
Organizations that defend suspected anti-American terrorists and their abetters:
- The Constitution Project has supported such notorious figures as Salim Ahmed Hamdan (Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and chauffeur) and Jose Padilla
(an American Islamic convert and terrorist plotter). Moreover, the
Project contends that it is illegal for the U.S. government to detain
terror suspects if the evidence against them was obtained through “torture.”
- The Lynne Stewart Defense
Committee was established to support Lynne Stewart, who is a
criminal-defense attorney and an America-hating Maoist. Stewart was
convicted of illegally helping her incarcerated client, the “blind
sheik” Omar Abdel Rahman, pass messages to an Egypt-based Islamic terrorist organization. In September 2002, the Open Society Foundations gave $20,000 to this committee; OSF vice president Gara LaMarche characterized Ms. Stewart as a “human rights defender.”
Organizations that depict virtually all American military actions as unwarranted and immoral:
- Amnesty International: In 2005, this group's then-executive director William Schulz alleged that the United States had become “a leading purveyor and practitioner” of torture. Schulz’s remarks were echoed by Amnesty's then-secretary general Irene Khan, who charged
that the Guantanamo Bay detention center, where the U.S. was housing
several hundred captured terror suspects, “has become the gulag of our
time.”
- Global Exchange was founded by Medea Benjamin, a pro-Castro radical who helped establish a project known as Iraq Occupation Watch for the purpose of encouraging widespread desertion by “conscientious objectors” in the U.S. military.
In December 2004, Benjamin announced that Global Exchange would be
sending aid to the families of terrorist insurgents who were fighting
American troops in Iraq.
Organizations that advocate America’s unilateral disarmament and/or a steep reduction in its military spending:
- The American Friends Service Committee, which views America as the world's chief source of international strife, has long had a friendly relationship with the Communist Party USA. Lamenting
that “the United States spends 59% of the discretionary federal budget
on military-related expenses,” the Committee seeks to “realig[n]
national spending priorities and to increase the portion of the budget
that is spent on housing, quality education for all, medical care, and
fair wages.” In 2000, George Soros himself was a signatory to a letter titled “Appeal for Responsible Security” that appeared in The New York Times. The letter called upon
the U.S. government “to commit itself unequivocally to negotiate the
worldwide reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons,” and to
participate in “the global de-alerting of nuclear weapons and deep
reduction of nuclear stockpiles.”
(NOTE: OSF is a member of the Peace and Security Funders Group.)
Organizations that promote radical environmentalism:
Groups in this category typically oppose mining and logging
initiatives, commercial fishing enterprises, development and
construction in wilderness areas, the use of coal, the use of
pesticides, and oil and gas exploration in “environmentally sensitive”
locations. Moreover, they claim that human industrial activity leads to
excessive carbon-dioxide emissions which, in turn, cause a potentially
cataclysmic phenomenon called “global warming.” Examples of such Soros
donees include the Alliance for Climate Protection, Earthjustice, the Earth Island Institute, Friends of the Earth, Green For All, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Another major recipient of Soros money is the Tides Foundation,
which receives cash from all manner of donors—individuals, groups, and
other foundations—and then funnels it to designated left-wing
recipients. Having given more than $400 million to “progressive nonprofit organizations” since 2000, Tides is a heavy backer of environmental organizations, though its philanthropy extends also into many other areas.
George Soros presents himself as an environmentalist of the first order
and is quick to condemn industrial corporations for allegedly trampling
recklessly over the earth's ecosystems in pursuit of the almighty
dollar. But in fact, Soros himself has proven to be quite willing to
despoil Mother Nature in exchange for profits of his own. Consider, for
example, his involvement in the Argentine beef industry, which
environmentalists claim is responsible for massive levels of water
pollution and deforestation. Argentina's biggest landowner is none other
than George Soros, with some 500,000 hectares of land and 150,000 head
of cattle to his name. Moreover, Soros is a part owner of Apex Silver Mines, which operates in a remote and ecologically sensitive region of Bolivia.
Organizations that oppose the death penalty in all circumstances:
In 2000 George Soros co-signed a letter to President Bill Clinton
asking for a moratorium on the death penalty, on grounds that it tended
to be implemented disproportionately against black and Hispanic
offenders.
Consistent with the billionaire's opposition to capital punishment, his
Open Society Foundations have given millions of dollars to anti-death
penalty organizations such as New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty,
Witness to Innocence, Equal Justice USA, the Death Penalty Information
Center, People of Faith against the Death Penalty, and the Fair Trial
Initiative.
Organizations that promote modern-day feminism's core tenet—that
America is fundamentally a sexist society where discrimination and
violence against women have reached epidemic proportions:
- The Feminist Majority Foundation
“focus[es] on advancing the legal, social and political equality of
women with men, countering the backlash to women's advancement, and
recruiting and training young feminists...”
- The Ms. Foundation for Women laments that although “women are more than half the [U.S.] population … they don’t have equal opportunity, voice or power.”
- The National Partnership for Women and Families asserts that “women today are still paid only $0.77 to a man’s dollar”—an assertion that is grossly misleading and substantively untrue.
Organizations that promote not only women's right to taxpayer-funded abortion on demand, but also political candidates who take that same position:
Organizations that favor global government
which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the
United Nations or other international bodies:
According to George Soros, “[W]e need some global system of
political decision-making. In short, we need a global society to support
our global economy.” Consistent with this perspective, the Open Society Foundations in 2008 gave $150,000 to the United Nations Foundation, which “works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach.” Moreover, OSF is considered a “major” funder of the Coalition for an International Criminal Court, which aims
to subordinate American criminal-justice procedures in certain cases to
an international prosecutor who could initiate capricious or
politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. officials and military
officers.
Organizations that support drug legalization:
Dismissing the notion of “a drug-free America” as nothing
more than “a utopian dream,” George Soros says that “the war on drugs”
is “insane” and, “like the Vietnam War,” simply “cannot be won.”
“I'll tell you what I would do if it were up to me,” says Soros. “I
would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which
I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack,
legally available.” In 1998 Soros was a signatory to a public letter addressed to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, declaring that "the global war on drugs is now causing more harm than drug abuse itself." The
letter blamed the war on drugs for impeding such public health efforts
as stemming the spread of HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases,
as well as human rights violations and the perpetration of
environmental assaults. Other notable signers included Tammy Baldwin, Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Morton H. Halperin, Peter Lewis, Kweisi Mfume, and Cornel West.
Soros and his Open Society Foundations have given many millions of
dollars to groups supporting drug-legalization and needle-exchange
programs. In 1996, former Carter administration official Joseph Califano called Soros “the Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization.” According to a Capital Research Center publication, “It’s no exaggeration to say that without Soros there would be no serious lobby against the drug war.”
A leading recipient of Soros funding is the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), which seeks to loosen
narcotics laws, promotes “treatment-not-incarceration” policies for
non-violent drug offenders, and advocates syringe-access programs “to
help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.” Soros himself formerly sat on the DPA board of directors. As recently as 2010, Soros contributed $1 million
to support a California ballot measure known as Proposition 19, which
would have legalized personal marijuana use in the state; the measure,
however, was rejected by voters on election day.
Peter Schweizer, author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do), speculates on the possible reasons underlying Soros's support for drug legalization:
“One very possible answer is that he hopes to profit from
them [drugs] once they become legal. He has been particularly active in
South America, buying up large tracts of land and forging alliances with
those in a position to mass-produce narcotics should they become
legalized in the United States. He has also helped fund the Andean
Council of Coca Leaf producers. Needless to say, this organization would
stand to benefit enormously from the legalization of cocaine. He has
also taken a 9 percent stake in Banco de Colombia, located in the
Colombian drug capital of Cali. The Drug Enforcement Administration has
speculated that the bank is being used to launder money and that Soros's
fellow shareholders may be members of a major drug cartel.”
Organizations that support euthanasia for the terminally ill:
Soros has long promoted the cause of physician-assisted
suicide in an effort to change public attitudes about death. Toward that
end, in 1994 he began giving money to the (now defunct) Project on
Death in America (PDA), whose purpose
was to provide “end-of-life” assistance for ailing people and to enact
public policy that will “transform the culture and experience of dying
and bereavement.” Over a 9-year period, the Open Society Foundations gave $45 million to PDA.
Notably, PDA's mission was congruent with the goals of those who
support government-run health care, which invariably features
bureaucracies tasked with allocating scarce resources and thus
determining who will, and who will not, be eligible for particular
medications and treatments. Such bureaucracies generally make their
calculations based upon cost-benefit analyses of a variety of possible
treatments. Ultimately these decisions tend to disfavor the very old and
the very sick, because whatever benefits they might gain from expensive
interventions are likely to be of short duration, and thus are not
judged to be worth the costs. Soros himself has suggested that
“[a]ggressive, life-prolonging interventions, which may at times go
against the patient's wishes, are much more expensive than proper care
for the dying.” Additional pro-euthanasia groups funded by Soros and OSF are the following:
- The Death with Dignity National Center seeks to allow “terminally
ill individuals meeting stringent safeguards to hasten their own deaths”
by way of lethal drug prescriptions.
- The Compassion in Dying Federation of America advocates “aid-in-dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.”
Organizations that have pressured mortgage lenders to make loans
to undercapitalized borrowers, a practice that helped spark the subprime
mortgage crisis and housing-market collapse of 2008:
- The Greenlining Institute —by
threatening to publicly accuse banks of racially discriminatory lending
practices—has successfully negotiated loan commitments of more than $2.4 trillion from America's financial institutions.
- The Center for Responsible Lending, according to
Americans for Prosperity vice president Phil Kerpen, has “shak[en] down
and harass[ed] banks into making bad loans to unqualified borrowers.”
Organizations that exhort the U.S. and Israel to negotiate with,
and to make concessions to, Arab terrorist groups and regimes that have
pledged to destroy America and Israel alike:
- The International Crisis Group's (ICG) Mideast director, Robert Malley, has penned
numerous articles and op-eds condemning Israel, exonerating
Palestinians, urging the U.S. to disengage from Israel to some degree,
and recommending that America reach out to negotiate with its
traditional Arab enemies such as Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Soros
himself is a member of ICG's executive committee.
- J Street has cautioned Israel not to be too combative against Hamas,
on grounds that the latter “has been the government, law and order, and
service provider since it won the [Palestinian] elections in January
2006 and especially since June 2007 when it took complete control.” In
the final analysis, J Street traces
the Mideast conflict chiefly to the notion that “Israel’s settlements
in the occupied territories have, for over forty years, been an obstacle
to peace.”
SOROS'S POLITICAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
Apart from the more than $5 billion that Soros' foundation network has donated to leftist groups like those cited above, Soros personally has made campaign contributions to such notable political candidates as Joe Biden, Barbara Boxer, Sherrod Brown, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Jon Corzine, Howard Dean, Richard Durbin, Lane Evans, Al Franken, Al Gore, Tom Harkin, Maurice Hinchey, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Charles Rangel, Harry Reid, Ken Salazar, Charles Schumer, Joe Sestak, and Tom Udall. He also has given large sums of money to the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee
Services Corporation, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
SOROS MEETS THE CLINTONS
Around the time
that George Soros initially launched his Manhattan-based Open Society
Foundations, he established what would prove to be a warm and enduring
relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton,
the new American President and First Lady. When the Clintons took
office in early 1993, they faced the daunting task of helping the
collapsed Soviet empire rise from its ruins and cultivate a harmonious
relationship with the United States. To lead this endeavor, President
Clinton appointed three men: Treasury Department official Lawrence
Summers, Vice President Al Gore,
and soon-to-be State Department official Strobe Talbott. Talbott in
particular was given a large degree of authority, prompting some
observers to dub him as Clinton's “Russian policy czar.”
It so happened that Talbot had an exceptionally high regard for the
financial expertise of George Soros—describing him as “a national
resource, indeed, a national treasure”—and thus he recruited the
billionaire to serve as a key advisor on U.S.-Russian matters.
Soros, in turn, had connections with a young economist whom he had been funding—Jeffrey
Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development.
The U.S. Agency for International Development assigned Sachs' Institute
to oversee Russia's transformation to a market economy after more than
seven decades of communism. As a consequence of this assignment, Sachs
and his team essentially represented the United States as official
economic advisors to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Soros worked
closely with Sachs on this project, and the pair held enormous sway over
Yeltsin.
So great was their influence, in fact, that on one occasion Soros
quipped that “the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.”
But before long, members of Sachs's team became involved in massive
corruption, exploiting for personal gain their access to Russia's
political and economic leaders. Their actions contributed to the
collapse of the Russian economy and to the diversion of some $100
billion out of the country.
Though Sachs himself was not accused of profiting personally from these
activities, he resigned as director of the Harvard Institute in May
1999, under a dark cloud of scandal.
The U.S. House Banking Committee investigated the matter and called
Soros to testify. The billionaire denied culpability but admitted that
he had used insider access in an illegal deal to acquire a large portion
of Sidanko Oil. Soros further acknowledged in Congressional testimony that some of the missing Russian assets had made their way into his personal investment portfolio. House Banking Committee chairman Jim Leach characterized the entire sordid affair as “one of the greatest social robberies in human history.”
As the Nineties progressed, it became increasingly evident that Bill
and Hillary Clinton embraced virtually all of the values and agendas
that George Soros was funding through his Open Society Foundations. “I
do now have great access in [the Clinton] administration,” said Soros in
1995. “There is no question about this. We actually work together as a
team.”
Soros and Mrs. Clinton in particular held one another in the highest
esteem. In November 1997, when Hillary was in Central Asia for a
ribbon-cutting ceremony at the newly built American University of
Kyrgyzstan, she delivered a speech in which she lavished praise on
Soros's Open Society Foundations, which had financed the school's
construction. According
to Center for American Democracy director Rachel Ehrenfeld, one source
close to Mrs. Clinton's inner circle reports that Soros visited Hillary
at the White House during the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings of
1998-99, when the First Lady was receiving only her most trusted
confidantes.
A few years later, at a June 2004 “Take Back America” conference in
Washington, Mrs. Clinton introduced Soros as a courageous man who loved
his country deeply. “[W]e need people like George Soros,” she said, “who
is fearless, and willing to step up when it counts.” Soros, in turn,
indicated that he was “very, very proud to be introduced” by someone for
whom he had such “great, great admiration.” He described Hillary as
someone who had been “more effective than most of our statesmen in
propagating democracy, freedom, and open society.”
9/11, AND SOROS'S DEEPER IMMERSION INTO AMERICAN POLITICS
September 11, 2001 was a watershed moment not only in American history
but also in George Soros's philanthropic career. Soros viewed the 9/11
terrorist attacks as confirmation that U.S. foreign policy—particularly
under President George W. Bush, who had taken office eight months
earlier—was moving in a dangerous direction, giving rise to
anti-American hatred in the hearts of people all across the globe. By
Soros's reckoning, Bush embodied the very antithesis of the “open
society” ideal. Specifically, the billionaire detested what he viewed as
the arrogance the President displayed when he publicly branded
America's enemies as “evil”; when he unapologetically expressed his
faith in the exceptionalism of his own culture; and when he seemed
disinclined to consider the possibility that the terrorists may have had
something valuable to teach Americans about how the rest of the world
perceived the United States. Moreover, Soros considered terrorism to be,
in large measure, a consequence of economic inequity and the
exploitation of poor countries by their wealthier counterparts.
Reasoning from these premises, Soros—while conceding that the retaliatory U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was justifiable—maintained
that the proper long-term response to 9/11 would be for America to
launch a global war on poverty. Such an undertaking would be modeled on
the Great Society programs which the Johnson administration had
instituted in the 1960s—on the theory that by pouring rivers of taxpayer
dollars into the nation's violence-torn ghettos, the presumably
justified rage of the rioters could be quelled. In a similar vein, Soros
now held that the best way to fight international terrorism would be
for the affluent USA to send massive amounts of aid to impoverished
regions around the world where the phenomenon tended to originate.
Indeed, he had long maintained that the “root causes” of terrorism were
“poverty” and “ignorance.”
Just eight days after 9/11, Soros gave a speech where he said that the
“cornerstone” of his “plan” was to “address the social conditions that
provide a fertile ground from which [terrorist] volunteers who are
willing to sacrifice their lives can be recruited.” This plan would call
on “rich countries” to boost their levels of “international
assistance,” which—while unlikely to “prevent people like bin Laden from exercising their evil genius”—would “help to alleviate the grievances on which extremism of all kinds feeds.”
On subsequent occasions, Soros would reiterate his belief that
terrorism was caused by a dearth of “international income
redistribution” and a “growing inequality between rich and poor, both
within countries and among countries.” “A global open society,” Soros stressed, “requires affirmative action on a global scale.”
By contrast, Soros was largely silent on the issue of Islam's
longstanding tradition of jihad, which predated by many hundreds of
years any potentially objectionable U.S. foreign-policy initiatives.
Rather, he called for a “radical reordering” of American “priorities,”
where “[i]nstead of devoting the bulk of the budget to military
expenditures to implement the Bush doctrine, we would engage in
preventive actions of a constructive nature.”
“The United States cannot do whatever it wants,” he scolded. “... Our
nation must concern itself with the well-being of the world.”
In Soros's calculus, 9/11 represented “an unusual opportunity to
rethink and reshape the world.” Observing that the recent attacks had
“shocked” Americans “into realizing that others may regard them very
differently from the way they see themselves,” Soros posited that his
fellow countrymen were “more ready to reassess the world and the role
the United States plays in it than in normal times.” And acknowledging that “[t]his awareness may not last long,” he said: “I am determined not to let the moment pass.”
The urgency which Soros felt with regard to seizing the moment was
further heightened on the night of January 29, 2002, when George W. Bush
delivered his State of the Union address. In that speech, the President
made his first controversial reference to Iraq as part of an “axis of
evil” that posed a potentially deadly threat to America. Bush intimated
that he would soon turn his foreign-policy attention toward Saddam Hussein's
regime, which continued to “flaunt its hostility toward America,”
“support terror,” and violate its international agreements. As the
President pledged not to “wait on events while dangers gather,” nor to
“stand by as peril draws closer and closer,” speculation about a
possible U.S. invasion of Iraq began to coalesce.
In Soros's view, such an invasion would be yet another misguided and
senseless endeavor, and he was determined to do whatever he could to
prevent it.
The very next month, Soros appointed former Clinton administration official Morton Halperin to the post of Open Society Foundations director. Halperin, whom some State Department officials suspected of being a communist agent,
had been instrumental in derailing America's war effort during the
Vietnam era, when President Johnson put him in charge of compiling a
classified history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Halperin's
labor ultimately bore fruit—in June 1971—with the publication of the
notorious “Pentagon Papers.” Thereafter, Halperin went on to serve (from 1975-1992) as director of an ACLU
project called the Center for National Security Studies, which sought
to slash U.S. defense expenditures and undermine the nation's
intelligence capabilities. In Target America—James
L. Tyson's 1981 exposé of the Soviet Union's elaborate “propaganda
campaign designed to weaken and demoralize America from the inside”—the
author stated:
“Halperin … and his organizations have had a constant record
of advocating the weakening of U.S. intelligence capabilities. His
organizations are also notable for ignoring the activities of the KGB or
any other foreign intelligence organization.... A balance sheet
analysis of Halperin's writings and testimonies ... gives Halperin a
score of 100% on the side of output favorable to the Communist line and
0% on any output opposed to the Communist line.”
Like Halperin, George Soros stridently counseled against military
intervention in Iraq, warning that an invasion “would actually be a
victory for the terrorists”—because the inevitable killing of “innocent
civilians” would give groups like al Qaeda “the kind of radicalization that they are looking for” in order to justify “a vicious cycle of escalating violence.”
“War is a false and misleading metaphor in the context of combating
terrorism,” said Soros. “Treating the attacks of September 11 as crimes
against humanity would have been more appropriate. Crimes require police
work, not military action.”
Moreover, Soros characterized the so-called “Bush doctrine” of
preemptive military action against those who may pose a threat to the
U.S. an “atrocious proposition.”
By the time the U.S. invaded Iraq in early 2003, Soros's contempt for
President Bush's “imperialist vision” had reached a fever pitch.
Accusing Bush of “deliberately foster[ing] fear because it helps to
keep the nation lined up behind the president,” Soros added cynically:
“Terrorism is the ideal enemy. It is invisible and therefore never
disappears. An enemy that poses a genuine and recognized threat can
effectively hold a nation together.”
In August, Soros warned that the very “fate of the world depends on the
United States, and President Bush is leading us in the wrong direction”
with his “false and dangerous” doctrine.
In the fall, Soros referred to Bush administration officials and
Republicans generally as “extremists” who “don’t believe in the system
of democracy as we know it”; and who embraced “a very dangerous
ideology” which held that “the United States … should impose its power,
impose its will and its interests on the world.”
Soros routinely condemned Bush for his “unabashed pursuit of self-interest”; for “equat[ing] freedom with American values”; for holding the “simplistic view” that “[w]e are right and they are wrong”; and for harboring a “false sense of certitude” that Americans had “right on our side.” Each of these transgressions, Soros explained, violated the “principles of open society, which recognize that we may be wrong.”
“The supremacist ideology of the Bush administration,” he added, “is in
contradiction with the principles of an open society because it claims
possession of an ultimate truth.”
As the Iraq War took an increasing toll in terms of both American and
Iraqi lives, Soros wrote that the U.S. military response to 9/11 had
actually turned out to be a greater moral atrocity than the original
“crime” that prompted it, because the war “has claimed more innocent
civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq than have the attacks on the World
Trade Center.” In short, Soros characterized the Bush administration's
“pursuit of American supremacy” as more dangerous than Islamist terror.
Not only did Soros believe that Bush was following a mindless and
perilous policy, but he saw the President's motives as wholly
dishonorable. Soros repeatedly accused Bush of using intelligence that
had been “exposed as exaggerated or even false” to justify the invasion
of Iraq under “false pretenses.”
He denounced “the exploitation of September 11 by the Bush
administration to pursue its policy of dominating the world in the guise
of fighting terrorism.”
He expanded on this theme by accusing Bush of seeking “to justify
repressive measures” on the home front while “establish[ing] a secure
alternative to Saudi oil” in the Mideast.
“The other important consideration,” Soros added, “was Israel.” He
intimated that Bush, by flexing U.S. muscle in the Middle East, was
signaling his readiness to intervene in affairs that could potentially
affect America's closest ally in the region. By so doing, said Soros,
the President was catering to “the traditional pro-Israel lobby” which
included “the evangelical right—and that is the core of the president’s
constituency.”
As Soros saw things, the President's arrogance and corruption had
filtered down perceptibly into the ranks of the military personnel who
were carrying out Bush's mission. Thus Soros likened the conduct of
American troops to that of communist and fascist thugs, asserting that
“the picture of torture in Abu Ghraib” was proof that “the way President
Bush conducted the war on terror converted us from victims into
perpetrators.”
Soros charged that not only had America “violated international law” by
“invading Iraq … without a second UN Resolution,” but that it had
“violated the Geneva Conventions” by “mistreating and even torturing
prisoners.”
On numerous occasions, Soros drew parallels between the Bush
administration and some of history's most infamous totalitarian regimes.
Bush's view that “there is only one model of democracy,” said Soros,
was “as false, and potentially as dangerous, as that of the Communists’
belief that there is only one way to organize society.”
Soros further likened Bush’s “Orwellian” assertion that “[y]ou can have
freedom as long as you do what we tell you to do,” to Soviet rhetoric
about “people’s democracies.”
“When I hear President Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,'
it reminds me of the Germans,” Soros stated. “My experiences under Nazi
and Soviet rule have sensitized me.” “Who would have thought sixty years ago,” asked Soros, “when Karl Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies,
that the United States itself could pose a threat to open society? Yet
that is what is happening, both internally and internationally.”
In a September 29, 2003 interview with BBC radio, Soros said it was
imperative that there be “a regime change in the United States”—meaning
that President Bush must be “voted out of power.”
In November, Soros said that because “America, under Bush, is a danger
to the world,” the outcome of the forthcoming year's presidential race
had become “the central focus of my life.” “And I’m willing to put my
money where my mouth is,” Soros added, declaring that he would willingly
trade his entire multi-billion-dollar fortune if doing so could be
“guaranteed” to unseat Bush.
To his litany of grievances against the President, Soros now added the
infamous Florida recount debacle of 2000 and called into question the
very legitimacy of Bush's election victory. “President Bush came to
office without a clear mandate,” said Soros. “He was elected president
by a single vote on the Supreme Court.”
The types of changes America needed were crystal clear to Soros. Above
all else, he wished to steer the country, politically and ideologically,
in a direction that was consistent with the agendas of the groups that
he had been funding for a decade through his Open Society Foundations.
Those agendas could essentially be distilled down to three overriding
themes: the diminution of American power, the subjugation of American
sovereignty in favor of global governance, and the implementation of
redistributive economic policies—both within the U.S. and across
national borders. Toward these ends, Soros saw “the forthcoming
elections” as “an excellent opportunity to deflate the bubble of
American supremacy.”
He would employ his wealth and his ideological fervor to capitalize on
this opportunity, knowing that the best time to implement radical change
is during times of upheaval and crisis—i.e., times like the aftermath
of 9/11. “Usually it takes a crisis to prompt a meaningful change in
direction,” Soros himself had written in his 2000 book Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism.
SOROS'S PREVIOUS POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
By no means was this the first time that Soros had aimed to engineer
the fall of a government which he deemed oppressive. On several previous
occasions, he had used his extraordinary wealth to bankroll popular
movements seeking to undermine communist and authoritarian regimes in
Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Specifically, Soros had funded the
training, organization and mobilization of many millions of
demonstrators who took part in a series of bloodless political
revolutions—commonly known as “velvet revolutions” or “color
revolutions”—that
ultimately brought down governments in those regions. Typically, these
mobilizations consisted of massive street rallies (sometimes with
hundreds of thousands of participants) and carefully coordinated acts of
civil disobedience such as sit-ins and general strikes. In several
instances, such Soros-funded protesters challenged the results of
popular elections and accused incumbent leaders of election
fraud—charges which were then echoed by Soros-funded exit pollsters and
Soros-funded media outlets, thereby greatly amplifying the effect of the
accusations. A brief survey of Soros's most noteworthy foreign
interventions will be useful at this point.
Soros helped bankroll “Charter 77,” a 1976 document demanding that the Czech government recognize some basic human rights—most notably the freedom to express
religious beliefs or political opinions without fear of retributive
discrimination—that were already guaranteed by the nation's
constitution. This Charter and the political movement that grew from it
ultimately culminated in the velvet revolution that brought down Czechoslovakia's Communist regime in late 1989.
Soros funding played a critical role in promoting other upheavals in
the former Soviet bloc as well. “My foundations,” boasts Soros,
“contributed to Democratic regime change in Slovakia in 1998, Croatia in
1999, and Yugoslavia in 2000, mobilizing civil society to get rid of
Vladimir Meciar, Franjo Tudjman, and Slobodan Milosevic, respectively.”
Meciar, for his part, was a hardline nationalist whose authoritarian government—characterized
by demagoguery, corruption, and hostility toward the Hungarian
minority—brought instability and isolation to Slovakia in the mid-1990s. Croatian president Tudjman was likewise an autocrat infamous for his brutality, extreme nationalism, indifference to civil rights, and manipulation of electoral processes. And Milosevic, who served as president of Serbia and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, was an infamous architect of military aggression, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.
British journalist Neil Clark reports that from 1991 to 2000, Soros and
his Open Society Foundations methodically laid the groundwork for the
movement that ultimately led to Milosevic's resignation, “channel[ing]
more than $100m to the coffers of the anti-Milosevic opposition, funding
political parties, publishing houses and ‘independent’ media...”
In a 1996 speech, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman offered a profound
insight into how Soros typically injected his influence into the
political workings of a given nation by patiently and systematically
infiltrating strategic organizations and governmental agencies:
“[Soros and his allies] have spread their tentacles
throughout the whole of our society. Soros … had approval to … gather
and distribute humanitarian aid.… However, we … allowed them to do
almost whatever they wanted.… They have involved in their network …
people of all ages and classes … trying to win them over by financial
aid.… [Their aim is] control of all spheres of life … setting up a state
within a state.…”
Soros also funded Soviet Georgia's “Rose Revolution,” a popular movement that forced Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze to resign in November 2003. According to Canada's Globe and Mail,
in February of that year Soros “began laying the brick work for the
toppling” of Shevardnadze. “That month, funds from his Open
Society Foundations sent a … [Georgian] activist … to Serbia to meet
with members of the [resistance] movement and learn how they used street
demonstrations to topple dictator Slobodan Milosevic.”
That summer, Soros brought some of those Serbian activists to Georgia
to train student activists there. Meanwhile, a Soros-funded television
station aired weekly broadcasts of the documentary Bringing Down a Dictator,
which presented a step-by-step account of the overthrow of Milosevic
and played a crucial role in training Georgian insurgents.
In the autumn months, Soros spent some $42 million preparing the
overthrow movement to mobilize. Then, in mid-November, large-scale
anti-government demonstrations spread like wildfire in most of Georgia's
major cities. Shevardnadze, able to read the proverbial writing on the
wall, resigned within a matter of days. Soros later told the Los Angeles Times, “I'm delighted by what happened in Georgia, and I take great pride in having contributed to it.” In November 2003, the editor of an English-language daily based in Georgia said, “It's generally accepted public opinion here that Mr. Soros is the person who planned Shevardnadze's overthrow.”
Notably, some people who worked for Soros' organizations—including two
of the Open Society Georgia Foundation's former executive
directors—later assumed influential positions in the new Georgian
government.
Soros thereafter would go on to fund the “Orange Revolution,”
a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine
from late November 2004 to January 2005, ultimately forcing Moscow's
favored candidate, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, to lose a
controversial and hotly contested presidential election.
Also in early 2005, Soros helped finance the “Tulip Revolution”—a
massive protest movement that led to the overthrow of President Askar
Akayev and his government in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan.
NEW TARGET FOR "REGIME CHANGE": AMERICA
But right now, in 2003-04, Soros's primary focus was on the United
States, whose government he considered to be at least as dangerous and
oppressive as those of the aforementioned communist and authoritarian
regimes. “I believe deeply in the values of an open society,” Soros
said. “For the past 15 years I have focused my energies on fighting for
these values abroad. Now I am doing it in the United States.” Asserting that he could “do a lot more about the issues I care about by changing the government than by pushing the issues,” Soros set out to “puncture the bubble of American supremacy.” To accomplish this, he would create a political apparatus of extraordinary influence.
Soros had quietly laid the groundwork for this apparatus during the
preceding eight years. Between 1994 and 2002, the billionaire had spent
millions of dollars promoting the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act—better known as the McCain-Feingold Act —which
was signed into law in November 2002 by President Bush. Soros began
working on this issue shortly after the 1994 midterm elections, when for
the first time in nearly half a century, Republicans won strong
majorities in both houses of Congress. Political analysts at the time
attributed the huge Republican gains in large part to the effectiveness
of television advertising—most notably the “Harry and Louise” series (which cost $14 million
to produce and air) where a fictional suburban couple exposed the many
hidden, and distasteful, details of Hillary Clinton's proposals for a
more socialized national health-care system. Indeed the 1994 election
became, to a considerable degree, a referendum on this attempted
government takeover of one-sixth of the U.S. economy—and on the
Democratic President who had tacitly endorsed it. George Soros was angry
that such advertisements were capable of overriding the influence of
the major print and broadcast news media, which, because they were
overwhelmingly sympathetic to Democrat agendas, had given Hillary's plan
a great deal of free, positive publicity for months. Three weeks after
the 1994 elections, Soros announced that he intended to “do something”
about “the distortion of our electoral process by the excessive use of
TV advertising.” That “something” would be campaign-finance reform.
Starting in 1994, Soros's Open Society Foundations and a few other
leftist foundations began bankrolling front groups and so-called
“experts” whose aim was to persuade Congress to swallow the fiction that
millions of Americans were clamoring for “campaign-finance reform.”
This deceptive strategy was the brainchild of Sean Treglia, a former
program officer with the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Between 1994 and 2004, some $140 million of foundation cash was used to
promote campaign-finance reform. Nearly 90 percent of this amount
derived from just eight foundations, one of which was the Open Society
Foundations, which contributed $12.6 million to the cause.
Among the major recipients of these OSF funds were such pro-reform
organizations as the Alliance For Better Campaigns ($650,000); the Brennan Center for Justice (more than $3.3 million); the Center For Public Integrity ($1.7 million); the Center For Responsive Politics ($75,000); Common Cause ($625,000); Democracy 21 ($300,000); Public Campaign ($1.3 million); and Public Citizen ($275,000).
The "research" which these groups produced in order to make a case on
behalf of campaign-finance reform was largely bogus and contrived. For instance,
Brennan Center political scientist Jonathan Krasno had clearly admitted
in his February 19, 1999 grant proposal to the Pew Charitable Trusts
that the purpose of the proposed study was political, not scholarly, and
that the project would be axed if it failed to yield the desired
results:
"The purpose of our acquiring the data set is not simply to advance
knowledge for its own sake, but to fuel a continuous multi-faceted
campaign to propel campaign reform forward. Whether we proceed to phase
two will depend on the judgment of whether the data provide a
sufficiently powerful boost to the reform movement."
The stated purpose of McCain-Feingold was to purge politics of
corruption by: (a) putting restrictions on paid advertising during the
weeks just prior to political elections, and (b) tightly regulating the
amount of money that political parties and candidates could accept from
donors. Vis à vis the former of those two provisions, the new
legislation barred private organizations—including unions, corporations,
and citizen activist groups—from advertising for or against any
candidate for federal office on television or radio during the 60 days
preceding an election, and during the 30 days preceding a primary.
During these blackout periods, only official political parties would be
permitted to engage in “express advocacy” advertising—i.e., political
ads that expressly urged voters to “vote for” or “vote against” a
specified candidate. Equally important, major media networks were
exempted from McCain-Feingold's constraints; thus they were free to
speak about candidates in any manner they wished during their regular
programming and news broadcasts. This would inevitably be a positive
development for Democrats, who enjoyed the near-universal support of
America's leading media outlets.
In addition to its limits on pre-election political advertising,
McCain-Feingold also placed onerous new restrictions on the types of
donations which candidates, parties, and political action committees
(PACs) could now accept. Previously, they had been permitted to take two
types of contributions. One of these was “hard money,” which referred to funds earmarked for the purpose of express advocacy. Federal Election Commission (FEC) regulations stipulated
that in a single calendar year, no hard-money donor could give more
than $1,000 to any particular candidate, no more than $5,000 to a PAC,
and no more than $20,000 to any political party.
The other category of pre-McCain-Feingold donations was “soft-money,”
which donors were permitted to give directly to a political party in
amounts unlimited by law. But to qualify for designation as “soft
money,” a donation could not be used to fund “express advocacy” ads on
behalf of any particular candidate. Rather, it had to be used to pay for
such things as “voter-education” ads or “issue-oriented” ads—political
messages that carefully refrained from making explicit calls to “vote
for” or “vote against” any specific candidate. So long as an ad steered
clear of uttering such forbidden instructions, there was no limit as to
how much soft money could be spent on its production and dissemination.
McCain-Feingold raised the per-donor maximum for certain hard-money
donations: A donor could now give up to $2,000 to a candidate, $5,000 to
a PAC, and $25,000 to a political party. But the new law banned soft-money contributions to political parties altogether.
Historically, Republicans had enjoyed a 2-1 advantage over Democrats in raising hard money from individual donors. Democrats had relied much more heavily on soft money from large institutions such as labor unions.
Thus it seems counter-intuitive that Soros, who clearly favored
Democrats over Republicans, would seek to push legislation whose net
effect—the removal of soft money—would be unfavorable to Democratic
Party fundraising efforts.
But Soros's motive becomes clear
when we look at the types of organizations whose fundraising activities
were left unaffected by McCain-Feingold. These were “527 committees”—nonprofits
named after Section 527 of the IRS code—which, unlike ordinary PACS,
were not required to register with the FEC. Run mostly by
special-interest groups, these 527s were technically supposed to be
independent of, and unaffiliated with, any party or candidate. As such,
they were permitted to raise soft money—in amounts unbound by any legal
limits—for all manner of political activities other than express
advocacy. That is, so long as a 527's soft money was not being used to
pay for ads explicitly urging people to cast their ballots either for or
against any particular candidate, the letter of the McCain-Feingold law
technically was being followed. Practically speaking, of course, such
things as “issue-oriented ads” and “voter-education” ads can easily be
tailored to favor one party or candidate over another, while carefully
steering clear of “express advocacy.”
Once McCain-Feingold was
in place, Soros and his political allies collaborated to set up a
network of “527 committees” ready to receive the soft money that
individual donors and big labor unions normally would have given
directly to the Democratic Party. These 527s could then use that money
to fund issue-oriented ads, voter-education initiatives,
get-out-the-vote drives, and other “party-building” activities—not only
to help elect Democratic candidates in 2004, but more broadly to guide
the Democratic Party ever-further leftward and to reject the “closed”
society that Bush and the Republicans presumably favored. By helping to
push McCain-Feingold through Congress, Soros had effectively cut off the
Democrats' soft-money supply and diverted it to the coffers of an
alternative network of beneficiaries—which he personally controlled.
As Byron York observed, “[T]he new campaign finance rules had actually
increased the influence of big money in politics. By giving directly to
'independent' groups rather than to the party itself, big-ticket donors
could influence campaign strategy and tactics more directly than they
ever had previously.... And the power was concentrated in very few
hands”—most notably Soros's.
SOROS'S "SHADOW PARTY" TAKES SHAPE
While Soros's 527s were clearly devoted to Democratic Party agendas and
values, they publicly professed to be independent of any party
affiliations. Their partisanship was somewhat shrouded in proverbial
shadows. Gradually, a number of journalists began to make reference to
the emergence of certain pro-Democrat “shadow organizations” that seemed
geared toward circumventing McCain-Feingold's soft-money ban. In time,
the term “Shadow Party” came into use.
George Soros set in motion the wheels of this Shadow Party when he
gathered a team of political strategists, activists, and Democrat donors
at his Long Island beach house on July 17, 2003, to discuss how
President Bush could be defeated in the 2004 election. Attendees
included such luminaries as OSF director Morton Halperin; EMILY's List founder and abortion-rights activist Ellen Malcolm; former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta; Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope; labor leader and former Clinton advisor Steve Rosenthal; former Clinton speechwriters Jeremy Rosner and Robert Boorstin; and major Democrat donors such as Lewis and Dorothy Cullman, Robert Glaser, Peter Lewis, and Robert McKay.
The consensus was that voter turnout—particularly in 17 “swing” or “battleground” states—would
be the key to unseating President Bush. Steve Rosenthal and Ellen
Malcolm—CEO and president, respectively, of a newly formed but poorly funded voter-registration group called America Coming Together (ACT)—suggested
that voters in those swing states should be recruited and mobilized as
soon as possible. Agreeing, Soros told the pair that he personally would
give ACT $10 million to help maximize its effectiveness. A few other
attendees also pledged to give the fledgling group large sums of money:
Soros's billionaire friend Peter Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation, promised to give $10 million; Robert Glaser, founder and CEO of RealNetworks, promised $2 million; Rob McKay, president of the McKay Family Foundation, committed $1 million; and benefactors Lewis and Dorothy Cullman pledged $500,000.
By early 2004, the administrative core of George Soros's Shadow Party
was in place. It consisted of seven ostensibly “independent” nonprofit
groups—all but one of which were headquartered in Washington, DC. In a
number of cases, these groups shared one another's finances, directors,
and corporate officers; occasionally they even shared office space. The seven groups were:
1) America Coming Together (ACT): Jump-started by Soros's $10 million grant, ACT in 2004 ran what it called “the
largest voter-contact program in history,” with more than 1,400
full-time paid canvassers contacting potential voters door-to-door and
by phone.
2) Center For American Progress
(CAP): This entity was established to serve as a think tank promoting
leftist ideas and policy initiatives. Soros, enthusiastic about the
Center's potential, pledged in July 2003 to donate up to $3 million to
help get the project off the ground. From the outset, CAP's leadership featured a host of former high-ranking officials from the Clinton administration.
Hillary Clinton predicted that the organization would provide “some new
intellectual capital” with which to “build the 21st-century policies
that reflect the Democrat Party's values.” George Soros and Morton Halperin
together selected former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta to serve
as president of CAP. Podesta said his goal was to develop CAP as a
“think tank on steroids,” featuring “a message-oriented war room” that
“will send out a daily briefing to refute the positions and arguments of
the right.”
3) America Votes:
This national coalition coordinated the efforts of many
get-out-the-vote organizations and their thousands of contributing
activists. Soros's support for America Votes would continue well past 2004. Indeed he would donate $2.15 million to this coalition in the 2006 election cycle, another $1.25 million in advance of the 2008 elections, and yet another $1.25 million in 2010.
4) Media Fund:
Describing itself as “the largest media-buying organization supporting a
progressive message” in the United States, this group produced and
strategically placed political ads in the print, broadcast, and
electronic media.
5) Joint Victory Campaign 2004
(JVC): This fundraising entity focused on collecting contributions and
then disbursing them chiefly to America Coming Together and the Media
Fund. In 2004 alone, JVC channeled $19.4 million to the former, and
$38.4 million to the latter. Soros personally gave JVC more than $12 million that year.
6) Thunder Road Group
(TRG): This political consultancy coordinated strategy for the Media
Fund, America Coming Together, and America Votes. Its duties included
strategic planning, polling, opposition research, covert operations, and
public relations.
7) MoveOn.org:
This California-based entity was the only one of the Shadow Party's
core groups that was not a new startup operation. Launched in September
1998, MoveOn is a Web-based political network that organizes online
activists around specific issues, raises money for Democratic
candidates, generates political ads, and is very effective at recruiting
young people to support Democrats. In November 2003, Soros pledged to give MoveOn $5 million to help its cause.
According to Ellen Malcolm of America Coming Together (ACT), the
financial commitment which Soros made to these Shadow Party groups in
2003 “was a signal to potential donors that he had looked at what was
going on and that this was pretty exciting, and that he was going to
stand behind it, and it was the real deal.”
As Byron York observed, “After Soros signed on, contributions started
pouring in.” ACT and the Media Fund alone took in some $200
million—including $20 million from Soros alone. This type of money was
unprecedented in American politics.
Harold Ickes,
who served as White House deputy chief of staff in the Clinton White
House, had a hand in creating every Shadow Party core group except
MoveOn. He was also entrusted with the vital task of making these
organizations function as a cohesive entity. In 2004, Democratic
strategist Harold Wolfson suggested that outside of the official
campaign of presidential candidate John Kerry, Ickes “is the most
important person in the Democratic Party today.”
In addition to its seven core members, the Shadow Party also came to
include at least another 30 well-established leftwing activist groups
and labor unions that participated in the America Votes coalition. Among
the better-known of these were ACORN; the AFL-CIO; the AFSCME; the American Federation of Teachers; the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund; EMILY's List; the Human Rights Campaign; the League of Conservation Voters; the NAACP; NARAL Pro-Choice America; the National Education Association; People for the American Way; Planned Parenthood; the Service Employees International Union; and the Sierra Club.
New Mexico's then-governor, Democrat Bill Richardson,
observed that “these groups” were “crucial” to the anti-Bush effort.
“Now that campaign-finance reform is law,” he said, “organizations like
these have become the replacement for the national Democratic Party.”
And no donor was more heavily invested in these organizations—or in
defeating President Bush—than George Soros, who contributed $27,080,105
to pro-Democrat 527s during the 2004 election cycle. The second leading
donor was the billionaire insurance entrepreneur Peter Lewis ($23,997,220), followed by Hollywood producer Stephen Bing ($13,952,682) and Golden West Financial Corporation founders Herbert and Marion Sandler ($13,007,959).
FAILURE AND RESILIENCY: BIRTH OF THE DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE
When President Bush won re-election in 2004, George Soros was
devastated; his massive financial investments and herculean organizing
efforts had all gone for naught. Adding insult to injury, the hated
Republicans had retained control of both houses of Congress. As Soros
contemplated what course of action he ought to pursue next, the answer
came to him—somewhat unexpectedly—in the form of Democrat political
operative Rob Stein, former chief of staff to Commerce Secretary Ron Brown during the Clinton
administration. For the preceding two years, Stein had been busy
devising a strategy by which Democrats might reclaim supremacy in the
executive and legislative branches of government. He began working on
this strategy shortly after the Republicans had gained eight House seats
and two Senate seats in the 2002 midterm elections. Lamenting that he
was “living in a one-party [Republican] country,”
Stein at that point resolved to study the conservative movement and
determine why it was winning the political battle. After a year of
analysis, he concluded that a few influential, wealthy family
foundations—most notably Scaife, Bradley, Olin, and Coors—had
spearheaded the creation of a $300 million network of politically
influential organizations. Stein featured these facts in a comprehensive
PowerPoint presentation—titled “The Conservative Message Machine Money
Matrix”—which mapped out, in painstaking detail, the conservative movement's networking strategies and funding sources.
Next, Stein set out to show his presentation—mostly in private
meetings—to political leaders, activists, and prospective big-money
donors of the left. He hoped to inspire them to join his crusade to
build a new organization—a financial clearinghouse to be called the Democracy Alliance
(DA)—dedicated to offsetting the efforts of conservative funders and
injecting new life into the progressive movement. At each presentation,
Stein asked the viewer to pledge
that he or she would keep confidential the substance of the
proceedings, so as to give the project a chance to coalesce and gain
some momentum without excessive public scrutiny.
Stein officially filed DA's corporate registration in the District of Columbia in January 2005. By that point, he had shown his PowerPoint presentation to several hundred people. Stein recalls that during those sessions, he consistently observed
“an unbelievable frustration” by big Democrat donors who felt
hopelessly unconnected to one another even as they longed to be part of a
strategic coalition that could work collaboratively and cohesively.
This was particularly true of George Soros, thus it was most
significant that Soros quickly and enthusiastically embraced Stein's
concept. In April 2005, Soros brought together 70 likeminded, carefully vetted, fellow millionaires and billionaires in Phoenix, Arizona, to discuss Stein's ideas and expeditiously implement a plan of action. Most of those in attendance agreed that the conservative movement represented “a fundamental threat to the American way of life.”
And, like Soros, a considerable number of them looked favorably on
Stein's analysis and concept. Thus was born the Democracy Alliance.
DA members, called “partners,” include individuals and organizations alike. Partnership in the Alliance is by invitation-only.
These partners pay an initial $25,000 fee, and $30,000 in yearly dues
thereafter. They also must give at least $200,000 annually to groups
which the Alliance endorses. Donors metaphorically “pour” these
requisite donations into one or more of what Rob Stein refers to as DA's
“four buckets”
of fundraising: ideas, media, leadership training, and civic
engagement. The money is then apportioned to approved left-wing groups
from each respective category.
The Democracy Alliance is known to consist of at least 100
donor-partners but historically has been quite secretive regarding
their identities. Nevertheless, the Capital Research Center has managed
to compile the names of some of the more significant current and former
DA partners (in addition to George Soros and Rob Stein).
A large percentage of them have significant ties to Soros that extend
well beyond their shared membership in the Democracy Alliance. Among
these partners are the following:
- AFL-CIO: This institutional DA partner is the largest labor federation in America and was a member of Soros's Shadow Party in 2004.
- Bauman Foundation co-director Patricia Bauman serves as a board member of the Soros-funded Natural Resources Defense Council.
- Property-development CEO Albert Dwoskin is the chairman of Catalist, a Soros-funded political consultancy.
- Manhattan-based child psychologist Gail Furman belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations and is a board member of Human Rights First and the Brennan Center for Justice—all organizations that receive funding from George Soros and OSF.
- Software entrepreneur Tim Gill is a major funder of gay-rights groups such as the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, which is also supported by Soros.
- Technology entrepreneur Davidi Gilo has given at least $17,600 to J Street, an organization that is consistently critical of Israel and has close ties to Soros.
- Media-software mogul Rob Glaser was an early backer of the Soros-funded America Coming Together.
- “Racial justice organizer” Connie Cagampang Heller works closely with the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.
- Hyatt Hotel luminary Rachel Pritzker Hunter has served as treasurer of the Soros-funded Media Matters For America.
- Economist and former banking executive Rob Johnson once served as a portfolio manager for George Soros’s Quantum Fund.
- Michael Kieschnick founded Working Assets, a long-distance telephone/credit card company that donates a percentage of its profits to leftist groups and causes. He is also a board member of the Soros-funded evangelical group Sojourners.
- Longtime technology executive John Luongo is a former board member of Planned Parenthood and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington—both Soros-funded enterprises.
- Atlantic Philanthropies president and CEO Gara LaMarche was formerly vice president of Soros's Open Society Foundations. He also served a stint as associate director of Human Rights Watch and held a variety of positions with the ACLU—both organizations that are heavily funded by Soros.
- Television producer Norman Lear created the Soros-backed group, People for the American Way.
- Progressive Insurance Company chairman Peter Lewis has many close ties to Soros and was a major funder of the Shadow Party during the 2004 election cycle.
- Taco Bell heir Robert McKay has been a founding board member of America Coming Together, a board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and a director of the Fund for America—all of which are beneficiaries of Soros money.
- Tides Foundation founder and longtime CEO Drummond Pike has close ties to Soros, who is a major funder of Tides.
- Democrat activist Simon Rosenberg founded the New Policy Institute, a project of the Tides Foundation. He also sits on the board of the Soros-funded publication Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. And in 1996 he created the New Democrat Network, a Soros-financed organization committed to pushing the Democratic Party further leftward.
- Golden West Financial Corporation founders Herb and Marion Sandler are philanthropic allies of George Soros and were heavy funders of Shadow Party organizations in 2004—giving some $13 million to anti-Bush “527 committees.”
- Trial lawyer Guy Saperstein formerly served as president of the Soros-funded Sierra Club.
- Service Employees International Union: The longtime former president of this union, Andrew Stern, sat on the executive committee of the Soros-funded America Coming Together.
- George Soros's son Jonathan is president and co-deputy chairman of Soros Fund Management.
- DA board member Michael Vachon is the director of communications at Soros Fund Management and the overseer of Soros’s political contributions.
No grants were pledged at the Democracy Alliance's April 2005
gathering in Phoenix, but at an Atlanta meeting three months later, DA
partners pledged $39 million—about a third of which came directly from George Soros and Peter Lewis. Because the Alliance has largely refrained from providing information about its giving, only a small percentage of its donees are known to the public.
Thus it is impossible to determine precisely how much money DA has
disbursed since its inception. Most estimates, though, place the figure
at more than $100 million. One source—Alliance member Simon Rosenberg—claimed in August 2008 that DA had already “channeled hundreds of millions of dollars into progressive organizations.” Below are the names of a number of DA's known donees —and in certain cases the sums they have received from the Alliance. Again, the Capital Research Center
was instrumental in identifying these donees, many of whom have
financial and ideological ties to Soros and the Open Society
Foundations that long predate their connections to the Democracy
Alliance.
- ACORN: DA founder Rob Stein has called this pro-socialist, notoriously corrupt “community organization” a “tough-minded” and “very responsible” group.
- Air America Radio: When this left-leaning radio station was on the verge of bankruptcy in early 2006, it received a funding commitment of $8 million from DA.
- America Votes: This voter-mobilization coalition has received at least $6 million in DA-approved funding commitments from George Soros.
- Center for American Progress: By January 2008,
DA grants to this leftist think tank totaled at least $9 million—most
of which came from George Soros, Peter Lewis, and the Sandlers.
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: This Soros-funded group brings ethics charges against (mostly conservative) “government officials who … betray the public trust.”
- Election Administration Fund: Housed at the Tides
Foundation in San Francisco, this entity has received at least $2.5
million in DA money for its voter-registration and get-out-the-vote
efforts—plus some $1 million from Soros's Open Society Foundations.
- EMILY’s List: This group raises money for Democratic, pro-choice, female candidates.
- Media Matters For America: By January 2008, DA-approve grants to Media Matters totaled at least $7 million.
- Mi Familia Vota: This group seeks to naturalize new citizens and register them to vote.
- New Organizing Fund: This group, which “train[s] prospective progressive campaign workers in online campaign and organizing techniques,” has accepted donations directly from DA members George Soros and Deborah Rappaport.
- Progressive Majority: Working to help “promising progressive candidates” get elected to state and political offices, this group has received at least $5 million in DA grants.
- United States Student Association: This group is “dedicated to training, organizing, and developing a base of student leaders” who will become “social justice” activists.
- USAction: This group favors increased government spending on social-welfare programs and public education.
Additional DA grant recipients include such previously cited Soros
donees as Catalist, the Center for Community Change, the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, the New Democrat Network, People for the American Way, and the Progressive States Network.
Since approximately 2006, Democracy Alliance members and staff have been working to establish
subchapters of their organization in all 50 states. Their most
successful effort to date has been in Colorado, where the local DA has funded
such varied enterprises as liberal think tanks, media “watchdog”
groups, ethics groups that bring forth so-called public-interest
litigation, voter-mobilization groups, media outlets that attack
conservatives, and liberal leadership-training centers. The results
have been striking: Whereas in 1998 Colorado had a Republican governor,
two Republican U.S. senators, and four Republican House members (out of
six), by 2009 the state had a Democratic governor, two Democratic U.S.
Senators, and five Democratic House members (out of seven).
RADICALIZING AMERICA, ONE STATE AT A TIME: “PLAN” AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE PROJECT
In August 2005, when the Democracy Alliance was just getting off the
ground, George Soros's Open Society Foundations helped establish yet
another new organization—the Progressive Legislative Action Network, or
PLAN. Furnishing state legislatures with prewritten “model” legislation
reflecting leftist agendas, this group was part and parcel of Soros's
methodical campaign to shift American politics and public attitudes
toward the left—by gaining a foothold inside the corridors of power on a
state-by-state basis.
Then, in July 2006, Democracy Alliance partner Michael Kieschnick collaborated with Becky Bond (who also had affiliations with the New Organizing Institute and Working Assets) and James Rucker (who co-founded Color of Change and formerly served as director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action) to launch a major new initiative called the Secretary of State Project (SoSP). This “527 committee” was devoted to helping Democrats
win secretary-of-state elections in crucial “swing” states—i.e.,
states where the margin of victory in the 2004 presidential election had
been 120,000 votes or less. One of the principal duties
of the secretary of state is to serve as the chief election officer who
certifies candidates as well as election results in his or her state.
The holder of this office, then, can potentially play a key role in
determining the winner of a close election. Numerous Democracy Alliance
partners became funders of SoSP. Soros was one of them. In 2008, for
instance, he personally gave $10,000 to the Project.
SOROS HELPS CREATE TWO NEW PRO-DEMOCRAT GROUPS
Just two months after the Democratic Party had won control of both houses of Congress in the November 2006 elections, George Soros and then-SEIU president Andrew Stern
created Working For Us (WFU), a pro-Democrat PAC. This group does not,
however, look favorably upon Democratic centrists. Rather, it aims “to elect
lawmakers who support a progressive political agenda.” Originally
proposed by Stern as a way to prevent moderate Democrats from gaining
too much influence over the party, WFU publishes the names of what it
calls the “Top Offenders” among congressional Democrats who fail
to support such leftist priorities as “living wage” legislation, the
proliferation of public-sector labor unions, and the provision of
government-funded healthcare for all Americans. Targeting congressional
Democrats whose “voting records are more conservative than their
districts,” WFU warns that “no bad vote will be overlooked or unpunished.”
In an effort to promote large-scale income redistribution by means of
tax hikes for higher earners, WFU advocates policies that would narrow
the economic gulf between the rich and poor. The group's executive
director is Steven Rosenthal, a longtime Democrat operative with close ties to the Clinton administration and a co-founder of Soros's America Coming Together. According to Rosenthal, WFU “will encourage Democrats to act like Democrats—and if they don't—they better get out of the way.”
In November 2007, Soros joined fellow Democracy Alliance members Anna Burger and Rob McKay, as well as John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, to help form the Fund for America (FFA), a “527 committee” designed to work on what Roll Call
characterized as “media buys and voter outreach in the run-up to the
2008 elections.” The leading early donors to FFA were Soros ($3.5
million), the SEIU ($2.5 million), Hollywood producer Stephen Bing
($2.5 million), and hedge fund executive Donald Sussman ($1 million).
But when FFA failed to meet its overall fundraising goals by early 2008,
DA donors cut off their contributions and the group was disbanded
in June. Among the organizations it had bankrolled before shutting its
doors were America Votes, Americans United for Change, ACORN, and the
Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Meanwhile, Soros's regard for President Bush remained as low as ever. “Indeed,” wrote
Soros in 2006, “the Bush administration has been able to improve on the
techniques used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines
by drawing on the innovations of the advertising and marketing
industries.” Soros would elaborate on this theme at the January 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he told reporters: “America needs to ... go through a certain de-Nazification process.”
SOROS AND OBAMA: QUIET PARTNERSHIP AND SHARED AGENDAS
While George Soros was busy bankrolling his battalion of established
activist groups and launching a few new ones of his own, he quite
naturally looked toward the upcoming presidential election of 2008 with
great anticipation, eagerly awaiting the day when George W. Bush would
finally leave office. The question was, who would replace him? In recent
years, all indications had been that Soros favored Hillary Clinton
above most, if not all, other potential Democratic candidates for
President. But now there was a new face on the scene—a young,
charismatic U.S. senator from Illinois named Barack Obama—who
seemed not only to share virtually all of Soros's values and agendas,
but also appeared to be a highly skilled politician who stood a good
chance of getting elected to the nation's highest office.
In
December of 2006, Soros, who had previously hosted a fundraiser for
Obama during the latter's 2004 Senate campaign, met with Obama in
Soros's New York office. Just a few weeks later—on January 16,
2007—Obama announced that he would form a presidential exploratory
committee and was contemplating a run for the White House. Within hours,
Soros sent the senator a contribution of $2,100, the maximum amount
allowable under campaign-finance laws. Later that week, the New York Daily News
reported that Soros would support Obama rather than Hillary Clinton for
the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, though Soros pledged to back the New York senator were she to emerge as the nominee.
But it was clear that Soros considered Obama to be the more electable
candidate of the two. Most importantly, Obama's economic and political
prescriptions for America were wholly accordant with those of Soros.
For an in-depth look at the shared agendas of Soros and Obama, click here.
SOROS PURSUES A NEW 'ECONOMIC PARADIGM"
In January 2009, Anatole Kaletsky—a Times of London economics writer who opposed the “noninterventionist model of capitalism” and favored
deficit spending and “stimulus packages” as bulwarks against economic
depression—discussed with George Soros “the unique opportunity to
reshape economics in the wake of the financial crisis.” Eight months
later, Soros assembled 25 economists, financiers, and journalists in
Bedford, New York to brainstorm the idea. This “Bedford Summit” resulted
in a “unanimous agreement that our economic paradigm must change,” and a
“recognition of the importance of empowering the young generation of
economists to rethink” the field of economics. Toward that end, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) was created as a nonprofit foundation in October 2009; its initial funding came from a $50 million pledge by Soros's Open Society Foundations.
SOROS AND THE ARAB SPRING
The so-called “Arab Spring,” which began in late 2010, was a momentous
series of popular uprisings that swept—in rapid succession and with
varying degrees of intensity and effect—through a host of countries in
the Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen.
By February 2011, Tunisian president Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali had
stepped down after 22 years in power, and Egyptian president Hosni
Mubarek had abdicated after 30 years. For the most part, the Western
media—and the American left in particular—promoted the notion that the
events in the Arab world were organic eruptions of rebellion launched
spontaneously by oppressed populations who would no longer tolerate
political tyranny and economic deprivation, and who longed to quench
their own thirst for freedom and democracy.
Over time, it would
become apparent that however strong the popular support for the Arab
uprisings may have been, the hidden hand of an Islamist movement was
also at work in fomenting and sustaining the revolts. This reality was
driven home dramatically in the political events that took place where
regimes had fallen. In post-Mubarak Egypt, this meant the rising
influence of the Muslim Brotherhood—the ideological forebear of both al Qaeda and Hamas, and the spearhead of a movement aiming to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate (or kingdom) ruled by strict Islamic Law (Sharia). And in Tunisia, the first free elections following the longstanding regime of President Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali resulted
in the triumph of the al-Nahda party, an Islamist movement which had
opposed, sometimes violently, the existing regime. In short, the Arab
Spring evolved into a Muslim Winter.
Notwithstanding these developments, Soros in late 2011 said:
"A lot of positive things are happening. I see Africa together with the
Arab Spring as areas of progress. The Arab Spring was a revolutionary
development."
SOROS AND OCCUPY WALL STREET
In the fall of 2011, Soros denied any connection to the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement which was then in high gear, though he said: “I can understand their sentiment.” An October 2011 Reuters report noted that from 2007-09, Soros’ Open Society Foundations had given grants totaling $3.5 million to the Tides Center, which in turn gave more than $309,000 to the Adbusters Media Foundation -- a key organizer of OWS -- between 2001 and 2011. Aides to Soros, however, claimed that the billionaire had never before heard of Adbusters.
SOROS SEEKS TO UNSEAT REP. ALLEN WEST (FLORIDA)
In July 2012, it was reported
that Soros was among a group of donors who had already pledged their
financial support for "Dump West," a Democratic Super-PAC that planned
to raise at least $5 million for the purpose of defeating conservative
black Republican Allen West's
bid for reelection to the House of Representatives. A key player
in"Dump West" was national Democratic operative Charles Halloran, a
former aide to President Bill Clinton. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asked lobbyist Larry Smith (a former U.S. congressman) to help line up initial funding for the Super-PAC.
SOROS GIVES MONEY TO HELP NAACP FIGHT VOTER ID LAWS
In March 2013, Soros pledged to give, through his Open Society Foundations, $1 million to the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This was the largest grant that
organization had received from a named donor in recent decades. The
purpose of the grant was to help the NAACP fight challenges to the
Voting Rights Act and oppose the implementation of Voter ID laws. In a statement, Soros said: “We need bold and courageous civil rights strategies if we are to achieve racial equality in this country.”
SUPPORTING HILLARY CLINTON
In October 2013, Soros signed on to co-chair the national finance council of Ready For Hillary, a political action committee established nine months earlier to lead a nationwide grassroots movement encouraging Hillary Clinton
to run for U.S. President in 2016. “George Soros is delighted to join
more than one million Americans in supporting Ready For Hillary,” said
Soros’s political director, Michael Vachon. “His support for Ready For
Hillary is an extension of his long-held belief in the power of
grassroots organizing.”
SUPPORTING BILL DE BLASIO
In August 2013 Soros endorsed Bill de Blasio
for Mayor of New York City, and he contributed the legal limit of
$4,950 to de Blasio's campaign. Soros also gave financial support to Talking Transition,
a two-week project launched in early November 2013—immediately after de
Blasio's election victory—to "help shape" the latter's "transition" to
City Hall. Soros’ relationship with the mayor-elect actually dated back to 2011, when the billionaire had given $400,000 to de Blasio’s Coalition for Accountability in Political Spending.
SUPPORTING GROUPS THAT HELPED LEAD & PROMOTE THE ANTI-POLICE PROTESTS OF 2014 (IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI, ETC.)
In
2014, two separate white-police-vs.-black-suspect altercations that
resulted in the deaths of the blacks involved became the focal points of
a massive, nationwide protest movement alleging that white officers
were routinely targeting African Americans with racial profiling and the
unjustified use of force:
(a) On July 17, 2014, a 43-year-old
African American named Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York,
after having resisted several white police officers' efforts to arrest
him for illegally selling “loosies,” single cigarettes from packs
without tax stamps. One of the officers at the scene put his arms around
the much taller Garner's neck and took him down to the ground with a
headlock/chokehold. While he was being subdued, Garner reportedly told
the officers a number of times, "I can't breathe." A black NYPD
sergeant supervised
the entire altercation and never ordered that officer to release the
hold. Garner subsequently suffered cardiac arrest in an ambulance that
was taking him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead approximately
an hour after the initial altercation. City medical examiners
later concluded that he had died as a result of an interplay between
the police officer’s hold and Garner’s multiple chronic infirmities,
which included bronchial asthma, heart disease, obesity, and
hypertensive cardiovascular disease. "I Can't Breathe" became a popular
slogan of demonstrators who later protested Garner's death in rallies
across the United States.
(b) On August 9, 2014, a white police
officer in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed an 18-year-old black male
named Michael Brown in an altercation that occurred just minutes after
Brown had perpetrated a strong-armed robbery of a local convenience
store. Brown's death set off a massive wave of protests and riots in
Ferguson, and eventually grew into a national movement denouncing an
alleged epidemic of police brutality against African Americans. The
protesters claimed, falsely: (a) that Brown had been shot in the back
while fleeing from the officer, and (b) that Brown at one point had
raised his hands in the air submissively in an attempt to surrender but
was shot anyway. Thus, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" became a popular slogan
of the demonstrators who later protested Brown's death. When compelling
ballistic, eyewitness, and forensic evidence
eventually (in late October 2014) indicated that Brown in fact had
assaulted the officer and had tried to steal his gun just prior to the
fatal shooting, the protesters' outrage over the incident was
undiminished. A grand jury announced on November 24, 2014 that it would
not indict the officer who had shot Brown -- because of overwhelming
evidence indicating that the shooting was done in self-defense. This
announcement, too, touched off protests and riots.
Through his Open Society Foundations, Soros in 2014 gave at least $33 million to support already-established groups that, as The Washington Times
puts it, "emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in
Ferguson" and helped lead the anti-polce protests. "The financial tether
from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a combustible
protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri
into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre," says the Times.
Among these activist organizations funded by Soros were the Advancement Project, the Center for Community Change, Colorlines, the Don't Shoot Coalition, the Dream Defenders, the Drug Policy Alliance, Equal Justice USA, the Gamaliel Foundation, the Hands Up Coalition, Make the Road New York, Millennial Activists United, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (the rebranded Missouri branch of ACORN), the Organization for Black Struggle, PICO, and the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference (where Jeremiah Wright was a trustee), the SEIU, national LGBT organizations, climate environmentalists, amnesty groups, pro-Palestinian organizations, and Christian social justice groups.
"The plethora of organizations involved," explains The Washington Times,
not only shared Mr. Soros' funding, but they also fed off each other,
using content and buzzwords developed by one organization on another's
website, referencing each other's news columns and by creating a social
media echo chamber of Facebook 'likes' and Twitter hashtags that
dominated the mainstream media and personal online newsfeeds."
SOROS AGAIN FIGHTS VOTER ID LAWS
In June 2015, the New York Times reported
that "a Democratic legal fight against restrictive voting laws enacted
in recent years [since 2010] by Republican-controlled state governments
is being largely paid for by a single liberal benefactor: the
billionaire philanthropist George Soros." Indeed, Soros had already
agreed to contribute as much as $5 million to that litigation effort,
whose major objectives were to: (a) discredit and overturn Voter ID
laws in as many states as possible; (b) eliminate or loosen time
restrictions imposed on early voting (prior to Election Day); and (c)
change election rules that could nullify ballots cast in the wrong
precinct. The attorney spearheading this initiative was Marc Elias, who
also served as a lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Describing himself as “proud” to be part of the legal battles, Soros
said: “We hope to see these unfair laws, which often disproportionately
affect the most vulnerable in our society, repealed.” At the time, Soros
was supporting a lawsuit that had been filed the previous year in North
Carolina, as well as suits that had been filed in Ohio and in Wisconsin in May 2015.
SOROS SUPPORTS MASS MIGRATION OF MIDDLE EASTERNERS INTO EUROPE
In
October 2015—while hundreds of thousands of Middle Easterners were
flooding into Europe as “refugees”—Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor
Orban warned
that this mass influx of foreign Muslims was endangering Europe’s
“Christian roots” and creating “parallel societies.” Asserting that
Europeans should “stick to our Christian values,” he stated that “Europe
can be saved” only if its leaders “take seriously the traditions, the
Christian roots and all the values that are the basis of the
civilization of Europe.” Moreover, Orban accused Soros—whose charitable
foundations support numerous pro-immigration non-governmental
organizations (NGOs)—of
deliberately encouraging the migrant crisis. “This invasion is driven,
on the one hand, by people smugglers, and on the other by those (human
rights) activists who support everything that weakens the nation-state,”
Orban said. “This Western mindset and this activist network is perhaps
best represented by George Soros.”
In response, Soros issued an email statement
to Bloomberg Business, claiming that his foundations helped “uphold
European values” while Orban (according to Soros) aimed to “undermine
those values.” “His [Orban's] plan treats the protection of national
borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle," said Soros.
"Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and
national borders as the obstacle.”
EMAIL LEAK REVEALS SOROS'S SUPPORT FOR ANTI-ISRAEL, PRO-ISLAMIST GROUPS
On August 13, 2016, an anonymously-run website (dcleaks.com) released more than 2,500 confidential files from Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF), containing evidence of
funding that OSF had given to anti-Israel and pro-Islamist
organizations. Among the leaked files was an OSF internal memo from 2011
titled "Extreme Polarization and Breakdown in Civic Discourse," which lamented America's rising "xenophobia and intolerance," and discussed a $200,000 grant that OSF had awarded to the Center for American Progress (CAP)
to "research and track the activities" of groups (like the Middle East
Forum) which contend that radical Islam poses a grave threat to America.
Later in 2011, CAP published a 138-page report, Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America,
whose stated objective was to “expose—and marginalize—the influence of”
the “sinister,” “hateful,” “purposively deceptive,” “bigoted,” and
“racist” individuals and groups that, according to CAP, are part of an
“Islamophobia network in America.” These include
what CAP describes as “misinformation experts,” “anti-Muslim bigots,”
“political players,” “right-wing media,” “religious right” zealots, and
“radical ideologues” who intentionally “mischaracteriz[e] Islam,”
“peddl[e] hate and fear of Muslims,” and “rav[e]” about the “overhyped
dangers” of Sharia Law, so as to “fan the flames of Islamophobia.”
EMAIL LEAK REVEALS SOROS'S SUPPORT FOR OPEN BORDERS AND HIS DESIRE TO INFLUENCE FOREIGN POLITICS
Another OSF email made public (in August 2016) by dcleaks.com asserted that
the refugee crisis which was causing countless thousands of people from
war- and terrorism-ravaged nations in the Middle East and North Africa
to relocate to Europe and the United States, should be accepted as “the
new normal.” Entitled "Migration Governance and Enforcement Portfolio Review,"
this memo was written by Anna Crowley, the Program Officer of OSF’s
International Migration Initiative, and Kate Rosin, a Program Specialist
for the same initiative. These authors wrote how the refugee crisis was
not only “opening new opportunities” for "coordination
and collaboration" with other wealthy donors, and they praised efforts
to “take advantage of momentum created by the current crisis to shape
conversations about rethinking migration governance.” They had in mind
“institutional reforms to global migration governance.” To that end,
their International Migration Initiative helped fund the work of the
Columbia Global Policy Initiative, host of the secretariat for Peter
Sutherland, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on
International Migration. (Sutherland is an open-borders fundamentalist
who, at a reception held on October 22, 2015 to honor the 70th
anniversary of the United Nations,
claimed that caps on refugees enforced by certain countries in Europe
were “directly reminiscent of the type of caps that took place under the
Reich [against] the Jewish population.” In an October 2015 interview
with UN News Centre, Sutherland derided the very notion of national sovereignty,
saying that governments must “recognize that sovereignty is an
illusion ... that has to be put behind us," and that "the days of hiding
behind borders and fences are long gone.") Crowley and Rosin praised
the “elite-level behind-the-scenes advocacy through Peter Sutherland,”
which they believed would influence the outcome of the September 2016
summits on migrants and refugees at the United Nations, one of which was
to be led by President Obama.
Yet another leaked
memo made it clear that Soros’s group was considering using journalists
to push out the narrative on Ukraine that Soros wanted in support of
the Kiev regime. It discussed the pros and cons of offering selected
journalists “long stay reporting trips in Ukraine” while retaining “a
veto on stories we think are counterproductive.” Other leaked documents revealed that
Soros, behind the scenes, was simultaneously pushing for the U.S. to
provide more lethal weapons to the Kiev government while offering to use
his influence to help prop up the country’s finances.
In one draft memo, which Soros signed “George Soros–A self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine, March 12, 2015,” Soros advocated that
“Ukraine’s allies should treat Ukraine as a defense priority.” He also
pushed for a “radical reform program,” offering very specific political
and economic prescriptions, backed by “the Ukrainian branch of the Soros
Foundations.” This Ukrainian branch, known as the Renaissance
Foundation, was reportedly paying headhunters to find suitable
individuals to work in the Ukrainian government, even if they came from
Ukrainian communities as far away as the U.S. and Canada. Soros’s
foundation may also have been helping to pay the salaries of some
Ukrainian ministers.
Soros was also looking for the U.S. and the European Union to help bail out Ukraine’s financial system. In a letter
dated December 23, 2014 to Ukraine’s president and prime minister,
Soros discussed the need to pull together a multibillion dollar
commitment from the European Council, which could then be used to
persuade the Federal Reserve to extend a three-month swap arrangement
with the National Bank of Ukraine. “I am ready to call Jack Lew of the
US Treasury to sound him out about the swap agreement,” Soros wrote.
In the meantime,
Soros was making sure that he would be in a position to profit from a
more stabilized Ukraine. In November 2015, it was announced that Soros’s
Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund would be investing in a fund sponsored by
Dragon Capital to invest in Ukraine. Through that vehicle, Soros’s
Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund invested in Ukrainian software developer
Ciklum Holding Ltd. It acquired the stake from Horizon Capital, an
investment firm founded by Natalie Jaresko, who was serving at the time
as Ukraine's finance minister. Jaresko was a U.S. citizen of Ukrainian
descent who had once worked in the U.S. State Department. She became a
Ukrainian citizen in December 2014, the same time she became finance
minister.
Finally, to bring things around full circle, some leaked emails revealed that Soros saw an opportunity
for Ukraine to help the European Union alleviate its refugee crisis by
taking in some of the refugees in return for financial aid.
EMAIL LEAK REVEALS SOROS'S DESIRE TO REGULATE THE INTERNET IN A MANNER THAT FAVORED HIS POLITICAL AGENDAS
On August 29, 2016, the The Daily Caller reported:
"An internal proposed strategy from George Soros’s Open Society Justice
Initiative calls for international regulation of private
actors’ decisions on 'what information is taken off the Internet and
what may remain.' Those regulations, the document notes, should favor
'those most supportive of open society.'" According to the OSF website,
"The Open Society Justice Initiative uses law to protect and empower
people around the world, supporting the values and work of the Open
Society Foundations." The proposal cited by The Daily Caller was part of a 34-page document titled "2014 Proposed strategy," which spelled out the Initiative's goals for 2014-17.
SOROS PLAYS KEY ROLE IN SUPPORTING "WOMEN'S MARCH ON WASHINGTON"
Soros played a significant role in funding the
“Women’s March on Washington” which was held on January 21, 2017 to
protest the agendas and policies of the newly elected president, Donald
Trump. News outlets like the Guardian characterized the event
as a “spontaneous” action for women’s rights, while Vox spoke of a
“huge, spontaneous groundswell” behind the demonstration. But in fact,
the Women's March was organized and led by a large coalition of leftist
groups, many of which have, at various times, received funding from
Soros. Former Georgetown University journalism professor and Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Q. Nomani calculated that some 420+ groups were
identifiable as "partners" of the Women's March, and that Soros has
funded, or had cultivated "close relationships" with, at least 64 of
them. The Women's March "partners" that had previously received grants
through Soros's Open Society Foundations and its related philanthropies
-- or that were otherwise allied with Soros and his foundations --
included the following:
9 to 5 National Asociation of Working Women; A. Philip Randolph Institute; ACCESS Michigan; Advancement Project; AFL-CIO; American Civil Liberties Union; American Constitution Society; American Federation of Teachers; American Jewish World Services; America's Voice; Amnesty International; Arab American Association of New York; Asian Americans Advancing Justice; Bend The Arc; Breakthrough; Catholics for Choice; Center for American Progress; Center for Constitutional Rights; Center for Reproductive Rights; Color of Change; Communities United for Police Reform; Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance; Demos; Economic Policy Institute; EMILY's List; Every Voice; Gathering for Justice; Green for All; Human Rights Campaign; Human Rights Watch; Interfaith Center of New York; International Women's Health Coalition; Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights; League of Women Voters; Make the Road New York; MoveOn; MPower Change; NAACP; NARAL Pro-Choice America Fund; National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum; National Council of Jewish Women; National Council of La Raza; National Domestic Workers Alliance; National Education Association; National Network for Arab American Communities; National Partnership for Women and Families; Natural Resources Defense Council; PEN America; Planned Parenthood; Presente.org; Psychologists for Social Responsibility; Public Citizen; SEIU; South Asian Americans Leading Together; Southern Poverty Law Center; United We Dream; Voter Participation Center; and Women for Afghan Women.
SOROS'S EFFORT TO INSTALL DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL
In November 2017, journalist Matthew Vadum reported the following:
George Soros’s push to radically reshape the judiciary and elect
extremist district attorneys across the country to weaken law
enforcement and protect lawless sanctuary cities is bearing fruit.
Soros has been pouring money into local elections because he supports
local efforts to resist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
and wants to cripple police in order to advance the neo-Marxist
abstraction known as social justice that simplistically breaks the world
down into race, class, and sex or gender....
Soros wants prosecutors to empty prisons and coddle the prisoners who
remain, scale back drug prosecutions, lower bail, and eliminate alleged
racial disparities in sentencing, among other things.
Getting people who share Soros’s worldview into public office at
every level is key to promoting his ugly vision of how America, which he
calls “the main obstacle to a stable and just world order,” should
look.
Soros’s backing helped elect radical leftist Lawrence (Larry) Krasner
(D) as Philadelphia DA this month. Krasner, who quipped that his track
record as a civil rights lawyer made him "completely unelectable,"
somehow managed to best seven other candidates in the primary election.
“Krasner, who has represented Occupy Philadelphia and Black Lives
Matter, and has sued the police department more than 75 times, had a
major fundraising advantage that was provided almost exclusively by
Soros,” the indispensable Joe Schoffstall reported at the Washington Free Beacon.
On the campaign trail, Krasner promised never to seek the death penalty in
any criminal case and to keep Philadelphia a lawless sanctuary city. A
segment of his platform titled “Resist the Trump Administration” spelled
out his plan to “protect immigrants,” “reject the drug war,” and “stand
up to police misconduct.”
“As District Attorney, he will work to maintain Philadelphia as a
‘sanctuary city’ and protect the Fourth Amendment rights of all
residents, cooperating with federal authorities only to the degree
required by law,” according to his campaign website.
“Because legal proceedings can affect the status of immigrants and
therefore relations between communities and law enforcement, Larry will
take those effects into account when making prosecutorial decisions and
setting prosecutorial policy. He will oppose renewal of ICE’s access to
the PARS database, a city police database used by ICE to identify
‘deportable’ immigrants.”
In April, Soros gave $1.45 million to the Philadelphia Justice and
Public Safety PAC, which was created to support Krasner and listed its
address as the Democrat law firm Perkins Coie in the nation’s capital.
Soros threw another $214,000 the super PAC’s way in May, bringing his
pro-Krasner donations to $1.7 million, “an unusual[ly] high [amount] for
the average district attorney race.” It was also the first time a PAC
had ever backed a candidate for Philly DA....
The Soros modus operandi is the same in almost every
locality, Schoffstall observes. “The financier will establish political
action committees, pour money into local races, then turn around and
shut them down once the election is over.”
Last year Soros bankrolled the
Texas Safety and Justice PAC and threw his support behind Morris
Overstreet in the Democrat primary for district attorney in Harris
County, Texas, which includes Houston.
When Overstreet, a former judge who was the first black elected to
statewide office in Texas since Reconstruction, lost to Kim Ogg, a white
woman, Soros put his money on Ogg. Soros associates developed her
television ads, and with $878,000 from Soros’s custom-made PAC, she took
out the GOP office-holder, Devon Anderson, in the general election.
As a Daily Signal article almost a year ago stated: “On Jan.
1, Ogg will begin to try fulfilling the vision she ran on, promising a
'significant culture change' defined by taking a more lenient approach
to marijuana possession cases, focusing tax dollars on punishing violent
criminals, and making it easier for defendants to get out of jail on
bond in a county where 70 percent of inmates cannot afford to free
themselves before trial.”
According to a Daily Signal analysis, in the 2016 election
cycle Soros shelled out almost $11 million in 12 DA races. Democrat
candidates backed by Soros ended up winning in 10 of those dozen
contests. Soros has also funded district attorney candidates in Florida,
Illinois, Mississippi, Louisiana, and New Mexico.
SOROS TRANSFERS $18 BILLION TO HIS FOUNDATIONS
In October 2017, it was reported that over the preceding few years, Soros had quietly transferred $18 billion of his $24.6 billion in personal assets to OSF, thereby making OSF the second-largest U.S.-based philanthropy (behind only the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).
NOTES:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/17/news/george-soros-18-billion-open-society-foundations/index.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aEmPzbHtLcUc; http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/47/47147.html; http://mdmandp.com/blog/tag/soros-fund-management-llc/
George Soros, The Alchemy of Finance (1994 edition), p. 362
George Soros, Underwriting Democracy, p. 3
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff367.htm; http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/george-soross-evangelicals
“The Billionaire Who Built on Chaos – George Soros (The Independent: June 3, 1993)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,602163,00.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4635465
Faisal Islam, “Rich Man, Wise Man” (Observer: March 10, 2002)
Anthony Gottlieb, “Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?” (The New York Times: March 3, 2002)
Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire, 2002, p. 293
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,986919,00.html
“The Mind of George Soros; Meet the Esperanto Enthusiast Who Wants to Save the World from President Bush” (The Wall Street Journal: March 2, 2004)
Connie Bruck, “The World According to Soros” (The New Yorker: January 23, 1995); Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say (2005), p. 157.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/george-soros-on-helping-the-nazis-during-the-holocaust
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,602163,00.html#ixzz19pFJsPwd; Michael Lewis, “The Speculator,” New Republic (January 10-17, 1994).
George Soros, Underwriting Democracy (1991), p. 170.
http://www.undueinfluence.com/george_soros.htm
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 67
Nicola Chalton, ed., The Philosophers (2008), p. 159.
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 67-69; The Philosophers, pp. 158-159; George Soros, Soros on Soros (1995), p. 33.
George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 193
George Soros, The Alchemy of Finance (1994 edition), p. 13; George Soros, Soros on Soros (1995), p. 39.
Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire (2002), p. 83
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/S-Z/Soros-George-1930.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/08/meyerson.htm ; David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 84-85
Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire (2002), p. 180.
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/85/Soros-Fund-Management-Llc.html; Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say (2005), p. 157.
http://www.soros.org/about
George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 136
http://www.soros.org/about/timeline
Connie Bruck, “The World According to Soros” (The New Yorker: January 23, 1995)
http://www.soros.org/about
George Soros, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (2000), p. 120
http://www.soros.org/about/bios/staff/aryeh-neier
http://www.theacru.org/VadumACLU.pdf
http://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-slams-draft-dhs-regulations-real-id-says-delay-fails-address-privacy-and-civi ; http://www.theacru.org/VadumACLU.pdf
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights ; http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/about-aclus-immigrants-rights-project
http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258
http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/transcripts/5424.html
This figure derives from OSF's IRS Forms 990 for the years 2000-2008.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/07/george-soros-100-million-human-rights-watch
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html
http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org//990pf_pdf_archive/137/137029285/137029285_200812_990PF.pdf
http://www.aaiusa.org/issues/civil-rights-and-civil-liberties/
http://www.bordc.org/list.php
http://www.maldef.org/about/mission/index.html
http://www.lawyerscommittee.org/about?id=0001
http://naacpldf.org/about-ldf
http://www.nclr.org/index.php/issues_and_programs/
http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=2
http://www.criticalresistance.org/article.php?list=type&type=5
http://www.civilrights.org/criminal-justice/
http://www.communitychange.org/who-we-are/who-we-are
http://www.gamaliel.org/OurWork/TrainingLeaders.aspx
http://ruckus.org/section.php?id=71
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7581
http://institute.ourfuture.org/about-iaf
http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/texas-textbooks-what-happened-what-it-means-and-what-we-can-do-about-it ; http://www.pfaw.org/about-us/our-mission-and-vision
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/training
Stanley Kurtz, Radical In Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism (2010). (The Midwest Academy received $10,000 from OSF in 1997.)
http://zcommunications.org/neoliberalism-comes-unglued-by-mark-weisbrot
http://www.cbpp.org/about/
http://www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=19&contentid=151
Maria Puente, “Philanthropist Pledges $50M For Immigrants,” USA Today (October 1, 1996)
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/statement_of_common_purpose
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/about_us/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/us/politics/30dems.html; http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/george-soros-pledges-5-million-to-bankroll-health-care-reform-push-group-says/; http://nation.foxnews.com/george-soros/2009/08/11/soros-gives-5-million-liberal-health-care-group; http://www.newsmax.com/LowellPonte/obama-pelosi-acorn/2009/12/12/id/341854
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1225223330.pdf
http://catalist.us/aboutus.html
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/section/category/racial_justice/ ; http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf (The Brennan Center received $12 million from OSF from 1999-2008.)
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/07/12/john-lott-senator-al-franken-minnesota-felons-democrat/
http://www.progressivestates.org/press/psn_in_the_news?page=6 (PSN was formerly known as the Progressive Action Legislative Network.)
http://boldprogressives.org/mission ; http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?ein=263881408&cycle=2010
http://www.prospect.org/cs/about_tap/our_mission
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590506,00.html
http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/content.php?pid=58376&sid=427399
http://www.alternet.org/about/ ; http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/content.php?pid=58376&sid=427399
http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/about_us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpZZGTGVePE
(OSF poured millions of dollars into the coffers of MoveOn.org, the
Center for American Progress, and Democracy Alliance – Soros-funded
operations which then funneled some of that money to Media Matters.)
http://mediamatters.org/p/about_us/
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/soros-donates-1-million-to-media-matters/
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1204311857.pdf
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1293869054.pdf
http://www.afj.org/about-afj/afj-vision-statement.html
http://americanconstitutionsociety.blogspot.com/
http://www.acslaw.org/about ; http://www.americanconstitutionsociety.org/taxonomy/term/202?page=2
http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf ; (This organization received $2.815 million from OSF during 2006-2008.)
http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf
http://www.catholicsinalliance.org/aboutus.html
http://www.examiner.com/political-transcripts-in-national/president-s-spiritual-advisor-obama-feels-he-hasn-t-had-a-chance-video?render=print (Sojourners received $325,000 from OSF during 2004-2007.)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/soros_has_a_pastor_close_to_ob.html
http://www.piconetwork.org/about?id=0003
http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/topics/abortion/default.asp
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7616
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6927
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/papers-please-eliminating-birthright-citizenship-would-affect-everyone
http://www.casademaryland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=743&Itemid=126%20
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guides/Open%20Borders%20Lobby.pdf
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6502
http://latinojustice.org/about/history/
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/Solutions_Paper_032310.pdf
http://www.immigrationforum.org/policy/update-display/update-the-results-of-the-elections-and-immigration-in-the-112th-congress/
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guides/Open%20Borders%20Lobby.pdf
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/11/13/a-constitutional-right-to-publ/1
http://ccrjustice.org/illegal-detentions-and-guantanamo
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=21594
http://www.constitutionproject.org/manage/file/190.pdf
http://old.nationalreview.com/york/york200502170843.asp
http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/5545.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0526-03.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/may/26/usa.guantanamo
Robert Patterson, War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror (2007), p. 181.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/aid_and_comfort_how_leading_de.html
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=17849
http://afsc.org/project/shaping-just-federal-budget
http://www.gsinstitute.org/archives/000020.shtml
http://www.tides.org/about-us/history/index.html
Jim Freer, “George Soros,” Latin Trade (October 1998); Peter Schweitzer, Do As I Say (2005), p. 167.
Gene Marcial, “A Bright Gleam on Apex,” Business Week (June 14, 2004)
http://www.spectacle.org/1200/moratorium.html
http://feminist.org/welcome/index.html
http://ms.foundation.org/about_us
http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=issues_fairness_fairpay
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33197
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/25/20040425-112025-9831r/
George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism (2000), p. xxix
http://www.unfoundation.org/press-center/press-releases/2010/un-foundation-and-una-usa-announce-alliance.html
http://www.iccnow.org/?mod=supporters
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E3D91730F934A35756C0A9649C8B63
George Soros, “A Look At … The Drug War Debate,” The Washington Post (February 2, 1997)
George Soros, Soros on Soros (1995)
http://www.drugpolicy.org/global/ungass/letter/
Joseph A. Califano Jr., “Devious Efforts To Legalize Drugs,” The Washington Post (December 4, 1996)
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf ; http://www.drugpolicy.org/about/
http://www.drugpolicy.org/about/keystaff/boardofdirec/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/04/soros-sponsored-candidates-ballot-initiatives-election-day/
Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say (2005), p. 169.
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf
http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/publications/report_20041122/a_complete.pdf
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 135
http://www.deathwithdignity.org/aboutus/
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf
http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1217524969.pdf
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/04/20/phil-kerpen-john-paulson-goldman-sachs-center-responsible-lending/
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 89-90
Connie Bruck, “The World According to Soros” (The New Yorker: January 23, 1995)
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 91-93
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/george_soros_and_the_alchemy_o.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/george_soros_and_the_alchemy_o.html
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 93-94
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/george_soros_and_the_alchemy_o.html
http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/05/11/remembering-russiagate/
http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/05/11/remembering-russiagate/
Interview with George Soros, The Charlie Rose Show, PBS (November 30, 1995)
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 55
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 54
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 53-54
Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), p. 69; George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 42.
George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism (1998), pp. 168, 179
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 222
George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 94
http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/articles/americanprospect_20030527
George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 123
George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 30
George Soros, George Soros on Globalization (2002), p. xi
George Soros, George Soros on Globalization (2002), p. 155
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/bush.speech.txt/
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20711
These documents were intended to discredit America's war effort as both immoral and unwinnable.
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 24
James L. Tyson, Target America (Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1981), pp. 2, 200
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 11. (Interview with George Soros by Andrew Stevens, “The N.E.W. Show,” CNN (September 19, 2001).
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 18
Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005)
Greg Pierce, “Inside Politics,” The Washington Times (March 3, 2003)
George Soros, “Bush’s Inflated Sense Of Supremacy,” Financial Times (March 13, 2003)
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/billionaire-fronts-75m-push-to-oust-bush-208127.html; Thomas Hargrove, “Financier Donates $10M To Defeat Bush,” The Record [Bergen, NJ] (August 10, 2003)
“Soros Calls For ‘Regime Change’ In US,” BBC News Website September 30, 2003); http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/02/int04012.html
George Soros, “Bush’s Inflated Sense Of Supremacy,” Financial Times (March 13, 2003)
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 12
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), pp. viii, 10
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), pp. 12-13
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 10
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 4
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 26; http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x3136
Mark Gimein, “George Soros Is Mad As Hell,” Fortune (October 27, 2003)
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), pp. 26, 53
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 53
http://old.nationalreview.com/york/york200406031106.asp; http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=4247
George Soros, Remarks At National Press Club (Washington, DC: September 28, 2004)
Bernard Besserglik, “Soros Cuts Open Society Aid To Russia, Targets US,” Agence France Presse (June 9, 2003)
Mark Gimein, “George Soros Is Mad As Hell,” Fortune (October 27, 2003); http://www.pbs.org/wsw/news/fortunearticle_20031013_02.html
Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post (November 11, 2003)
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 13
Greg Pierce, “Inside Politics,” The Washington Times (October 1, 2003)
Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post (November 11, 2003)
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 9
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 74)
George Soros, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (2000), p. 337
The term was derived from the fact that the movements designated specific colors or flowers as their symbols.
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/06/kgb-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-2/
George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 132
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3636033.stm ; http://www.slovakia.org/history-summary.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/294990.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2000/milosevic_yugoslavia/croatia.stm ; http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2000/milosevic_yugoslavia/bosnia.stm ; http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5388.htm#history
Neil Clark, “NS Profile—George Soros,” New Statesman (June 2, 2003)
“President Tudjman Criticizes Foreign Inyerference in Croatia's Media,” BBC (December 11, 1996)
In this case and a few others, the rebels identified themselves with a color or a flower.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3257047.stm
Mark MacKinnon, “Georgia Revolt Carried Mark of Soros,” Globe and Mail (November 26, 2003)
Franklin Foer, “Regime Change, Inc.: Peter Ackerman's Quest to Topple Tyranny,” New Republic (April 25, 2005); David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 236-237
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/George_Soros
David Holley, “Soros Invests in His Democratic Passion: The
Billionaire's Open Society Institute Network Is Focusing on Central Asia
Now,” Los Angeles Times (July 5, 2004)
http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2003/12/02/putting_tons_of_money_where_his_mouth_is/?mode
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/George_Soros
http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/041206/story.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/mar/26/20050326-103550-7473r/
Thomas B. Edsall, “Liberals Form Fund to Defeat President: Aim Is to Spend $75 Million for 2004,” Washington Post (August 8, 2003)
Mark Gimein, “George Soros Is Mad As Hell,” Fortune (October 27, 2003)
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19648
Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post (November 11, 2003)
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 131-136
http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/03/25/pewgate-the-battle-of-the-blogosphere/ ; Ryan Sager, “Buying 'Reform': Media Missed Millionaires' Scam,” New York Post (March 17, 2005)
http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/03/25/pewgate-the-battle-of-the-blogosphere/ ; Ryan Sager, “Buying 'Reform': Media Missed Millionaires' Scam,” New York Post
(March 17, 2005). (The other seven major contributors were the Pew
Charitable Trusts ($40.1 million); the Schumann Center for Media and
Democracy ($17.6 million); the Carnegie Corporation of New York ($14.1
million); the Joyce Foundation ($13.5 million); the Jerome Kohlberg
Trust ($11.3 million); the Ford Foundation ($8.8 million); and the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ($5.2 million).
Byron York, “The Soros Agenda: Free Speech for Billionaires Only,” Wall Street Journal (January 3, 2004); Byron York, “Democrats Throw The Spirit Of Reform Out The Window,” The Hill (November 5, 2003); Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), p. 62.
http://www.mrc.org/static/biasbasics/MediaBias101.aspx
http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/bcra_overview.shtml
http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/bcra_overview.shtml ; David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 175-176
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 176
Republicans, meanwhile, did not build any comparable network of
independent fundraising nonprofits to circumvent McCain-Feingold –
probably because they historically had been successful at raising hard
money.
Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), p. 8
Richard Poe, “The Shadow Party: History, Goals, and Activities” (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/theshadowpartypoe2004.html)
http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/
http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/
(These 17 states were: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maine,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.)
http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/
Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post (November 11, 2003)
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 182
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 196-198
Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post (November 11, 2003)
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party
(2006), p. 189. (Among these were Clinton's national security
speechwriter Robert Boorstin; former head of Clinton's National Economic
Council, Gene Sperling; and former senior advisor to Clinton's Office
of Management and Budget, Matt Miller.)
Matt Bai, “Notion Building,” New York Times Magazine (October12, 2003)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_American_Progress
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6527
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?ein=204359961&cycle=2006
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?cycle=2008&ein=204359961
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/us/politics/30dems.html
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6712
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5342&category=79
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/lookup.php?cycle=2010&donor=george%20soros&page=1
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6713
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6201
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2003/11/11/55615/610
Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), p. 61
Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), pp. 86-87.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1624 ; Michael Crowley, “Shadow Warriors,” New York Magazine (August 12, 2004).
David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 193-194
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, “The New Soft Money,” Fortune (October 27, 2003)
Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), p. 8
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=8738
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=8738
http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20
http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551 ; http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1198857554.pdf
(By August 2005, Stein had shown his PowerPoint presentation to more than 700 key people in private meetings.) http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=8738
http://www.hudson.org/files/pdf_upload/Transcript_2006_11_30.pdf
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Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Foundations
By Discover The Networks
Organizations that, in recent years, have received direct funding and assistance from George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF) include the following. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the "Groups" section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):
- Advancement Project:
This organization works to organize "communities of color" into
politically cohesive units while disseminating its leftist worldviews
and values as broadly as possible by way of a sophisticated
communications department.
- Air America Radio: Now defunct, this was a self-identified "liberal" radio network.
- Al-Haq:
This NGO produces highly politicized reports, papers, books, and legal
analyses regarding alleged Israeli human-rights abuses committed against
Palestinians.
- All of Us or None:
This organization seeks to change voting laws -- which vary from state
to state -- so as to allow ex-inmates, parolees, and even current
inmates to cast their ballots in political elections.
- Alliance for Justice: Best known for its activism vis a vis the appointment of federal judges, this group consistently depicts Republican judicial nominees as "extremists."
- America Coming Together:
Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to
coordinate and organize pro-Democrat voter-mobilization programs.
- America Votes: Soros also played a major role in creating this group, whose get-out-the-vote campaigns targeted likely Democratic voters.
- America's Voice:
This open-borders group seeks to promote “comprehensive” immigration
reform that includes a robust agenda in favor of amnesty for illegal
aliens.
- American Bar Association Commission on Immigration Policy:
This organization "opposes laws that require employers and persons
providing education, health care, or other social services to verify
citizenship or immigration status."
- American Bridge 21st Century: This Super PAC conducts opposition research designed to help Democratic political candidates defeat their Republican foes.
- American Civil Liberties Union:
This group opposes virtually all post-9/11 national security measures
enacted by the U.S. government. It supports open borders, has rushed to
the defense of suspected terrorists and their abettors, and appointed
former New Left terrorist Bernardine Dohrn to its Advisory Board.
- American Constitution Society for Law and Policy:
This Washington, DC-based think tank seeks to move American
jurisprudence to the left by recruiting, indoctrinating, and mobilizing
young law students, helping them acquire positions of power. It also
provides leftist Democrats with a bully pulpit from which to denounce
their political adversaries.
- American Family Voices: This group creates and coordinates media campaigns charging Republicans with wrongdoing.
- American Federation of Teachers:
After longtime AFT President Albert Shanker died in in 1997, he was
succeeded by Sandra Feldman, who slowly “re-branded” the union, allying
it with some of the most powerful left-wing elements of the New Labor
Movement. When Feldman died in 2004, Edward McElroy took her place,
followed by Randi Weingarten in 2008. All of them kept the union on the
leftward course it had adopted in its post-Shanker period.
- American Friends Service Committee:
This group views the United States as the principal cause of human
suffering around the world. As such, it favors America's unilateral
disarmament, the dissolution of American borders, amnesty for illegal
aliens, the abolition of the death penalty, and the repeal of the
Patriot Act.
- American Immigration Council:
This non-profit organization is a prominent member of the open-borders
lobby. It advocates expanded rights and amnesty for illegal aliens
residing in the U.S.
- American Immigration Law Foundation: This group supports amnesty for illegal aliens, on whose behalf it litigates against the U.S. government.
- American Independent News Network: This organization promotes "impact journalism" that advocates progressive change.
- American Institute for Social Justice:
AISJ's goal is to produce skilled community organizers who can
“transform poor communities” by agitating for increased government
spending on city services, drug interdiction, crime prevention, housing,
public-sector jobs, access to healthcare, and public schools.
- American Library Association: This group has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration's War on Terror -- most particularly, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which it calls "a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users."
- The American Prospect, Inc.: This corporation trains and mentors young leftwing journalists, and organizes strategy meetings for leftist leaders.
- Amnesty International:
This organization directs a grossly disproportionate share of its
criticism for human rights violations at the United States and Israel.
- Applied Research Center:
Viewing the United States as a nation where “structural racism” is
deeply “embedded in the fabric of society,” ARC seeks to "build a fair
and equal society" by demanding “concrete change from our most powerful
institutions."
- Arab American Institute Foundation:
The Arab American Institute denounces the purportedly widespread civil
liberties violations directed against Arab Americans in the post-9/11
period, and characterizes Israel as a brutal oppressor of the
Palestinian people.
- Aspen Institute: This organization promotes radical environmentalism and views America as a nation plagued by deep-seated “structural racism.”
- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now:
This group conducts voter mobilization drives on behalf of leftist
Democrats. These initiatives have been notoriously marred by fraud and
corruption.
- Ballot Initiative Strategy Center:
This organization seeks to advance “a national progressive strategy” by
means of ballot measures—state-level legislative proposals that pass
successfully through a petition (“initiative”) process and are then
voted upon by the public.
- Bend The Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice:
This organization condemns Voter ID laws as barriers that “make it
harder for communities of color, women, first-time voters, the elderly,
and the poor to cast their vote.”
- Bill of Rights Defense Committee:
This group provides a detailed blueprint for activists interested in
getting their local towns, cities, and even college campuses to publicly
declare their opposition to the Patriot Act, and to designate
themselves "Civil Liberties Safe Zones." The organization also came to
the defense of self-described radical attorney Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in 2005 of providing material support for terrorism.
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration: This organization seeks to create a unified movement for “social and economic justice” centered on black racial identity.
- Blueprint North Carolina:
This group seeks to “influence state policy in North Carolina so that
residents of the state benefit from more progressive policies such as
better access to health care, higher wages, more affordable housing, a
safer, cleaner environment, and access to reproductive health services.”
- Brennan Center for Justice:
This think tank/legal activist group generates scholarly studies,
mounts media campaigns, files amicus briefs, gives pro bono support to
activists, and litigates test cases in pursuit of radical "change."
- Brookings Institution:
This organization has been involved with a variety of internationalist
and state-sponsored programs, including one that aspires to facilitate
the establishment of a U.N.-dominated world government. Brookings
Fellows have also called for additional global collaboration on trade
and banking; the expansion of the Kyoto Protocol; and nationalized
health insurance for children. Nine Brookings economists signed a
petitionopposing President Bush's tax cuts in 2003.
- Campaign for America's Future: This group supports tax hikes, socialized medicine, and a dramatic expansion of social welfare programs.
- Campaign for Better Health Care: This organization favors a single-payer, government-run, universal health care system.
- Campaign for Youth Justice:
This organization contends that “transferring juveniles to the adult
criminal-justice system leads to higher rates of recidivism, puts
incarcerated and detained youth at unnecessary risk, has little
deterrence value, and does not increase public safety.”
- Campus Progress: A project of the Soros-bankrolled Center for American Progress,
this group seeks to "strengthen progressive voices on college and
university campuses, counter the growing influence of right-wing groups
on campus, and empower new generations of progressive leaders."
- Casa de Maryland:
This organization aggressively lobbies legislators to vote in favor of
policies that promote expanded rights, including amnesty, for illegal
aliens currently residing in the United States.
- Catalist:
This is a for-profit political consultancy that seeks "to help
progressive organizations realize measurable increases in civic
participation and electoral success by building and operating a robust
national voter database of every voting-age American."
- Catholics for Choice: This nominally Catholic organization supports women's right to abortion-on-demand.
- Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good:
This political nonprofit group is dedicated to generating support from
the Catholic community for leftwing candidates, causes, and legislation.
- Center for American Progress: This leftist think tank is headed by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, works closely with Hillary Clinton,
and employs numerous former Clinton administration staffers. It is
committed to "developing a long-term vision of a progressive America"
and "providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy
proposals."
- Center for Community Change:
This group recruits and trains activists to spearhead leftist
"political issue campaigns." Promoting increased funding for social
welfare programs by bringing "attention to major national issues related
to poverty," the Center bases its training programs on the techniques
taught by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
- Center for Constitutional Rights: This pro-Castro organization is a core member of the open borders lobby,
has opposed virtually all post-9/11 anti-terrorism measures by
the U.S. government, and alleges that American injustice provokes acts
of international terrorism.
- Center for Economic and Policy Research:
This group opposed welfare reform, supports "living wage" laws, rejects
tax cuts, and consistently lauds the professed achievements of
socialist regimes, most notably Venezuela.
- Center for International Policy:
This organization uses advocacy, policy research, media outreach, and
educational initiatives to promote “transparency and accountability” in
U.S. foreign policy and global relations. It generally views America as a
disruptive, negative force in the world.
- Center for Reproductive Rights:
CRR's mission is to guarantee safe, affordable contraception and
abortion-on-demand for all women, including adolescents. The
organization has filed state and federal lawsuits demanding access to
taxpayer-funded abortions (through Medicaid) for low-income women.
- Center for Responsible Lending:
This organization was a major player in the subprime mortgage crisis.
According to Phil Kerpen (vice president for policy at Americans for
Prosperity), CRL “sh[ook] down and harass[ed] banks into making bad
loans to unqualified borrowers.” Moreover, CRL negotiated a contract
enabling it to operate as a conduit of high-risk loans to Fannie Mae.
- Center for Social Inclusion: This organization seeks to counteract America's "structural racism" by means of taxpayer-funded policy initiatives.
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Reasoning from the premise that tax cuts generally help only the
wealthy, this organization advocates greater tax expenditures on social welfare programs for low earners.
- Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS):
Aiming to redistribute wealth by way of higher taxes imposed on those
whose incomes are above average, COWS contends that "it is important
that state government be able to harness fair contribution from all
parts of society – including corporations and the wealthy."
- Change America Now:
Formed in December 2006, Change America Now describes itself as "an
independent political organization created to educate citizens on the
failed policies of the Republican Congress and to contrast that record
of failure with the promise offered by a Democratic agenda."
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington:
This group litigates and brings ethics charges against "government
officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests" and
"betray the public trust." Almost all of its targets are Republicans.
- Coalition for an International Criminal Court: This group seeks to subordinate American criminal-justice procedures to those of an international court.
- Color Of Change:
This organization was founded to combat what it viewed as the systemic
racism pervading America generally and conservatism in particular.
- Common Cause:
This organization aims to bring about campaign-finance reform, pursue
media reform resembling the Fairness Doctrine, and cut military budgets
in favor of increased social-welfare and environmental spending.
- Constitution Project:
This organization seeks to challenge the legality of military
commissions; end the detainment of "enemy combatants”; condemn
government surveillance of terrorists; and limit the President's
executive privileges.
- Defenders of Wildlife Action
Fund: Defenders of Wildlife opposes oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge. It condemns logging, ranching, mining, and
even the use of recreational motorized vehicles as activities that are
destructive to the environment.
- Democracy Alliance:
This self-described "liberal organization" aims to raise $200 million
to develop a funding clearinghouse for leftist groups. Soros is a major
donor to this group.
- Democracy 21: This group is a staunch supporter of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act.
- Democracy Now!:
Democracy Now! was created in 1996 by WBAI radio news director Amy
Goodman and four partners to provide "perspectives rarely heard in the
U.S. corporate-sponsored media," i.e., the views of radical and foreign
journalists, left and labor activists, and ideological foes of
capitalism.
- Democratic Justice Fund:
DJF opposes the Patriot Act and most efforts to restrict or regulate
immigration into the United States -- particularly from countries
designated by the State Department as "terrorist nations."
- Democratic Party:
Soros' funding activities are devoted largely to helping the Democratic
Party solidify its power base. In a November 2003 interview, Soros
stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 "is the central focus of my
life" ... "a matter of life and death." He pledged to raise $75 million
to defeat Bush, and personally donated nearly a third of that amount to
anti-Bush organizations. "America under Bush," he said, "is a danger to
the world, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is."
- Demos:
This organization lobbies federal and state policymakers to “addres[s]
the economic insecurity and inequality that characterize American
society today”; promotes “ideas for reducing gaps in wealth, income and
political influence”; and favors tax hikes for the wealthy.
- Drum Major Institute:
This group describes itself as “a non-partisan, non-profit think tank
generating the ideas that fuel the progressive movement,” with the
ultimate aim of persuading “policymakers and opinion-leaders” to take
steps that advance its vision of “social and economic justice.”
- Earthjustice:
This group seeks to place severe restrictions on how U.S. land and
waterways may be used. It opposes most mining and logging initiatives,
commercial fishing businesses, and the use of motorized vehicles in
undeveloped areas.
- Economic Policy Institute:
This organization believes that “government must play an active role in
protecting the economically vulnerable, ensuring equal opportunity, and
improving the well-being of all Americans.”
- Electronic Privacy Information Center:
This organization has been a harsh critic of the USA PATRIOT Act and
has joined the American Civil Liberties Union in litigating two cases
calling for the FBI "to publicly release or account for thousands of
pages of information about the government's use of PATRIOT Act powers."
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights:
Co-founded by the revolutionary communist Van Jones, this anti-poverty
organization claims that “decades of disinvestment in our cities” --
compounded by “excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration” --
have “led to despair and homelessness.”
- EMILY's List: This political network raises money for Democratic female political candidates who support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
- Energy Action Coalition:
Founded in 2004, this group describes itself as “a coalition of 50
youth-led environmental and social justice groups working together to
build the youth clean energy and climate movement.” For EAC, this means
“dismantling oppression” according to its principles of environmental
justice.
- Equal Justice USA: This group claims that America's criminal-justice system is plagued by “significant race and class biases,” and thus seeks to promote major reforms.
- Fair Immigration Reform Movement: This is the open-borders arm of the Center for Community Change.
- Faithful America:
This organization promotes the redistribution of wealth, an end to
enhanced interrogation procedures vis a vis prisoners-of-war, the
enactment of policies to combat global warming, and the creation of a
government-run heath care system.
- Families USA: This Washington-based health-care advocacy group favors ever-increasing government control of the American healthcare system.
- Feminist Majority:
Characterizing the United States as an inherently sexist nation, this
group focuses on "advancing the legal, social and political equality of
women with men, countering the backlash to women's advancement, and
recruiting and training young feminists to encourage future leadership
for the feminist movement in the United States."
- Four Freedoms Fund:
This organization was designed to serve as a conduit through which
large foundations could fund state-based open-borders organizations more
flexibly and quickly.
- Free Exchange on Campus:
This organization was created solely to oppose the efforts of one
individual, David Horowitz, and his campaign to have universities adopt
an "Academic Bill of Rights," as well as todenounce Horowitz's 2006 book The Professors. Member organizations of FEC include Campus Progress (a project of the Center for American Progress); the American Association of University Professors; theAmerican Civil Liberties Union; People For the American Way; the United States Student Association; theCenter for Campus Free Speech; the American Library Association; Free Press; and the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups.
- Free Press: This "media reform" organization has worked closely with many notable leftists and such organizations as Media Matters for America, Air America Radio, Global Exchange, Code Pink, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Mother Jones magazine, and Pacifica Radio.
- Funding Exchange:
Dedicated to the concept of philanthropy as a vehicle for social
change, this organization pairs leftist donors and foundations with
likeminded groups and activists who are dedicated to bringing about
their own version of "progressive" change and social justice.
Many of these grantees assume that American society is rife with
racism, discrimination, exploitation, and inequity and needs to be
overhauled via sustained education, activism, and social agitation.
- Gamaliel Foundation:
Modeling its tactics on those of the radical Sixties activist Saul
Alinsky, this group takes a strong stand against current homeland
security measures and immigration restrictions.
- Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement: This anti-Israel organization seeks to help Palestinians "exercise their right to freedom of movement."
- Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect:
This group contends that when a state proves either unable or unwilling
to protect civilians from mass atrocities occurring within its borders,
it is the responsibility of the international community to intervene --
peacefully if possible, but with military force if necessary.
- Global Exchange: Established in 1988 by pro-Castro radical Medea Benjamin,
this group consistently condemns America's foreign policy, business
practices, and domestic life. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
Global Exchange advised Americans to examine "the root causes of
resentment against the United States in the Arab world -- from our
dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards Israel."
- Grantmakers Without Borders:
GWB tends to be very supportive of leftist environmental, anti-war, and
civil rights groups. It is also generally hostile to capitalism, which
it deems one of the chief "political, economic, and social systems" that
give rise to a host of "social ills."
- Green For All: This group was created by Van Jones to lobby for federal climate, energy, and economic policy initiatives.
- Health Care for America Now:
This group supports a “single payer” model where the federal government
would be in charge of financing and administering the entire U.S.
healthcare system.
- Human Rights Campaign:
The largest "lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender" lobbying group in the
United States, HRC supports political candidates and legislation that
will advance the LGBT agenda. Historically, HRC has most vigorously
championed HIV/AIDS-related legislation, “hate crime” laws, the
abrogation of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and the
legalization of gay marriage.
- Human Rights First:
This group supports open borders and the rights of illegal aliens;
charges that the Patriot Act severely erodes Americans' civil liberties;
has filed amicus curiae briefs on behalf of terror suspect Jose Padilla; and deplores the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities.
- Human Rights Watch:
This group directs a disproportionate share of its criticism at
the United States and Israel. It opposes the death penalty in all cases,
and supports open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
- I'lam: This anti-Israel NGO seeks "to develop and empower the Arab media and to give voice to Palestinian issues."
- Immigrant Defense Project:
To advance the cause of illegal immigrants, the IDP provides
immigration law backup support and counseling to New York defense
attorneys and others who represent or assist immigrants in criminal
justice and immigration systems, as well as to immigrants themselves.
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center:
This group claims to have helped gain amnesty for some three million
illegal aliens in the U.S., and in the 1980s was part of the sanctuary
movement which sought to grant asylum to refugees from the failed
Communist states of Central America.
- Immigrant Workers Citizenship Project: This open-borders organization advocates mass immigration to the U.S.
- Immigration Advocates Network:
This alliance of immigrant-rights groups seeks to “increase access to
justice for low-income immigrants and strengthen the capacity of
organizations serving them.”
- Immigration Policy Center:
IPC is an advocate of open borders and contends that the massive influx
of illegal immigrants into America is due to U.S. government policy,
since “the broken immigration system […] spurs unauthorized immigration
in the first place.”
- Independent Media Center: This
Internet-based, news and events bulletin board represents an invariably
leftist, anti-capitalist perspective and serves as a mouthpiece for
anti-globalization/anti-America themes.
- Independent Media Institute:
IMI administers the SPIN Project (Strategic Press Information Network),
which provides leftist organizations with "accessible and affordable
strategic communications consulting, training, coaching, networking
opportunities and concrete tools" to help them "achieve their social
justice goals."
- Institute for America's Future:
IAF supports socialized medicine, increased government funding for
education, and the creation of an infrastructure "to ensure that the
voice of the progressive majority is heard."
- Institute for New Economic Thinking:
Seeking to create a new worldwide "economic paradigm," this
organization is staffed by numerous individuals who favor government
intervention in national economies, and who view capitalism as a flawed
system.
- Institute for Policy Studies:
This think tank has long supported Communist and anti-American causes
around the world. Viewing capitalism as a breeding ground for
"unrestrained greed," IPS seeks to provide a corrective to "unrestrained
markets and individualism." Professing an unquestioning faith in the
righteousness of the United Nations, it aims to bring American foreign
policy under UN control.
- Institute for Public Accuracy:
This anti-American, anti-capitalist organization sponsored actor Sean
Penn’s celebrated visit to Baghdad in 2002. It also sponsored visits to
Iraq by Democratic Congressmen Nick Rahall and former Democrat Senator
James Abourezk
- Institute for Women's Policy Research:
This group views the U.S. as a nation rife with discrimination against
women, and publishes research to draw attention to this alleged state of
affairs. It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand, stating that "access to abortion is essential to the
economic well-being of women and girls."
- International Crisis Group:
One of this organization's leading figures is its Mideast Director,
Robert Malley, who was President Bill Clinton's Special Assistant for
Arab-Israeli Affairs. His analysis of the Mideast conflict is markedly
pro-Palestinian.
- J Street:
This anti-Israel group warns that Israel’s choice to take military
action to stop Hamas' terrorist attacks “will prove counter-productive
and only deepen the cycle of violence in the region”
- Jewish Funds for Justice:
This organization views government intervention and taxpayer funding as
crucial components of enlightened social policy. It seeks to
redistribute wealth from Jewish donors to low-income communities “to
combat the root causes of domestic economic and social injustice.” By
JFJ's reckoning, chief among those root causes are the inherently
negative by-products of capitalism – most notably racism and “gross
economic inequality.”
- Joint Victory Campaign 2004: Founded by George Soros and Harold Ickes,
this group was a major fundraising entity for Democrats during the 2004
election cycle. It collected contributions (including large amounts
from Soros personally) and disbursed them to two other groups, America Coming Together and the Media Fund, which also worked on behalf of Democrats.
- Justice at Stake:
This coalition calls for judges to be appointed by nonpartisan,
independent commissions in a process known as “merit selection,” rather
than elected by the voting public.
- LatinoJustice PRLDF:
This organization supports bilingual education, the racial
gerrymandering of voting districts, and expanded rights for illegal
aliens.
- Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law:
This group views America as an unremittingly racist nation; uses the
courts to mandate race-based affirmative action preferences in business
and academia; has filed briefs against the Department of Homeland
Security's efforts to limit the wholesale granting of green cards and to
identify potential terrorists; condemns the Patriot Act; and calls on
Americans to "recognize the contribution" of illegal aliens.
- Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights:
This organization views the United States as a nation rife with racism,
sexism, and all manner of social injustice; and it uses legislative
advocacy to push for “progressive change” that will create “a more open
and just society.”
- League of United Latin American Citizens:
This group views America as a nation plagued by "an alarming increase
in xenophobia and anti-Hispanic sentiment"; favors racial preferences;
supports the legalization of illegal Hispanic aliens; opposes military
surveillance of U.S. borders; opposes making English America's official
language; favors open borders; and rejects anti-terrorism legislation
like the Patriot Act.
- League of Women Voters Education
Fund: The League supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; supports
"motor-voter" registration, which allows anyone with a driver's license
to become a voter, regardless of citizenship status; and supports tax
hikes and socialized medicine.
- League of Young Voters:
This organization seeks to “empowe[r] young people nationwide” to
“participate in the democratic process and create progressive political
change on the local, state and national level[s].”
- Lynne Stewart Defense
Committee: IRS records indicate that Soros's Open Society Institute
made a September 2002 grant of $20,000 to this organization. Stewart was
the criminal-defense attorney who was later convicted for abetting her
client, the "blind sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman, in terrorist activities connected with his Islamic Group.
- Machsom Watch: This organization describes
itself as "a movement of Israeli women, peace activists from all
sectors of Israeli society, who oppose the Israeli occupation and the
denial of Palestinians' rights to move freely in their land."
- MADRE: This international women's organization deems America the world's foremost violator of human rights. As such, it seeks to "communicat[e] the
real-life impact of U.S. policies on women and families confronting
violence, poverty and repression around the world," and to "demand
alternatives to destructive U.S. policies." It also advocates
unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement:
This group views the U.S. as a nation replete with racism and
discrimination against blacks; seeks to establish an independent black
nation in the southeastern United States; and demands reparations for
slavery.
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition:
This group calls for the expansion of civil rights and liberties for
illegal aliens; laments that illegal aliens in America are commonly
subjected to "worker exploitation"; supports tuition-assistance programs
for illegal aliens attending college; and characterizes the Patriot Act
as a "very troubling" assault on civil liberties.
- Media Fund:
Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to
conceptualize, produce, and place political ads on television, radio,
print, and the Internet.
- Media Matters for America:
This organization is a "web-based, not-for-profit … progressive
research and information center" seeking to "systematically monitor a
cross-section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media
outlets for conservative misinformation." The group works closely with
the Soros-backed Center for American Progress, and is heavily funded by Democracy Alliance, of which Soros is a major financier.
- Mercy Corps: Vis a vis the Arab-Israeli conflict, Mercy Corps places all blame for Palestinian poverty and suffering directly on Israel.
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund:
This group advocates open borders, free college tuition for illegal
aliens, lowered educational standards to accommodate Hispanics, and
voting rights for criminals. In MALDEF's view, supporters of making
English the official language of the United States are "motivated by
racism and anti-immigrant sentiments," while advocates of sanctions
against employers reliant on illegal labor seek to discriminate against
"brown-skinned people."
- Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein, PC: This influential defender of Big Labor is headed by Democrat operativeHarold Ickes.
- Midwest Academy: This entity trains radical activists in the tactics of direct action, targeting, confrontation, and intimidation.
- Migration Policy Institute:
This group seeks to create "a North America with gradually disappearing
border controls ... with permanent migration remaining at moderate
levels."
- Military Families Speak Out: This group ascribes the U.S. invasion of Iraq to American imperialism and lust for oil.
- Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment: This group is the rebranded Missouri branch of the now-defunct, pro-socialist, community organization ACORN.
- MoveOn.org:
This Web-based organization supports Democratic political candidates
through fundraising, advertising, and get-out-the-vote drives.
- Ms. Foundation for Women:
This group laments what it views as the widespread and enduring flaws
of American society: racism, sexism, homophobia, and the violation of
civil rights and liberties. It focuses its philanthropy on groups that
promote affirmative action for women, unfettered access to
taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, amnesty for illegal aliens, and big
government generally.
- Muslim Advocates: Opposed to U.S.
counter-terrorism strategies that make use of sting operations and
informants, MA characterizes such tactics as forms of “entrapment” that
are inherently discriminatory against Muslims.
- NARAL Pro-Choice America: This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, and works to elect pro-abortion Democrats.
- NAACP Legal
Defense and Education Fund: The NAACP supports racial preferences in
employment and education, as well as the racial gerrymandering of voting
districts. Underpinning its support for race preferences is the fervent
belief that white racism in the United States remains an intractable,
largely undiminished, phenomenon.
- The Nation Institute: This nonprofit entity sponsors leftist conferences, fellowships, awards for radical activists, and journalism internships.
- National Abortion Federation:
This group opposes any restrictions on abortion at either the state or
federal levels, and champions the introduction of unrestricted abortion
into developing regions of the world.
- National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty:
This group was established in 1976 as the first "fully staffed national
organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment."
- National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy:
This group depicts the United States as a nation in need of dramatic
structural change financed by philanthropic organizations. It
overwhelmingly promotes grant-makers and grantees with leftist agendas,
while criticizing their conservative counterparts.
- National Committee for Voting Integrity:
This group opposes "the implementation of proof of citizenship and
photo identification requirements for eligible electors in American
elections as the means of assuring election integrity."
- National Council for Research on Women:
This group supports big government, high taxes, military spending cuts,
increased social welfare spending, and the unrestricted right to
taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
- National Council of La Raza:
This group lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education,
stricter hate-crime laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal
aliens.
- National Council of Women's Organizations:
This group views the United States as a nation rife with injustice
against girls and women. It advocates high levels of spending for social
welfare programs, and supports race and gender preferences for
minorities and women in business and academia.
- National Immigration Forum: Opposing the enforcement of present immigration laws, this organization urges the American government to "legalize" en masse all
illegal aliens currently in the United States who have no criminal
records, and to dramatically increase the number of visas available for
those wishing to migrate to the U.S. The Forum is particularly committed
to opening the borders to unskilled, low-income workers, and
immediately making them eligible for welfare and social service
programs.
- National Immigration Law Center: This group seeks to win unrestricted access to government-funded social welfare programs for illegal aliens.
- National Lawyers Guild:
This group promotes open borders; seeks to weaken America's
intelligence-gathering agencies; condemns the Patriot Act as an assault
on civil liberties; rejects capitalism as an unviable economic system;
has rushed to the defense of convicted terrorists and their abettors;
and generally opposes all U.S. foreign policy positions, just as it did
during the Cold War when it sided with the Soviets.
- National Organization for Women:
This group advocates the unfettered right to taxpayer-funded
abortion-on-demand; seeks to "eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia"
from American society; attacks Christianity and traditional religious
values; and supports gender-based preferences for women.
- National Partnership for Women and Families:
This organization supports race- and sex-based preferences in
employment and education. It also advocates for the universal "right" of
women to undergo taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand at any stage of
pregnancy and for any reason.
- National Priorities Project:
This group supports government-mandated redistribution of wealth --
through higher taxes and greater expenditures on social welfare
programs. NPP exhorts the government to redirect a significant portion
of its military funding toward public education, universal health
insurance, environmentalist projects, and welfare programs.
- National Public Radio:
Founded in 1970 with 90 public radio stations as charter members, NPR
is today a loose network of more than 750 U.S. radio stations across the
country, many of which are based on college and university campuses. (source)
- National Security Archive Fund:
This group collects and publishes declassified documents obtained
through the Freedom of Information Act to a degree that compromises
American national security and the safety of intelligence agents.
- National Women's Law Center:
This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; lobbies against
conservative judicial appointees; advocates increased welfare spending
to help low-income mothers; and favors higher taxes for the purpose of
generating more funds for such government programs as Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, foster care, health care, child-support enforcement, and student loans.
- Natural Resources Defense Council:
One of the most influential environmentalist lobbying groups in
the United States, the Council claims a membership of one million
people.
- New America Foundation:
This organization uses policy papers, media articles, books, and
educational events to influence public opinion on such topics as
healthcare, environmentalism, energy policy, the Mideast conflict,
global governance, and much more.
- New Israel Fund:
This organization gives support to NGOs that regularly produce reports
accusing Israel of human-rights violations and religious persecution.
- NewsCorpWatch:
A project of Media Matters For America, NewsCorpWatch was established
with the help of a $1 million George Soros grant to Media Matters.
- Pacifica Foundation: This entity owns and operates Pacifica Radio, awash from its birth with the socialist-Marxist rhetoric of class warfare and hatred for capitalism.
- Palestinian Center for Human Rights: This NGO investigates and documents what it views as Israeli human-rights violations against Palestinians.
- Peace and Security Funders Group:
This is an association of more than 60 foundations that give money to
leftist anti-war and environmentalist causes. Its members tend to
depict America as the world's chief source of international conflict,
environmental destruction, and economic inequalities.
- Peace Development Fund:
In PDF's calculus, the United States needs a massive overhaul of its
social and economic institutions. "Recently," explains PDF, "we have
witnessed the negative effects of neo-liberalism and the globalization
of capitalism, the de-industrialization of the U.S. and the growing gap
between the rich and poor ..."
- People for the American Way:
This group opposes the Patriot Act, anti-terrorism measures generally,
and the allegedly growing influence of the "religious right."
- People Improving Communities Through Organizing: This group uses Alinsky-style organizing tactics to advance the doctrines of the religious left.
- Physicians for Human Rights:
This group is selectively and disproportionately critical of the United
States and Israel in its condemnations of human rights violations.
- Physicians for Social Responsibility: This is an anti-U.S.-military organization that also embraces the tenets of radical environmentalism.
- Planned Parenthood: This group is the largest abortion provider in the United States and advocates taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
- Ploughshares Fund: This public grantmaking foundation opposes America's development of a missile defense system, and contributes to many organizations that are highly critical of U.S. foreign policies and military ventures.
- Prepare New York:
This group supported the proposed construction of a Muslim Community
Center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan – a project known as the
Cordoba Initiative, headed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
- Presidential Climate Action Project:
PCAP's mission is to create a new 21st-century economy, completely
carbon-free and based largely on renewable energy. A key advisor to the
organization is the revolutionary communist Van Jones.
- Prison Moratorium Project:
This initiative was created in 1995 for the express purpose of working
for the elimination of all prisons in the United States and the release
of all inmates. Reasoning from the premise that incarceration is never
an appropriate means of dealing with crime, it deems American society's
inherent inequities the root of all criminal behavior.
- Progressive Change Campaign Committee:
This organization works “to elect bold progressive candidates to
federal office and to help [them] and their campaigns save money, work
smarter, and win more often.”
- Progressive States Network:
PSN's mission is to "pass progressive legislation in all fifty states
by providing coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to
forward-thinking state legislators."
- Project Vote: This is the voter-mobilization arm of the Soros-funded ACORN. A persistent pattern of lawlessness and corruption has followed ACORN/Project Vote activities over the years.
- Pro Publica:
Claiming that “investigative journalism is at risk,” this group aims to
remedy this lacuna in news publishing by “expos[ing] abuses of power
and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other
institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur
reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.”
- Proteus Fund: This foundation directs its philanthropy toward a number of radical leftwing organizations.
- Psychologists for Social Responsibility:
This anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-military,
anti-American organization “uses psychological knowledge and skills to
promote peace with social justice at the community, national and
international levels.”
- Public Citizen Foundation:
Public Citizen seeks increased government intervention and litigation
against corporations -- a practice founded on the notion that American
corporations, like the capitalist system of which they are a part, are
inherently inclined toward corruption.
- Public Justice Center:
Viewing America as a nation rife with injustice and discrimination,
this organization engages in legislative and policy advocacy to promote
"systemic change for the disenfranchised."
- Rebuild and Renew America Now (a.k.a. Unity '09): Spearheaded by MoveOn.org and overseen by longtime activist Heather Booth, this coalition was formed to facilitate the passage of President Obama’s "historic" $3.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010.
- Res Publica:
Seeking to advance far-left agendas in places all around the world, RP
specializes in “E-advocacy,” or web-based movement-building.
- Roosevelt Institute: Proceeding
from the premise that free-market capitalism is inherently unjust and
prone to periodic collapses caused by its own structural flaws, RI
currently administers several major projects aimed at reshaping the
American economy to more closely resemble a socialist system.
- Secretary of State Project:
This project was launched in July 2006 as an independent "527"
organization devoted to helping Democrats get elected to the office of
Secretary of State in selected swing, or battleground, states.
- Sentencing Project: Asserting that prison-sentencing patterns are racially discriminatory, this initiative advocates voting rights for felons.
- Social Justice Leadership:
This organization seeks to transform an allegedly inequitable America
into a "just society" by means of "a renewed social-justice movement."
- Shadow Democratic Party:
This is an elaborate network of non-profit activist groups organized by
George Soros and others to mobilize resources -- money,
get-out-the-vote drives, campaign advertising, and policy iniatives --
to elect Democratic candidates and guide the Democratic Party towards
the left.
- Sojourners:
This evangelical Christian ministry preaches radical leftwing politics.
During the 1980s it championed Communist revolution in Central America
and chastised
U.S. policy-makers for their tendency "to assume the very worst about
their Soviet counterparts." More recently, Sojourners has taken up the
cause of environmental activism, opposed welfare reform as a
"mean-spirited Republican agenda," and mounted a defense of affirmative
action.
- Southern Poverty Law Center:
This organization monitors the activities of what it calls “hate
groups” in the United States. It exaggerates the prevalence of white
racism directed against American minorities.
- State Voices:
This coalition helps independent local activist groups in 22 states
work collaboratively on a year-round basis, so as to maximize the impact
of their efforts.
- Talking Transition:
This was a two-week project launched in early November 2013 to “help
shape the transition” to City Hall for the newly elected Democratic
mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio.
- Think Progress:
This Internet blog "pushes back, daily," by its own account, against
its conservative targets, and seeks to transform "progressive ideas into
policy through rapid response communications, legislative action,
grassroots organizing and advocacy, and partnerships with other
progressive leaders throughout the country and the world."
- Thunder Road Group: This political consultancy, in whose creation Soros had a hand, coordinates strategy for the Media Fund, America Coming Together, and America Votes.
- Tides Foundation and Tides Center: Tides is a major funder of the radical Left.
- U.S. Public Interest Research Group: This is an umbrella organization of student groups that support leftist agendas.
- Universal Healthcare Action Network: This organization supports a single-payer health care system controlled by the federal government.
- Urban Institute:
This research organization favors socialized medicine, expansion of the
federal welfare bureaucracy, and tax hikes for higher income-earners.
- USAction Education
Fund: USAction lists its priorities as: "fighting the right wing
agenda"; "building grassroots political power"; winning "social, racial
and economic justice for all"; supporting a system of taxpayer-funded
socialized medicine; reversing "reckless tax cuts for millionaires and
corporations" which shield the "wealthy" from paying their "fair share";
advocating for "pro-consumer and environmental regulation of corporate
abuse"; "strengthening progressive voices on local, state and national
issues"; and working to "register, educate and get out the vote ... [to]
help progressives get elected at all levels of government."
- Voter Participation Center:
This organization seeks to increase voter turnout among unmarried
women, "people of color," and 18-to-29-year-olds -- demographics that
are heavily pro-Democrat.
- Voto Latino: This group seeks to mobilize Latin-Americans to become registered voters and political activists.
- We Are America Alliance: This coalition promotes “increased civic participation by immigrants” in the American political process.
- Working Families Party: An outgrowth of the socialist New Party, WFP seeks to help push the Democratic Party toward the left.
- World Organization Against Torture: This coalition works closely with groups that condemn Israeli security measures against Palestinian terrorism.
- YWCA World Office, Switzerland:
The YWCA opposes abstinence education; supports universal access to
taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; and opposes school vouchers.
"Secondary" or "Indirect" Affiliates of the George Soros Network
By Discover The Networks
In addition to those organizations that are funded directly by George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF),
there are also numerous "secondary" or "indirect" affiliates of the
Soros network. These include organizations which do not receive direct
funding from Soros and OSF, but which are funded by one or more
organizations that do.
- Center for Progressive Leadership: Funded by the Soros-bankrolled Democracy Alliance, this anti-capitalist organization is dedicated to training future leftist political leaders.
- John Adams Project:This
project of the American Civil Liberties Union was accused of: (a)
having hired investigators to photograph CIA officers thought to have
been involved in enhanced interrogations of terror suspects detained in
Guantanamo, and then (b) showing the photos to the attorneys of those
suspects, some of whom were senior al-Qaeda operatives.
- Moving Ideas Network (MIN): This coalition of more than 250 leftwing activist groups is a partner organization of the Soros-backed Center for American Progress. MIN was originally a project of the Soros-backed American Prospect and, as such, received indirect funding from the Open Society Institute. In early 2006, The American Prospect relinquished control of the Moving Ideas Network.
- New Organizing Institute: Created by the Soros-funded MoveOn.org, this group "trains young, technology-enabled political organizers to work for progressive campaigns and organizations."
- Think Progress: This "project" of the American Progress Action Fund, which is a "sister advocacy organization"of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress and Campus Progress,
seeks to transform "progressive ideas into policy through rapid
response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing and
advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders throughout the
country and the world."
- Vote for Change: Coordinated by the political action committee of the Soros-funded MoveOn.org,
Vote for Change was a group of 41 musicians and bands that performed
concerts in several key election "battleground"states during October
2004, to raise money in support of Democrat John Kerry's presidential bid.
- Working Families Party: Created in 1998 to help push the Democratic Party toward the left, this front group for the Soros-funded ACORN functions as a political party that promotes ACORN-friendly candidates.
