Soros: *is indeed* a latter day Rockefeller

Submitted by Joseph Wanzala

http://www.left.ru/inter/2003/december/soros.html

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....Soros is also a partner in the infamous Carlyle Group.
Organized in 1987, "the world's largest private equity firm"
with over twelve billiondollars under management, is run by
" a veritable who's who of former Republican leaders," from
CIA man Frank Carlucci to CIA head George Bush,Sr.
The Carlyle Group makes most of its money from
weapons expenditures.

THE PHILANTHROPIST SPOOK

In 1980, Soros began to use his millions to attack socialism in EasternEurope.
He financed individuals who would cooperate with him. His firstsuccess was
in Hungary. He took over the Hungarian educational and culturalestablishment,
incapacitating socialist institutions throughout the country.He made his way
right inside the Hungarian government. Soros next moved onto Poland, aiding
the CIA-funded Solidarity operation and in that same year,he became active in
China. The USSR came next.It is not coincidental that the Central Intelligence
Agency had operationsin all of those countries. The goal of the Agency was
exactly the same asthat of the Open Society Fund: to dismantle socialism.
In South Africa, theCIA sought out dissidents who were anticommunist.
In Hungary, Poland and theUSSR, the CIA, with overt intervention from the
National Endowment forDemocracy, the AFL-CIO, USAID and other institutions,
supported andorganized anticommunists, the very type of individuals recruited
by Soros'Open Society Fund. The CIA would have called them "assets."
As Soros said,"In each country I identified a group of people -
some leading personalities, others less well known - who share my belief...
" Soros' Open Society organized conferences with anticommunist Czechs,
Serbs,Romanians, Hungarians, Croatians, Bosnians, Kosovars. His
ever-expanding influence gave rise to suspicions that he was operating
as part of the U.S.intelligence complex. In 1989, the Washington Post
reported charges firstmade in 1987 by the Chinese government officials
that Soros' Fund for the Reform and Opening of China had CIA connections.

NURTURING LEFT ANTI-SOCIALISM

Soros' Open Society Institute has a finger in every pot. Its board ofdirectors
reads like a "Who's Who" of Cold War and New World Order pundits.Paul Goble
is Communications Director; 'he was the major political commentator at Radio
Free Europe. Herbert Okun served in the Nixon State Department as an
intelligence adviser to Henry Kissinger. Kati Marton is thewife of former
Clinton administration UN ambassador and envoy to Yugoslavia,Richard
Holbrooke. Marton lobbied for the Soros-funded radio station B-92, also
a project of' the National Endowment for Democracy (another overt arm
of the CIA), which was instrumental in bringing down the Yugoslav
government.When Soros founded the Open Society Fund he picked
liberal pundit Aryeh Neier to lead it. Neier was the head of Helsinki Watch, a
putative human rights organization with an anticommunist bent. In 1993,
the Open Society Fund became the Open Society Institute. Helsinki Watch
became Human Rights Watch in 1975. Soros is currently on its advisory Board,
both for the Americas and the Eastern Europe-Central Asia Committees,
and his Open Society Fund/Soros/OSI is listed as a funder. Soros is
intimately connected to HRW, and Neier wrote columns for The Nation
magazine without mentioning that he was on Soros' payroll.
Soros is intimately involved in HRW, although he does his best to hide it.
He says he just funds and sets up these programs and lets them run.
But they do not stray from the philosophy of the funder. HRW and OSI
are close. Their views do not diverge. Of course, other foundations
fund these institutions as well, but Soros' influence dominates their ideology.
George Soros' activities fall into the construct developed in 1983 andenunciated
by Allen Weinstein, founder of the National Endowment for Democracy. Weinstein
said, "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.
" Soros is operating exactly within the confines ofthe intelligence complex.

He is little different from CIA drug runners in Laos in the 1960s, or the
mujahedin who profited from the opium trade while carrying out CIA
operations against socialist Afghanistan in the 1980s. He simply funnels
(and takes home) a whole lot more money than those pawns, and he does
much of his business in the light of day.

His candor insofar as he expresses it is a sort of spook damage control that
serves to legitimize the strategies of U.S. foreign policy. The majority of
people in the U.S. today who consider themselves politically left-of-center
are undoubtedly pessimistic about the chances for a socialist transformation
of society. Thus the Soros 'Decentralization" model, or the"piecemeal" "
approach to "negative utilitarianism, the attempt to minimize the amount
of misery," which was Popper's philosophy, appeals to them. Soros funded
an HRW study that was used to back California and Arizona legislation ?
relaxing drug laws. Soros favors the legalization of drugs one way of
temporarily reducing awareness of one's misery. Soros is an equal-opportunity
bribester. At a loftier rung of the socioeconomic ladder,one finds Social Democrats
who accept Soros funding and believe in civilliberties within the context of capitalism.

For these folks, the evil consequences of Soros' business activities (impoverishing
people all overthe world) are mitigated by his philanthropic activities. Similarly,
liberal/left intellectuals, both in the U.S. and abroad, have been drawn inby the
" Open Society" philosophy, not to mention the occasional funding plum.The New
Left in the United States was a social democratic movement. It was resolutely
anti-Soviet, and when Eastern Europe and the USSR fell, few inthe New Left
opposed the destruction of the socialist systems. The New Left did not mourn
or protest when the hundreds of millions in Eastern Europe andCentral Asia lost
their right to jobs, housing at reasonable and legally protected rents, free
education through graduate school, health care andcultural enhancement.
Most belittled any suggestion that the CIA and certain NGOs such as the
National Endowment for Democracy or the Open Society Fund had actively
participated in the annihilation of socialism. These people felt that the Western
determination to destroy the USSR since 1917 wasbarely connected to the fall
of the USSR. For them, socialism failed of its own accord, because it was flawed.
As revolutions, such as the ones in Mozambique, Angola, Nicaragua or El Salvador
were destroyed by proxy forces or were stalled by demonstration"elections," New
Left pragmatists shrugged their shoulders and turned away.The New Left
sometimes seemed to deliberately ignore the post-Sovietmachinations of U.S.
foreign policy. Bogdan Denitch, who had political aspirations in Croatia, was
active withinthe Open Society Institute, and received OSI funding. Denitch favored
theethnic cleansing of Serbs from Croatia, NATO bombing of Bosnia and then
Yugoslavia, and even a ground invasion of Yugoslavia. Denitch was afounder and
chair for many years of the Democratic Socialists of America, aleading liberal-left
group in the U.S. He has also long chaired the prestigious Socialist Scholars
Conference, through which he was key tomanipulating the sympathies of many
toward support for NATO expansion. Other Soros targets for support include
Refuse and Resist the ACLU, and ahost of other liberal causes. Soros added
another unlikely trophy when hebecame involved in the New School for Social
Research in New York, long anacademy of choice for left intellectuals. He now
funds the East and Central Europe Program there. Many leftists who were
inspired by the revolution in Nicaragua sadlyaccepted the election of Violetta
Chamorro and the defeat of the Sandinistas in 1990. Most of the Nicaragua
support network faded thereafter. Perhaps theNew Left could have learned
from the rising star of Michael Kozak. He was a veteran of Washington's
campaigns to install sympathetic leaders inNicaragua, Panama and Haiti,
and to undermine Cuba he headed the U.S.Interests Section in Havana.
After organizing the Chamorro victory in Nicaragua, Kozak moved on to
become U.S. Ambassador to Belarus. Kozak worked with the Soros-sponsored
" Internet Access and Training Program" (IATP), which was busy
" creating future leaders" in Belarus. This program was simultaneously
imposed upon Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan,
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. IATP operates openly with the support of
the U.S. Department of State. To its credit, Belarus expelled Kozak and the
Soros-Open Society/U.S.State Department crowd. The government of
Aleksandr Lukashenko found thatfor four years before moving to Minsk,
Kozak was instrumental in engineering the flow of tens of millions of dollars
to the Belarus opposition. Kozak wascreating a united opposition coalition,
funding web-sites, newspapers and opinion polls, and tutoring a student
resistance movement similar to Yugoslavia's Otpor. Kozak brought in
Otpor leaders to instruct dissidents inBelarus. Just before September 11,
2001, the U.S. was revving up admonization campaign against President
Aleksandr Lukashenko. Demonizing Lukashenko has temporarily taken a
back burner to the "war on terrorism."Through OSI and HRW, Soros was a
major supporter of the B-92 radio stationin Belgrade. Soros funded Otpor,
the organization that received those"suitcases of money" in support of the
October 5, 2000 coup that toppled the Yugoslav government. Human Rights
Watch helped legitimize the subsequentkidnapping and show trial of Slobodan
Milosevic in The Hague by sayingnothing about his rights." Louise Arbour,
who served as judge at that illegal tribunal, is presently on the Board of Soros'
International Crisis Group. The Open Society/Human Rights Watch gang has
been working on Macedonia, calling it part of their "civilizing mission." Expect
that republic to be "saved" to finish the total disintegration of the
former Yugoslavia.