-Caveat Lector- ----- > > [en francais: > George Soros : Magicien impérial et agent double > http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3021] > > > http://www.left.ru/inter/2003/december/soros.html > > > George Soros: Imperial Wizard/Double Agent > > Covert Action Quarterly > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > by Heather Cottin > > December 9, 2003 > > This is not a case of narcissistic personality disorder; this is how > George > Soros exercises the authority of United States hegemony in the world > today. > Soros foundations and financial machinations are partly responsible for > the > destruction of socialism in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. He has > set > his sights on China. He was part of the full court press that dismantled > Yugoslavia. Calling himself a philanthropist, billionaire George Soros' > role > is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New > World Order while promoting his own financial gain. Soros' commercial > and > "philanthropic" operations are clandestine, contradictory and coactive. > And > as far as his economic activities are concerned, by his own admission, > he is > without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality. > > Master-builder of the new bribe sector systematically bilking the world > He > thrusts himself upon world statesmen and they respond. He has been > close to > Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel and Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski. > He > supports the Dalai Lama, whose institute is housed in the Presidio in > San > Francisco, also home to the foundation run by Soros' friend, former > Soviet > leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Soros is a leading figure on the Council of > Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum, and Human Rights Watch > (HRW). > In 1994, after a meeting with his philosophical guru, Sir Karl Popper, > Soros > ordered his companies to start investing in Central and Eastern European > communications. > > The Federal Radio Television Administration of the Czech Republic > accepted > his offer to take over and fund the archives of Radio Free Europe. Soros > moved the archives to Prague and spent over $15 million on their > maintenance. A Soros foundation now runs CIA-created Radio Free > Europe/Radio > Liberty jointly with the U.S. and RFE/RL, which has expanded into the > Caucasus and Asia. Soros is the founder and funder of the Open Society > Insti > tute. He created and maintains the International Crisis Group (ICG) > which, > among other things, has been active in the Balkans since the > destruction of > Yugoslavia. Soros works openly with the United States Institute of > Peace - > an overt arm of the CIA... > > When anti-globalization forces were freezing in the streets outside New > York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel in February 2002, George Soros was inside > addressing the World Economic Forum. As the police forced protesters > into > metal cages on Park Avenue, Soros was extolling the virtues of the "Open > Society" and joined Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel Huntington, Francis > Fukuyama > and others. > > WHO IS THIS GUY? > > George Soros was born in Hungary in 1930 to Jewish parents so removed > from > their roots that they once vacationed in Nazi Germany. Soros lived > under the > Nazis, but with the triumph of the Communists moved to England in 1947. > There, Soros came under the sway of the philosopher Karl Popper, at the > London School of Economics. Popper was a lionized anti-communist > ideologue > and his teachings formed the basis for Soros' political tendencies. > There is > hardly a speech, book or article that Soros writes that does not pay > obeisance to Popper's influence. > > Knighted in 1965, Popper coined the slogan "Open Society," which > eventually > manifested in Soros' Open Society Fund and Institute. Followers of > Popper > repeat his words like true believers. Popperian philosophy epitomizes > Western individualism. Soros left England in 1956, and found work on > Wall > Street where, in the 1960s, he invented the "hedge fund." > > "...hedge funds catered to very wealthy individuals... The largely > secretive > funds, usually trading in offshore locations. . produced astronomically > superior results. The size of the "bets" often became self fulfilling > prophecies: 'rumors of a position taken by the big hedge funds prompted > other investors to follow suit,' which would in turn force up the price > the > hedgers were betting on to begin with." > > Soros organized the Quantum Fund in 1969 and began to dabble in currency > manipulation. In the 1970s, his financial activities turned to: > > "Alternating long and short positions... Soros won big both on the rise > of > real estate investment trusts and on their subsequent collapse. Under > his > 20-year stewardship, Quantum returned an amazing 34.5% a year. Soros is > best > known (and feared) for currency speculation.. . In 1997 he earned the > rare > distinction of being singled out as a villain by a head of state, > Malaysia's > Mahathir Mohamad, for taking part in a highly profitable attack on that > nation's currency." > > Through such clandestine financial scheming, Soros became a > multibillionaire. His companies control real estate in Argentina, > Brazil, > and Mexico; banking in Venezuela; and are some of the most profitable > currency traders in the world, giving rise to the general belief that > his > highly placed friends assisted him in his financial endeavors, for > political > as well as financial gain. > > George Soros has been blamed for the destruction of the Thai economy in > 1997. One Thai activist said, "We regard George Soros as a kind of > Dracula. > He sucks the blood from the people." The Chinese call him "the > crocodile," > because his economic and ideological efforts in China were so > insatiate, and > because his financial speculation created millions of dollars in > profits as > it ravished the Thai and Malaysian economies. > > Soros once made a billion dollars in one day by speculating (a word he > abhors) on the British pound. Accused of taking "money from every > British > taxpayer when he speculated against sterling," he said, "When you > speculate > in the financial markets you are free of most of the moral concerns that > confront an ordinary businessman.. .I did not have to concern myself > with > moral issues in the financial markets." > > Soros has a schizophrenic craving for unlimited personal wealth and a > desire > to be thought well of by others: > > "Currency traders sitting at their desks buy and sell currencies of > Third > World countries in large quantities. The effect of the currency > fluctuations > on the people who live in those countries is a matter that does not > enter > their minds. Nor should it; they have a job to do. Yet if we pause to > think, > we must ask ourselves whether currency traders.. .should regulate the > lives > of millions." > > It was Soros who saved George W. Bush's bacon when his management of an > oil > exploration company was ending in failure. Soros was the owner of Harken > Energy Corporation, and it was he who bought the rapidly depreciating > stocks > just prior to the company's collapse. The future president cashed out at > almost one million dollars. Soros said he did it to buy "political > influence." Soros is also a partner in the infamous Carlyle Group. > Organized > in 1987, "the world's largest private equity firm" with over twelve > billion > dollars 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 Eastern > Europe. He financed individuals who would cooperate with him. His first > success was in Hungary. He took over the Hungarian educational and > cultural > establishment, incapacitating socialist institutions throughout the > country. > He made his way right inside the Hungarian government. Soros next moved > on > to 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 > operations > in all of those countries. The goal of the Agency was exactly the same > as > that of the Open Society Fund: to dismantle socialism. In South Africa, > the > CIA sought out dissidents who were anticommunist. In Hungary, Poland > and the > USSR, the CIA, with overt intervention from the National Endowment for > Democracy, the AFL-CIO, USAID and other institutions, supported and > organized 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. 17 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 > first > made in 1987 by the Chinese government officials that Soros' Fund for > the > Reform and Opening of China had CIA connections. 18 > > TAKING ON MOSCOW > > After 1990, Soros funds targeted the Russian educational system, > providing > the entire nation with textbooks. 19 In effect, Soros ensured the > indoctrination of an entire generation of Russian youth with OSI > propaganda. > Soros foundations were accused of engineering a strategy to take > control of > the Russian financial system, privatization schemes, and the process of > foreign investment in that country. Russians reacted angrily to Soros' > legislative meddlings. Critics of Soros and other U.S. foundations said > the > goal of these maneuvers was to "thwart Russia as a state, which has the > potential to compete with the world's only superpower." 20 Russians > began to > suspect Soros and the CIA were interconnected. Business tycoon Boris > Berezovsky said, "I nearly fainted when I heard a couple of years ago > that > George Soros was a CIA agent." 21 Berezovsky's opinion was that Soros, > and > the West, were "afraid of Russian capital becoming strong." > > If the economic and political establishment in the United States fear an > economic rivalry from Russia, what better way to control it than to > dominate > Russian media, education, research centers and science? After spending > $250 > million for the "transformation of education of humanities and > economics at > the high school and university levels," Soros created the International > Science Foundation for another $100 million. 22 The Russian Federal > Counterintelligence Service (FSK) accused Soros foundations in Russia of > "espionage." They noted that Soros was not operating alone; he was part > of a > full court press that included financing from the Ford and Heritage > Foundations; Harvard, Duke, and Columbia universities, and assistance > from > the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence services. 23 The FSK criticized > Soros' > payouts to 50,000 Russian scientists, saying that Soros advanced his own > interests by gaining control of thousands of Russian scientific > discoveries > and new technologies to collect state and commercial secrets. 24 > > In 1995, Russians were infuriated by the insinuation of State Department > operative Fred Cuny into the conflict in Chechnya. Cuny's cover was > disaster > relief, but his history of involvement in international conflict zones > of > interest to the U.S., plus FBI and CIA search parties, made clear his > government connections. At the time of his disappearance, Cuny was > working > under contract to a Soros foundation. 25 It is not widely known in the > U.S. > that the violence in Chechnya, a province in the heart of Russia, is > generally perceived as the result of a political destabilization > campaign on > which Washington looks favorably, and may actually be directing. This > assessment of the situation is clear enough to writer Tom Clancy that he > felt free to include it as an assertion of fact in his best-seller, The > Sum > of All Fears. The Russians accused Cuny of being a CIA operative, and > part > of an intelligence operation to support the Chechen uprising. 26 Soros' > Open > Society Institute is still active in Chechnya, as are other > Soros-sponsored > organizations. > > Russia was the site of at least one joint endeavor to enhance Soros' > balance > sheet, arranged with diplomatic assistance from the Clinton > administration. > In 1999, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright blocked a $500 million > loan > guarantee by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to the Russian company, Tyumen > Oil, > on the grounds that it was contrary to U.S. national interests. Tyumen > wanted to buy American-made oil equipment and services from Dick > Cheney's > Halliburton Company and ABB Lummus Global of Bloomfield, New Jersey. 27 > George Soros was an investor in a company that Tyumen had been trying to > acquire. Both Soros and BP Amoco lobbied to prevent this transaction, > and > Albright obliged. 28 > > NURTURING LEFT ANTI-SOCIALISM > > Soros' Open Society Institute has a finger in every pot. Its board of > directors 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 the > wife 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. > 29 > Soros is intimately connected to HRW, and Neier wrote columns for The > Nation > magazine without mentioning that he was on Soros' payroll. 30 > > Soros is intimately involved in HRW, although he does his best to hide > it. > 31 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 and > enunciated 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."32 Soros is operating exactly within the confines > of > the 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. > 33 > Soros funded an HRW study that was used to back California and Arizona > legislation relaxing drug laws. 34 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 civil > liberties within the context of capitalism. 35 For these folks, the evil > consequences of Soros' business activities (impoverishing people all > over > the world) are mitigated by his philanthropic activities. Similarly, > liberal/left intellectuals, both in the U.S. and abroad, have been > drawn in > by 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 > in > the 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 and > Central Asia lost their right to jobs, housing at reasonable and legally > protected rents, free education through graduate school, health care and > cultural 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 was > barely 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-Soviet > machinations of U.S. foreign policy. > > Bogdan Denitch, who had political aspirations in Croatia, was active > within > the Open Society Institute, and received OSI funding. 36 Denitch > favored the > ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Croatia, NATO bombing of Bosnia and then > Yugoslavia, and even a ground invasion of Yugoslavia. 37 Denitch was a > founder and chair for many years of the Democratic Socialists of > America, a > leading liberal-left group in the U.S. He has also long chaired the > prestigious Socialist Scholars Conference, through which he was key to > manipulating the sympathies of many toward support for NATO expansion. > 38 > Other Soros targets for support include Refuse and Resist the ACLU, and > a > host of other liberal causes. 39 Soros added another unlikely trophy > when he > became involved in the New School for Social Research in New York, long > an > academy of choice for left intellectuals. He now funds the East and > Central > Europe Program there. 40 > > Many leftists who were inspired by the revolution in Nicaragua sadly > accepted the election of Violetta Chamorro and the defeat of the > Sandinistas > in 1990. Most of the Nicaragua support network faded thereafter. > Perhaps the > New Left could have learned from the rising star of Michael Kozak. He > was a > veteran of Washington's campaigns to install sympathetic leaders in > Nicaragua, 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. 41 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 > that > for four years before moving to Minsk, Kozak was instrumental in > engineering > the flow of tens of millions of dollars to the Belarus opposition. > Kozak was > creating 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 in > Belarus. 42 Just before September 11, 2001, the U.S. was revving up a > demonization 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 > station > in 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. 43 Human Rights Watch helped legitimize the > subsequent > kidnapping and show trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague by saying > nothing about his rights." 44 Louise Arbour, who served as judge at that > illegal tribunal, is presently on the Board of Soros' International > Crisis > Group. 45 The Open Society/Human Rights Watch gang has been working on > Macedonia, calling it part of their "civilizing mission." 46 Expect that > republic to be "saved" to finish the total disintegration of the former > Yugoslavia. > > DEPUTIES OF POWER > > Soros has actually stated that he considers his philanthropy moral and > his > money management business amoral. 47 Yet those in charge of Soros-funded > NGOs have a clear and consistent agenda. One of Soros' most influential > institutions is the International Crisis Group, founded in 1986. ICG is > headed by individuals from the very center of political and corporate > power. > Its board includes Zbigniew Brzezinski, Morton Abramowitz, former U.S. > Assistant Secretary of State; Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied > Commander for Europe; and Richard Allen, former U.S. National Security > Adviser, Allen is noteworthy for quitting Nixon's National Security > Council > out of disgust with the liberal tendencies of Henry Kissinger; > recruiting > Oliver North to Reagan's National Security Council, and negotiating > missiles > for hostages in the Iran-Contra scandal. For these individuals, > "containing > conflict" boils down to U.S. control over the people and resources of > the > world. > > In the 1980s and 1990s, under the aegis of the Reagan Doctrine, U.S. > covert > and overt operations in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia > were > in the works. Soros was openly active in most of these places, working > to > buy off would-be revolutionaries, or subsidize politicians, > intellectuals > and anyone else who might come to power when the revolutionary moment > had > passed. According to James Petras: > > "By the early 1980s the more perceptive sectors of the neoliberal ruling > classes realized that their policies were polarizing the society and > provoking large-scale social discontent. Neoliberal politicians began to > finance and promote a parallel strategy 'from below,' the promotion of > 'grassroots' organizations with an 'anti-statist' ideology to intervene > among potentially conflictory classes, to create a "social cushion." > These > organizations were financially dependent on neoliberal sources and were > directly involved in competing with sociopolitical movements for the > allegiance of local leaders and activist communities. By the 1 990s > these > organizations, described as "nongovernmental," numbered in the > thousands and > were receiving close to four billion dollars world-wide." 48 > > In Underwriting Democracy, Soros boasts about the "Americanization of > Eastern Europe." According to his account, through his education > programs he > began to establish a young cadre of Sorosian leaders. These Soros > Foundation-educated young men and women are prepared to fulfill the > functions of so-called "influence agents." Thanks to their fluent > knowledge > of languages and their insertion into the emerging bureaucracies in > target > countries, these recruits would philosophically smooth the inroads for > Western multinational corporations. > > Career diplomat Herbert Okun, on the Europe Committee of Human Rights > Watch, > along with George Soros, is connected to a host of State > Department-linked > institutions, from USAID to the Rockefeller-funded Trilateral > Commission. > >From 1990 to 1997, Okun was executive director of something called the > Financial Services Volunteer Corps, part of USAID, "to help establish > free > market financial systems in former communist countries." 49 George > Soros is > in complete accord with the capitalists who are in the process of taking > control of the global economy. > > NON-PROFIT PROFITEERING > > Soros claims not to do philanthropy in the countries in which he is > involved > as a currency trader. 50 But Soros has often taken advantage of his > connections to make key investments. Armed with a study by ICC, and > with the > support of Bernard Kouchner, chief of the UN Interim Administration in > Kosovo (UNMIK), Soros attempted to acquire the most profitable mining > complex in the Balkans. > > In September 2000, in a hurry to take the Trepca mines before the > Yugoslavian election, Kouchner stated that pollution from the mining > complex > was raising lead levels in the environment. 51 This is incredible > considering that he cheered when the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia > rained > depleted uranium on the country and released more than 100,000 tons of > carcinogens into the air, water and soil. 52 But Kouchner had his way, > and > the mines were closed for "health reasons." Soros invested $150 million > in > an effort to gain control of Trepca's gold, silver, lead, zinc and > cadmium, > which make the property worth $5 billion. 53 > > As Bulgaria was imploding into "free-market" chaos, Soros was busy > scavenging through the wreckage, as Reuters reported in early 2001: > > "The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested > $3.0 > million in [Bulgarian high-tech company] Rila, the first firm to benefit > from a new $30 million facility set up by the EBRD to support IT firms > in > central and eastern Europe.... Another $3. 0 million came from U.S > private > investment fund Argus Capital Partners, sponsored by Prudential > Insurance > Company of America and opera ting in central and eastern Europe... > Soros, > who had invested around $3.0 million in Rila and in 2001 invested > another > $1.0 million...remained its majority owner. " 54 > > FRAMING THE ISSUES > > His pose as a philanthropist gives Soros the power to shape > international > public opinion when social conflict raises the question of who are the > victims and who are the malefactors. Like other NGOs, Human Rights > Watch, > Soros' mouthpiece on human rights, avoids or ignores most organized and > independent working class struggles. > > In Colombia, labor leaders are routinely killed by paramilitaries > working in > concert with the U.S.-sponsored government. Because those unions oppose > neoliberal economics, HRW is relatively silent. In April of this year, > HRW's > Jose Vivanco testified before the U.S. Senate in favor of Plan > Colombia: 55 > > "Colombians remain committed to human rights and democracy They need > help. > Human Rights Watch has no fundamental problem with the United States > providing that help." 56 > > HRW equates the actions of the Colombian guerrilla fighters struggling > to > free themselves from the oppression of state terror, poverty and > exploitation with the repression of the U.S-sponsored armed forces and > paramilitary death squads, the AUC (United Self-Defense Forces of > Colombia). > HRW validated the Pastrana government and its military, whose role was > to > protect property rights and maintain the economic and political status > quo. > According to HRW, 50% of civilian deaths are the work of the > government-tolerated death squads. 57 The correct number is 80%. 58 > > HRW essentially certified the election and ascendancy of the Uribe > government in 2002 as well. Uribe is a throwback to the Latin American > dictators the U.S. supported in the past, although he was "elected." > HRW had > no comment about the fact that the majority boycotted the election. 59 > > In the Caribbean Basin, Cuba is another opponent of neoliberalism that > has > been demonized by Human Rights Watch. In nearby Haiti, Soros-funded > activities have worked to defeat popular aspirations following the end > of > the Duvalier dictatorship by undermining Haiti's first democratically > elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. HRW's Ken Roth helpfully chimed > in > with U.S. denunciations of Aristide as "undemocratic." To demonstrate > his > idea of "democracy," Soros foundations were commencing operations in > Haiti > complimentary to such unseemly U.S. activities as USAID's promotion of > persons associated with FRAPH, the notorious CIA-sponsored death squads > which have terrorized the country since the fall of 'Baby Doc' > Duvalier. 60 > > On HRW's web site, Director Roth criticized the U.S. for not opposing > China > more vigorously. Roth's activities include the creation of the Tibetan > Freedom Concert, a traveling propaganda project that toured the U.S. > with > major rock musicians, urging young people to support Tibet against > China. 61 > Tibet has been a pet project of the CIA for many years. 62 > > Roth has recently pressed for opposition to Chinese control over its > oil-rich western province of Xinjiang. With the colonialist "divide and > conquer" approach, Roth has tried to convince some of the Uighur > religious > minority in Xinjiang that the U.S/NATO intervention in Kosovo holds > promise > as a model for them. As late as August 2002, the U.S. government has > given > some support in this endeavor as well. > > U.S. designs on this region were signaled clearly when a New York Times > article on Xinjiang Province in western China described the Uighurs as a > "Muslim majority, [which] lives restively under Chinese rule." They "are > well versed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia last year which some > celebrate > for liberating the Muslims in Kosovo; they fantasize about a similar > rescue' > here." 63 The New York Times Magazine noted "Recent discoveries of oil > have > made Xinjiang extremely attractive to international trade," while > comparing > the conditions for its indigenous population to those in Tibet. 64 > > INNUMERACY > > When Sorosian organizations count, they seem to lose track of the truth. > Human Rights Watch asserted that 500 people, not over 2,000, were > killed by > NATO bombers in the 1999 war in Yugoslavia. 65 They said only 350, not > over > 4,000, died as a result of U.S. attacks on Afghanistan. 66 When the U.S. > bombed Panama in 1989, HRW prefaced its report by saying that the > "ouster of > Manuel Noriega.. and installation of the democratically-elected > government > of President Guillermo Endara brought high hopes in Panama..." The > report > neglected to mention the number of casualties. > > Human Rights Watch prepared the groundwork for the NATO attack on > Bosnia in > 1993 by the false rape-of-thousands and "genocide" stories. 67 This > tactic > of creating political hysteria was necessary for the United States to > carry > out its Balkan policy. It was repeated in 1999 when HRW functioned as > the > shock troops of indoctrination for the NATO attack on Yugoslavia. All of > Soros' blather about the rule of law was forgotten. The U.S. and NATO > made > their own law, and the institutions of George Soros stood behind it. > > Massaging of numbers to provoke a response was a major part of a > Council on > Foreign Relations campaign after September 11,2001. This time it was the > 2,801 killed in the World Trade Center. The CFR met on November 6, > 2001, to > plan a "major public diplomacy campaign." CFR created an "Independent > Task > Force on America's Response to Terrorism." Soros joined Richard C. > Holbrooke, Newton L. Gingrich, John M. Shalikashvili (former Chairman > of the > Joint Chiefs of Staff), and other powerful individuals on a campaign to > make > the Trade Center dead into tools for U.S. foreign policy. The CFR > report set > out to make the case for a war on terrorism. George Soros' fingerprints > were > all over the campaign: > > "Have senior-level U.S. officials press friendly Arab and other Muslim > governments not only to publicly condemn the 9/11 attacks, but also to > back > the rationale and goals of the U.S. anti-terror campaign. We are never > going > to convince the publics in the Middle East and South Asia of the > nghteousness of our cause if their governments remain silent. We need to > help them to deflect any blow-hack from such statements, but we must > have > them vocally on board.... Encourage Bosnian, Albanian, and Turkish > Muslims > to educate foreign audiences regarding the U.S. role in saving the > Muslims > of Bosnia and Kosovo in 1995-99, and our long-standing, close ties to > Muslims around the world. Engage regional intellectuals and journalists > across the board, regardless of their views. Routinely monitor the > regional > press in real time to enable prompt responses... Stress references to > the > victims (and ideally named victims to personalize them) whenever we > discuss > our cause and goals." 68 > > Sorosian innumeracy: counting to bolster and defend U.S. foreign policy. > > Soros is very worried about the decline in the world capitalist system > and > he wants to do something about it, now. He recently said: "I can already > discern the makings of the final crisis.... Indigenous political > movements > are likely to arise that will seek to expropriate the multinational > corporations and recapture the 'national' wealth." 69 > > Soros is seriously suggesting a plan to circumvent the United Nations. > He > proposes that the "democracies of the world ought to take the lead and > forge > a global network of alliances that could work with or without the United > Nations." If he were psychotic, one might think he was having an > episode. > But the fact is, Soros' assertion that "The United Nations is > constitutionally incapable of fulfilling the promises contained in the > preamble of its charter," reflects the thinking of such reactionary > institutions as the American Enterprise Institute. 70 Though many > conservatives refer to the Soros network as left-wing, on the question > of > U.S. affiliation with the United Nations Soros is on the same page as > the > likes of John R. Bolton, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and > International Security Affairs, who, with "[M]any Republicans in > Congress-believe that nothing more should be paid to the UN system." 71 > There has been a decades-long rightwing campaign against the UN. Now > Soros > is leading it. On various Soros web sites one may read criticism of the > United Nations as too rich, unwilling to share information, or flawed in > ways that make it unfit for the way the world should run according to > George > Soros. > > Even writers at The Nation, writers who clearly ought to know better, > have > been influenced by Soros' ideas. William Greider, for instance, recently > found some validity in Soros' criticism that the United Nations should > not > be a venue for "tin-pot dictators and totalitarians. . treated as equal > partners." 72 This kind of Eurocentric racism is at the heart of Soros' > hubris. His assumption that the United States can and should run the > world > is a prescription for fascism on a global scale. For much too long, > Western > "progressives" have been giving Soros a pass. Probably Greider and > others > will find the reference to fascism excessive, unjustified, even > outrageous. > > But just listen closely to what Soros himself has to say: "In old Rome, > the > Romans only voted. In the modern global capitalism, the Americans only > vote. > The Brazilians do not vote." 73 > > NOTES > > 1. Dan Seligman, "Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire," > commentary, > April 2002. 2. "Sir Karl Popper in Prague, Summary of Relevant Facts > Without > Comment," http://www.lf3.cuni.cz/aff/p1_e.html. 3. Radio Free > Europe/Radio > Liberty, Transcaucasia/Central Asia, http://www.rferl.org. 4. Seligman. > 5. > Lee Penn, "1999, A Year of Growth for the United Religions Initiative." > http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N1684.TMP3/ > B103O723.3;sz=720x300;ord=6249?. 6. > George Soros, Soros on Soros, Staying Ahead of the Curve (New York: John > Wiley, 1995), p. 26. 7. "Hedge Funds Get Trimmed," Wall Street Journal, > May > 1, 2000. 8. Theodore Spencer, "Investors of the Century," Fortune, > December > 1999. 9. Jim Freer, "Most International Trader George Soros," Latin > Tradecom, October 1998, > http://www.latintrade.com/newsite/content/archives.cfm?StoryID=473. 10. > Busaba Sivasomboon, "Soros Speech in Thailand Canceled," AP wire, > January > 28, 2001. 11. Sivasomboon. 12. George Soros, The Asia Society Hong Kong > Center Speech, http://www.asiasociety.org/speeches/soros. 13. Soros on > Soros, pill. 14. George Soros, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism > (New York: Public Affairs, 2000). 15. David Corn, "Bush and the > Billionaire, > How Insider Capitalism Benefited W," The Nation, July 17, 2002. 16. > Soros on > Soros, pp. 122-25. 17. Agence France-Presse, October 8, 1993. 18. > Marianne > Yen, "Fund's Representatives Arrested in China," Washington Post, > August 8, > 1989, p. A4. 19. Los Angeles Times, November 24, 1994, p. ASS. 20. > Chrystia > Freeland, "Moscow Suspicion Grows: Kremlin Factions Are at Odds Over > Policy," Financial Times (London), January 19, 1995. 21. Interfax > Russian > News, November 6, 1999. 22. Irma Dezhina, "U.S. Non-profit Foundations > in > Russia, Impact on Research and Education" > http://www.jhu.edu/~istr/conferences/dublin/workingpapers/dezhina.pdf. > 23. > "FSK Suspects Financing of Espionage on Russia's Territory," AP wire, > January 18, 1995. 24. David Hoffman, "Proliferation of Parties Gives > Russia > a Fractured Democratic System," Washington Post, October 1, 1995, p. > A27; > Margaret Shapiro, "Russian Agency Said to Accuse Americans of Spying," > Washington Post, January 14, 1995, p. A17. 25. Allan Turner, "Looking > For > Trouble," Houston chronicle, May 28, 1995, p. E1; Kim Masters, "Where Is > Fred Cuny," Washington Post, June 19, 1995, p. D1; Patrick Anderson, > "The > Disaster Expert Who Met His Match," Washington Post, September 6, 1999, > p. > C9; Scott Anderson, "What Happened to Fred Cuny?" New York Times > Magazine, > February 25, 1996, p. 44. 26. Scott Anderson, "The Man Who Tried to > Save the > World: the Dangerous Life and Disappearance of Fred Cuny," Philanthropy > Roundtable, March/April 2002, > http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/2000-01/hedges. 27. > "U.S. > Blocks $500M Aid Deal for Russians" Wall Street Journal, December 22, > 1999. > 28. 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"The Cenasia Discussion List," > http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/cenasia/hypermail/200102/0052.html. > 37. > Bogdan Denitch, "The Case Against Inaction," The Nation, April 26, > 1999. 38. > "Biographies, 2002 Socialist Scholars Conference," > http://www.socialistscholar.org/biographies. 39. "Grants," > http://www.soros.org/repro/grants. 40. "East and Central Europe > Program," > http://www.newschool.edu/centers/ecep. 41. Oxana Popovitch, "IREX > Belarus > Opens a New IATP Site in Molodechno." > http://www.iatp.net/archive/belarus. > 42. lan Traynor, "Belarussian Foils Dictator-buster...For Now," > Guardian, > September 14, 2001, > http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,551533,00.html 43. > Steven Erlanger, "Kostunica Says Some Backers 'Unconsciously Work for > American Imperial Goals,"' New York Times, September 20, 2000; and > "Bringing > Down a Dictator, Serbia Calling." PBS, > http://www.pbs.org/weta/dictator/rock/serbiacalling.html 44. Milosevic > in > the Hague, Focus on Human Rights, "In-Depth Report Documents Milosevic > Crimes," April 2001, > http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/10/milocroat1029.htm. 45. > "About ICG," May 2002, > http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/annual/2002/ICG2002.pdf. 46. Macedonia > Crimes Against Civilians: Abuses by Macedonian Forces in Lluboten, > August > 10-12, 2001 47. Andrew Leonard. "The Man Who Bought the World," > February 28, > 2002, Salon.com. http://archive.salon.com/tech/books/2002/02/28/soros/ > 48. > James Petras, "Imperialism and NGOs in Latin America," Monthly Review, > vol. > 49, no. 7, December 1997. 49. International Security Studies, "Herbert > Okun," http://www.yale.edu/iss/peopleadvisoryboard1. 50. Leonard. 51. > Edward > W. Miller, "Brigandage," Coastal Post Monthly, Mann County, CA, > September > 2000. 52. Mirjan Nadrljanski, "Eco-Disaster in Pancevo: Consequences on > the > Health of the Population," July 19, 1999, > http://www.gci.ch/GreenCrossPrograms/legacy/yugoslavia/Nadrljanski.html > 53. > "Soros Fund Launches $150 MIn U.S.Backed Balkans Investment," Bloomberg > Business News, July 26, 2000; Chris Hedges, "Below It All in Kosovo," > New > York limes, July 8,1998, p. A4. 54. Galina Sabeva, "Soros' Sofia IT Firm > Gets $9 Million Equity Investment," Reuters, January 23, 2001. 55. On > Plan > Colombia see: Manuel Salgado Tamayo, "The Geostrategy of Plan Colombia > CovertAction Quarterly no. 71, Winter 2001. 56. "Colombia: Human Rights > Watch Testifies Before the Senate," Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, > April > 24, 2002, > http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/americas/colombia-testimony0424.htm. 57. > "Colombia: Bush/Pastrana Meeting, HRW World Report 2001, Human Rights > News" > (New York, November 6, 2001). 58. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, > Action > Alert," New York limes Covering for Colombian Death Squads," February 9, > 2001. 59. Doug Stokes "Colombia Primer Q&A on the Conflict and U.S. > Role," > April 16, 2002. Znet, > http://www.zmag.org/content/Colombia/stokes_col-primer.cfm. 60. > Interpress > Service, January 18, 1995. For additional background see Jane Regan, > "AIDing > U.S. Interests In Haiti," CovertAction Quarterly no. 51, Winter > 1994-95; and > Noam Chomsky, "Haiti, The Uncivil Society," CovertAction Quarterly no. > 57, > Summer 1996. 61. Sam Tucker, Human Rights Watch, > http://www.webactive.com/webactive/sotw/hrw. 62. John Kenneth Knaus, > Orphans > of the Cold War (New York, BBS Public Affairs 1999), p. 236. 63. > Elisabeth > Rosenthal, "Defiant Chinese Muslims Keep Their Own Time," New York > limes, > November 19, 2000, p. 3. 64. Jonathan Reynolds (pseudonym), "The > Clandestine > Chef," New York Times Magazine, December 3, 2000. 65. "Lessons of War," > Le > Monde Diplomatique, March 2000; Peter Phillips, "Untold Stories of > U.S./NATO's War and Media Complacency," > http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/suntold.htm 66. Marc W. Herold, "A > Dossier on > Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A > Comprehensive Accounting," > http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/civiDeaths.html 67. "Rape as a crime > against humanity," http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/rape.html 68. > "Improving the Public Diplomacy Campaign in the War Against Terrorism," > Independent Task Force on America's Response to Terrorism, Council on > Foreign Relations, November 6, 2001. 69. William Greider, "Curious > George > Talks the Market, The Nation, February 15, 1999. 70. "Oppose John > Bolton's > Nomination as State Department's Arms Control Leader," Council for a > Livable > World , April 11, 2001, http://www.clw.org/bush/opposebolton.html 71. > Ibid. > 72. Greider. 73. 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