[CIMC-working] Is a Soros grant ... extra Soros source cite

[bookbeast]

Covert Action Quarterly (Fall 2002) has a good piece 
on Soros.  Six pages with notes.  Not online unfortunately,
but you should still be able to find Fall (even Summer) in
some of the local bookstores and skim the article.
[even Borders carries CAQ--unfortunately it's not
in the library.] - eliz

Real cheery stuff.  It starts on page one--not hard to
find (right before the piece on the massacre in Jenin).



On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Doug Morris wrote:

> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:38:14 -0600
> From: Doug Morris <being@enteract.com>
> To: imc-chicago-working@lists.indymedia.org
> Subject: [CIMC-working] Is a Soros grant like Ford grant? yes and no in this case
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> For alterantive media projects, a Soros grant is like a Ford grant in it's 
> origin and use.  But, the current case for indymedia is unlike the previous 
> Ford grant proposal some ways.  See references below as to why Soros 
> projects are a problem.  The first note today discussed how TMF could be 
> workable.  This note focuses on the problems with Soros.
> 
> Summary:
> 
> It seems an application is going in from Urban-Chaimpaign IMC (Illinois) 
> under the title Tactical Media Fund (TMF) to Soros's Open Society Institute 
> for $60,000 to fund indymedia local and network efforts.
> 
> This is stated as a project independent from Indymedia.
> 
> There are several key overlaps. See:
> PROPOSAL TO THE OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE FOR THE TACTICAL MEDIA FUND AND IN 
> SUPPORT OF SEVERAL INDYMEDIA PROJECTS
> http://internal.protest.net/osi/
> 
> Some indymedia people are seeking such funds now through the 
> Urbana-Champaing imc proposal of the tactical media fund that would be used 
> in part for funding indymedia network projects.  Further, consider...
> 
> Billionaire capitalist Soros' connections include Schuman Group (PBS tied), 
> etc. which have also funded left media projects and the CIA, the Bushes, 
> Carlyle Group, Citibank, British intelligence, the
> Council on Foreign Relations, etc.  Sources noted below.
> 
> Of further concern are the sources of Soros' billions in wealth:  various 
> financial manipulations which hurt underdeveloped countries. (This point is 
> not detailed here -- perhaps others can help detail this.)
> 
> Soros's efforts shares a similar set of connections is Ford.   Soros's 
> grant work is just as toxic to radical left efforts as the Ford 
> Grant.   Indymedia locals should consider this issue now and decide if it 
> is necessary to call for the TMF fund to disconnect these aspects of the 
> project:
> 	- seeking funds *directly* for indymedia, by an independent effort
> 	- seeking funds *directly* for indymedia from Soros funds
> 	- seeking funds *directly* for indymedia from Soros funds by the UC IMC
> 
> As described in a previous note, at least 3 imcs have made formal 
> statements against fund seeking in general from capitalists and those 
> organizations that work against imc unity principles:
> 
> We, as imc locals and an imc network, need to look at this.
> 
> The TMF effort may well be very workable if it is further disconnected from 
> Indymedia.
> Indymedia as a network needs to develop principles and policy relating to 
> grants and fund raising in general, that build on the principles of unity. 
> See how this can be so in previous note on statements by imcs.
> 
> It would be good for imc locals and individual imc participants to discuss 
> and make statements on these issues.
> 
> Comments?	
> 
> References and quotes:
> 
> See chart and articles here:
> 
> Some of this is conspiracy literature. However, the details seem well 
> researched and there are various others sources to be found referenced in 
> the following.
> 
> ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP:
> SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?
> http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html
> 
> George Soros and the Rothschilds Connection (and CIA, Bush, Citibank, 
> British intelligence, etc.)
> http://www.freedomdomain.com/soros01.html
> 
> Soros Foundation at NameBase
> http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb09?Na=Soros+Foundation
> http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Soros
> 
> Who's Who in the CIA
> a hard to fund book.  mentions Soros
> 
> Some examples of ties from quotes from ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: 
> SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?
> 
> 1.  Carlyle Group, Ford, Bush, and Soros
> "Currently, the wife of the Bush II White House's presidential historian 
> (Michael Beschloss] sits on the Ford Foundation board of trustees. Ford 
> Foundation Trustee Afsaneh Mashayetkhi Beschloss, a former World Bank 
> managing officer, also is the CEO/president of the Carlyle Asset Management 
> Group. President Bush II's father George Bush, former Secretary of Defense 
> and former Deputy CIA Director Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of State 
> James Baker and Billionaire Speculator George Soros are also involved in 
> the Carlyle Group that Ford Foundation Trustee Mashayetkhi Beschloss 
> manages. The Ford Foundation board-linked Carlyle Group received $1.3 
> billion in Pentagon war contracts in 1999, was the 11th-largest recipient 
> of Pentagon war contracts in 2000 and invests heavily in war stock."
> http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/feldman09.html
> 
> 2. Council on Foreign Relations, CIA, Ford, McArthur, and Soros
> Featured on the Council on Foreign Relations web site at www.cfr.org on 
> 9/26/02 was an advertisement for "a New Council book," which stated 
> "Invasion Is The Only Realistic Option to Head off the Threat from Iraq, 
> Argues Kenneth Pollack in THE THREATENING STORM." In recent years, the 
> vice-chairman of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign 
> Relations, Carla Hill, has sat on the board of directors of Chevron (as has 
> National Security Affairs Adviser and former Carnegie Corporation of NY 
> Trustee Condoleezza Rice). Other members of the Council on Foreign 
> Relations include former CIA Director John Deutch, former CIA 
> Consultant/MacArthur Foundation Consultant and current Northwestern 
> University President Henry Bienen, Richard Holbrooke, Billionaire 
> Speculator George Soros and former MacArthur Foundation Director Laura 
> D'Andreas Tyson. A few years ago, the Ford Foundation also gave a $701,130 
> grant to the Council on Foreign Relations for "core support for the 
> activities of the Program on Alternative Future for Southern Asia, its 
> Energy and United States Policy."
> http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/feldman09.html
> 
> 5. Shuman Foundation and Soros
> Bill Moyers, also now sits on the board of directors of Billionaire 
> Speculator George Soros' Open Society Institute. But since the former 
> publisher of the Schumann Foundation-subsidized COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW, 
> Joan Konner, is both a board member of Open Society Institute board member 
> Moyers' Schumann Foundation and the president of Open Society Institute 
> board member Moyers' Public Affairs TV Inc., don't expect the COLUMBIA 
> JOURNALISM REVIEW to question too much the ethical appropriateness of this 
> Schumann Foundation/Open Society Institute board interlocking directorate. 
> And certainly don't expect too much questioning of such institutional 
> relationships by the Schumann Foundation-subsidized FAIR group or by the 
> Open Society Institute-subsidized Pacifica/DEMOCRACY NOW or NATION/RADIO 
> NATION.
> http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/feldman09.html
> 
> Indymedia should not be directly connected with the above mentioned grant 
> agencies.  If the TMF can clean up such funds by requesting them without 
> mentioning indymedia and not through indymedia efforts (locals, etc.) then 
> such funds could be considered cleaned up and useable. To directly work 
> with the above groups would be both risky and damaging to indymedia's 
> reputation and networking in various radical community.
> 
> We can build indymedia online and offline if we continue to work together 
> and let each other know what is going on.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> These are my own opinions solely.
> 
> Best, Doug
> Doug
> IMC Chicago co-liaison 
> 
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