Clean links...
George Soros runs the most significant network of NGOs; his political actions started years ago, perhaps here...
Charter 77 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_77 (standard story)
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/jamie-glazov/kgb-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-2/ (another account)
His network helped out with these and other “regime changes” as he developed cookie-cutter regime change methodology...
Velvet Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_revolution
Orange Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_revolution
Rose Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_revolution
Tulip Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_revolution
The U.S. government teamed up with the Soros Open Society Institute (OSI) to “help out” Kyrgyzstan - Hillary loves this one...
American University of Central Asia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_University_of_Central_Asia
Another interesting example of influence (it must be nice to have your former students/employees/etc. well-placed in governments all over the world)...
Viktor Orbán - Prime Minister of Hungary - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Orban
(note his education)
Blending of CIA - State Dept - Dem/Repub parties is present in these and probably many others (if you read these you’ll see where they openly admit to their activities, influence and cooperation - it’s no secret)...
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Institute_for_International_Affairs
International Republican Institute - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Republican_Institute
Freedom House - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Endowment_for_International_Peace
Now mix in private sector, media, big business, etc. (can you spot any interesting names ?)...
New America Foundation - http://www.newamerica.net/about/funding
(A lot of names you know, you’ll have to click on the link)
Formatted name lists...
Council on Foreign Relations - http://www.cfr.org/
Officers and Directors
Board of Directors
Carla A. Hills, Co-Chairman; Chairman and CEO, Hills & Company
Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
David M. Rubenstein, Vice Chairman; Cofounder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Richard E. Salomon, Vice Chairman; Managing Partner, East End Advisors, LLC
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
John P. Abizaid, Senior Partner, JPA Partners LLC
Peter Ackerman, Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc.
Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group LLC
Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Mary Boies, Managing Partner, Boies & McInnis LLP
David G. Bradley, Chairman, Atlantic Media Company
Tom Brokaw, Special Correspondent, NBC News
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President, Walmart Foundation
Martin S. Feldstein, President Emeritus, National Bureau of Economic Research
Stephen Friedman, Chairman, Stone Point Capital
Ann M. Fudge, Pamela Gann
President, Claremont McKenna College
Thomas H. Glocer
Peter B. Henry, Dean, Stern School of Business
J. Tomilson Hill, Vice Chairman, The Blackstone Group
Donna J. Hrinak, President, Boeing Brazil, The Boeing Company
Alberto Ibargüen, President, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
Jami Miscik, President and Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Joseph S. Nye Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
James W. Owens, Chairman and CEO Emeritus, Caterpillar Inc.
Eduardo J. Padrón, President, Miami Dade College
Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Colin L. Powell, United States Army (Ret.)
Penny Pritzker, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, PSP Capital Partners and Pritzker Realty Group
George Rupp, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President, and CEO, Federal Express Corporation
Margaret Warner, Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Vin Weber, Co-Chairman and Partner, Mercury/Clark & Weinstock
Christine Todd Whitman, President, The Whitman Strategy Group
Fareed Zakaria, Host, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS
Officers
Carla A. Hills, Co-Chairman
Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman
David M. Rubenstein, Vice Chairman
Richard E. Salomon, Vice Chairman
Richard N. Haass, President
Keith Olson, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer
James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Nancy D. Bodurtha, Vice President, Meetings and Membership
Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach
Suzanne E. Helm, Vice President, Development
Jan Mowder Hughes, Vice President, Human Resources and Administration
L. Camille Massey, Vice President, Global Strategy and Programs
Lisa Shields, Vice President, Global Communications and Media Relations
Lynda Hammes, Publisher, Foreign Affairs
Jeffrey A. Reinke, Secretary of the Corporation
Officers and Directors, Emeritus & Honorary
Leslie H. Gelb
President Emeritus
Maurice R. Greenberg
Honorary Vice Chairman
Peter G. Peterson
Chairman Emeritus
David Rockefeller
Honorary Chairman
European Council on Foreign Relations - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Council_on_Foreign_Relations
(note the help from Soros to start ECFR)
tiny sample of Soros groups...
Open Society Institute - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Institute
Other Soros Foundations:
Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa
Open Society Foundation for South Africa
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
Open Society Initiative for West Africa
Open Society Afghanistan
Soros Foundation–Kazakhstan
Soros Foundation–Kyrgyzstan
Tifa Foundation Indonesia
Open Society Forum–Mongolia
Foundation Open Society Institute–Pakistan
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Tajikistan
Open Society Foundation for Albania
Open Society Foundations–Armenia
Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan
Open Society European Policy Institute
Open Society Fund–Bosnia and Herzegovina
Open Society Institute–Sofia
Open Society Fund–Prague
Open Estonia Foundation
Open Society Institute–Paris
Open Society Georgia Foundation
Open Society Institute–Budapest
Kosovo Foundation for Open Society
Soros Foundation–Latvia
Foundation Open Society Institute–Macedonia
Soros Foundation–Moldova
Foundation Open Society Institute–Representative Office Montenegro
... this is, of course, only a small sample.
Why is the US State Department donating what could be up to a million dollars to the New America Foundation?
US tax dollars?
Saving for further reading...thank you.