Re: [Marxism] United States Peace Institute, Boell Foundation, and the course of the Greens

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Lause:
> The Boell Foundation is a private dispenser of money to various worthy
> causes, allegedly German Green in origins but interested as well in the
> promotion of "democratic values" in the Balkans, as defined by the USIP,
> a quasi-official Federally funded body with people like Condi Rice and
> various generals on its board.
>
> Simply put, I find its motives entirely suspect and it even makes me
> wonder who's funding the Boell Foundation....
>
> I'm particularly interested in the Boell Foundation because--under the
> façade of being a German Green outfit--it has also been funding various
> efforts within the Green Party of the United States to domesticate the
> party...to keep it entirely in the hands of groups like the Progressive
> Democrats of America, on which former Green presidential candidate,
> David Cobb is a leading light.

I just looked these dogs up on guidestar.org. They are named after the 
German novelist Heinrich Boll, btw. All their income for the last tax 
return on file (2003) comes from the German government. $359,755 from the 
German Foreign Ministry and $267,062 from the German Ministry of Economic 
Cooperation and Development. No wonder they work with the USIP, which has 
Condoleeza Rice on the board. This is the German version of NED and they 
are interfering in American politics just the way that the NED interfered 
in Nicaragua. What scum. Their goal is to turn the American Greens into 
something as degenerate as the German Greens. With a long-time German Green 
operative on their staff, they obviously are taking their cues from the 
"bombing left" mother-ship.

I am cc'ing everybody on their staff, just to show them that genuine 
radicals know what they are up to. 


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