Re: Iraq Revenue Watch

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> So if Soros funds it, does that mean it's all untrue? Should I stop
> reading the New York Times because advertisers fund it?
>
> Doug

This project seems to be an outgrowth of another Soros venture, the
<http://www.eurasianet.org/policy_forum/crw.shtml>Caspian Revenue Watch,
which monitors the development of oil production in the Caspian basin. "The
goal is to promote transparency, accountability, and public oversight in
the management of oil and natural gas revenues." The advisory board on this
outfit is echt-Soros, a mixture of "human rights" figureheads and
military-industrial nabobs. You can find Mikhail Chachkhunashvili, a member
of Open Society in Georgia, where he and other hirelings organized a coup
after Shevernadze appeared to be tilting toward Putin. You also have Karin
Lissakers, whose on the board of the IMF, an outfit famous for its
transparency.

If Soros was in the business of dispensing information like the NY Times,
which you can sift the bad (Judith Miller) from the good (Chris Hedges), it
would be one thing. But basically he and the Open Society are a kind of
privatized CIA that meddles openly in the affairs of other governments. In
my opinion, one of the biggest tasks facing the left is dissociating itself
from this "social democrat". Next to coming to terms with the LBJ of our
time: Howard Dean.

(Michael Perelman, please forgive me for answering Doug Henwood but he was
obviously responding to something I wrote. If you want to punish me for
getting out of line, no problem.)



Louis Proyect
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