INTRODUCING GEORGE SOROS

New York hedge fund manager George Soros is one of the most politically powerful
individuals on earth. Since the mid-1980s in particular, he has used his immense
influence to help reconfigure the political landscapes of several countries around the
world—in some cases playing a key role in toppling regimes that had held the reins of
government for years, even decades. Vis à vis the United States, a strong case can be
made for the claim that Soros today affects American politics and culture more
profoundly that any other living person.

Much of Soros's influence derives from his $13 billion personal fortune,1 which is
further leveraged by at least another $25 billion in investor assets controlled by his firm,
Soros Fund Management.2 An equally significant source of Soros's power, however, is
his passionate messianic zeal. Soros views himself as a missionary with something of a
divine mandate to transform the world and its institutions into something better—as he
sees it.

Over the years, Soros has given voice to this sense of grandiosity many times and in a
variety of different ways. In his 1987 book The Alchemy of Finance, for instance, he
wrote: “I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of self-importance—to
put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like
Keynes or, even better, a scientist like Einstein.”3 Expanding on this theme in his 1991
book Underwriting Democracy, Soros said: “If truth be known, I carried some rather
potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood,” fantasies which “I wanted to
indulge … to the extent that I could afford.”4 In a June 1993 interview with The
Independent, Soros, who is an atheist,5 said he saw himself as “some kind of god, the
creator of everything.”6 In an interview two years later, he portrayed himself as
someone who shared numerous attributes with “God in the Old Testament” — “[Y]ou
know, like invisible. I was pretty invisible. Benevolent. I was pretty benevolent. All-
seeing. I tried to be all-seeing.”7 Soros told his biographer Michael Kaufman that his
“goal” was nothing less ambitious than “to become the conscience of the world” by
using his charitable foundations,8 which will be discussed at length in this pamphlet, to
bankroll organizations and causes that he deems worthwhile.

“I realized [as a young man] that it's money that makes the world go round,” says Soros,
“so I might as well make money.… But having made it, I could then indulge my social
concerns.”9 Invariably, those concerns center around a desire to change the world
generally—and America particularly—into something new, something consistent with
his vision of “social justice.” Claiming to be “driven” by “illusions, or perhaps
delusions, of grandeur,”10 Soros has humorously described himself as “a kind of nut
who wants to have an impact” on the workings of the world.11 The billionaire's longtime
friend Byron Wien, currently the vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Services, offers
this insight: “You must understand [Soros] thinks he’s been anointed by God to solve
insoluble problems. The proof is that he has been so successful at making so much
[money]. He therefore thinks he has a responsibility to give money away”—to causes
that are consistent with his values and agendas.12

GEORGE SOROS'S ROOTS AND DEVELOPMENT

George Soros was born to Tividar and Erzebat Schwartz, non-practicing Jews, in
Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930. Tivadar was an attorney by profession, but the
consuming passion of his life was the promotion of Esperanto—an artificial, “universal”
language created during the 1880s in hopes that people worldwide might be persuaded
to drop their native tongues and speak Esperanto instead—thereby, in theory at least,
minimizing their nationalist impulses while advancing intercultural harmony. In 1936,
Tivadar changed his family surname to Soros—a future-tense Esperanto verb meaning
“will soar.”13

When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, Tivadar decided to split up his family so as
to minimize the chance that all its members would be killed together. For each of
them—his wife and two sons—he purchased forged papers identifying them as
Christians; paid government officials to conceal his family's Jewish heritage from the
German and Hungarian fascists; and bribed Gentile families to take them into their
homes. As for George in particular, the father paid a Hungarian government official
named Baumbach to claim George as his Christian godson, “Sandor Kiss,” and to let the
boy live with him in Budapest. One of Baumbach's duties was to deliver deportation
notices to Hungary's Jews, confiscating their property and turning it over to Germany.
Young George Soros sometimes accompanied the official on his rounds.14 Many years
later, in December 1998, a CBS interviewer would ask Soros whether he had ever felt
any guilt about his association with Baumbach during that period. Soros replied: “… I
was only a spectator ... I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of
guilt.”15

Soros today recalls the German occupation of Hungary as “probably the happiest year
of my life.” “For me,” he elaborates, “it was a very positive experience. It's a strange
thing because you see incredible suffering around you and the fact you are in
considerable danger yourself. But you're fourteen years old and you don't believe that it
can actually touch you. You have a belief in yourself. You have a belief in your father.
It's a very happy-making, exhilarating experience.”16

In 1947 the Soros family relocated from Hungary to England, where George attended
the London School of Economics (LSE). There, he was exposed to the works of the
Viennese-born philosopher Karl Popper, who taught at LSE and whom Soros would
later call his “spiritual mentor.”17 Though Soros never studied directly under Popper, he
read the latter's works and submitted some essays to him for review and comment. Most
notably, Popper's 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies introduced Soros to the
concept of an “open society,” a theme that would play a central role in Soros's thought
and activities for the rest of his life.18

The term “open society” was originally coined in 1932 by the French philosopher Henri
Louis Bergson, to describe societies whose moral codes were founded upon “universal”
principles seeking to enhance the welfare of all mankind—as opposed to “closed”
societies that placed self-interest above any concern for other nations and cultures.19
Popper readily embraced this concept and expanded upon it. In his view, the open
society was a place that permitted its citizens the right to criticize and change its
institutions as they saw fit; he rejected the imposed intellectual conformity, central
planning, and historical determinism of Marxist doctrine.20 By Popper's reckoning, a
society was “closed”—and thus undesirable—if it assumed that it was in any way
superior to other societies. Likewise, any belief system or individual claiming to be in
possession of “ultimate truth” was an “enemy” of the open society as well. Popper
viewed all knowledge as conjectural rather than certain, as evolving rather than fixed.

Thus, by logical extension, Popper did not share the American founders' confident
assertion that certain truths were “self-evident,” and that certain rights—such as the
right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” as referenced in the Declaration of
Independence—were “unalienable” and thus not subject to doubt, because they had
been granted to mankind by the ultimate authority, the “Creator.”21 We shall see that
George Soros, as he grew to maturity, would likewise reject the founders' premise.
Indeed Soros would harbor great disdain for modern-day American political figures
who displayed unshakable confidence in their own culture's nobility, and who embraced
the tenets of the Declaration and the U.S. Constitution as timeless, immutable truths. To
Soros, “Popper's greatest contribution to philosophy” was his teaching that “the ultimate
truth remains permanently beyond our reach.”22

After graduating in 1952 from LSE, Soros joined the London brokerage firm Singer and
Friedlander, where he became proficient in international arbitrage, which he defines as
“buying securities in one country and selling them in another.”23 Four years later, he
relocated to New York to work as a stock trader on Wall Street. Because Soros “did not
particularly care for” the “commercial, crass” United States, he had no intention of
settling permanently in America. Rather, he had devised a “five-year plan” to save some
$500,000 and then return to Europe.24 His plan changed, however, when he found work
as a portfolio manager at the investment bank Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Inc., where
his career—as if to fulfill the prophecy embedded in the family surname his father had
adopted two decades earlier—soared to new heights.

In 1959 Soros moved to Greenwich Village, New York, where early stirrings of the
Sixties counterculture were already being felt. In September 1960 he married Annaliese
Witschak, who would be his wife until the couple divorced 23 years later.25 In 1961
Soros became a U.S. citizen, and two years later he and Annaliese had their first child, a
son. In the Village, it is likely that Soros was exposed to the ideas of the prominent
socialist Michael Harrington, who mingled with fellow radicals and socialists almost
nightly at a tavern situated barely a stone's throw from Soros's residence.26 In 1962
Harrington wrote The Other America, a book lamenting the fact that a substantial
“invisible” underclass continued to exist even as the country at large prospered, and
suggesting that a “war on poverty” was needed to rectify this. President Lyndon
Johnson read and admired the book, and its ideas greatly influenced his Great Society
policies of government-imposed redistribution of wealth.

Another prominent Village personality of the era—the poet, New Left radical, and
psychedelic-drug guru Allen Ginsberg—would eventually become a “lifelong friend” of
Soros. Though Soros may not have formally met Ginsberg until around 1980—long
after his years in the Village—the billionaire today credits Ginsberg for having opened
his eyes to the benefits of drug legalization, which has been one of Soros's pet projects
throughout his philanthropic career.27

In 1969 Soros established the “Double Eagle Fund” for Bleichroeder with $4 million in
capital, including $250,000 of his own money. Four years later, Soros and his assistant
at Bleichroeder, Jim Rogers, set up a private partnership called Soros Fund
Management. They subsequently changed the Double Eagle Fund's name to The Soros
Fund. In 1979 they renamed it again—The Quantum Fund; its value grew to $381
million by 1980, and more than $1 billion by 1985.28

SOROS THE PHILANTHROPIST

It was in 1979 that Soros began testing the proverbial waters of philanthropy. Five years
later he launched, in the country of his birth, the first of his many Open Society
Foundations—named after the concept advanced by Karl Popper—to help “build
vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their
citizens.”29 But it was not until 1987, the year he opened his Moscow office, that Soros
began to disseminate truly large amounts of money to various groups and causes. “My
spending rose from $3 million in 1987 to more than $300 million a year by 1992,” he
said.30 During this period, Soros established a series of foundations throughout Eastern
Europe and Central Asia.31 He happily observed that because of his extraordinary
wealth, major political figures “suddenly became very interested in seeing me…. [M]y
influence increased.”32 Today Soros's Open Society Foundations are active in more than
70 countries around the world.33

In 1993 Soros established the flagship of the Soros foundation network—the New York
City-based Open Society Institute (OSI). While OSI's philanthropy extends to a number
of nations around the world, it is chiefly devoted to injecting capital into American
groups and causes. In his book Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, Soros
explains that the “open society” which he seeks to advance by means of philanthropy,
“stands for freedom, democracy, rule of law, human rights, social justice, and social
responsibility as a universal idea.”34 But of course, abstract concepts like these, draped
in vestments of lofty rhetoric, can mean radically different things to different people.

Entrusted with the task of defining the foregoing terms for the Open Society Institute,
and for articulating the Institute's agendas from the outset, was Aryeh Neier, whom
Soros appointed to serve as president not only of OSI, but of the entire Soros
Foundation Network. Thirty-four years earlier, Neier had created the Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS), which became the largest and most important radical group
of the 1960s. SDS aspired to overthrow America's democratic institutions, remake its
government in a Marxist image, and undermine the nation's war efforts in Vietnam. (A
particularly militant faction of SDS would later break away to form the Weather
Underground, a notorious domestic terror organization with a Marxist-Leninist agenda.)
Following his stint with SDS, Neier worked fifteen years for the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU)—including eight years as its national executive director. After
that, he spent twelve years as executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), an
organization he founded in 1978.35

THE SOROS AGENDAS

Both the ACLU and HRW have long promoted one of the central contentions of Soros's
Open Society Institute: the notion that America is institutionally an oppressive nation
and a habitual violator of human rights both at home and abroad—indeed, the very
antithesis of the type of “open society” Soros reveres. Consider first the ACLU, whose
advisory board once included the former Weather Underground terrorist Bernardine
Dohrn.36 The ACLU has opposed virtually all post-9/11 national security measures
enacted by the U.S. government, depicting those measures not only as excessively harsh
and invasive generally, but also as discriminatory against Muslims in particular.37
Moreover, the organization has filed numerous lawsuits seeking to limit the
government's ability to locate, monitor, and apprehend terrorist operatives. It
consistently depicts American society as one that is rife with intractable racial injustice.
And it works tirelessly to protect illegal immigrants against “governmental abuse and
discrimination.”38 These (and many other) ACLU activities and policy positions are
entirely consistent with those of Aryeh Neier and George Soros, as evidenced by the
fact that between 1999 and 2008, OSI awarded $8.69 million in grants to the ACLU
Foundation.39

Neier's other training ground, Human Rights Watch, has a long history of pointing an
accusatory finger at America's allegedly numerous transgressions. Most notably, HRW
has derided the U.S. war on terror as a foolhardy endeavor rooted in blindness to the
realization that terrorism stems, in large measure, from America's failure “to promote
fundamental rights around the world.”40 In a March 2007 speech, HRW executive
director Kenneth Roth charged that the United States, by routinely “using torture and
inhumane treatment” to deal with its foes, had “severely damaged its credibility when it
comes to promoting human rights” in other nations.41 Between 2000 and 2008, the Open
Society Institute awarded grants and other contributions to HRW that collectively
totaled $6,386,477.42 Then, in September 2010, Soros announced that he would soon be
giving HRW another $100 million.43 Notably, Soros himself once served on HRW's
Europe and Central Asia Advisory Committee.44

OSI's total assets today exceed $1.9 billion. Each year, the Institute awards scores of
millions of dollars in grants to organizations that—like the ACLU and HRW—promote
worldviews and objectives accordant with those of George Soros.45 Following is a
sampling of the major agendas advanced by groups that Soros and OSI support
financially. Listed under each category heading are a few OSI donees fitting that
description.

Organizations that accuse America of violating the civil rights and liberties of many of
its residents:

 The Arab American Institute impugns many of the “sweeping” and

“unreasonable” post-9/11 counterterrorism measures that have unfairly “targeted
Arab Americans.”46
 The Bill of Rights Defense Committee has persuaded the political leadership in
more than 400 American cities and counties to pledge noncompliance with the
anti-terrorism measure known as the Patriot Act, on grounds that the legislation
tramples on people's civil liberties.47

Organizations that depict America as a nation whose enduring racism must be

counterbalanced by racial and ethnic preferences in favor of nonwhites:

 The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund calls itself “the
nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization.”48
 The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law provides “legal services to
address racial discrimination.”49
  The NAACP and its Legal Defense and Educational Fund uses “litigation,
advocacy, and public education” to promote “structural changes” and “achieve
racial justice in the United States”50
 The National Council of La Raza charges that “discrimination severely limits the
economic and social opportunities available to Hispanic Americans.”51

Organizations that specifically portray the American criminal-justice system as racist

and inequitable:

 The Sentencing Project asserts that prison-sentencing patterns discriminate

against nonwhites, and seeks “to reduce the reliance on incarceration.”52
 Critical Resistance contends that crime stems from “inequality and
powerlessness,” which can be rectified through wholesale redistribution of
wealth.53
 The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights charges that criminal
laws “are enforced in a manner that is massively and pervasively biased.”54

Organizations that call for massive social change, and for the recruitment and training
of activist leaders to help foment that change:

 The Center for Community Change is “dedicated to finding the [progressive]

stars of tomorrow and preparing them to lead.”55
 The Gamaliel Foundation teaches social-change “techniques and
methodologies.”56
 The Ruckus Society promotes “nonviolent direct action against unjust
institutions and policies.”57
 The American Institute for Social Justice aims to “transform poor communities”
by agitating for increased government spending on social-welfare programs.58
 The Institute for America's Future “regularly convenes and educates progressive
leaders, organizations, candidates, opinion makers, and activists.”59
 People for the American Way, founded by television producer Norman Lear to
oppose the allegedly growing influence of the “religious right,” seeks “to
cultivate new generations of leaders and activists” who will promote
“progressive values.”60
 Democracy For America operates an academy that has taught more than 10,000
recruits nationwide how to “focus, network, and train grassroots activists in the
skills and strategies to take back our country.”61
 The Midwest Academy trains radical activists in the tactics of direct action,
confrontation, and intimidation. Author Stanley Kurtz has described this
academy as a “crypto-socialist organization” that was “arguably the most
influential force in community organizing from the seventies through the
nineties.”62

Organizations that disparage capitalism while promoting a dramatic expansion of

social-welfare programs funded by ever-escalating taxes:

 The Center for Economic and Policy Research asserts that “the welfare state has
softened the impact” of “the worst excesses and irrationalities of a market
system” and its “injustices.”63
  The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities advocates greater tax expenditures
on such assistance programs as Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance
Program, food stamps, and low-income housing initiatives.64
 The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights was founded by the revolutionary
communist Van Jones. This anti-poverty organization claims that “decades of
disinvestment in our cities,” coupled with America's allegedly imperishable
racism, have “led to despair and homelessness.”65
 The Emma Lazarus Fund: In 1996 George Soros said he was “appalled” by the
recently signed welfare-reform law that empowered states to limit legal
immigrants' access to public assistance. In response to this “mean-spirited attack
on immigrants,” he launched an Open Society Institute project known as the
Emma Lazarus Fund and endowed it with $50 million.66

Organizations that support socialized medicine in the United States:

 Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a vast network of organizations

supporting, ideally, a “single-payer” model where the federal government would
be in charge of financing and administering the entire U.S. healthcare system.67
During the political debate over “Obamacare” in 2009 and 2010, HCAN’s
strategy was to try to achieve such a system incrementally, first by implementing
a “public option”—i.e., a government insurance agency to “compete” with
private insurers, so that Americans would be “no longer at the mercy of the
private insurance industry.”68 Because such an agency would not need to show a
profit in order to remain in business, and because it could tax and regulate its
private competitors in whatever fashion it pleased, this “public option” would
inevitably force private insurers out of the industry. In August 2009, Soros
pledged to give HCAN $5 million to promote its campaign for reform.69

Organizations that strive to move American politics to the left by promoting the election
of progressive political candidates:

 Project Vote is the voter-mobilization arm of the notoriously corrupt ACORN,

whose voter-registration drives and get-out-the-vote initiatives have been marred
by massive levels of fraud and corruption.70
 Catalist seeks “to help progressive organizations realize … electoral success by
building and operating a robust national voter database.”71
 The Brennan Center for Justice aims to “fully restore voting rights following
criminal conviction”72—significant because research shows that ex-felons are far
likelier to vote for Democratic political candidates than for Republicans.73
 The Progressive States Network seeks to “pass progressive legislation in all fifty
states by providing coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to
forward-thinking state legislators.”74
 The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, to which George Soros
personally donated $8,000 in 2010, works “to elect bold progressive candidates
to federal office … more often.”75

Organizations that promote leftist ideals and worldviews in the media and the arts:

In May 2011, the Media Research Center reported that from 2003-2001, Soros had
spent more than $48 million "funding media properties, including the infrastructure of
news -- journalism schools, investigative journalism and even industry organizations."
Among the beneficiaries of Soros's money were such entities as: ABC, The American
Prospect Inc. (the owner and publisher of The American Prospect magazine), the Center
for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Columbia Journalism
Review, the Columbia School of Journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Free
Press, the Independent Media Center, the Independent Media Institute, The Lens, the
Media Fund, Media Matters For America, the Nation Institute, the National Association
of Hispanic Journalists, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, National
Public Radio, NBC, the Organization of News Ombudsmen, the New York Times, the
Pacifica Foundation, ProPublica, and the Washington Post, . Below are some brief
descriptions of a few of these organizations:

 The American Prospect, Inc. is the owner and publisher of The American
Prospect magazine, which tries to “counteract the growing influence of
conservative media.”76
 Free Press is a “media reform” organization co-founded by Robert McChesney,
who calls for “a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system” and
to “rebuil[d] the entire society on socialist principles.”77
 The Independent Media Institute aims to “change the world”78 via projects like
AlterNet, an online news magazine calling itself “a key player in the echo
chamber of progressive ideas and vision.”79
 The Nation Institute operates synergistically with the far-left Nation magazine,
which works “to extend the reach of progressive ideas” into the American
mainstream.80
 The Pacifica Foundation owns and operates Pacifica Radio, awash from its birth
with the socialist-Marxist rhetoric of class warfare and anti-capitalism.
 Media Matters For America: For a number of years, the Open Society Institute
gave indirect funding—filtering its grants first through other Soros-backed
operations81—to this “progressive research and information center” which
“monitor[s]” and “correct[s] conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”82
In October 2010, Soros announced that he would soon donate $1 million directly
to Media Matters.83
 Sundance Institute: In 1996, Soros launched his Soros Documentary Fund to
produce “social justice” films that would “spur awareness, action and social
change.” In 2001, this Fund became part of actor-director Robert Redford’s
Sundance Institute. Between 1996 and 2008, OSI earmarked at least $5.2 million
for the production of several hundred documentaries, many of which were
highly critical of capitalism, American society, or Western culture generally.84
In 2009, Soros pledged another $5 million to the Sundance Institute.85

Organizations that seek to inject the American judicial system with leftist values:

 The Alliance for Justice consistently depicts Republican judicial nominees

as “radical right-wing[ers]” and “extremists” whose views range far outside the
boundaries of mainstream public opinion.86
 The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy seeks to indoctrinate
young law students to view the Constitution as an evolving or “living”
document,87 and to reject “conservative buzzwords such as 'originalism' and
'strict construction.'”88
  Justice at Stake89 promotes legislation that would replace judicial elections with
a “merit-selection” system where a small committee of legal elites,
unaccountable to the public, would pick those most “qualified” to serve as
judges. OSI has spent at least $45.4 million on efforts to change the way judges
are chosen in many American states.90

Organizations that advance leftist agendas by infiltrating churches and religious

congregations:

 Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good advocates a brand of “social

justice” that would counteract the “greed, materialism, and excessive
individualism” that are allegedly inherent in capitalism.91
 Sojourners characterizes wealth redistribution as the fulfillment of a biblical
mandate.92 Jim Wallis, the founder of this evangelical Christian ministry, has
expressed his hope that “more Christians will come to view the world through
Marxist eyes.”93
 People Improving Communities through Organizing uses “people of faith” as
foot soldiers in its crusade for the “transformation” of “people, institutions, and
… our larger culture.”94
 Catholics for Choice—formerly known as Catholics for a Free Choice—is a
nominally Catholic organization that “believes in a world where everyone has
equal access to … safe and legal abortion services.”95

Think tanks that promote leftist policies:

 The Institute for Policy Studies has long supported Communist and anti-
American causes around the world. It seeks to provide a corrective to the
“unrestrained greed” of “markets and individualism.”96
 The New America Foundation tries to influence public opinion on such topics as
healthcare, environmentalism, energy policy, and global governance.97
 The Urban Institute favors socialized medicine, expansion of the federal welfare
bureaucracy, and tax hikes for higher income-earners.98

Organizations that promote open borders, mass immigration, a watering down of

current immigration laws, increased rights and benefits for illegal aliens, and ultimately
amnesty:

 The American Immigration Council—formerly known as the the American

Immigration Law Foundation—supports “birthright citizenship” for children
born to illegal immigrants in the U.S.99
 Casa de Maryland periodically sponsors “know your rights” training sessions to
teach illegals how to evade punishment in the event that they are apprehended in
an immigration raid.100
 The Immigrant Legal Resource Center belongs to the sanctuary movement that
tries to shield illegal aliens from the law.101
 The Migration Policy Institute advocates a more permissive U.S. refugee
admissions and resettlement policy, as well as more social-welfare benefits for
illegals residing in the U.S.102
 LatinoJustice PRLDF is a legal advocacy group that “protects opportunities for
all Latinos … especially the most vulnerable—new immigrants and the poor.”103
  The Immigration Policy Center states that “[r]equiring the 10-11 million
unauthorized immigrants residing in the U.S. to register with the government
and meet eligibility criteria in order to gain legal status is a key element of
comprehensive immigration reform.”104
 The National Immigration Forum opposes the enhancement of the U.S. Border
Patrol and the construction of a border fence to prevent illegal immigration.105
 The National Immigration Law Center works to help low-income immigrants
gain access to government-funded welfare programs on the same basis as legal
American citizens.106

Organizations that oppose virtually all post-9/11 national-security measures enacted by

the U.S. government:

 The Center for Constitutional Rights, founded by four longtime supporters of

communist causes,107 has condemned the “immigration sweeps, ghost
detentions, extraordinary rendition, and every other illegal program the
government has devised” in response to “the so-called War on Terror.”108
 The National Security Archive Fund collects and publishes declassified
documents (obtained through the Freedom of Information Act) to a degree that
compromises American national security and the safety of intelligence agents.109

Organizations that defend suspected anti-American terrorists and their abetters:

 The Constitution Project has supported such notorious figures as Salim Ahmed
Hamdan (Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and chauffeur) and Jose Padilla (an
American Islamic convert and terrorist plotter). Moreover, the Project contends
that it is illegal for the U.S. government to detain terror suspects if the evidence
against them was obtained through “torture.”110
 The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee was established to support Lynne
Stewart, who is a criminal-defense attorney and an America-hating Maoist.
Stewart was convicted of illegally helping her incarcerated client, the “blind
sheik” Omar Abdel Rahman, pass messages to an Egypt-based Islamic terrorist
organization. In September 2002, the Open Society Institute gave $20,000 111 to
this committee; OSI vice president Gara LaMarche characterized Ms. Stewart as
a “human rights defender.”112

Organizations that depict virtually all American military actions as unwarranted and
immoral:

 Amnesty International: In 2005, this group's then-executive director William

Schulz alleged that the United States had become “a leading purveyor and
practitioner” of torture.113 Schulz’s remarks were echoed by Amnesty's then-
secretary general Irene Khan, who charged that the Guantanamo Bay detention
center, where the U.S. was housing several hundred captured terror suspects,
“has become the gulag of our time.”114
 Global Exchange was founded by Medea Benjamin, a pro-Castro radical who
helped establish a project known as Iraq Occupation Watch for the purpose of
encouraging widespread desertion by “conscientious objectors” in the U.S.
military.115 In December 2004, Benjamin announced that Global Exchange
 would be sending aid to the families of terrorist insurgents who were fighting
American troops in Iraq.116

Organizations that advocate America’s unilateral disarmament and/or a steep

reduction in its military spending:

 The American Friends Service Committee, which views America as the world's
chief source of international strife, has long had a friendly relationship with the
Communist Party USA.117 Lamenting that “the United States spends 59% of the
discretionary federal budget on military-related expenses,” the Committee seeks
to “realig[n] national spending priorities and to increase the portion of the
budget that is spent on housing, quality education for all, medical care, and fair
wages.”118 In 2000, George Soros himself was a signatory to a letter titled
“Appeal for Responsible Security” that appeared in The New York Times. The
letter called upon the U.S. government “to commit itself unequivocally to
negotiate the worldwide reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons,” and to
participate in “the global de-alerting of nuclear weapons and deep reduction of
nuclear stockpiles.”119

(NOTE: OSI is a member of the Peace and Security Funders Group.)

Organizations that promote radical environmentalism:

Groups in this category typically oppose mining and logging initiatives, commercial
fishing enterprises, development and construction in wilderness areas, the use of coal,
the use of pesticides, and oil and gas exploration in “environmentally sensitive”
locations. Moreover, they claim that human industrial activity leads to excessive
carbon-dioxide emissions which, in turn, cause a potentially cataclysmic phenomenon
called “global warming.” Examples of such Soros donees include the Alliance for
Climate Protection, Earthjustice, the Earth Island Institute, Friends of the Earth, Green
For All, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Another major recipient of Soros money is the Tides Foundation, which receives cash
from all manner of donors—individuals, groups, and other foundations—and then
funnels it to designated left-wing recipients. Having given more than $400 million to
“progressive nonprofit organizations” since 2000,120 Tides is a heavy backer of
environmental organizations, though its philanthropy extends also into many other
areas.

George Soros presents himself as an environmentalist of the first order and is quick to
condemn industrial corporations for allegedly trampling recklessly over the earth's
ecosystems in pursuit of the almighty dollar. But in fact, Soros himself has proven to be
quite willing to despoil Mother Nature in exchange for profits of his own. Consider, for
example, his involvement in the Argentine beef industry, which environmentalists claim
is responsible for massive levels of water pollution and deforestation. Argentina's
biggest landowner is none other than George Soros, with some 500,000 hectares of land
and 150,000 head of cattle to his name.121 Moreover, Soros is a part owner of Apex
Silver Mines, which operates in a remote and ecologically sensitive region of Bolivia.122

Organizations that oppose the death penalty in all circumstances:

In 2000 George Soros co-signed a letter to President Bill Clinton asking for a
moratorium on the death penalty, on grounds that it tended to be implemented
disproportionately against black and Hispanic offenders.123

Consistent with the billionaire's opposition to capital punishment, his Open Society
Institute has given millions of dollars to anti-death penalty organizations such as New
Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, Witness to Innocence, Equal Justice USA, the
Death Penalty Information Center, People of Faith against the Death Penalty, and the
Fair Trial Initiative.

Organizations that promote modern-day feminism's core tenet—that America is

fundamentally a sexist society where discrimination and violence against women have
reached epidemic proportions:

 The Feminist Majority Foundation “focus[es] on advancing the legal, social and
political equality of women with men, countering the backlash to women's
advancement, and recruiting and training young feminists...”124
 The Ms. Foundation for Women laments that although “women are more than
half the [U.S.] population … they don’t have equal opportunity, voice or
power.”125
 The National Partnership for Women and Families asserts that “women today
are still paid only $0.77 to a man’s dollar”126—an assertion that is grossly
misleading and substantively untrue.127

Organizations that promote not only women's right to taxpayer-funded abortion on

demand,128 but also political candidates who take that same position:

 Soros donees in this category include the Center for Reproductive Rights,
Choice USA, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Abortion Federation,
and Planned Parenthood.

Organizations that favor global government which would bring American foreign policy
under the control of the United Nations or other international bodies:

According to George Soros, “[W]e need some global system of political decision-
making. In short, we need a global society to support our global economy.”129
Consistent with this perspective, the Open Society Institute in 2008 gave $150,000 to
the United Nations Foundation, which “works to broaden support for the UN through
advocacy and public outreach.”130 Moreover, OSI is considered a “major” funder of the
Coalition for an International Criminal Court,131 which aims to subordinate American
criminal-justice procedures in certain cases to an international prosecutor who could
initiate capricious or politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. officials and military
officers.132

Organizations that support drug legalization:

Dismissing the notion of “a drug-free America” as nothing more than “a utopian

dream,” George Soros says that “the war on drugs” is “insane” and, “like the Vietnam
War,” simply “cannot be won.”133 “I'll tell you what I would do if it were up to me,”
says Soros. “I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I
would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally
available.”134 In 1998 Soros was a signatory to a public letter addressed to United
Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, declaring that "the global war on drugs is now
causing more harm than drug abuse itself."135 The letter blamed the war on drugs for
impeding such public health efforts as stemming the spread of HIV, hepatitis, and other
infectious diseases, as well as human rights violations and the perpetration of
environmental assaults. Other notable signers included Tammy Baldwin, Rev. William
Sloan Coffin, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Morton H. Halperin, Peter Lewis, Kweisi Mfume,
and Cornel West.

Soros and his Open Society Institute have given many millions of dollars to groups
supporting drug-legalization and needle-exchange programs. In 1996, former Carter
administration official Joseph Califano called Soros “the Daddy Warbucks of drug
legalization.”136 According to a Capital Research Center publication, “It’s no
exaggeration to say that without Soros there would be no serious lobby against the drug
war.”137

A leading recipient of Soros funding is the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), which seeks to
loosen narcotics laws, promotes “treatment-not-incarceration” policies for non-violent
drug offenders, and advocates syringe-access programs “to help prevent the spread of
HIV/AIDS.”138 Soros himself formerly sat on the DPA board of directors.139 As recently
as 2010, Soros contributed $1 million to support a California ballot measure known as
Proposition 19, which would have legalized personal marijuana use in the state; the
measure, however, was rejected by voters on election day.140

Peter Schweizer, author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do), speculates on the possible reasons
underlying Soros's support for drug legalization:
“One very possible answer is that he hopes to profit from them [drugs] once they
become legal. He has been particularly active in South America, buying up large tracts
of land and forging alliances with those in a position to mass-produce narcotics should
they become legalized in the United States. He has also helped fund the Andean Council
of Coca Leaf producers. Needless to say, this organization would stand to benefit
enormously from the legalization of cocaine. He has also taken a 9 percent stake in
Banco de Colombia, located in the Colombian drug capital of Cali. The Drug
Enforcement Administration has speculated that the bank is being used to launder
money and that Soros's fellow shareholders may be members of a major drug cartel.”141

Organizations that support euthanasia for the terminally ill:

Soros has long promoted the cause of physician-assisted suicide in an effort to change
public attitudes about death. Toward that end, in 1994 he began giving money to the
(now defunct) Project on Death in America (PDA), whose purpose was to provide “end-
of-life” assistance for ailing people and to enact public policy that will “transform the
culture and experience of dying and bereavement.”142 Over a 9-year period, the Open
Society Institute gave $45 million to PDA.143

Notably, PDA's mission was congruent with the goals of those who support
government-run health care, which invariably features bureaucracies tasked with
allocating scarce resources and thus determining who will, and who will not, be eligible
for particular medications and treatments. Such bureaucracies generally make their
calculations based upon cost-benefit analyses of a variety of possible treatments.
Ultimately these decisions tend to disfavor the very old and the very sick, because
whatever benefits they might gain from expensive interventions are likely to be of short
duration, and thus are not judged to be worth the costs. Soros himself has suggested that
“[a]ggressive, life-prolonging interventions, which may at times go against the patient's
wishes, are much more expensive than proper care for the dying.”144 Additional pro-
euthanasia groups funded by Soros and OSI are the following:

 The Death with Dignity National Center seeks to allow “terminally ill
individuals meeting stringent safeguards to hasten their own deaths” by way of
lethal drug prescriptions.145
 The Compassion in Dying Federation of America advocates “aid-in-dying for
terminally ill, mentally competent adults.”146

Organizations that have pressured mortgage lenders to make loans to undercapitalized

borrowers, a practice that helped spark the subprime mortgage crisis and housing-
market collapse of 2008:

 The Greenlining Institute 147—by threatening to publicly accuse banks of

racially discriminatory lending practices—has successfully negotiated loan
commitments of more than $2.4 trillion from America's financial institutions.148
 The Center for Responsible Lending, according to Americans for Prosperity vice
president Phil Kerpen, has “shak[en] down and harass[ed] banks into making
bad loans to unqualified borrowers.”149

Organizations that exhort the U.S. and Israel to negotiate with, and to make
concessions to, Arab terrorist groups and regimes that have pledged to destroy America
and Israel alike:

 The International Crisis Group's (ICG) Mideast director, Robert Malley, has
penned numerous articles and op-eds condemning Israel, exonerating
Palestinians, urging the U.S. to disengage from Israel to some degree, and
recommending that America reach out to negotiate with its traditional Arab
enemies such as Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Soros himself is a member of
ICG's executive committee.
 J Street has cautioned Israel not to be too combative against Hamas, on grounds
that the latter “has been the government, law and order, and service provider
since it won the [Palestinian] elections in January 2006 and especially since June
2007 when it took complete control.” In the final analysis, J Street traces the
Mideast conflict chiefly to the notion that “Israel’s settlements in the occupied
territories have, for over forty years, been an obstacle to peace.”

SOROS'S POLITICAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

Apart from the more than $5 billion that Soros' foundation network has donated to
leftist groups like those cited above, Soros personally has made campaign contributions
to such notable political candidates as Joe Biden, Barbara Boxer, Sherrod Brown, Bill
Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Jon Corzine, Howard Dean, Richard Durbin, Lane Evans, Al
Franken, Al Gore, Tom Harkin, Maurice Hinchey, John Kerry, Dennis
Kucinich, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Charles Rangel, Harry Reid, Ken Salazar,
Charles Schumer, Joe Sestak, and Tom Udall. He also has given large sums of money to
the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National
Committee Services Corporation, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

SOROS MEETS THE CLINTONS

Around the time that George Soros initially launched his Manhattan-based Open
Society Institute, he established what would prove to be a warm and enduring
relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton, the new American President and First Lady.
When the Clintons took office in early 1993, they faced the daunting task of helping the
collapsed Soviet empire rise from its ruins and cultivate a harmonious relationship with
the United States. To lead this endeavor, President Clinton appointed three men:
Treasury Department official Lawrence Summers, Vice President Al Gore, and soon-to-
be State Department official Strobe Talbott. Talbott in particular was given a large
degree of authority, prompting some observers to dub him as Clinton's “Russian policy
czar.”150 It so happened that Talbot had an exceptionally high regard for the financial
expertise of George Soros—describing him as “a national resource, indeed, a national
treasure”—and thus he recruited the billionaire to serve as a key advisor on U.S.-
Russian matters.151

Soros, in turn, had connections with a young economist whom he had been funding—
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development. The U.S.
Agency for International Development assigned Sachs' Institute to oversee Russia's
transformation to a market economy after more than seven decades of communism. As a
consequence of this assignment, Sachs and his team essentially represented the United
States as official economic advisors to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Soros worked
closely with Sachs on this project, and the pair held enormous sway over Yeltsin.152 So
great was their influence, in fact, that on one occasion Soros quipped that “the former
Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.”153 But before long, members of Sachs's
team became involved in massive corruption, exploiting for personal gain their access to
Russia's political and economic leaders. Their actions contributed to the collapse of the
Russian economy and to the diversion of some $100 billion out of the country.154
Though Sachs himself was not accused of profiting personally from these activities, he
resigned as director of the Harvard Institute in May 1999, under a dark cloud of
scandal.155 The U.S. House Banking Committee investigated the matter and called
Soros to testify. The billionaire denied culpability but admitted that he had used insider
access in an illegal deal to acquire a large portion of Sidanko Oil.156 Soros further
acknowledged in Congressional testimony that some of the missing Russian assets had
made their way into his personal investment portfolio.157 House Banking Committee
chairman Jim Leach characterized the entire sordid affair as “one of the greatest social
robberies in human history.”158

As the Nineties progressed, it became increasingly evident that Bill and Hillary Clinton
embraced virtually all of the values and agendas that George Soros was funding through
his Open Society Institute. “I do now have great access in [the Clinton] administration,”
said Soros in 1995. “There is no question about this. We actually work together as a
team.”159
Soros and Mrs. Clinton in particular held one another in the highest esteem. In
November 1997, when Hillary was in Central Asia for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the
newly built American University of Kyrgyzstan, she delivered a speech in which she
lavished praise on Soros's Open Society Institute, which had financed the school's
construction.160 One source close to Mrs. Clinton's inner circle, Center for American
Democracy director Rachel Ehrenfeld, reports that Soros visited Hillary at the White
House during the Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings of 1998-99, when the First
Lady was receiving only her most trusted confidantes.161 A few years later, at a June
2004 “Take Back America” conference in Washington, Mrs. Clinton introduced Soros
as a courageous man who loved his country deeply. “[W]e need people like George
Soros,” she said, “who is fearless, and willing to step up when it counts.” Soros, in turn,
indicated that he was “very, very proud to be introduced” by someone for whom he had
such “great, great admiration.” He described Hillary as someone who had been “more
effective than most of our statesmen in propagating democracy, freedom, and open
society.”162

9/11, AND SOROS'S DEEPER IMMERSION INTO AMERICAN POLITICS

September 11, 2001 was a watershed moment not only in American history but also in
George Soros's philanthropic career. Soros viewed the 9/11 terrorist attacks as
confirmation that U.S. foreign policy—particularly under President George W. Bush,
who had taken office eight months earlier—was moving in a dangerous direction,
giving rise to anti-American hatred in the hearts of people all across the globe. By
Soros's reckoning, Bush embodied the very antithesis of the “open society” ideal.
Specifically, the billionaire detested what he viewed as the arrogance the President
displayed when he publicly branded America's enemies as “evil”; when he
unapologetically expressed his faith in the exceptionalism of his own culture; and when
he seemed disinclined to consider the possibility that the terrorists may have had
something valuable to teach Americans about how the rest of the world perceived the
United States. Moreover, Soros considered terrorism to be, in large measure, a
consequence of economic inequity and the exploitation of poor countries by their
wealthier counterparts.

Reasoning from these premises, Soros—while conceding that the retaliatory U.S.
invasion of Afghanistan was justifiable163—maintained that the proper long-term
response to 9/11 would be for America to launch a global war on poverty. Such an
undertaking would be modeled on the Great Society programs which the Johnson
administration had instituted in the 1960s—on the theory that by pouring rivers of
taxpayer dollars into the nation's violence-torn ghettos, the presumably justified rage of
the rioters could be quelled. In a similar vein, Soros now held that the best way to fight
international terrorism would be for the affluent USA to send massive amounts of aid to
impoverished regions around the world where the phenomenon tended to originate.
Indeed, he had long maintained that the “root causes” of terrorism were “poverty” and
“ignorance.”164 Just eight days after 9/11, Soros gave a speech where he said that the
“cornerstone” of his “plan” was to “address the social conditions that provide a fertile
ground from which [terrorist] volunteers who are willing to sacrifice their lives can be
recruited.” This plan would call on “rich countries” to boost their levels of
“international assistance,” which—while unlikely to “prevent people like bin Laden
from exercising their evil genius”—would “help to alleviate the grievances on which
extremism of all kinds feeds.”165

On subsequent occasions, Soros would reiterate his belief that terrorism was caused by
a dearth of “international income redistribution” and a “growing inequality between rich
and poor, both within countries and among countries.”166 “A global open society,”
Soros stressed, “requires affirmative action on a global scale.”167 By contrast, Soros was
largely silent on the issue of Islam's longstanding tradition of jihad, which predated by
many hundreds of years any potentially objectionable U.S. foreign-policy initiatives.
Rather, he called for a “radical reordering” of American “priorities,” where “[i]nstead of
devoting the bulk of the budget to military expenditures to implement the Bush
doctrine, we would engage in preventive actions of a constructive nature.”168 “The
United States cannot do whatever it wants,” he scolded. “... Our nation must concern
itself with the well-being of the world.”169

In Soros's calculus, 9/11 represented “an unusual opportunity to rethink and reshape the
world.” Observing that the recent attacks had “shocked” Americans “into realizing that
others may regard them very differently from the way they see themselves,” Soros
posited that his fellow countrymen were “more ready to reassess the world and the role
the United States plays in it than in normal times.”170 And acknowledging that “[t]his
awareness may not last long,” he said: “I am determined not to let the moment pass.”171

The urgency which Soros felt with regard to seizing the moment was further heightened
on the night of January 29, 2002, when George W. Bush delivered his State of the
Union address. In that speech, the President made his first controversial reference to
Iraq as part of an “axis of evil” that posed a potentially deadly threat to America. Bush
intimated that he would soon turn his foreign-policy attention toward Saddam Hussein's
regime, which continued to “flaunt its hostility toward America,” “support terror,” and
violate its international agreements. As the President pledged not to “wait on events
while dangers gather,” nor to “stand by as peril draws closer and closer,” speculation
about a possible U.S. invasion of Iraq began to coalesce.172 In Soros's view, such an
invasion would be yet another misguided and senseless endeavor, and he was
determined to do whatever he could to prevent it.

The very next month, Soros appointed former Clinton administration official Morton
Halperin to the post of Open Society Institute director. Halperin, whom some State
Department officials suspected of being a communist agent,173 had been instrumental in
derailing America's war effort during the Vietnam era, when President Johnson put him
in charge of compiling a classified history of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
Halperin's labor ultimately bore fruit—in June 1971—with the publication of the
notorious “Pentagon Papers.”174 Thereafter, Halperin went on to serve (from 1975-
1992) as director of an ACLU project called the Center for National Security Studies,
which sought to slash U.S. defense expenditures and undermine the nation's intelligence
capabilities.175 In Target America—James L. Tyson's 1981 exposé of the Soviet Union's
elaborate “propaganda campaign designed to weaken and demoralize America from the
inside”—the author stated:

“Halperin … and his organizations have had a constant record of advocating the
weakening of U.S. intelligence capabilities. His organizations are also notable for
ignoring the activities of the KGB or any other foreign intelligence organization.... A
balance sheet analysis of Halperin's writings and testimonies ... gives Halperin a score
of 100% on the side of output favorable to the Communist line and 0% on any output
opposed to the Communist line.”176

Like Halperin, George Soros stridently counseled against military intervention in Iraq,
warning that an invasion “would actually be a victory for the terrorists”—because the
inevitable killing of “innocent civilians” would give groups like al Qaeda “the kind of
radicalization that they are looking for” in order to justify “a vicious cycle of escalating
violence.”177 “War is a false and misleading metaphor in the context of combating
terrorism,” said Soros. “Treating the attacks of September 11 as crimes against
humanity would have been more appropriate. Crimes require police work, not military
action.”178 Moreover, Soros characterized the so-called “Bush doctrine” of preemptive
military action against those who may pose a threat to the U.S. an “atrocious
proposition.”179

By the time the U.S. invaded Iraq in early 2003, Soros's contempt for President Bush's
“imperialist vision” had reached a fever pitch.180 Accusing Bush of “deliberately
foster[ing] fear because it helps to keep the nation lined up behind the president,” Soros
added cynically: “Terrorism is the ideal enemy. It is invisible and therefore never
disappears. An enemy that poses a genuine and recognized threat can effectively hold a
nation together.”181 In August, Soros warned that the very “fate of the world depends on
the United States, and President Bush is leading us in the wrong direction” with his
“false and dangerous” doctrine.182 In the fall, Soros referred to Bush administration
officials and Republicans generally as “extremists” who “don’t believe in the system of
democracy as we know it”; and who embraced “a very dangerous ideology” which held
that “the United States … should impose its power, impose its will and its interests on
the world.”183

Soros routinely condemned Bush for his “unabashed pursuit of self-interest”;184 for
“equat[ing] freedom with American values”; for holding the “simplistic view” that
“[w]e are right and they are wrong”;185 and for harboring a “false sense of certitude”
that Americans had “right on our side.”186 Each of these transgressions, Soros
explained, violated the “principles of open society, which recognize that we may be
wrong.”187 “The supremacist ideology of the Bush administration,” he added, “is in
contradiction with the principles of an open society because it claims possession of an
ultimate truth.”188

As the Iraq War took an increasing toll in terms of both American and Iraqi lives, Soros
wrote that the U.S. military response to 9/11 had actually turned out to be a greater
moral atrocity than the original “crime” that prompted it, because the war “has claimed
more innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq than have the attacks on the World
Trade Center.” In short, Soros characterized the Bush administration's “pursuit of
American supremacy” as more dangerous than Islamist terror.189

Not only did Soros believe that Bush was following a mindless and perilous policy, but
he saw the President's motives as wholly dishonorable. Soros repeatedly accused Bush
of using intelligence that had been “exposed as exaggerated or even false” to justify the
invasion of Iraq under “false pretenses.”190 He denounced “the exploitation of
September 11 by the Bush administration to pursue its policy of dominating the world
in the guise of fighting terrorism.”191 He expanded on this theme by accusing Bush of
seeking “to justify repressive measures” on the home front while “establish[ing] a
secure alternative to Saudi oil” in the Mideast.192 “The other important consideration,”
Soros added, “was Israel.” He intimated that Bush, by flexing U.S. muscle in the Middle
East, was signaling his readiness to intervene in affairs that could potentially affect
America's closest ally in the region. By so doing, said Soros, the President was catering
to “the traditional pro-Israel lobby” which included “the evangelical right—and that is
the core of the president’s constituency.”193

As Soros saw things, the President's arrogance and corruption had filtered down
perceptibly into the ranks of the military personnel who were carrying out Bush's
mission. Thus Soros likened the conduct of American troops to that of communist and
fascist thugs, asserting that “the picture of torture in Abu Ghraib” was proof that “the
way President Bush conducted the war on terror converted us from victims into
perpetrators.”194 Soros charged that not only had America “violated international law”
by “invading Iraq … without a second UN Resolution,” but that it had “violated the
Geneva Conventions” by “mistreating and even torturing prisoners.”195

On numerous occasions, Soros drew parallels between the Bush administration and
some of history's most infamous totalitarian regimes. Bush's view that “there is only one
model of democracy,” said Soros, was “as false, and potentially as dangerous, as that of
the Communists’ belief that there is only one way to organize society.”196 Soros further
likened Bush’s “Orwellian” assertion that “[y]ou can have freedom as long as you do
what we tell you to do,” to Soviet rhetoric about “people’s democracies.”197 “When I
hear President Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the
Germans,” Soros stated. “My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized
me.”198 “Who would have thought sixty years ago,” asked Soros, “when Karl Popper
wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies, that the United States itself could pose a threat
to open society? Yet that is what is happening, both internally and internationally.”199

In a September 29, 2003 interview with BBC radio, Soros said it was imperative that
there be “a regime change in the United States”—meaning that President Bush must be
“voted out of power.”200 In November, Soros said that because “America, under Bush,
is a danger to the world,” the outcome of the forthcoming year's presidential race had
become “the central focus of my life.” “And I’m willing to put my money where my
mouth is,” Soros added, declaring that he would willingly trade his entire multi-billion-
dollar fortune if doing so could be “guaranteed” to unseat Bush.201 To his litany of
grievances against the President, Soros now added the infamous Florida recount debacle
of 2000 and called into question the very legitimacy of Bush's election victory.
“President Bush came to office without a clear mandate,” said Soros. “He was elected
president by a single vote on the Supreme Court.”202

The types of changes America needed were crystal clear to Soros. Above all else, he
wished to steer the country, politically and ideologically, in a direction that was
consistent with the agendas of the groups that he had been funding for a decade through
his Open Society Institute. Those agendas could essentially be distilled down to three
overriding themes: the diminution of American power, the subjugation of American
sovereignty in favor of global governance, and the implementation of redistributive
economic policies—both within the U.S. and across national borders. Toward these
ends, Soros saw “the forthcoming elections” as “an excellent opportunity to deflate the
bubble of American supremacy.”203 He would employ his wealth and his ideological
fervor to capitalize on this opportunity, knowing that the best time to implement radical
change is during times of upheaval and crisis—i.e., times like the aftermath of 9/11.
“Usually it takes a crisis to prompt a meaningful change in direction,” Soros himself
had written in his 2000 book Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism.204

SOROS'S PREVIOUS POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS AROUND THE WORLD

By no means was this the first time that Soros had aimed to engineer the fall of a
government which he deemed oppressive. On several previous occasions, he had used
his extraordinary wealth to bankroll popular movements seeking to undermine
communist and authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Specifically,
Soros had funded the training, organization and mobilization of many millions of
demonstrators who took part in a series of bloodless political revolutions—commonly
known as “velvet revolutions” or “color revolutions”205—that ultimately brought down
governments in those regions. Typically, these mobilizations consisted of massive street
rallies (sometimes with hundreds of thousands of participants) and carefully coordinated
acts of civil disobedience such as sit-ins and general strikes. In several instances, such
Soros-funded protesters challenged the results of popular elections and accused
incumbent leaders of election fraud—charges which were then echoed by Soros-funded
exit pollsters and Soros-funded media outlets, thereby greatly amplifying the effect of
the accusations. A brief survey of Soros's most noteworthy foreign interventions will be
useful at this point.

Soros helped bankroll “Charter 77,” a 1976 document demanding that the Czech
government recognize some basic human rights—most notably the freedom to express
religious beliefs or political opinions without fear of retributive discrimination—that
were already guaranteed by the nation's constitution. This Charter and the political
movement that grew from it ultimately culminated in the velvet revolution that brought
down Czechoslovakia's Communist regime in late 1989.206

Soros funding played a critical role in promoting other upheavals in the former Soviet
bloc as well. “My foundations,” boasts Soros, “contributed to Democratic regime
change in Slovakia in 1998, Croatia in 1999, and Yugoslavia in 2000, mobilizing civil
society to get rid of Vladimir Meciar, Franjo Tudjman, and Slobodan Milosevic,
respectively.”207

Meciar, for his part, was a hardline nationalist whose authoritarian government—
characterized by demagoguery, corruption, and hostility toward the Hungarian
minority—brought instability and isolation to Slovakia in the mid-1990s.208 Croatian
president Tudjman was likewise an autocrat infamous for his brutality, extreme
nationalism, indifference to civil rights, and manipulation of electoral processes.209 And
Milosevic, who served as president of Serbia and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, was an
infamous architect of military aggression, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.210 British
journalist Neil Clark reports that from 1991 to 2000, Soros and his Open Society
Institute methodically laid the groundwork for the movement that ultimately led to
Milosevic's resignation, “channel[ing] more than $100m to the coffers of the anti-
Milosevic opposition, funding political parties, publishing houses and ‘independent’
media...”211 In a 1996 speech, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman offered a profound
insight into how Soros typically injected his influence into the political workings of a
given nation by patiently and systematically infiltrating strategic organizations and
governmental agencies:

“[Soros and his allies] have spread their tentacles throughout the whole of our society.
Soros … had approval to … gather and distribute humanitarian aid.… However, we …
allowed them to do almost whatever they wanted.… They have involved in their
network … people of all ages and classes … trying to win them over by financial aid.…
[Their aim is] control of all spheres of life … setting up a state within a state.…”212

Soros also funded Soviet Georgia's “Rose Revolution,”213 a popular movement that
forced Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze to resign in November 2003.214
According to Canada's Globe and Mail, in February of that year Soros “began laying the
brick work for the toppling” of Shevardnadze. “That month, funds from his Open
Society Institute sent a … [Georgian] activist … to Serbia to meet with members of the
[resistance] movement and learn how they used street demonstrations to topple dictator
Slobodan Milosevic.”215 That summer, Soros brought some of those Serbian activists to
Georgia to train student activists there. Meanwhile, a Soros-funded television station
aired weekly broadcasts of the documentary Bringing Down a Dictator, which
presented a step-by-step account of the overthrow of Milosevic and played a crucial role
in training Georgian insurgents.216 In the autumn months, Soros spent some $42 million
preparing the overthrow movement to mobilize. Then, in mid-November, large-scale
anti-government demonstrations spread like wildfire in most of Georgia's major cities.
Shevardnadze, able to read the proverbial writing on the wall, resigned within a matter
of days.217 Soros later told the Los Angeles Times, “I'm delighted by what happened in
Georgia, and I take great pride in having contributed to it.”218 In November 2003, the
editor of an English-language daily based in Georgia said, “It's generally accepted
public opinion here that Mr. Soros is the person who planned Shevardnadze's
overthrow.”219 Notably, some people who worked for Soros' organizations—including
two of the Open Society Georgia Foundation's former executive directors—later
assumed influential positions in the new Georgian government.220

Soros thereafter would go on to fund the “Orange Revolution,” a series of protests and
political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005,
ultimately forcing Moscow's favored candidate, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, to
lose a controversial and hotly contested presidential election.221 Also in early 2005,
Soros helped finance the “Tulip Revolution”—a massive protest movement that led to
the overthrow of President Askar Akayev and his government in the Central Asian
republic of Kyrgyzstan.222

NEW TARGET FOR "REGIME CHANGE": AMERICA

But right now, in 2003-04, Soros's primary focus was on the United States, whose
government he considered to be at least as dangerous and oppressive as those of the
aforementioned communist and authoritarian regimes. “I believe deeply in the values of
an open society,” Soros said. “For the past 15 years I have focused my energies on
fighting for these values abroad. Now I am doing it in the United States.”223 Asserting
that he could “do a lot more about the issues I care about by changing the government
than by pushing the issues,”224 Soros set out to “puncture the bubble of American
supremacy.”225 To accomplish this, he would create a political apparatus of
extraordinary influence.

Soros had quietly laid the groundwork for this apparatus during the preceding eight
years. Between 1994 and 2002, the billionaire had spent millions of dollars promoting
the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act—better known as the McCain-
Feingold Act 226—which was signed into law in November 2002 by President Bush.
Soros began working on this issue shortly after the 1994 midterm elections, when for
the first time in nearly half a century, Republicans won strong majorities in both houses
of Congress. Political analysts at the time attributed the huge Republican gains in large
part to the effectiveness of television advertising—most notably the “Harry and Louise”
series (which cost $14 million to produce and air) where a fictional suburban couple
exposed the many hidden, and distasteful, details of Hillary Clinton's proposals for a
more socialized national health-care system. Indeed the 1994 election became, to a
considerable degree, a referendum on this attempted government takeover of one-sixth
of the U.S. economy—and on the Democratic President who had tacitly endorsed it.
George Soros was angry that such advertisements were capable of overriding the
influence of the major print and broadcast news media, which, because they were
overwhelmingly sympathetic to Democrat agendas, had given Hillary's plan a great deal
of free, positive publicity for months. Three weeks after the 1994 elections, Soros
announced that he intended to “do something” about “the distortion of our electoral
process by the excessive use of TV advertising.”227 That “something” would be
campaign-finance reform.

Starting in 1994, Soros's Open Society Institute and a few other leftist foundations
began bankrolling front groups and so-called “experts” whose aim was to persuade
Congress to swallow the fiction that millions of Americans were clamoring for
“campaign-finance reform.” This deceptive strategy was the brainchild of Sean Treglia,
a former program officer with the Pew Charitable Trusts.228 Between 1994 and 2004,
some $140 million of foundation cash was used to promote campaign-finance reform.
Nearly 90 percent of this amount derived from just eight foundations, one of which was
the Open Society Institute, which contributed $12.6 million to the cause.229 Among the
major recipients of these OSI funds were such pro-reform organizations as the Alliance
For Better Campaigns ($650,000); the Brennan Center for Justice (more than $3.3
million); the Center For Public Integrity ($1.7 million); the Center For Responsive
Politics ($75,000); Common Cause ($625,000); Democracy 21 ($300,000); Public
Campaign ($1.3 million); and Public Citizen ($275,000).230

The "research" which these groups produced in order to make a case on behalf of
campaign-finance reform was largely bogus and contrived. For instance, Brennan
Center political scientist Jonathan Krasno had clearly admitted in his February 19, 1999
grant proposal to the Pew Charitable Trusts that the purpose of the proposed study was
political, not scholarly, and that the project would be axed if it failed to yield the desired
results:

"The purpose of our acquiring the data set is not simply to advance knowledge for its
own sake, but to fuel a continuous multi-faceted campaign to propel campaign reform
forward. Whether we proceed to phase two will depend on the judgment of whether the
data provide a sufficiently powerful boost to the reform movement."
The stated purpose of McCain-Feingold was to purge politics of corruption by: (a)
putting restrictions on paid advertising during the weeks just prior to political elections,
and (b) tightly regulating the amount of money that political parties and candidates
could accept from donors. Vis à vis the former of those two provisions, the new
legislation barred private organizations—including unions, corporations, and citizen
activist groups—from advertising for or against any candidate for federal office on
television or radio during the 60 days preceding an election, and during the 30 days
preceding a primary. During these blackout periods, only official political parties would
be permitted to engage in “express advocacy” advertising—i.e., political ads that
expressly urged voters to “vote for” or “vote against” a specified candidate. Equally
important, major media networks were exempted from McCain-Feingold's constraints;
thus they were free to speak about candidates in any manner they wished during their
regular programming and news broadcasts. This would inevitably be a positive
development for Democrats, who enjoyed the near-universal support of America's
leading media outlets.231

In addition to its limits on pre-election political advertising, McCain-Feingold also

placed onerous new restrictions on the types of donations which candidates, parties, and
political action committees (PACs) could now accept. Previously, they had been
permitted to take two types of contributions. One of these was “hard money,” which
referred to funds earmarked for the purpose of express advocacy. Federal Election
Commission (FEC) regulations stipulated that in a single calendar year, no hard-money
donor could give more than $1,000 to any particular candidate, no more than $5,000 to
a PAC, and no more than $20,000 to any political party.232

The other category of pre-McCain-Feingold donations was “soft-money,” which donors

were permitted to give directly to a political party in amounts unlimited by law. But to
qualify for designation as “soft money,” a donation could not be used to fund “express
advocacy” ads on behalf of any particular candidate. Rather, it had to be used to pay for
such things as “voter-education” ads or “issue-oriented” ads—political messages that
carefully refrained from making explicit calls to “vote for” or “vote against” any
specific candidate. So long as an ad steered clear of uttering such forbidden instructions,
there was no limit as to how much soft money could be spent on its production and
dissemination.

McCain-Feingold raised the per-donor maximum for certain hard-money donations: A

donor could now give up to $2,000 to a candidate, $5,000 to a PAC, and $25,000 to a
political party.233 But the new law banned soft-money contributions to political parties
altogether.

Historically, Republicans had enjoyed a 2-1 advantage over Democrats in raising hard
money from individual donors. Democrats had relied much more heavily on soft money
from large institutions such as labor unions.234 Thus it seems counter-intuitive that
Soros, who clearly favored Democrats over Republicans, would seek to push legislation
whose net effect—the removal of soft money—would be unfavorable to Democratic
Party fundraising efforts.

But Soros's motive becomes clear when we look at the types of organizations whose
fundraising activities were left unaffected by McCain-Feingold. These were “527
committees”—nonprofits named after Section 527 of the IRS code—which, unlike
ordinary PACS, were not required to register with the FEC. Run mostly by special-
interest groups, these 527s were technically supposed to be independent of, and
unaffiliated with, any party or candidate. As such, they were permitted to raise soft
money—in amounts unbound by any legal limits—for all manner of political activities
other than express advocacy. That is, so long as a 527's soft money was not being used
to pay for ads explicitly urging people to cast their ballots either for or against any
particular candidate, the letter of the McCain-Feingold law technically was being
followed. Practically speaking, of course, such things as “issue-oriented ads” and
“voter-education” ads can easily be tailored to favor one party or candidate over
another, while carefully steering clear of “express advocacy.”

Once McCain-Feingold was in place, Soros and his political allies collaborated to set up
a network of “527 committees” ready to receive the soft money that individual donors
and big labor unions normally would have given directly to the Democratic Party. These
527s could then use that money to fund issue-oriented ads, voter-education initiatives,
get-out-the-vote drives, and other “party-building” activities—not only to help elect
Democratic candidates in 2004, but more broadly to guide the Democratic Party ever-
further leftward and to reject the “closed” society that Bush and the Republicans
presumably favored. By helping to push McCain-Feingold through Congress, Soros had
effectively cut off the Democrats' soft-money supply and diverted it to the coffers of an
alternative network of beneficiaries—which he personally controlled.235 As Byron York
observed, “[T]he new campaign finance rules had actually increased the influence of big
money in politics. By giving directly to 'independent' groups rather than to the party
itself, big-ticket donors could influence campaign strategy and tactics more directly than
they ever had previously.... And the power was concentrated in very few hands”—most
notably Soros's.236

SOROS'S "SHADOW PARTY" TAKES SHAPE

While Soros's 527s were clearly devoted to Democratic Party agendas and values, they
publicly professed to be independent of any party affiliations. Their partisanship was
somewhat shrouded in proverbial shadows. Gradually, a number of journalists began to
make reference to the emergence of certain pro-Democrat “shadow organizations” that
seemed geared toward circumventing McCain-Feingold's soft-money ban. In time, the
term “Shadow Party” came into use.237

George Soros set in motion the wheels of this Shadow Party when he gathered a team of
political strategists, activists, and Democrat donors at his Long Island beach house on
July 17, 2003, to discuss how President Bush could be defeated in the 2004 election.
Attendees included such luminaries as OSI director Morton Halperin; EMILY's List
founder and abortion-rights activist Ellen Malcolm; former Clinton chief of staff John
Podesta; Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope; labor leader and former Clinton
advisor Steve Rosenthal; former Clinton speechwriters Jeremy Rosner and Robert
Boorstin; and major Democrat donors such as Lewis and Dorothy Cullman, Robert
Glaser, Peter Lewis, and Robert McKay.238

The consensus was that voter turnout—particularly in 17 “swing” or “battleground”

states239—would be the key to unseating President Bush. Steve Rosenthal and Ellen
Malcolm—CEO and president, respectively, of a newly formed but poorly funded
voter-registration group called America Coming Together (ACT)240—suggested that
voters in those swing states should be recruited and mobilized as soon as possible.
Agreeing, Soros told the pair that he personally would give ACT $10 million to help
maximize its effectiveness. A few other attendees also pledged to give the fledgling
group large sums of money: Soros's billionaire friend Peter Lewis, chairman of the
Progressive Corporation, promised to give $10 million; Robert Glaser, founder and
CEO of RealNetworks, promised $2 million; Rob McKay, president of the McKay
Family Foundation, committed $1 million; and benefactors Lewis and Dorothy Cullman
pledged $500,000.241

By early 2004, the administrative core of George Soros's Shadow Party was in place. It
consisted of seven ostensibly “independent” nonprofit groups—all but one of which
were headquartered in Washington, DC. In a number of cases, these groups shared one
another's finances, directors, and corporate officers; occasionally they even shared
office space.242 The seven groups were:

1) America Coming Together (ACT): Jump-started by Soros's $10 million grant, ACT in
2004 ran what it called “the largest voter-contact program in history,” with more than
1,400 full-time paid canvassers contacting potential voters door-to-door and by
phone.243

2) Center For American Progress (CAP): This entity was established to serve as a think
tank promoting leftist ideas and policy initiatives. Soros, enthusiastic about the Center's
potential, pledged in July 2003 to donate up to $3 million to help get the project off the
ground.244 From the outset, CAP's leadership featured a host of former high-ranking
officials from the Clinton administration.245 Hillary Clinton predicted that the
organization would provide “some new intellectual capital” with which to “build the
21st-century policies that reflect the Democrat Party's values.”246 George Soros and
Morton Halperin together selected former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta to serve as
president of CAP. Podesta said his goal was to develop CAP as a “think tank on
steroids,” featuring “a message-oriented war room” that “will send out a daily briefing
to refute the positions and arguments of the right.”247

3) America Votes: This national coalition coordinated the efforts of many get-out-the-
vote organizations and their thousands of contributing activists.248 Soros's support for
America Votes would continue well past 2004. Indeed he would donate $2.15 million to
this coalition in the 2006 election cycle,249 another $1.25 million in advance of the 2008
elections,250 and yet another $1.25 million in 2010.251

4) Media Fund: Describing itself as “the largest media-buying organization supporting a

progressive message” in the United States, this group produced and strategically placed
political ads in the print, broadcast, and electronic media.252

5) Joint Victory Campaign 2004 (JVC): This fundraising entity focused on collecting
contributions and then disbursing them chiefly to America Coming Together and the
Media Fund. In 2004 alone, JVC channeled $19.4 million to the former, and $38.4
million to the latter.253 Soros personally gave JVC more than $12 million that year.254

6) Thunder Road Group (TRG): This political consultancy coordinated strategy for the
Media Fund, America Coming Together, and America Votes. Its duties included
strategic planning, polling, opposition research, covert operations, and public
relations.255

7) MoveOn.org: This California-based entity was the only one of the Shadow Party's
core groups that was not a new startup operation. Launched in September 1998,
MoveOn is a Web-based political network that organizes online activists around
specific issues, raises money for Democratic candidates, generates political ads, and is
very effective at recruiting young people to support Democrats.256 In November 2003,
Soros pledged to give MoveOn $5 million to help its cause.257

According to Ellen Malcolm of America Coming Together (ACT), the financial

commitment which Soros made to these Shadow Party groups in 2003 “was a signal to
potential donors that he had looked at what was going on and that this was pretty
exciting, and that he was going to stand behind it, and it was the real deal.”258 As Byron
York observed, “After Soros signed on, contributions started pouring in.” ACT and the
Media Fund alone took in some $200 million—including $20 million from Soros alone.
This type of money was unprecedented in American politics.259

Harold Ickes, who served as White House deputy chief of staff in the Clinton White
House, had a hand in creating every Shadow Party core group except MoveOn. He was
also entrusted with the vital task of making these organizations function as a cohesive
entity. In 2004, Democratic strategist Harold Wolfson suggested that outside of the
official campaign of presidential candidate John Kerry, Ickes “is the most important
person in the Democratic Party today.”260

In addition to its seven core members, the Shadow Party also came to include at least
another 30 well-established leftwing activist groups and labor unions that participated in
the America Votes coalition. Among the better-known of these were ACORN; the AFL-
CIO; the AFSCME; the American Federation of Teachers; the Association of Trial
Lawyers of America; the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund; EMILY's List; the Human
Rights Campaign; the League of Conservation Voters; the NAACP; NARAL Pro-
Choice America; the National Education Association; People for the American Way;
Planned Parenthood; the Service Employees International Union; and the Sierra Club.261

New Mexico's then-governor, Democrat Bill Richardson, observed that “these groups”
were “crucial” to the anti-Bush effort. “Now that campaign-finance reform is law,” he
said, “organizations like these have become the replacement for the national Democratic
Party.”262 And no donor was more heavily invested in these organizations—or in
defeating President Bush—than George Soros, who contributed $27,080,105 to pro-
Democrat 527s during the 2004 election cycle. The second leading donor was the
billionaire insurance entrepreneur Peter Lewis ($23,997,220), followed by Hollywood
producer Stephen Bing ($13,952,682) and Golden West Financial Corporation founders
Herbert and Marion Sandler ($13,007,959).263

FAILURE AND RESILIENCY: BIRTH OF THE DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE

When President Bush won re-election in 2004, George Soros was devastated; his
massive financial investments and herculean organizing efforts had all gone for naught.
Adding insult to injury, the hated Republicans had retained control of both houses of
Congress. As Soros contemplated what course of action he ought to pursue next, the
answer came to him—somewhat unexpectedly—in the form of Democrat political
operative Rob Stein, former chief of staff to Commerce Secretary Ron Brown during
the Clinton administration. For the preceding two years, Stein had been busy devising a
strategy by which Democrats might reclaim supremacy in the executive and legislative
branches of government. He began working on this strategy shortly after the
Republicans had gained eight House seats and two Senate seats in the 2002 midterm
elections. Lamenting that he was “living in a one-party [Republican] country,”264 Stein
at that point resolved to study the conservative movement and determine why it was
winning the political battle. After a year of analysis, he concluded that a few influential,
wealthy family foundations—most notably Scaife, Bradley, Olin, and Coors—had
spearheaded the creation of a $300 million network of politically influential
organizations. Stein featured these facts in a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation—
titled “The Conservative Message Machine Money Matrix”—which mapped out, in
painstaking detail, the conservative movement's networking strategies and funding
sources.265

Next, Stein set out to show his presentation—mostly in private meetings—to political
leaders, activists, and prospective big-money donors of the left. He hoped to inspire
them to join his crusade to build a new organization—a financial clearinghouse to be
called the Democracy Alliance (DA)—dedicated to offsetting the efforts of conservative
funders and injecting new life into the progressive movement. At each presentation,
Stein asked the viewer to pledge that he or she would keep confidential the substance of
the proceedings, so as to give the project a chance to coalesce and gain some
momentum without excessive public scrutiny.266

Stein officially filed DA's corporate registration in the District of Columbia in January
2005.267 By that point, he had shown his PowerPoint presentation to several hundred
people.268 Stein recalls that during those sessions, he consistently observed “an
unbelievable frustration” by big Democrat donors who felt hopelessly unconnected to
one another even as they longed to be part of a strategic coalition that could work
collaboratively and cohesively.269 This was particularly true of George Soros, thus it
was most significant that Soros quickly and enthusiastically embraced Stein's concept.
In April 2005, Soros brought together 70 likeminded, carefully vetted, fellow
millionaires and billionaires in Phoenix, Arizona, to discuss Stein's ideas and
expeditiously implement a plan of action.270 Most of those in attendance agreed that the
conservative movement represented “a fundamental threat to the American way of
life.”271 And, like Soros, a considerable number of them looked favorably on Stein's
analysis and concept. Thus was born the Democracy Alliance.

DA members, called “partners,” include individuals and organizations alike. Partnership

in the Alliance is by invitation-only.272 These partners pay an initial $25,000 fee, and
$30,000 in yearly dues thereafter. They also must give at least $200,000 annually to
groups which the Alliance endorses. Donors metaphorically “pour” these requisite
donations into one or more of what Rob Stein refers to as DA's “four buckets” of
fundraising: ideas, media, leadership training, and civic engagement. The money is then
apportioned to approved left-wing groups from each respective category.273

The Democracy Alliance is known to consist of at least 100 donor-partners but

historically has been quite secretive regarding their identities. Nevertheless, the Capital
Research Center has managed to compile the names of some of the more significant
current and former DA partners (in addition to George Soros and Rob Stein).274 A large
percentage of them have significant ties to Soros that extend well beyond their shared
membership in the Democracy Alliance. Among these partners are the following:

 AFL-CIO: This institutional DA partner is the largest labor federation in

America and was a member of Soros's Shadow Party in 2004.
 Bauman Foundation co-director Patricia Bauman serves as a board member of
the Soros-funded Natural Resources Defense Council.
 Property-development CEO Albert Dwoskin is the chairman of Catalist, a Soros-
funded political consultancy.275
 Manhattan-based child psychologist Gail Furman belongs to the Council on
Foreign Relations and is a board member of Human Rights First and the
Brennan Center for Justice—all organizations that receive funding from George
Soros and OSI.276
 Software entrepreneur Tim Gill is a major funder of gay-rights groups such as
the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, which is also supported by
Soros.277
 Technology entrepreneur Davidi Gilo has given at least $17,600 to J Street, an
organization that is consistently critical of Israel and has close ties to Soros.278
 Media-software mogul Rob Glaser was an early backer of the Soros-funded
America Coming Together.279
 “Racial justice organizer” Connie Cagampang Heller works closely with the
Soros-funded Tides Foundation.280
 Hyatt Hotel luminary Rachel Pritzker Hunter has served as treasurer of the
Soros-funded Media Matters For America.281
 Economist and former banking executive Rob Johnson once served as a
portfolio manager for George Soros’s Quantum Fund.282
 Michael Kieschnick founded Working Assets, a long-distance telephone/credit
card company that donates a percentage of its profits to leftist groups and
causes.283 He is also a board member of the Soros-funded evangelical group
Sojourners.284
 Longtime technology executive John Luongo is a former board member of
Planned Parenthood and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington—
both Soros-funded enterprises.285
 Atlantic Philanthropies president and CEO Gara LaMarche was formerly vice
president of Soros's Open Society Institute. He also served a stint as associate
director of Human Rights Watch and held a variety of positions with the
ACLU—both organizations that are heavily funded by Soros.286
 Television producer Norman Lear created the Soros-backed group, People for
the American Way.
 Progressive Insurance Company chairman Peter Lewis has many close ties to
Soros and was a major funder of the Shadow Party during the 2004 election
cycle.287
 Taco Bell heir Robert McKay has been a founding board member of America
Coming Together, a board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and a
director of the Fund for America288—all of which are beneficiaries of Soros
money.
 Tides Foundation founder and longtime CEO Drummond Pike has close ties to
Soros, who is a major funder of Tides.
  Democrat activist Simon Rosenberg founded the New Policy Institute, a project
of the Tides Foundation. He also sits on the board of the Soros-funded
publication Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. And in 1996 he created the New
Democrat Network, a Soros-financed organization committed to pushing the
Democratic Party further leftward.289
 Golden West Financial Corporation founders Herb and Marion Sandler are
philanthropic allies of George Soros and were heavy funders of Shadow Party
organizations in 2004—giving some $13 million to anti-Bush “527
committees.”290
 Trial lawyer Guy Saperstein formerly served as president of the Soros-funded
Sierra Club.291
 Service Employees International Union: The longtime former president of this
union, Andrew Stern, sat on the executive committee of the Soros-funded
America Coming Together.292
 George Soros's son Jonathan is president and co-deputy chairman of Soros Fund
Management.
 DA board member Michael Vachon is the director of communications at Soros
Fund Management and the overseer of Soros’s political contributions.293

No grants were pledged at the Democracy Alliance's April 2005 gathering in Phoenix,
but at an Atlanta meeting three months later, DA partners pledged $39 million—about a
third of which came directly from George Soros and Peter Lewis.294 Because the
Alliance has largely refrained from providing information about its giving, only a small
percentage of its donees are known to the public.295 Thus it is impossible to determine
precisely how much money DA has disbursed since its inception. Most estimates,
though, place the figure at more than $100 million.296 One source—Alliance member
Simon Rosenberg—claimed in August 2008 that DA had already “channeled hundreds
of millions of dollars into progressive organizations.”297 Below are the names of a
number of DA's known donees 298—and in certain cases the sums they have received
from the Alliance. Again, the Capital Research Center was instrumental in identifying
these donees, many of whom have financial and ideological ties to Soros and the Open
Society Institute that long predate their connections to the Democracy Alliance.299

 ACORN: DA founder Rob Stein has called this pro-socialist, notoriously corrupt
“community organization” a “tough-minded” and “very responsible” group.300
 Air America Radio: When this left-leaning radio station was on the verge of
bankruptcy in early 2006, it received a funding commitment of $8 million from
DA.301
 America Votes: This voter-mobilization coalition has received at least $6 million
in DA-approved funding commitments from George Soros.
 Center for American Progress: By January 2008, DA grants to this leftist think
tank totaled at least $9 million—most of which came from George Soros, Peter
Lewis, and the Sandlers.
 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: This Soros-funded group
brings ethics charges against (mostly conservative) “government officials who
… betray the public trust.”302
 Election Administration Fund: Housed at the Tides Foundation in San Francisco,
this entity has received at least $2.5 million in DA money for its voter-
registration and get-out-the-vote efforts—plus some $1 million from Soros's
Open Society Institute.
  EMILY’s List: This group raises money for Democratic, pro-choice, female
candidates.303
 Media Matters For America: By January 2008, DA-approve grants to Media
Matters totaled at least $7 million.
 Mi Familia Vota: This group seeks to naturalize new citizens and register them
to vote.304
 New Organizing Fund: This group, which “train[s] prospective progressive
campaign workers in online campaign and organizing techniques,” has accepted
donations directly from DA members George Soros and Deborah Rappaport.305
 Progressive Majority: Working to help “promising progressive candidates” get
elected to state and political offices, this group has received at least $5 million in
DA grants.306
 United States Student Association: This group is “dedicated to training,
organizing, and developing a base of student leaders” who will become “social
justice” activists.307
 USAction: This group favors increased government spending on social-welfare
programs and public education.308

Additional DA grant recipients include such previously cited Soros donees as Catalist,
the Center for Community Change, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, the New
Democrat Network, People for the American Way, and the Progressive States
Network.309

Since approximately 2006, Democracy Alliance members and staff have been working
to establish subchapters of their organization in all 50 states. Their most successful
effort to date has been in Colorado, where the local DA has funded such varied
enterprises as liberal think tanks, media “watchdog” groups, ethics groups that bring
forth so-called public-interest litigation, voter-mobilization groups, media outlets that
attack conservatives, and liberal leadership-training centers. The results have been
striking: Whereas in 1998 Colorado had a Republican governor, two Republican U.S.
senators, and four Republican House members (out of six), by 2009 the state had a
Democratic governor, two Democratic U.S. Senators, and five Democratic House
members (out of seven).310

RADICALIZING AMERICA, ONE STATE AT A TIME: “PLAN” AND THE

SECRETARY OF STATE PROJECT

In August 2005, when the Democracy Alliance was just getting off the ground, George
Soros's Open Society Institute helped establish yet another new organization—the
Progressive Legislative Action Network, or PLAN. Furnishing state legislatures with
prewritten “model” legislation reflecting leftist agendas, this group was part and parcel
of Soros's methodical campaign to shift American politics and public attitudes toward
the left—by gaining a foothold inside the corridors of power on a state-by-state basis.311

Then, in July 2006, Democracy Alliance partner Michael Kieschnick collaborated with
Becky Bond (who also had affiliations with the New Organizing Institute and Working
Assets) and James Rucker (who co-founded Color of Change and formerly served as
director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org
Civic Action) to launch a major new initiative called the Secretary of State Project
(SoSP). This “527 committee” was devoted to helping Democrats win secretary-of-state
elections in crucial “swing” states—i.e., states where the margin of victory in the 2004
presidential election had been 120,000 votes or less.312 One of the principal duties of the
secretary of state is to serve as the chief election officer who certifies candidates as well
as election results in his or her state.313 The holder of this office, then, can potentially
play a key role in determining the winner of a close election. Numerous Democracy
Alliance partners became funders of SoSP. Soros was one of them. In 2008, for
instance, he personally gave $10,000 to the Project.314

SOROS HELPS CREATE TWO NEW PRO-DEMOCRAT GROUPS

Just two months after the Democratic Party had won control of both houses of Congress
in the November 2006 elections, George Soros and then-SEIU president Andrew Stern
created Working For Us (WFU), a pro-Democrat PAC. This group does not, however,
look favorably upon Democratic centrists. Rather, it aims “to elect lawmakers who
support a progressive political agenda.” Originally proposed by Stern as a way to
prevent moderate Democrats from gaining too much influence over the party, WFU
publishes the names of what it calls the “Top Offenders” among
congressional Democrats who fail to support such leftist priorities as “living wage”
legislation, the proliferation of public-sector labor unions, and the provision of
government-funded healthcare for all Americans. Targeting congressional Democrats
whose “voting records are more conservative than their districts,” WFU warns that “no
bad vote will be overlooked or unpunished.”315

In an effort to promote large-scale income redistribution by means of tax hikes for

higher earners, WFU advocates policies that would narrow the economic gulf between
the rich and poor. The group's executive director is Steven Rosenthal, a longtime
Democrat operative with close ties to the Clinton administration and a co-founder of
Soros's America Coming Together. According to Rosenthal, WFU “will encourage
Democrats to act like Democrats—and if they don't—they better get out of the way.”316

In November 2007, Soros joined fellow Democracy Alliance members Anna

Burger and Rob McKay, as well as John Podesta of the Center for American Progress,
to help form the Fund for America (FFA), a “527 committee” designed to work on what
Roll Call characterized as “media buys and voter outreach in the run-up to the 2008
elections.” The leading early donors to FFA were Soros ($3.5 million), the SEIU ($2.5
million), Hollywood producer Stephen Bing ($2.5 million), and hedge fund executive
Donald Sussman ($1 million). But when FFA failed to meet its overall fundraising goals
by early 2008, DA donors cut off their contributions and the group was disbanded in
June. Among the organizations it had bankrolled before shutting its doors were America
Votes, Americans United for Change, ACORN, and the Center for American Progress
Action Fund.317

Meanwhile, Soros's regard for President Bush remained as low as ever. “Indeed,” wrote
Soros in 2006, “the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques
used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines by drawing on the innovations
of the advertising and marketing industries.”318 Soros would elaborate on this theme at
the January 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he
told reporters: “America needs to ... go through a certain de-Nazification process.”319

SOROS AND OBAMA: QUIET PARTNERSHIP AND SHARED AGENDAS

While George Soros was busy bankrolling his battalion of established activist groups
and launching a few new ones of his own, he quite naturally looked toward the
upcoming presidential election of 2008 with great anticipation, eagerly awaiting the day
when George W. Bush would finally leave office. The question was, who would replace
him? In recent years, all indications had been that Soros favored Hillary Clinton above
most, if not all, other potential Democratic candidates for President. But now there was
a new face on the scene—a young, charismatic U.S. senator from Illinois named Barack
Obama—who seemed not only to share virtually all of Soros's values and agendas, but
also appeared to be a highly skilled politician who stood a good chance of getting
elected to the nation's highest office.

In December of 2006, Soros, who had previously hosted a fundraiser for Obama
during the latter's 2004 Senate campaign, met with Obama in Soros's New York office.
Just a few weeks later—on January 16, 2007—Obama announced that he would form a
presidential exploratory committee and was contemplating a run for the White House.
Within hours, Soros sent the senator a contribution of $2,100, the maximum amount
allowable under campaign-finance laws. Later that week, the New York Daily News
reported that Soros would support Obama rather than Hillary Clinton for the
Democratic Party's presidential nomination, though Soros pledged to back the New
York senator were she to emerge as the nominee.320 But it was clear that Soros
considered Obama to be the more electable candidate of the two. Most importantly,
Obama's economic and political prescriptions for America were wholly accordant with
those of Soros.

For an in-depth look at the shared agendas of Soros and Obama, click here.

SOROS PURSUES A NEW 'ECONOMIC PARADIGM"

In January 2009, Anatole Kaletsky—a Times of London economics writer who opposed
the “noninterventionist model of capitalism” and favored deficit spending and “stimulus
packages” as bulwarks against economic depression—discussed with George Soros “the
unique opportunity to reshape economics in the wake of the financial crisis.” Eight
months later, Soros assembled 25 economists, financiers, and journalists in Bedford,
New York to brainstorm the idea. This “Bedford Summit” resulted in a “unanimous
agreement that our economic paradigm must change,” and a “recognition of the
importance of empowering the young generation of economists to rethink” the field of
economics. Toward that end, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) was
created as a nonprofit foundation in October 2009; its initial funding came from a $50
million pledge by Soros's Open Society Institute.

SOROS AND THE ARAB SPRING

The so-called “Arab Spring,” which began in late 2010, was a momentous series of
popular uprisings that swept—in rapid succession and with varying degrees of intensity
and effect—through a host of countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Algeria,
Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia,
and Yemen. By February 2011, Tunisian president Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali had
stepped down after 22 years in power, and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarek had
abdicated after 30 years. For the most part, the Western media—and the American left
in particular—promoted the notion that the events in the Arab world were organic
eruptions of rebellion launched spontaneously by oppressed populations who would no
longer tolerate political tyranny and economic deprivation, and who longed to quench
their own thirst for freedom and democracy.

Over time, it would become apparent that however strong the popular support for the
Arab uprisings may have been, the hidden hand of an Islamist movement was also at
work in fomenting and sustaining the revolts. This reality was driven home dramatically
in the political events that took place where regimes had fallen. In post-Mubarak Egypt,
this meant the rising influence of the Muslim Brotherhood—the ideological forebear of
both al Qaeda and Hamas, and the spearhead of a movement aiming to establish a
worldwide Islamic caliphate (or kingdom) ruled by strict Islamic Law (Sharia). And in
Tunisia, the first free elections following the longstanding regime of President Zine al-
Abedine Ben Ali resulted in the triumph of the al-Nahda party, an Islamist movement
which had opposed, sometimes violently, the existing regime. In short, the Arab Spring
evolved into a Muslim Winter.

Notwithstanding these developments, Soros in late 2011 said: "A lot of positive things
are happening. I see Africa together with the Arab Spring as areas of progress. The Arab
Spring was a revolutionary development."

SOROS AND OCCUPY WALL STREET

In the fall of 2011, Soros denied any connection to the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall
Street (OWS) movement which was then in high gear, though he said: “I can understand
their sentiment.” An October 2011 Reuters report noted that from 2007-09, Soros’ Open
Society Institute had given grants totaling $3.5 million to the Tides Center, which in
turn gave more than $309,000 to the Adbusters Media Foundation -- a key organizer of
OWS -- between 2001 and 2011. Aides to Soros, however, claimed that the billionaire
had never before heard of Adbusters.

SOROS SEEKS TO UNSEAT REP. ALLEN WEST (FLORIDA)

In July 2012, it was reported that Soros was among a group of donors who had already
pledged their financial support for "Dump West," a Democratic Super-PAC that planned
to raise at least $5 million for the purpose of defeating conservative black Republican
Allen West's bid for reelection to the House of Representatives. A key player in"Dump
West" was national Democratic operative Charles Halloran, a former aide to President
Bill Clinton. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asked lobbyist Larry Smith (a former
U.S. congressman) to help line up initial funding for the Super-PAC.

SOROS GIVES MONEY TO HELP NAACP FIGHT VOTER ID LAWS

In March 2013, Soros pledged to give, through his Open Society Foundations, $1
million to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This was the largest grant
that organization had received from a named donor in recent decades. The purpose of
the grant was to help the NAACP fight challenges to the Voting Rights Act and oppose
the implementation of Voter ID laws. In a statement, Soros said: “We need bold and
courageous civil rights strategies if we are to achieve racial equality in this country.”

SUPPORTING HILLARY CLINTON

In October 2013, Soros signed on to co-chair the national finance council of Ready For
Hillary, a political action committee established nine months earlier to lead a
nationwide grassroots movement encouraging Hillary Clinton to run for U.S. President
in 2016. “George Soros is delighted to join more than one million Americans in
supporting Ready For Hillary,” said Soros’s political director, Michael Vachon. “His
support for Ready For Hillary is an extension of his long-held belief in the power of
grassroots organizing.”

SUPPORTING BILL DE BLASIO

In August 2013 Soros endorsed Bill de Blasio for Mayor of New York City, and he
contributed the legal limit of $4,950 to de Blasio's campaign. Soros also gave financial
support to Talking Transition, a two-week project launched in early November 2013—
immediately after de Blasio's election victory—to "help shape" the latter's "transition"
to City Hall. Soros’ relationship with the mayor-elect actually dated back to 2011, when
the billionaire had given $400,000 to de Blasio’s Coalition for Accountability in
Political Spending.

SUPPORTING GROUPS THAT HELPED LEAD & PROMOTE THE ANTI-

POLICE PROTESTS OF 2014 (IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI, ETC.)

In 2014, two separate white-police-vs.-black-suspect altercations that resulted in the

deaths of the blacks involved became the focal points of a massive, nationwide protest
movement alleging that white officers were routinely targeting African Americans with
racial profiling and the unjustified use of force:

(a) On July 17, 2014, a 43-year-old African American named Eric Garner died in Staten
Island, New York, after having resisted several white police officers' efforts to arrest
him for illegally selling “loosies,” single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps. One
of the officers at the scene put his arms around the much taller Garner's neck and took
him down to the ground with a headlock/chokehold. While he was being subdued,
Garner reportedly told the officers a number of times, "I can't breathe." A black NYPD
sergeant supervised the entire altercation and never ordered that officer to release the
hold. Garner subsequently suffered cardiac arrest in an ambulance that was taking him
to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead approximately an hour after the initial
altercation. City medical examiners later concluded that he had died as a result of an
interplay between the police officer’s hold and Garner’s multiple chronic infirmities,
which included bronchial asthma, heart disease, obesity, and hypertensive
cardiovascular disease. "I Can't Breathe" became a popular slogan of demonstrators who
later protested Garner's death in rallies across the United States.

(b) On August 9, 2014, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed an
18-year-old black male named Michael Brown in an altercation that occurred just
minutes after Brown had perpetrated a strong-armed robbery of a local convenience
store. Brown's death set off a massive wave of protests and riots in Ferguson, and
eventually grew into a national movement denouncing an alleged epidemic of police
brutality against African Americans. The protesters claimed, falsely: (a) that Brown had
been shot in the back while fleeing from the officer, and (b) that Brown at one point had
raised his hands in the air submissively in an attempt to surrender but was shot anyway.
Thus, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" became a popular slogan of the demonstrators who later
protested Brown's death. When compelling ballistic, eyewitness, and forensic evidence
eventually (in late October 2014) indicated that Brown in fact had assaulted the officer
and had tried to steal his gun just prior to the fatal shooting, the protesters' outrage over
the incident was undiminished. A grand jury announced on November 24, 2014 that it
would not indict the officer who had shot Brown -- because of overwhelming evidence
indicating that the shooting was done in self-defense. This announcement, too, touched
off protests and riots.

Through his Open Society Foundations, Soros in 2014 gave at least $33 million to
support already-established groups that, as The Washington Times puts it, "emboldened
the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson" and helped lead the anti-polce
protests. "The financial tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a
combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri
into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre," says the Times.

Among these activist organizations funded by Soros were the Advancement Project, the
Center for Community Change, Colorlines, the Don't Shoot Coalition, the Dream
Defenders, the Drug Policy Alliance, Equal Justice USA, the Gamaliel Foundation, the
Hands Up Coalition, Make the Road New York, Millennial Activists United,
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (the rebranded Missouri branch
of ACORN), the Organization for Black Struggle, PICO, and the Samuel Dewitt Proctor
Conference (where Jeremiah Wright was a trustee), the SEIU, national LGBT
organizations, climate environmentalists, amnesty groups, pro-Palestinian
organizations, and Christian social justice groups.

"The plethora of organizations involved," explains The Washington Times, not only
shared Mr. Soros' funding, but they also fed off each other, using content and
buzzwords developed by one organization on another's website, referencing each other's
news columns and by creating a social media echo chamber of Facebook 'likes' and
Twitter hashtags that dominated the mainstream media and personal online newsfeeds."

SOROS AGAIN FIGHTS VOTER ID LAWS

In June 2015, the New York Times reported that "a Democratic legal fight against
restrictive voting laws enacted in recent years [since 2010] by Republican-controlled
state governments is being largely paid for by a single liberal benefactor: the billionaire
philanthropist George Soros." Indeed, Soros had already agreed to contribute as much
as $5 million to that litigation effort, whose major objectives were to: (a) discredit and
overturn Voter ID laws in as many states as possible; (b) eliminate or loosen time
restrictions imposed on early voting (prior to Election Day); and (c) change election
rules that could nullify ballots cast in the wrong precinct. The attorney spearheading this
initiative was Marc Elias, who also served as a lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential
campaign. Describing himself as “proud” to be part of the legal battles, Soros said: “We
hope to see these unfair laws, which often disproportionately affect the most vulnerable
in our society, repealed.” At the time, Soros was supporting a lawsuit that had been filed
the previous year in North Carolina, as well as suits that had been filed in Ohio and in
Wisconsin in May 2015.

SOROS SUPPORTS MASS MIGRATION OF MIDDLE EASTERNERS INTO

EUROPE

In October 2015—while hundreds of thousands of Middle Easterners were flooding into

Europe as “refugees”—Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that this mass
influx of foreign Muslims was endangering Europe’s “Christian roots” and creating
“parallel societies.” Asserting that Europeans should “stick to our Christian values,” he
stated that “Europe can be saved” only if its leaders “take seriously the traditions, the
Christian roots and all the values that are the basis of the civilization of Europe.”
Moreover, Orban accused Soros—whose charitable foundations support numerous pro-
immigration non-governmental organizations (NGOs)—of deliberately encouraging the
migrant crisis. “This invasion is driven, on the one hand, by people smugglers, and on
the other by those (human rights) activists who support everything that weakens the
nation-state,” Orban said. “This Western mindset and this activist network is perhaps
best represented by George Soros.”

In response, Soros issued an email statement to Bloomberg Business, claiming that his
foundations helped “uphold European values” while Orban (according to Soros)
aimed to “undermine those values.” “His [Orban's] plan treats the protection of national
borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle," said Soros. "Our plan treats
the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle.”

SOROS SUPPORTS ANTI-ISRAEL, PRO-ISLAMIST GROUPS

On August 13, 2016, an anonymously-run website (dcleaks.com) released more

than 2,500 confidential files from Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF), containing
evidence of funding that OSF had given to anti-Israel and pro-Islamist organizations.
Among the leaked files was an OSF internal memo from 2011 titled "Extreme
Polarization and Breakdown in Civic Discourse," which lamented America's rising
"xenophobia and intolerance," and discussed a $200,000 grant that OSF had awarded to
the Center for American Progress (CAP) to "research and track the activities" of groups
(like the Middle East Forum) which contend that radical Islam poses a grave threat to
America. Later in 2011, CAP published a 138-page report, Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the
Islamophobia Network in America, whose stated objective was to “expose—and
marginalize—the influence of” the “sinister,” “hateful,” “purposively deceptive,”
“bigoted,” and “racist” individuals and groups that, according to CAP, are part of an
“Islamophobia network in America.” These include what CAP describes as
“misinformation experts,” “anti-Muslim bigots,” “political players,” “right-wing
media,” “religious right” zealots, and “radical ideologues” who intentionally
“mischaracteriz[e] Islam,” “peddl[e] hate and fear of Muslims,” and “rav[e]” about the
“overhyped dangers” of Sharia Law, so as to “fan the flames of Islamophobia.”

NOTES:

1 http://business.globaltimes.cn/world/2009-11/483306.html

2 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aEmPzbHtLcUc;
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/47/47147.html; http://mdmandp.com/blog/tag/soros-fund-
management-llc/

3 George Soros, The Alchemy of Finance (1994 edition), p. 362

4 George Soros, Underwriting Democracy, p. 3

5 http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff367.htm;
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/george-soross-evangelicals

6 “The Billionaire Who Built on Chaos – George Soros (The Independent: June 3, 1993)

7 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,602163,00.html

8 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4635465

9 Faisal Islam, “Rich Man, Wise Man” (Observer: March 10, 2002)

10 Anthony Gottlieb, “Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?” (The New York Times: March
3, 2002)

11 Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire, 2002,
p. 293

12 http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,986919,00.html

13 “The Mind of George Soros; Meet the Esperanto Enthusiast Who Wants to Save the
World from President Bush” (The Wall Street Journal: March 2, 2004)

14 Connie Bruck, “The World According to Soros” (The New Yorker: January 23,
1995); Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say (2005), p. 157.

15 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/george-soros-on-helping-the-nazis-during-the-
holocaust

16 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,602163,00.html#ixzz19pFJsPwd; Michael
Lewis, “The Speculator,” New Republic (January 10-17, 1994).

17 George Soros, Underwriting Democracy (1991), p. 170.

18 http://www.undueinfluence.com/george_soros.htm

19David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 67

20 Nicola Chalton, ed., The Philosophers (2008), p. 159.

21 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 67-69; The
Philosophers, pp. 158-159; George Soros, Soros on Soros (1995), p. 33.

22George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 193

23 George Soros, The Alchemy of Finance (1994 edition), p. 13; George Soros, Soros
on Soros (1995), p. 39.

24 Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire (2002),
p. 83

25 http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/S-Z/Soros-George-1930.html

26 http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/08/meyerson.htm ; David
Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 84-85

27 Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life And Times Of A Messianic Billionaire (2002),
p. 180.

28 http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/85/Soros-Fund-Management-
Llc.html; Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say (2005), p. 157.

29 http://www.soros.org/about

30 George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 136

31 http://www.soros.org/about/timeline

32 Connie Bruck, “The World According to Soros” (The New Yorker: January 23, 1995)

33 http://www.soros.org/about

34 George Soros, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (2000), p. 120

35 http://www.soros.org/about/bios/staff/aryeh-neier

36 http://www.theacru.org/VadumACLU.pdf

37 http://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-slams-draft-dhs-regulations-real-id-says-
delay-fails-address-privacy-and-civi ; http://www.theacru.org/VadumACLU.pdf

38 http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights ; http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-
rights/about-aclus-immigrants-rights-project
39 http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf

40 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258

41 http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/transcripts/5424.html

42 This figure derives from OSI's IRS Forms 990 for the years 2000-2008.

43 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/07/george-soros-100-million-human-
rights-watch

44 http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/HRW.html

45
http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org//990pf_pdf_archive/137/137029285/137029285_20081
2_990PF.pdf

46 http://www.aaiusa.org/issues/civil-rights-and-civil-liberties/

47 http://www.bordc.org/list.php

48 http://www.maldef.org/about/mission/index.html

49 http://www.lawyerscommittee.org/about?id=0001

50 http://naacpldf.org/about-ldf

51 http://www.nclr.org/index.php/issues_and_programs/

52 http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=2

53 http://www.criticalresistance.org/article.php?list=type&type=5

54 http://www.civilrights.org/criminal-justice/

55 http://www.communitychange.org/who-we-are/who-we-are

56 http://www.gamaliel.org/OurWork/TrainingLeaders.aspx

57 http://ruckus.org/section.php?id=71

58 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7581

59 http://institute.ourfuture.org/about-iaf

60 http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/texas-textbooks-what-happened-what-it-means-
and-what-we-can-do-about-it ; http://www.pfaw.org/about-us/our-mission-and-vision

61 http://www.democracyforamerica.com/training
62 Stanley Kurtz, Radical In Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American
Socialism (2010). (The Midwest Academy received $10,000 from OSI in 1997.)

63 http://zcommunications.org/neoliberalism-comes-unglued-by-mark-weisbrot

64 http://www.cbpp.org/about/

65 http://www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=19&contentid=151

66 Maria Puente, “Philanthropist Pledges $50M For Immigrants,” USA Today (October
1, 1996)

67 http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/statement_of_common_purpose

68 http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/about_us/

69 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/us/politics/30dems.html;
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/george-soros-pledges-5-million-to-
bankroll-health-care-reform-push-group-says/; http://nation.foxnews.com/george-
soros/2009/08/11/soros-gives-5-million-liberal-health-care-group;
http://www.newsmax.com/LowellPonte/obama-pelosi-acorn/2009/12/12/id/341854

70 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1225223330.pdf

71 http://catalist.us/aboutus.html

72 http://www.brennancenter.org/content/section/category/racial_justice/ ;
http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf (The
Brennan Center received $12 million from OSI from 1999-2008.)

73 http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/07/12/john-lott-senator-al-franken-
minnesota-felons-democrat/

74 http://www.progressivestates.org/press/psn_in_the_news?page=6 (PSN was formerly

known as the Progressive Action Legislative Network.)

75 http://boldprogressives.org/mission ;
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?ein=263881408&cycle=20
10

76 http://www.prospect.org/cs/about_tap/our_mission

77 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590506,00.html

78 http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/content.php?pid=58376&sid=427399

79 http://www.alternet.org/about/ ;
http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/content.php?pid=58376&sid=427399

80 http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/about_us
81 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpZZGTGVePE (OSI poured millions of dollars
into the coffers of MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, and Democracy
Alliance – Soros-funded operations which then funneled some of that money to Media
Matters.)

82 http://mediamatters.org/p/about_us/

83 http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/soros-donates-1-million-to-media-
matters/

84 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1204311857.pdf

85 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1293869054.pdf

86 http://www.afj.org/about-afj/afj-vision-statement.html

87 http://americanconstitutionsociety.blogspot.com/

88 http://www.acslaw.org/about ;
http://www.americanconstitutionsociety.org/taxonomy/term/202?page=2

89 http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf ; (This
organization received $2.815 million from OSI during 2006-2008.)

90 http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf

91 http://www.catholicsinalliance.org/aboutus.html

92 http://www.examiner.com/political-transcripts-in-national/president-s-spiritual-
advisor-obama-feels-he-hasn-t-had-a-chance-video?render=print (Sojourners received
$325,000 from OSI during 2004-2007.)

93 http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/soros_has_a_pastor_close_to_ob.html

94 http://www.piconetwork.org/about?id=0003

95 http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/topics/abortion/default.asp

96 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991

97 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7616

98 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6927

99 http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/papers-please-eliminating-birthright-
citizenship-would-affect-everyone

100
http://www.casademaryland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=743
&Itemid=126%20
101http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guides/Open%20Borders%20Lobby.pdf

102http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6502

103 http://latinojustice.org/about/history/

104
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/Solutions_Paper_032310.pdf

105 http://www.immigrationforum.org/policy/update-display/update-the-results-of-the-
elections-and-immigration-in-the-112th-congress/

106 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guides/Open%20Borders%20Lobby.pdf

107 http://spectator.org/archives/2009/11/13/a-constitutional-right-to-publ/1

108 http://ccrjustice.org/illegal-detentions-and-guantanamo

109 http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=21594

110 http://www.constitutionproject.org/manage/file/190.pdf

111 http://old.nationalreview.com/york/york200502170843.asp

112 http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/5545.html

113 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0526-03.htm

114 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/may/26/usa.guantanamo

115 Robert Patterson, War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and
Lose the War on Terror (2007), p. 181.

116
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/aid_and_comfort_how_leading_de.html

117 http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=17849

118 http://afsc.org/project/shaping-just-federal-budget

119 http://www.gsinstitute.org/archives/000020.shtml

120 http://www.tides.org/about-us/history/index.html

121 Jim Freer, “George Soros,” Latin Trade (October 1998); Peter Schweitzer, Do As I
Say (2005), p. 167.

122 Gene Marcial, “A Bright Gleam on Apex,” Business Week (June 14, 2004)

123 http://www.spectacle.org/1200/moratorium.html
124 http://feminist.org/welcome/index.html

125 http://ms.foundation.org/about_us

126
http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=issues_fairness_fairpay

127 http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33197

128 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/25/20040425-112025-9831r/

129 George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism (2000), p. xxix

130 http://www.unfoundation.org/press-center/press-releases/2010/un-foundation-and-
una-usa-announce-alliance.html

131 http://www.iccnow.org/?mod=supporters

132
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E3D91730F934A35756C0A9649
C8B63

133 George Soros, “A Look At … The Drug War Debate,” The Washington Post
(February 2, 1997)

134 George Soros, Soros on Soros (1995)

135 http://www.drugpolicy.org/global/ungass/letter/

136 Joseph A. Califano Jr., “Devious Efforts To Legalize Drugs,” The Washington Post
(December 4, 1996)

137 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf

138 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf ;
http://www.drugpolicy.org/about/

139 http://www.drugpolicy.org/about/keystaff/boardofdirec/

140 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/04/soros-sponsored-candidates-ballot-
initiatives-election-day/

141 Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say (2005), p. 169.

142 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf

143
http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/publications/report_20041122/a_c
omplete.pdf
144 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 135

145 http://www.deathwithdignity.org/aboutus/

146 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf

147 http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf

148 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1217524969.pdf

149 http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/04/20/phil-kerpen-john-paulson-goldman-
sachs-center-responsible-lending/

150 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 89-90

151 Connie Bruck, “The World According to Soros” (The New Yorker: January 23,
1995)

152 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 91-93

153 http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/george_soros_and_the_alchemy_o.html

154 http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/george_soros_and_the_alchemy_o.html

155 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 93-94

156 http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/george_soros_and_the_alchemy_o.html

157 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/05/11/remembering-russiagate/

158 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/05/11/remembering-russiagate/

159 Interview with George Soros, The Charlie Rose Show, PBS (November 30, 1995)

160 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 55

161 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 54

162 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 53-54

163 Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), p. 69; George Soros, The
Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 42.

164 George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism (1998), pp. 168, 179

165 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 222

166 George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 94

167
http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/articles/americanprospect_200305
27

168 George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 123

169 George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (2004), p. 30

170 George Soros, George Soros on Globalization (2002), p. xi

171 George Soros, George Soros on Globalization (2002), p. 155

172 http://edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/bush.speech.txt/

173 http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20711

174 These documents were intended to discredit America's war effort as both immoral
and unwinnable.

175 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 24

176 James L. Tyson, Target America (Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1981), pp. 2, 200

177 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 11. (Interview with
George Soros by Andrew Stevens, “The N.E.W. Show,” CNN (September 19, 2001).

178 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 18

179 Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005)

180 Greg Pierce, “Inside Politics,” The Washington Times (March 3, 2003)

181 George Soros, “Bush’s Inflated Sense Of Supremacy,” Financial Times (March 13,
2003)

182 http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/billionaire-fronts-75m-push-to-
oust-bush-208127.html; Thomas Hargrove, “Financier Donates $10M To Defeat Bush,”
The Record [Bergen, NJ] (August 10, 2003)

183 “Soros Calls For ‘Regime Change’ In US,” BBC News Website September 30,
2003); http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/02/int04012.html

184 George Soros, “Bush’s Inflated Sense Of Supremacy,” Financial Times (March 13,
2003)

185 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 12

186 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), pp. viii, 10

187 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), pp. 12-13
188 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 10

189 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 4

190 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 26;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=1
06x3136

191 Mark Gimein, “George Soros Is Mad As Hell,” Fortune (October 27, 2003)

192 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), pp. 26, 53

193 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 53

194 http://old.nationalreview.com/york/york200406031106.asp;
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=4247

195 George Soros, Remarks At National Press Club (Washington, DC: September 28,
2004)

196 Bernard Besserglik, “Soros Cuts Open Society Aid To Russia, Targets US,” Agence
France Presse (June 9, 2003)

197 Mark Gimein, “George Soros Is Mad As Hell,” Fortune (October 27, 2003);
http://www.pbs.org/wsw/news/fortunearticle_20031013_02.html

198 Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post
(November 11, 2003)

199 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 13

200 Greg Pierce, “Inside Politics,” The Washington Times (October 1, 2003)

201 Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post
(November 11, 2003)

202 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 9

203 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 74)

204 George Soros, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (2000), p. 337

205 The term was derived from the fact that the movements designated specific colors
or flowers as their symbols.

206 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/06/kgb-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-2/

207 George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy (2004), p. 132

208 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3636033.stm ; http://www.slovakia.org/history-
summary.htm

209 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/294990.stm

210
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2000/milosevic_yugoslavia/croa
tia.stm ;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2000/milosevic_yugoslavia/bosn
ia.stm ; http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5388.htm#history

211 Neil Clark, “NS Profile—George Soros,” New Statesman (June 2, 2003)

212 “President Tudjman Criticizes Foreign Inyerference in Croatia's Media,” BBC

(December 11, 1996)

213 In this case and a few others, the rebels identified themselves with a color or a
flower.

214 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3257047.stm

215 Mark MacKinnon, “Georgia Revolt Carried Mark of Soros,” Globe and Mail
(November 26, 2003)

216 Franklin Foer, “Regime Change, Inc.: Peter Ackerman's Quest to Topple Tyranny,”
New Republic (April 25, 2005); David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party
(2006), pp. 236-237

217 http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/George_Soros

218 David Holley, “Soros Invests in His Democratic Passion: The Billionaire's Open
Society Institute Network Is Focusing on Central Asia Now,” Los Angeles Times (July
5, 2004)

219
http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2003/12/02/putting_tons_of_money_where_hi
s_mouth_is/?mode

220 http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/George_Soros

221 http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/041206/story.html

222 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/mar/26/20050326-103550-7473r/

223 Thomas B. Edsall, “Liberals Form Fund to Defeat President: Aim Is to Spend $75
Million for 2004,” Washington Post (August 8, 2003)

224 Mark Gimein, “George Soros Is Mad As Hell,” Fortune (October 27, 2003)

225 http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19648
226 Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post
(November 11, 2003)

227 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 131-136

228 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/03/25/pewgate-the-battle-of-the-blogosphere/ ;
Ryan Sager, “Buying 'Reform': Media Missed Millionaires' Scam,” New York Post
(March 17, 2005)

229 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/03/25/pewgate-the-battle-of-the-blogosphere/ ;
Ryan Sager, “Buying 'Reform': Media Missed Millionaires' Scam,” New York Post
(March 17, 2005). (The other seven major contributors were the Pew Charitable Trusts
($40.1 million); the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy ($17.6 million); the
Carnegie Corporation of New York ($14.1 million); the Joyce Foundation ($13.5
million); the Jerome Kohlberg Trust ($11.3 million); the Ford Foundation ($8.8
million); and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ($5.2 million).

230 Byron York, “The Soros Agenda: Free Speech for Billionaires Only,” Wall Street
Journal (January 3, 2004); Byron York, “Democrats Throw The Spirit Of Reform Out
The Window,” The Hill (November 5, 2003); Byron York, The Vast Left Wing
Conspiracy (2005), p. 62.

231 http://www.mrc.org/static/biasbasics/MediaBias101.aspx

232 http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/bcra_overview.shtml

233 http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/bcra_overview.shtml ; David Horowitz and

Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 175-176

234 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 176

235 Republicans, meanwhile, did not build any comparable network of independent
fundraising nonprofits to circumvent McCain-Feingold – probably because they
historically had been successful at raising hard money.

236 Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), p. 8

237 Richard Poe, “The Shadow Party: History, Goals, and Activities”
(http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/theshadowpartypoe2004.html)

238 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/

239 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/ (These 17 states

were: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington,
West Virginia, and Wisconsin.)

240 http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/
241 Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post
(November 11, 2003)

242 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 182

243 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 196-198

244 Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets vs. Bush,” The Washington Post
(November 11, 2003)

245 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), p. 189. (Among these
were Clinton's national security speechwriter Robert Boorstin; former head of Clinton's
National Economic Council, Gene Sperling; and former senior advisor to Clinton's
Office of Management and Budget, Matt Miller.)

246 Matt Bai, “Notion Building,” New York Times Magazine (October12, 2003)

247 http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_American_Progress

248 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6527

249
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?ein=204359961&cycle=20
06

250
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?cycle=2008&ein=2043599
61

251 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/us/politics/30dems.html

252 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6712

253 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5342&category=79

254
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/lookup.php?cycle=2010&donor=george%20soros&pa
ge=1

255 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6713

256 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6201

257 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2003/11/11/55615/610

258 Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), p. 61

259 Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), pp. 86-87.
260 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1624 ; Michael
Crowley, “Shadow Warriors,” New York Magazine (August 12, 2004).

261 David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party (2006), pp. 193-194

262 Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, “The New Soft Money,” Fortune (October 27, 2003)

263 Byron York, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (2005), p. 8

264 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=8738

265 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=8738

266 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

267 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551 ;
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1198857554.pdf

268 (By August 2005, Stein had shown his PowerPoint presentation to more than 700
key people in private meetings.)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=8738

269 http://www.hudson.org/files/pdf_upload/Transcript_2006_11_30.pdf

270 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/15/fundraiser-seeks-cash-for-his-
own-war-chest/print/; http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20.
Among the attendees were former Clinton White House aides Mike McCurry and
Sidney Blumenthal, and Schumann Center president Bill Moyers.

271 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

272 http://www.democracyalliance.org/membership%20 ;
http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

273 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

274 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf ;
http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

275 http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Albert_J._Dwoskin

276 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

277 http://www.gillfoundation.org/about/tim-gill/

278 http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/davidi-gilo.asp?cycle=08 ;
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7458 ;
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5484133.html

280 http://womendonors.org/bio/view/circle/1/26

281 http://www.undueinfluence.com/media-matters-for-america.htm ;
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1369

282 http://www.confabb.com/users/profile/rjohnson

283 http://www.WorkingAssets.com/About.aspx

284 http://www.newpolitics.net/node/185

285 http://www.lightspeedvp.com/TeamMember.aspx?m=24

286 http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/bio/gara-lamarche

287 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2003

288 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2495 ;
http://motherjones.com/authors/robert-mckay ;
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E71 ;

289 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2389

290 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551

291 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/guy-t-saperstein

292 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535

293 http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/index.php/interviews/michael_vachon/

294 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

295 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20 ;
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf

296 http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20 ;
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf

297 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf

298 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf

299 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf ;
http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20; Unless otherwise
specified, information about DA grants made to these entities was furnished by the
Capital Research Center.

300 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968 ;
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf

301 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18899

302 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7309

303 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6344

304 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7538

305 http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/527/new_organizing_fund.asp

306 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6489

307 http://www.usstudents.org/who-we-are

308 http://www.usaction.org/site/pp.asp.103.html

309 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf ;
http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.html?id=551%20

310 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf (Note: In the 2010

congressional elections, when Republicans captured more than 60 House seats, two of
Colorado's Democratic House members lost to Republicans.)

311 Louis Jacobson, “New Organization to Push Liberal Measures,” Roll Call (June 23,
2005)

312 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf

313 http://www.azsos.gov/info/duties.htm

314
http://forms.irs.gov/politicalOrgsSearch/search/Print.action?formId=32217&formType=
E72

315 http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7342

316
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=3
64x3176510

317 http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf

318 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29359
319 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/george-soros-backs-obama-but-hedges-
his-bets/

320 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_43/b4055047.htm