Open Society Institute

After Giving $15 Million To Soros Orgs, USAID Fires Half Of Its West Bank Staff

By Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge – 11/25/2018 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that half of its West Bank and Gaza employees will be let go over the next few weeks, and that operations will completely cease by early 2019, according to Haaretz. The humanitarian agency has been a longstanding presence […]

Go figure: Soros-funded watchdog says populist politicians ‘undermine fight against corruption’

George Soros Image © Maurizio Gambarini / http://www.globallookpress.com By Robert Bridge | RT | January 30, 2017 With the EU elite threatened by a populist insurgency aiming to end free and easy immigration programs and promote nationalism over globalism, an influential think tank says populism will only – wait for it – fuel the fires […]

Liberals Morph from Peaceniks to Warhawks on Government Intelligence Agencies

By Stephen J. Sniegoski • Unz Review • January 28, 2017 During the latter decades of the Cold War with Soviet Russia, the charge of being “unpatriotic” or “anti-American” caused American liberals (excluding those who had to rely on the votes of regular Americans to hold political office) to burst into spasms of ridicule and […]

John McCain NGO banned as ‘undesirable group’ in Russia

RT | August 18, 2016 Russian prosecutors have recognized the International Republican Institute NGO headed by US Senator John McCain as an undesirable organization, banning the group’s operations in the country and forbidding Russian organizations and citizens from cooperating with it. “After studying the received files [describing the activities of the International Republican Institute], the […]

Prosecutors ban Soros Foundation as ‘threat to Russian national security’

RT | November 30, 2015 The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has recognized George Soros’s Open Society Institute and another affiliated organization as undesirable groups, banning Russian citizens and organizations from participation in any of their projects. In a statement released on Monday, prosecutors said the activities of the Open Society Institute and the Open Society […]

MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | October 20, 2015 The first thing any thinking person learns about the Internet is not to trust everything you see there. While you can find much well-researched and reliable material, you’ll also encounter disinformation, spoofs, doctored photographs and crazy conspiracy theories. That would seem to be a basic rule […]

MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | October 20, 2015 The first thing any thinking person learns about the Internet is not to trust everything you see there. While you can find much well-researched and reliable material, you’ll also encounter disinformation, spoofs, doctored photographs and crazy conspiracy theories. That would seem to be a basic rule […]