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A Zionist on Iranian Television
Pajamas Media — ... audience and production crew, I am game for the challenge. Getting back to Armanazi’s observation: this had arisen from a question about the new Obama administration’s attitude towards the “Israel-Palestine” situation. He wanted to make it abundantly clear to the mostly youthful, Muslim audience that the Jews control everything and that Obama got to this place with Zionist money! What an irony: As I explained with barely contained apoplexy, immensely rich “Zionists” (sic) like George Soros were the kind of Jews who wanted Bush out of office by any means possible. I reminded ...

Teaching Transformational Diplomacy and Making "Democracy" a Good Word Again
The Washington Note — ... I find this interesting and important news because this university, established in large part through the support of George Soros, has been a powerhouse in training many people to become the clerks, and policy analysts, and political organizers and agitators, and bureaucrats of open societies in much of Eastern Europe. Soros and his philanthropic work and allies have played a vital role in the transformational development of illiberal regimes into more liberal ones. And where impunity and strongly consolidated, anti-democratic power preserved its interests in the former USSR, ...

Steve Clemons: Teaching Transformational Diplomacy and Making "Democracy" a Good Word Again
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... I find this interesting and important news because this university, established in large part through the support of George Soros, has been a powerhouse in training many people to become the clerks, and policy analysts, and political organizers and agitators, and bureaucrats of open societies in much of Eastern Europe. Soros and his philanthropic work and allies have played a vital role in the transformational development of illiberal regimes into more liberal ones. And where impunity and strongly consolidated, anti-democratic power preserved its interests in the former USSR, ...

George Soros, Bernard Schwartz, Laura Tyson, Martin Wolf, Mark Zandi and Others to Headline Major NAF Economic Policy Forum on London G-20 Meeting and What Will Replace US Consumer
The Washington Note — ... Philanthropist and investor George Soros will also be speaking -- and has been pushing a five point plan for the Obama team to consider. His new book is about to appear -- but a short primer piece of his recently appeared on Huffington Post and outlined five key points of an economic recovery plan that the Obama team has flubbed up on for the most part: ...

Soros, Tyson, Martin Wolf to Headline Discussion on What Will (or Won't) Replace US Consumer
TPMCafe — ... Philanthropist and investor George Soros will also be speaking -- and has been pushing a five point plan for the Obama team to consider. His new book is about to appear -- but a short primer piece of his recently appeared on Huffington Post and outlined five key points of an economic recovery plan that the Obama team has flubbed up on for the most part: ...

The View From My Future Window & Thoughts on Demo-Hypocrisy
The Washington Note — ... America has gone so off the rails, to paraphrase George Soros, and is not yet back on the right rails that it needs to get its own democracy in order before pontificating as my colleague ...

Obama White House Doesn't Understand American Interest vs. Corporate Interest
The Washington Note — ... What is going on here? Who is in the driver's seat? Unfortunately, Timothy Geithner and Summers have continued the Hank Paulson strategy of begging banks and financial institutions to participate in the bailout programs that the government packaged together to recapitalize the American banking system. But the banks resisted, negotiated, and were able to get terms in the US-private sector relationship that undermined taxpayer interests while maximizing the firms'. George Soros wrote in the fall of 2008 and has repeated since frequently that bank and ...