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2019-12-06 Home Front: WoT
Another Reason to Loathe Billionaires: Koch & Soros Team Up For Iran
Article dated July 06, 2019. Guys, please check the article date before posting — we’ve had a rash of old articles posted recently — and we don’t always catch them before they’re published.

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[Washington Examiner] New Koch-Soros foreign policy think tank headed by Iran deal advocates.

Trita Parsi and the group's other four co-founders, Andrew Bacevich, Stephen Wertheim, Eli Clifton, and Suzanne DiMaggio, are all pro-Iran deal advocates, as well as harsh critics of U.S. foreign policy and of Israel.
See brief bios of the membership at the link — troo believers, all.
Parsi, the founder of the National Iranian American Council and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, was a prominent and instrumental go-between for the governments of Iran and the U.S. during the nuclear deal negotiations.

The new Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, funded with $500,000 each from the libertarian and left-wing billionaires, says it is named for President John Quincy Adams, who said that America “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”

The new think tank was announced earlier this week in an op-ed which said the new group “is one of the most remarkable partnerships in modern American political history” and that Koch and Soros believe “the United States must end its ‘forever war’ and adopt an entirely new foreign policy.”

Koch has given millions to right-leaning causes through the Charles Koch Institute, which also advocates a noninterventionist foreign policy. Soros, a strident critic of U.S. foreign policy, has given billions to left-wing causes around the world through his Open Society Foundations.

Soros also helped bankroll pro-Iran deal lobbying efforts, donating tens of thousands of dollars in an effort to promote the agreement. Soros' organizations donated to the Ploughshares Fund, which Obama foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes credited as part of the "echo chamber" the administration created to convince Congress and the press to back the deal. Ploughshares has also funded Parsi's nonprofit organization.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Thing One and Thing Two.

Funding a Uniparty for you!
Posted by charger 2019-12-06 00:02||   2019-12-06 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 More votes for the decent folk!
Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 00:12||   2019-12-06 00:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Restraint, sure. Makes sense. Kochs have given $$ to Barry Posen of MIT, author of the "Restraibt" strategy.

But why do they put an Iranian, for Allan's sake, in charge of their new JV w Soros?

Are they so stupid as to believe the Iran deal was not part of the Global Grifters' idiotic plan to run down this country and its allies?

These grifters make me think of Sally Field's line - inverted: They hate us! They really hate us!
Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 00:17||   2019-12-06 00:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Most billionaires (soros especially) become that wealthy via rent seeking.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-06 00:32||   2019-12-06 00:32|| Front Page Top

#5 The Kochs are actually (Charles esp) brilliant businessmen. Soros is a market manipulator who made his fortune by trashing Britain's finances.

But whatever the source of their wealth, their not-unreasonable call for more restraint in US foreign policy is undermined by their repulsive shilling for Iran and for de facto open borders with Mexico.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 00:42||   2019-12-06 00:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Mr. Molotov, please shake hands with Mr. Ribbentrop.
Posted by b 2019-12-06 09:16||   2019-12-06 09:16|| Front Page Top

#7 When I was a kid I always thought there was no such thing as too much money. Now, well, I would still like to be independently wealthy but not to the extent where I begin to believe I am suddenly a great visionary.

Why aren't these a$$holes out on a yacht or hunting elk, gambling, womanizing...enjoying their own Lives? Is it a dearth of imagination or is there a dollar amount to be avoided at all costs.
Posted by Cesare 2019-12-06 09:31||   2019-12-06 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ reputation-laundering via Shows of Virtue.

Plus our tax laws shower their "foundations" with benefits, not least of which is next to no scrutiny.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 09:41||   2019-12-06 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 The relative tax rates on unearned income is next to zero but very harsh on earnings...

Guess which one billionaires tend to get paid by and lobby for and they also lobby to maximise the amounts funding the billionaires proxies...
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-06 10:36||   2019-12-06 10:36|| Front Page Top

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