Finally, here is Susan Weber of CIP and - most probably -
Soviet Life and
The Elements (IPS).
A social network diagram centering on Susan Weber can be found here:
http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_WEBER_SUSAN_
So she was not connected to George Soros, but she has still moneyed connections - and to a person we know quite well. Susan Weber has left one anti-capitalist crusade for another and become an environmentalist and proponent for Zero Population Growth. (The group has recently (2003) changed name to Population Connection and Ms Weber's name cannot be found on their website.)
In 2004 Susan Weber served on the board of Earth Island Institute together with no less luminary than Tereza Heinz Kerry.
57 Varieties of Radical Causes, Part I
From the link above:
Some critics argue it is wrong to hold the Heinz Endowments responsible for what its grant recipients do after they receive their money. There are two replies to this. First, nearly every such action has a string of antecedents. In this case, Earth Island Institute’s founder, David Brower, had denounced the “imperialist” United States in a show of “solidarity environmentalism” with Nicaraguan Sandinista strongman Daniel Ortega in 1989 at the fourth International Congress on the Hope and Fate of the Earth, held in Managua. Brower wrote, “‘[S]olidarity environmentalism’ is the only kind that makes sense…Would George Bush and Margaret Thatcher be able to call themselves environmentalists if the effort to protect the ozone layer and stop global warming was linked to the Third World movement’s demands for a new, more equitable international economic system, an end to the Third World debt, and curbs on the free action of multinational corporations?”[98]
Teresa is well acquainted with the Earth Island Institute; she serves Brower on the Advisory Board of the Earth Communications Office (a group she funds). Also on the board are Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Al Gore, Randy Hayes of the violent Rainforest Action Network, Rep. Henry Waxman, Susan Weber of Zero Population Growth, Alex Pachecco of PETA, Tamara Lee Boyer of the National Resources Defense Council (a frequent Heinz grantee), Dr. Henry Kendall of the Union of Concerned Scientists (another Heinz favorite) and Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund (a frequent grantee on whose board Teresa Heinz Kerry also sits).[99] Hayes of RAN agrees with Brower’s view of capitalism, calling it “an absurd economic system rapidly destroying nature.”[100] In this context, it is disturbing that Teresa Heinz Kerry agreed to distribute monies to this organization, and given its history of denigrating the United States, the Green leopard should not be expected to change its spots.
Ok, that's enough net-sleuthing for a while. Our tax returns have to be in by midnight tomorrow, so I have a busy night in front of me. (sigh....)
Just one thing: When I see all these names we have dug up - probably everything from naïve idealists, fellow travelers, influence agents, and possibly all the way to a few paid up agents for the Soviet Union who all worked or served in or near the Carter administration - it reminds me of how things were during the 70s. It certainly looked bleak for freedom all over.
And still, 9 years later, after President Ronald Reagan's eight years in power the Soviet Union and its satellites were vanquished - with hardly a shot fired.
It is very very hard to fathom.
The greatness of President Reagan can hardly be overstated!
Maybe the fact that we are reminding ourselves and possibly a few others about connections that many of these people don't want brought to light can in some small way help us to stop a return to the bad old days of the 70s.
I guess I may hope for too much, but in any case it great fun to be hunting in the same pack as the rest of you.
Until later: Good Hunting!
Good stuff. I would think this book would be a good resource, too:
From Library Journal
Powell has produced an "expose" of the Institute for Policy Studies, a D.C. think tank, and the "New Left" it supposedly represents. He argues, via gargantuan investigation, that IPS's hidden agenda places it radically to the left of traditional "progressive liberals." Despite the author's careful documentation, the reader has a sense of 1950s deja vu: Powell finds Communists or "fellow travelers" within academia, the religious left, and among former government operatives. To the casual reader, this work could be frightening; more seasoned observers may discard it. Still, the book provides insights into interest groups' pathways to power. Captivating, provocative; but often polemical. Frank Kessler, Missouri Western St. Coll., St. Joseph Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Amazon.com: Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies: Books: S. Steven Powell
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0915463393/sr=8-1/qid=1146525375/ref=sr_1_1/104-1217001-8723107?%5Fencoding=UTF8