Open Democracy

A huge, multi-author site with thousands of articles.

 http://OpenDemocracy.net   
"Free thinking for the world"
Started: May 2001

Owner: openDemocracy Foundation for the Advancement of Global Education
In its own words:
"openDemocracy is committed to human rights and democracy. We aim to ensure that marginalised views and voices are heard. We believe facilitating argument and understanding across geographical boundaries is vital to preventing injustice."

Funded by individuals, but also organisations such as the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Foundations the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, National Endowment for Democracy, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and others.

Open Democracy does by their own admission influence the media: "We receive daily information or interview requests from leading global media outlets including BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Russia Today, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Le Monde Diplomatique, El Mundo, Sky News, ITV, CBC, ABC, Channel 4, Islam Channel and USA Today."

Call for the abolition of family

In March 2020 the Open Democracy website has published an article that called for the abolition of the family and for an end to private property. Cited for the abolition of family is an article on Communemag and a Tweet by one of its editors.

Article on American fascism

An article by Louie Dean Valencia-García, Assistant Professor of Digital History at Texas State University, published mid January 2021, headlines: "This is American fascism - Like Mussolini’s March on Rome and Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, Donald Trump’s Insurrection is the beginning of years of street violence."
She concludes the article:

“Fascism and conspiratorial thinking have seeped into the minds of millions of Americans. If we compare Mussolini’s March on Rome and Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch to Donald Trump’s Insurrection we should be reminded that the former examples were only the beginning of years of street violence. We can’t address this problem until we call it by its name: fascism.”
Louie Dean Valencia-García

National Endowment for Democracy

Open Democracy was granted $150,000 from the 'CIA sidekick' National Endowment for Democracy in the period 2015-18, in a trend of increased US funding of UK media.

It received a NED grant for $50,500 (£37,000) in 2017 to “recruit and train young emerging writers, thinkers, and leaders” from the Middle East “to write substantive articles related to democratic development in the region.” Another grant the following year worth $49,111 (£35,700) was for the outlet to “provide a platform for emerging young thought leaders…on critical issues related to democratic development”, training sessions in countries including Egypt, Tunisia and Syria.

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed
Anthony Barnett	Founder	2001

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Luminate	Pierre Omidyar's foundation for financing global media and civil society groups. It is unknown how close it coordinates with certain deep state US government agencies.
National Endowment for Democracy	The "traditional intermediary of the CIA", promoting the US "national interest" abroad by financing groups and individuals.
Omidyar Network	Foundation owned by the the deep state-connected billionaire Pierre Omidyar, financing preferred NGOs

 

Documents sourced from Open Democracy

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Cruel Britannia - A Secret History of Torture	book review	Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture	4 December 2012	Nicholas Mercer
Document:Russia, Novichok and the long tradition of British government misinformation	article	Propaganda UK/Propaganda Novichok Skripal Affair	12 April 2018	David Miller
Document:The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's "antisemitism" scandal breaks his silence	Interview	"Antisemitism" "The Holocaust" Tony Blair Jonathan Freedland Jeremy Corbyn Sadiq Khan Bernie Sanders Ken Livingstone Jill Stein Naz Shah John Mann Hajo Meyer BDS	3 May 2016	Norman Finkelstein Jamie Stern-Weiner	Norman G. Finkelstein is clear: "It’s time to put a stop to this periodic charade, because it ends up besmirching the victims of the Nazi holocaust, diverting from the real suffering of the Palestinian people, and poisoning relations between the Jewish and Muslim communities. You just had an antisemitism hysteria last year, and it was a farce. And now again? Another inquiry? Another investigation? No."
File:Britain's Israeli Lobby.pdf	booklet	Israel Lobby	13 November 2009	Peter Oborne James Jones	A hard look at the influence of Israel in the politics of the UK
File:How the BBC betrayed the NHS.pdf	report	BBC NHS	27 September 2012	Oliver Huitson

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