MB Civic

Cockburn ..

Soros made his billions as a currency speculator; he could destroy a country’s reserves, hastening its social disintegration. Then Soros could finance Human Rights Watch’s investigations into the abuses his operations helped to induce. He offers in his single person an arresting profile of liberal interventionism in our era, in which direct economic and political destabilization (mostly calibrated in concert with the US government) has easy recourse to the moral and political bludgeon of a human rights report, which is in turn used to ratchet up the pressure for a direct imperial onslaught-whether by economic sanctions, covert sabotage, aerial bombing or a blend of all three… take a look at Soros’s meddling in Georgia. His millions and the NGOs under his control played an active role in installing the unstable and decidedly authoritarian Mikheil Saakashvili

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