Head of Marxist-led institute joins Obama team

 

Soros-funded group urges more government control of media

May 28, 2010

By Aaron Klein

NEW YORK- 

The policy director at a George Soros-funded, Marxist-founded organization calling itself Free Press has just taken a key State Department position, WND has learned.

Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott has been named a policy adviser for innovation at the State Department.

“We will miss Ben’s leadership, wise counsel, and strategic brilliance – for Free Press and the overall movement for media and technology policy in the public interest,” said Free Press President Josh Silver.

Free Press is a well-known advocate of government intervention in the Internet.

Scott authored a book, “The Future of Media,” which was edited by the founder of Free Press, Robert W. McChesney.

McChesney is an avowed Marxist who has recommended capitalism be dismantled.

He is a professor at the University of Illinois and former editor of the Marxist journal Monthly Review.

Excerpted; Continue reading here……

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From Brenda Elliott at: 

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/

In February 2009, McChesney recommended capitalism be dismantled

“In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick-by-brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles,” wrote McChesney in a column.

The board of Free Press has included a slew of radicals, such as Obama’s former “green jobs” czar” Van Jones, who resigned after it was exposed he founded a communist organization.

Last week, WND reported Free Press published a study advocating the development of a “world class” government-run media system in the U.S.

Now the group is pushing a new organization, StopBigMedia.com, that advocates the downfall of “big media” and the creation of new media to “promote local ownership, amplify minority voices, support quality journalism, and bring local artists, voices and viewpoints to the airwaves.”

Free Press has ties to other members of the Obama administration

Obama’s “Internet czar,” Susan P. Crawford, spoke at Free Press’s May 14, 2009, “Changing Media” summit in Washington, D.C. Crawford’s pet project, OneWebNow, lists as “participating organizations” Free Press and the controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.

Crawford and Kevin Werbach, who co-directed the Obama transition team’s Federal Communications Commission Review team, are advisory board members at Public Knowledge, a George Soros-funded public interest group.

A Public Knowledge advisory board member is Timothy Wu, who is also chairman of the board for Free Press.

Like Public Knowledge, Free Press also has received funds from Soros’ Open Society Institute.

With research by Brenda J. Elliott

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About Free Press:

• Opposes the power of media corporations
• Advocates “net neutrality,” which critics depict as a government takeover of the Internet

Founded in 2002, Free Press and its advocacy arm, the Free Press Action Fund, are tax-exempt “media reform” organizations that seek to counteract the power of big media corporations. Robert McChesney (a radical professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), John Nichols (a Washington correspondent for The Nation), and Josh Silver (who has published extensively on such topics as media policy and campaign finance) co-founded the Free Press groups and currently direct their operations.

In addition to McChesney and Nichols, board members of Free Press include Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women; Janine Jackson of Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR); Olga M. Davidson, a visiting associate professor in the Middle Eastern Studies program at Wellesley College; Marcy Carsey, co-founder of the Carsey Werner Company; and Tim Wu, a professor of law at Columbia University.

Board members of the Free Press Action Fund include McChesney, Nichols, Silver, Tim Wu, and Martin Kaplan (Director of the Norman Lear Center). Previous members have included Linda Foley, former President of the Newspaper Guild and Vice-President of the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, from 1995 to 2008; Cindy Asner, wife of actor Ed Asner, both of whom are activists with the Progressive Democrats of America; and Norman Solomon, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA), on whose board McChesney sits.

Free Press founders McChesney and Nichols have co-authored three books: It’s the Media, Stupid!, Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media, and Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy. The authors and their organization received high praise from the late Marxist professor Howard Zinn, who said: “Free Press is doing the important work of stimulating a national discussion on the role of a free media in this country. It deserves widespread support.”

Free Press receives financial support from George Soros’ Open Society Institute; the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Glaser Progress Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Overbrook Foundation, the Philadelphia Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, the Surdna Foundation, and the Wallace Global Fund.

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In January 2007, Free Press sponsored a third conference in Memphis, Tennessee. Featured speakers and panelists were Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Maurice Hinchey, David Brock, Bill Moyers, Jesse Jackson, Danny Glover, Jane Fonda, Jeff Cohen, and Norman Solomon. Exhibitors at the event included the Revolutionary Communist Party, Mother Jones magazine, Pacifica Radio, Amy Goodman, and a number of representatives of the “9/11 truth movement.” The film Reel Bad Arabs, which argues that Arabs and Muslims unfairly receive negative coverage from the American media and Hollywood, was screened for those in attendance; the film is narrated by Jack Shaheen, who has appeared on Al-Jazeera English TV making charges of anti-Arab media bias. At a panel discussion moderated by Paul Waldman of Media Matters for America, participants argued that the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections had been “stolen” on behalf of George W. Bush.

While many of its conferences have featured speakers advocating a reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, Free Press has focused its efforts on advocating for “net neutrality,” progressive legislation that would allow the government greater regulatory control over the Internet.

Read about ENTIRE networks of Free Press HERE……

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HOW MANY MORE MARXISTS IS OBAMA GOING TO SURROUND HIMSELF WITH?

 

 

Is Obama building a Politburo as I mentioned a few blogs ago?

Is Obama Creating a Politburo Right Under American’s Noses?

March 23, 2010

This is a history of Russian Politburo formation.  Compare this to WHAT is happening today under Obama.

https://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/is-obama-creating-a-politburo-right-under-americans-noses/

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NOT RACIST.

NOT VIOLENT.

JUST NO LONGER SILENT.