From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2008 - 19:44:05 EDT
August 19, 2008
Human Rights Watch is a US State Department vehicle, not a genuine human
rights organization
By Tony Logan
The broadening conflict between the US and Russia has brought to the
fore the role of the Human Rights Watch in promoting US State Department
and Pentagon propaganda. They do this by hiding themselves behind their
name, which leads the public to think that they are an independent group
of concerned world citizens merely working for human rights observance.
However, a brief visit to their web site alone should set off some alarm
bells. Human Rights Watch That's right! There is no interest shown by
this organization about human rights abuses by the US in Iraq or
Afghanistan! Somalia, too, is off their radar! These three countries are
not mentioned on their web site! At least not on the front page, and I
couldn't locate anything at all on other pages either.
When one sees such a thing and thinks about it a tad, then one begins to
wonder about where the funding comes from for a group called Human
Rights Watch? Here is Source Watch about the funding.
'On January 1, 2005 they obtained a five-year, $15 million challenge
grant from the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation. "The Sandlers and
their children will donate $3 million a year for five years through the
Sandler Family Supporting Foundation as long as Human Rights Watch
raises $6 million annually in matching funds from first-time donors or
existing donors who increase their contributions." [2]'
So who are the Sandler Family and their Sandler Foundation? We have to
go to wikipedia to find out this about Herb Sandler. Yes, he is a
billionaire Democratic Party promoter of the group, banker and
businessman.
We need to inform the public more about these billionaire promoters of
US State Department human rights propaganda who push the Pentagon
program for US world dominance. It is not only Human Rights Watch that
is a US State Department vehicle for propaganda dissemination, but also
the Carter Foundation, where one can quickly find out (if you think to
look?) that it too is head up by another billionaire. I am not talking
about Jimmy Carter either, but rather John Jay Moore, who is director of
the Board of Trustees of the Carter Center, another human rights
constantly blathering group respected so much by so many Democratic
Party voting liberal types.
So when you hear Human Rights Watch running on about such and such, or
so and so, ask yourself, do you really want American billionaires to be
defining 'human rights' for the world? Is it up to us to just blindly
follow the billionaires like Bill Gates, George Soros, et al when they
tell us who are supposedly being bad guys, and who are supposedly
respecting human rights throughout the world? These American
billionaires run US foreign policy even as they might be temporarily a
little bit at odds with one president or the other. They are not grand
defenders of human rights at all.
So back to Human Rights Watch for one more look at them and what they
are really doing in the world about us. Who is behind Human Rights
Watch? (2004)
Here below is the part about who is funding the HRW. You will see that
there are lots of other American billionaires doing it beside Big Wig
Businessman Sandler and his 'foundation'. Do you think that these are
the folks who really back human rights world wide? I don't, and neither
should you.
DONORS OF $100,000 OR MORE
Dorothy and Lewis Cullman
The Aaron Diamond Foundation
Irene Diamond
The Ford Foundation
The Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett Fund
Estate of Anne Johnson
The J. M. Kaplan Fund
The Fanny and Leo Koerner Charitable Trust
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The John Merck Fund
The Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
Novib, The Dutch Organization for Development Corporation,
The Overbrook Foundation
Oxfam
Donald Pels
The Ruben and Elisabeth Rausing Trust
The Rockefeller Foundation
Marion and Herbert Sandler, The Sandler Family Supporting Foundation
Susan and George Soros
Shelby White and Leon Levy
DONORS OF $25,000 - $99,999
The Arca Foundation
Helen and Robert Bernstein
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Nikki and David Brown
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Compton Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Davis
The Dr. Seuss Foundation
Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller
Jack Edelman
Epstein Philanthropies
Federation Internationalbacktheyin thee des Ligues des Droits de L'Homme
Barbara Finberg
General Service Foundation
Abby Gilmore and Arthur Freierman
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
Katherine Graham, The Washington Post Company
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Hudson News
Independence Foundation
The Isenberg Family Charitable Trust
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Robert and Ardis James
Jesuit Refugee Service
Nancy and Jerome Kohlberg
Lyn and Norman Lear
Joshua Mailman
Medico International
Moriah Fund, Inc.
Ruth Mott Fund
Kathleen Peratis and Richard Frank
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation
Ploughshares Fund
Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.
Anita and Gordon Roddick
Edna and Richard Salomon
Lorraine and Sid Sheinberg
Margaret R. Spanel
Time Warner Inc.
U.S. Jesuit Conference
Warner Brothers, Inc.
Edie and Lew Wasserman
Maureen White and Steven Rattner
Malcolm Wiener and Carolyn Seely Wiener
The Winston Foundation for World Peace
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