arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP:
SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?

by bob feldman

The mass-circulation weekly TEMPO accused Ford of having once played, at the urging of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a covert role in Indonesian political affairs by consciously supporting the work of individuals who were deemed to be sympathetic to the anti-communist aims of American foreign policy.
— Chronicle of Philanthropy, 12/13/01

The Ford Foundation's history of collaboration and interlock with the CIA in pursuit of U.S. world hegemony is now a well-documented fact...The Ford Foundation has in some ways refined their style of collaboration with Washington's attempt to produce world cultural domination, but retained the substance of that policy...The ties between the top officials of the Ford Foundation and the U.S. government are explicit and continuing.
—James Petras in "The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police" on 12/15/2001

The multi-billion dollar Ford Foundation's historic relationship to the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] is rarely mentioned on Pacifica's DEMOCRACY NOW / Deep Dish TV show, on FAIR's COUNTERSPIN show, on the WORKING ASSETS RADIO show, on The Nation Institute's RADIO NATION show, on David Barsamian's ALTERNATIVE RADIO show or in the pages of PROGRESSIVE, MOTHER JONES and Z magazine. One reason may be because the Ford Foundation and other Establishment foundations subsidize the Establishment Left's alternative media gatekeepers / censors.

NEW: COUNTERPUNCH's FERI/Roosevelt Dynasty Connection? — part 1 More Nation Magazine — Big Oil Links Project Censored's MacArthur Foundation Link

Time For Ford Foundation & CFR To Divest?

THE NATION's NED Connection — part 1 / part 2
The Nation magazine's not-so-progressive connections to the National Endowment for Democracy and other private agencies with elite ties to the US foreign policy establishment.

Part 1: PACIFICA / DEMOCRACY NOW / DEEP DISH TV

Part 2: FAIR / COUNTERSPIN / INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY / WORKING ASSETS RADIO

Part 3: THE NATION INSTITUTE / RADIO NATION / THE NATION MAGAZINE

Part 4: ALTERNATIVE RADIO / Z MAGAZINE / SOUTH END PRESS

Part 5: MOTHER JONES / FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS

Part 6: PROGRESSIVE

Part 7: FORD FOUNDATION, THE CIA & U.S. ESTABLISHMENT CONSPIRACY — part 1

Part 8: FORD FOUNDATION, THE CIA & U.S. ESTABLISHMENT CONSPIRACY — part 2

Part 9: FORD FOUNDATION, THE CIA & U.S. ESTABLISHMENT CONSPIRACY — part 3

Part 10: POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES' EDELMAN-BUNDY CONNECTION

The Ford Foundation's Skull and Bones Link

"Alternative" media paymasters: Carlyle, Alcoa, Xerox, Coca Cola...? (Brian Salter, 29 Sep 2002)
A look at some connections of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees...

commentary: Bob Feldman and Brian Salter reply to a reader (21 Sep 2002)

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"GATEKEEPERS" flyer — please print it out and distribute widely!

Gatekeepers chart by Eric Salter. Special thanks to Don Paul for editorial assistance.

For further reading about the Left establishment media and marginalization of independent 9/11 research: The Gatekeepers

voir la lettre ouverte de indymedia argentine: http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/72870.php

Ford Foundation funding issue/debate

Ford Foundation funding issue/debate

• first proposal - March 2002
• michael eisenmenger comments - September 2002
• latest proposal - September 2002
• explanations from people who worked on it: one, two, three
• collectives opposing it: argentina, italy, athens, melbourne,san fransisco, barcelona
• individual contributions: gekked, ilias, kevin, ana, dan, john
• doug's summary - This note explores some implications for grass roots imc network processes, based in some points raised in the ford foundation grant debate.
• Ford Foundation grantees: http://www.fordfound.org/grants_db/view_grant_detail1.cfm
• michael's response + summary of other responses