This is part 3 of a series of how large NGOs funded and carried out the work of US deep state. Click here to read part 1 and here for part 2.
George Soros is 94 years old. In 2023, he handed over the reins of his $25-billion charity empire, Open Society Foundation, to Alexander Soros, one of his five sons. In an interview to Wall Street Journal, Soros junior stated that he and his father “think alike” and that he was “more political” than his father.
A couple of months after taking charge, Alexander Soros withdrew a large amount of funding by OSF to a maze of NGOs and media houses in different parts of the world.
A year later, in 2024, the Global South was on the agenda—OSF announced funding for “green industrial policies” in the “Americas, Africa, the Middle East and North Africa region, and Southeast Asia”, according to a press release on the site. It is clear where the targets are.
Alexander Soros, unlike his father, has made it a point to visit world leaders and post photographs with them.
Take Muhammad Yunus, the current interim leader of Bangladesh, whom Soros junior met in October this year.
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This visit was just after the country descended into chaos and a regime change was successfully executed. Coincidence? Perhaps. But more likely not.
AdvertisementThe connections run deep. In 1999, Yunus got $11 million as a loan from the Soros Economic Development Fund, which was helmed by George Soros at the time. This loan catapulted Yunus to extraordinary success and consolidated power over Bangladeshi society.
Alexander Soros has also met French President Emmanuel Macron in November. In a strange coincidence, the French government fell shortly thereafter.
Great to see President @EmmanuelMacron in Paris this week at the @ParisPeaceForum and discuss the forum's future as we seek to find innovative ways to work together in an increasingly fragmented world at the Élysée. pic.twitter.com/Wz4TAH3YBL
November 14, 2024So what is Soros junior up to after withdrawing funding from a host of NGOs and media organisations that are largely digital publications? The annual reports of Open Society Foundation provide clues.
AdvertisementAlexander Soros appears to have set his sights on funding “new media”—content creators for OTT and social media. This is evident from Media Development Investment Fund's 2022 annual report, which is on the Foundation's own website. Through MDIF, which has been created under the OSF umbrella, content creators for OTT and social media are being funded. There is even an India Pilot Project that has begun, with $2.75 million being given to two companies to further this goal. As per its 2024 Impact report, 255 million people accessed news and information through MDIF clients last year.
While George Soros put his money into written publications, Alexander Soros is attempting to harness the power of new media to better amplify the message of the US Deep State.
The Fiancee With Muslim Brotherhood Links
Alexander Soros announced his engagement with Huma Abedin in an Instagram post in July this year.
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Abedin's is a controversial background. Her Delhi-born father Syed Zaynul Abedin moved to the US sometime in the 1960s-70s and married a Pakistani—Saleha Abedin. Saleha Abedin completed her PhD on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania by 1977. Along with two-year-old Huma, the couple moved to Saudi Arabia, answering the call of Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef tasked Syed Abedin with setting up and managing the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs at the King Abdul Aziz University.
Syed Abedin launched the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs in 1979. This journal was then taken over by his wife Saleha in 1993, once he passed. Huma was the assistant editor from 1996 to 2008. Huma's brother Hassan Abedin is also an associate editor of this journal.
But Naseef was no ordinary man. He was then the Secretary of the Muslim World League, one of the most powerful ideological founts of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Naseef went on to create the Rabita Trust in 1988, which became the key source of funding for Al Qaeda. In effect, Naseef was al Qaeda's godfather.
In 2001, a month after the 9/11 attacks, Rabita Trust was proscribed as a terror funding charity and its assets were frozen. He was also named in one of the charges relating to the 9/11 attacks, but the case was dropped in 2010 over questions of jurisdiction.
It is alongside Naseef that Huma Abedin spent seven years of her life in Saudi Arabia, while working on the journal.
Abedin's mother Saleha is one of the key members of the Muslim Sisterhood, formed by the wives and female relatives of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
She is also actively involved with the Union of Good, a US-based charity that has been accused of funnelling large sums of money to terror outfit Hamas. The late Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who died in 2022, also had close ties with Huma's mother Saleha Abedin, as he was the chair of the Union of Good.
al-Qaradawi was the spiritual force for the Muslim Brotherhood. While he was alive, he was extremely influential, preaching an extreme form of Sharia law and issuing fatwas exhorting Sunni Muslims to wage war against Israel, murder US citizens in Iraq and encouraging suicide bombing by calling it the “supreme form of jihad".
Back to Huma Abedin now. At the same time as she was working as an assistant editor of the Journal of Minority Affairs, she was also working in Hillary Clinton's office between 1996 and 2003, becoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff. In fact, it was at her request that Hillary Clinton addressed students at Dar El-Hekma in Saudi Arabia in 2010.
It was also around this time that Abedin was a member of the Executive Board of the Muslim Students Association at George Washington University. The MSA has a huge network of chapters in colleges across the US and is the think-tank and mobilisation wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.
In 2015, Republican lawmakers attacked Huma Abedin over her and her family's links to terror organisations while working with then Vice President Hillary Clinton. By all accounts, the two women are close. However, the Democrats staunchly came to her defence and the allegations died down.
While George Soros is said to be a part of the US Deep State, what is clear is that a new and dangerous alliance has been forged. All countries will have to be vigilant about how the Soros couple is spending their fortune.
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