what's left  Archive for the ‘Foundation Left’ Category  Reply
to Peace Activist Stellan Vinthagen  with 6 comments  By Stephen
Gowans  The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, founded
by the junk-bond king Michael Milken’s former right-hand man
Peter Ackerman, is accumulating a stable of academic advisors
who in the last week have written a series of articles on
nonviolent civil disobedience for the website openDemocracy.
openDemocracy is a flashy website ostensibly committed to
progressive causes but whose backers are anything but
progressive, unless you think corporate philanthropists and
strenuously anti-communist billionaire financier George Soros
are cutting checks to individuals and groups working toward
traditional leftist goals.  One article, People power and the
new global ferment, written by ICNC academic advisor Stellan
Vinthagen, accuses me and Eva Golinger of spinning conspiracy
theories. According to Vinthagen, a Swedish sociology professor,
…a final sign of the growing impact of civil