The oligarchs behind the “humanitarian” regime change network now exploiting Jo Cox’s death to push for UK Labour split
Only
by masking their otherwise unpopular policies in the cloak of Jo
Cox’s tragedy, and humanity’s natural empathy for good samaritans
and the downtrodden, has this small group of powerful individuals
been able to launder disastrous wars and military adventurism as “the
right thing to do.”
by
Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb
Part
3 - Who is Jeffrey Skoll?
Following
on from his success at Ebay that ensured Skoll’s meteoric rise to
the ranks of the billionaire elite, Skoll has capitalized upon that
success to garner multiple awards from within the monied elite
circles that he now inhabits.
Skoll
has been awarded the Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy, which is
considered to be the equivalent to the Nobel Peace Prize for
philanthropy. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a
big-business club that is described as a “foreign policy think
tank” with centers in Washington, New Delhi, Moscow, Beirut and
Beijing. Former President Jessica Matthews said that her aim was to
make Carnegie the place where world thinking can be incorporated into
thinking about U.S policy and to transmit that thinking to the global
audience.
On the
Carnegie board of trustees is Syrian oil magnate Ayman Asfari, a U.K.
resident and financial contributor to the Conservative government
that has been at the forefront of the U.S. Coalition war effort in
Syria. Asfari has been instrumental in financing much of the PR
industry, including the White Helmets, that builds the
“regime-change” narratives that criminalize the Syrian government
and its allies, an effort detailed in Parts 1 and 2 of this series.
Skoll
established Participant Media (PM) in 2004. As with so many of the
social-consciousness documentary production sites that have sprung up
in recent times to alter our perception with beautifully crafted
storylines designed to mobilize bias in a particular direction, PM
claims to combine the “power of a good story well told with
opportunities for real world impact.” PM joins the throng of
billionaire-funded and -founded media and PR agencies of power.
Diane
Weyermann is PM’s president of documentary film and television.
Weyermann previously worked with Robert Redford’s Sundance
Institute, which has played a pivotal role in promoting the White
Helmet Oscar-winning “documentaries.” For seven years Weyermann
was the director of the Open Society Institute New York’s arts and
culture program. Weyermann also launched the Soros Documentary Fund
which later became the Sundance Documentary Fund in 1996.
Skoll
has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada “for his
generous commitment to social causes and for his innovative practice
of philanthropy.” Very often the bridge between big business
and government agencies is made by such ostensibly “philanthropic”
activities of the capitalist entities and individuals.
The
Canadian government reportedly led the organization of the recent
evacuation of alleged White Helmet operatives out of southern Syria
via Israeli occupied Syrian territory in the Golan Heights, before
they were transported to Jordan and on to their countries of
resettlement, which include Canada, the U.K., France and Germany.
The
Canadian government has been a consistently staunch supporter of the
White Helmets, backing their multiple bids for the Nobel Peace Prize
despite protests from groups and individuals who campaigned against
Canada joining with the France-U.K.-U.S. (FUKUS) alliance that has
strongly pushed for the downfall of the Assad government. Canadian
foreign policy has effectively aligned itself with the Syrian-linked
philanthrocapitalist sector led by individuals like Skoll.
Skoll
slots into the billionaire complex that underpins the White Helmet
structure with ease. In 2015, Skoll had a “conversation” with
Mabel Van Oranje on “Belief in a Collective Future.”
Skoll
has donated heavily to the Clinton Foundation and met with Hillary
Clinton when she was secretary of state during the early days of the
conflict in Syria. The Skoll Foundation has partnered in at least 21
commitments to programs designed by the Clinton Global Initiative. In
April 2012, Clinton met with Skoll and Sally Osberg of Skoll’s
charity during a U.S State Department-sponsored forum on
government-business partnerships. The same month, USAID, the State
Department/CIA contractor for expanding U.S global influence,
announced a partnership with the Skoll Foundation to invest in
health, energy, governance and food-security innovations. USAID has
also provided at least $31m in funding to the White Helmets in Syria
via one of its preferred subcontractors, Chemonics.
Skoll
united with British business tycoon Richard Branson and Mabel Van
Oranje in the funding of The Elders. Van Oranje resigned from her
position as CEO of The Elders in 2012. It was Skoll’s Participant
Media that produced Al Gore’s 2006 apocalyptic movie An
Inconvenient Truth. Gore was Bill Clinton’s Vice President from
1993 – 2001. Skoll’s investment management firm, Capricorn
Investment LLC, also received a $35 million investment from Gore
following the film’s success, which the firm invested into hedge
funds and private partnerships, helping to grow Gore’s now sizeable
fortune. Skoll co-founded Capricorn Investment LLC with former Vice
President of Goldman Sachs Stephen George.
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