I’ve got two new pieces out. In my first article, for UnHerd, I unpick the announcement made by the Open Society Foundations (OSF), Soros’ powerful philanthropic organisation (now run by his son Alex), that it will be largely withdrawing from Europe. Why is the OSF moving out of the EU? What’s the future of the OSF? What is the organisation’s legacy? And, most importantly, why do we allow billionaires like Soros to use their (or in Soros Jr’s case, their dad’s) wealth and influence to shape the politics of entire nations?
In my second article of the week, published on the 50th anniversary of the bloody coup in Chile, which occurred on September 11, 1973, I review the US deep state’s crucial role in those events — and their continued relevance to the present. Some of the points I cover in the article: how Kissinger and Nixon made the decision to overthrow Allende just a few days after his election; how the CIA almost immediately put in motion a covert operation to destabilise and overthrow Allende, which involved identifying, recruiting, and supporting military officers willing to back a coup; how, even before Allende took office, the CIA oversaw a plot (which result in the general’s murder) to kidnap Gen. René Schneider, the commander in chief of the Chilean armed forces, because he opposed military interference in the election; and how the US supported for years Pinochet’s regime, which went on to murder or “disappear” thousands of political opponents. As I conclude: “This history has special relevance today, as governments throughout the Global South begin to mount new challenges to the US-led global order”.
Thomas Fazi 