Civil Society Marches Toward Global Governance

[Michael Pugliese]

More reasoned than the usual rightist anti-NWO stuff I see (and I do share
the Counterpunch line on liberal NGO's, out of an instinctive populism
and/or anti-"corporate liberal" New Left line). Take a look see, (and see
what Doug might have become if he had continued climbing up the career path
that his "Party of the Right" peers did, instead of doing a reverse neo-con,
thank St. Karl he shifted to the left. (And why is the phenomena of
ex-rightists going left so much less common than the neo-connery route?).

BTW, the Tides Foundation in San Francisco, mentioned in the piece below, as
friends, and friends of friends will attest here in San Francisco (one
couple host marxist/radical study groups on the laundry list of left issues
[the male of the couple worked on a very interesting M-L Althusserian
journal out of Arizona long time ago called "Theoretical Practice"], others
are in the "Lorax" eco-socialist study group with some Earth Island
Institute folks like Daniel Faber,author of a Monthly Review Press book on
ecological destruction in Central America courtesy of U.S. imperialism) has
a "our way or the highway" approach about groups wanting to be part of
foundation grant gravy train of the bought off left-lib. group universe. The
San Francisco Bay Guardian had a great set of articles a while back on the
dangers of taking dollars from the big foundations that attach demobilizing
(i.e. get sucked up into relating to the elite centrist policy wonk arena,
thou shalt not organize noisy troublesome grass roots) conditions to the
grants. (Max, that rant doesn't apply to EPI, keep up the good work, OK, and
that goes for Jeff Faux, etc. (And to think in '92, Clinton pretended to
listen to Jeff, and wanted to appoint Bob McIntyre of CTJ, to the CEA (???)
but GOP congressmen blocked it, like they did to Derek Shearer)

                                  Michael Pugliese

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