The Open Society Foundations (OSF) recently announced that after nearly three years of internal restructuring, their first major commitment will be a $400 million package aimed at supporting “green economic development.”
Binaifer Nowrojee, the newly appointed president of OSF, gave an interesting interview to the Associated Press about this. The list of target countries is notable: Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Senegal, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Two of these are BRICS members, but the others have taken cautious steps towards the East in recent times.
Furthermore, these countries have mineral resources that the West would need to compete with China.
And lo and behold? According to Nowrojee, the aim of this framework will be to influence decision-makers in these states to “assist” in matters such as “How to handle critical mineral issues?”
The president of OSF also revealed that the network currently possesses an incredible $25 billion in assets, completely controlled by the Soros family. The organization’s board of directors had 20 members a few years ago, but has now shrunk to six, with three of them being relatives. In 2022, Soros’s son, Alex, took over the leadership of the board, and he is the one behind the major restructuring idea.
Nowrojee also spoke to the news agency about this. OSF has been one of the largest supporters of “human rights activists and political opposition” worldwide, but “suspended new funding for most of the past year as it shifted to a new operating model.”
Meanwhile, as a farewell gesture, they distributed $300 million to organizations that – once again – the AP also referred to as “political opposition.” (We’ll come back to this in a moment.)
The president of OSF emphasized that their mission remains the same, although their approach may change due to the changing world. “In some countries where OSF has made significant investments for years, political dissent and free speech have ceased. Myanmar, for example, which has been under military control since 2021, and Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government has effectively marginalized OSF and the Soros-founded Central European University. Authoritarianism and populism are gaining ground in many countries, including Europeans” – he lamented.
Essentially, he admitted that contrary to all claims, their real goal was political influence, but it seems that their conflict with Viktor Orbán has forced OSF to completely overhaul its operational structure.
Many may regret this, as 40% of the global network’s 800 employees had to be laid off, and numerous local organizations were “privatized.”
Of course, this does not mean that they have completely abandoned their original plans, but it seems that they want to continue their activities on different levels, and under the guise of green politics, they intend to promote many things, such as occasional renewable attacks against battery factories, which are more political than environmental.
Returning to the aforementioned “farewell bonuses,” we examined how the transformations planned by Alex Soros affected larger Hungarian organizations collaborating with the network.
For example, in the case of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, it is evident that its revenues grew significantly from 2022 to 2023, with the amount categorically recorded as support rising by more than a hundred million forints (from 586 million to 697 million). However, their resources from OSF seem to be shrinking, but they have increased support from Brussels and also gained a new sponsor in recent years: the American National Endowment for Democracy, notorious for its left-wing campaign finance scandal.
Meanwhile, the Atlatszo.net Foundation received 16 million forints in 2021, but 26 million in 2023 from the Open Society Institute.
In the case of Amnesty International, it appears that they receive significant support from Brussels, while the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta, which assists migrants, have the UN as their main sponsor, receiving four times more support from them than from Soros, and significant contributions from the EU as well.
From these selected examples, it is evident that despite acknowledging failure, the network of Soros’s Open Society Foundations has not completely withdrawn from Hungary yet. Nonetheless, when they do, Brussels and other globalist/federalist forces will step in. Therefore, we have no reason to relax.