It
is no coincidence that some of the world’s most ardent imperialists
are behind the cynical exploitation of one heinous murder — of
British MP Jo Cox — to enable global mass-murder as well as human
trafficking under the pretext of “ethical” and “humanitarian”
intervention.
by
Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb
Part
5 - The billionaires behind the Jo Cox Fund
The Jo
Cox Fund was set up, only 24 hours after the MP’s death, by four of
Cox’s “friends” in London , who said they had set up the
fundraiser in “close collaboration” with Cox’s husband, Brendan
Cox. Cox’s “friends” that co-founded the fund are as follows,
along with the organizational affiliations they freely provided on
the fund’s page: Nick Grono (CEO, The Freedom Fund), Tim Dixon (MD,
Purpose), Mabel van Oranje (Chair, Girls Not Brides), and Gemma
Mortensen (Chief Global Officer, Change.org). Two of those four, Nick
Grono and Mabel van Oranje, would go on to serve on the board of the
Jo Cox Foundation.
However,
these four figures — upon closer examination — are clearly much
more than just four grieving friends of the late MP who just happen
to also serve prominent roles on well-known non-governmental
organizations and charities. In reality, all four are deeply
connected to some of the most powerful interests in the world, many
with nefarious agendas, that have long sought to hijack NGOs and
other humanitarian organizations and weaponize them in the service of
major political goals, including regime change targeting “rogue
states.”
Of the
four founders of the Jo Cox Fund, there is perhaps no one that
epitomizes these types of connections more than Mabel van Oranje, nee
Wisse Smit. Though often touted as a human-rights advocate for her
role in organizations like Girls Not Brides and War Child
Netherlands, a closer examination of van Oranje’s history reveals
not only deep connections to some of the world’s most powerful
people but also past connections to previous Western-backed
regime-change operations.
Van
Oranje and Cox were both “recognized” by the World Economic Forum
(WEF). Cox was honored posthumously as a WEF Young Global Leader
while van Oranje was named a WEF Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2003
and listed among its Young Global Leaders in 2005. The overlap of
mutual award ceremonies among the organizations and individual
players who form the ever-expanding imperialist network are brought
into sharp relief by this examination of the Jo Cox Fund and those
who breathed life into it. Certainly, there are very few globalist
entities that epitomize the well-heeled financial, economic and
corporate mafia sectors more than the WEF.
However,
van Oranje is much more notable among the soft-power complex elite —
not for her role at Girls Not Brides nor other NGOs — but for
co-founding the European Council on Foreign Relations, a globalist
pan-European think-tank whose members are a mix of EU politicians and
top figures in the European media. However, the ECFR is more than
just a think-tank, given that it is essentially an extension of one
powerful and controversial billionaire, George Soros, whose Open
Society Foundation was largely responsible for providing the ECFR’s
initial funding.
The
Soros connection only deepens as one examines van Oranje’s past.
Indeed, van Oranje was the director of EU Affairs of Soros’ Open
Society Institute (OSI) beginning in 1997 until 2002, when she became
International Advocacy Director for the Open Society Institute’s
branch in London. Notably, George Soros is one of the chief funders
behind the most prominent NGOs and other “humanitarian”
organizations that have consistently promoted Western military
intervention in the Syrian conflict.
Furthermore,
van Oranje’s private life makes her connections to some of the
world’s leading globalists even more clear. In 2004, while working
for the OSI, Mabel Martine Wisse Smit (maiden name) married the late
Prince Fiso of the Netherlands, son of Queen Beatrix — a regular
Bilderberg attendee — and the grandson of Prince Bernhard of the
Netherlands – the German-born Dutch royal who co-founded the
Bilderberg Group in 1954.
Yet, of
van Oranje’s innumerable connections to powerful billionaires and
the global elite, her most striking connection — in the context of
Syria at least — was perhaps one of her first. In 1993, van Oranje
— at the age of 25 and just out of university — founded the
European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans and served as its
CEO until 1997, when she left to join Soro’s OSI.
Despite
its name appearing to advocate for “peace” in the Balkans, the
group van Oranje founded was instead stocked with powerful U.S.
political figures who advocated for anything but peace in the Balkan
states. For instance, some of the members of the group’s executive
council included Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor under
former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; Frank Carlucci, Deputy CIA
Director under Carter and National Security Advisor and Deputy
Secretary of Defense under former U.S. President Ronald Reagan; Max
Kampleman, head of Reagan’s nuclear weapons team; and Jeanne
Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Other
key members and influencers working within the upper echelons of van
Oranje’s council include Morton Abramowitz, former U.S. ambassador
to Turkey and board member of Human Rights Watch, and Aryeh Neier,
co-founder of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in 1978 and long-time
president of Soros’ OSI. Human Rights Watch is a prominent NGO that
uses its “humanitarian” exterior to push pro-intervention agendas
that are promoted by the governments and billionaires who fund and
support it. For instance, HRW was awarded $100m to expand its global
presence over a 10 year period by Soros and his associated
organizations in 2010, and has formed a critical part of the
“humanitarian” pro-military intervention lobby since the 1990s.
HRW also has close ties to U.S. intelligence and is one of the many
CIA outreach agents designed to provide, yet again, cover for the
Pentagon’s military fist inside the velvet glove of “humanitarian”
concerns.
How van
Oranje was able to furnish her newly founded action council with such
powerful figures, particularly just after finishing her senior year
of college only months prior, is a testament to the strength of her
connections, even before she began work for Soros’ elite
power-protectionist group or became a member of the Dutch royal
family.
Unsurprisingly,
the European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans issued a call in
1995, under van Oranje’s leadership, for “an end to the arms
embargo against Bosnia, the withdrawal of the UN forces from Bosnia
and an effective NATO air campaign.”
Despite
being an alleged “council for peace,” the van Oranje-led group
demanded that any “air campaign” be both “strategic and
sustained,” not “pinprick strikes.” In other words, this group
called for an intense, brutal and long-lasting bombing campaign of
the country, much like the type of bombing campaign promoted for use
in Syria by groups like Crisis Action — with members such as van
Oranje and Mortensen of the Jo Cox Fund, as well as Jo Cox herself
before her death. At the time, the van Oranje-chaired group on the
Balkan conflict had also asserted that “a failure to act will be
disastrous for the people of Bosnia, for the U.S., and for our vital
interests in Europe” — the familiar clarion call to war in
the interests of a “national security” under no threat from the
country in the crosshairs.
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