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OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE

The Open Society Institute coordinates the activities of a global charitable network of national foundations established and funded by international financier George Soros in more than 60 countries. George Soros was named to BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the 50 Top American Givers, which recognizes the most generous U.S. philanthropists.

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Understanding The Koch Brothersmore

be threatened from both sides: overzealous regulators and overly concentrated capitalists. Mayer waves aside the...

Rich: The Billionaires��� Tea Partymore

stir among those in Manhattans liberal elite who didnt know that David Koch, widely celebrated for his cultural...

Rights groups express concerns about WikiLeaksmore

in Conflict, one of the five groups who wrote to Assange. The other groups were Amnesty International-Afghanistan, the...

Ann Arbors Fair Food Network to get $3 millionmore

entries�� The Ann Arbor-based Fair Food Network has secured a $3 million challenge grant from the New York-based Open...

Floods threaten to sink teetering economymore

and reconstruction part will require billions of dollars''. Dr Faisal Bari, a Pakistani economist and adviser to the...

Billionaires rise to $600 billion challengemore

during your lifetime or at death. The concept, called The Giving Pledge, could vastly change the face of philanthropy...

Soros Group Giving $11 Million to Arts Organizationsmore

The Open Society Institute, founded by George Soros, left, has awarded $11 million to 70 small and mid-sized New York...

Wikileaks' estranged co-founder becomes a criticmore

$5 million and to complain that an initial round of publicity had affected "our delicate negotiations with the...

Foreign Policy: Listening To 'Darfurian Voices'more

manner.' The three largest funders of the project were the U.S. State Department, Humanity United, and the Open Society...

Nisa, Roshni in Forbes heiresses' listmore

2 billion. The list also features New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's daughter Emma Bloomberg, famed American investor...

Country profile: Albaniamore

private stations, which have mushroomed since the late 1990s. The sector is in a "state of anarchy", the Open...

Plotting Path Into Future, NATO Confers With Thousands Onlinemore

Agenda, in coalition with other similar institutions like Chatham House, the Atlantic Council of the United States ,...

New Liberal Voice Casts Eye on Bloomberg and Beyondmore

adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and now receives financing from foundations (Ford Foundation and Open...

Are Kreuzberg's Muslims a Model for Integration?more

from their ethnic German and non-Muslim neighbors and enclosed within their own communities. A new report from the Open...

A New Liberal Voice Vows to Keep an Eye on Bloombergmore

founded by an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., and now receives funding from foundations (Ford Foundation and Open...

Soros backs Egypt weekly to give Arab bloggers exposuremore

was launched in Egypt on Thursday at the initiative of a women's group backed by US billionaire George Soros.

Billionaire George Soros to Google: "Consider Baltimore"more

George Soros, billionaire philanthropist, has pumped $70 million in Baltimore through the Open Society Institute.

A former military interrogator unearths the errors and fear-mongering ...more

a pseudonym) is a former senior military interrogator and author of . He is currently a Fellow for the Open Society...

With new Bagram prison, U.S. seeks to improve detention imagemore

that for years has dined on stories of torture and religious abuse. Jonathan Horowitz, a consultant with the Open...

How night raids undermine the war in Afghanistanmore

The most serious outstanding example of this is the continued reliance on night raids, which my organization, the Open...

Retreating from the war on drugsmore

system, which is partly privatized, explains Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, the director of the Global Drug Policy Program...

The Failed War on Drugs in Latin America: Could Decriminalization Be t...more

system, which is partly privatized, explains Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, the director of the Global Drug Policy Program...

The richest Americans are not all that generousmore

50 donors gave a total of $4.1 billion to charity in 2009, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which compiles...

`Then the Earth shook'more

I I had spent most of the day at Fokal, (the Open Society Institute in Haiti) and then I went to join Herns (at another...

Google, China square off over the Internetmore

and aiding and abetting China's enemies,' said Rebecca MacKinnon, an expert on the Chinese Internet at the Open Society...

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