Tag: Thor Halvorssen

MEET THOR HALVORSSEN, NEOCON SCAM ARTIST WHO HEADS BOGUS HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION

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With backing from his filthy rich, right-wing Venezuelan family and help from a credulous American press corps, Thor Halvorssen has become one of the best-known human rights advocates in the United States and internationally. The New York Times has said he “champions the underdog and the powerless” while Buzzfeed raves that he “possesses a burning desire to right the countless injustices of this world … and he does not care if those injustices are being committed by the ‘right-wing’ or ‘left-wing’ regimes.”

MEET THOR HALVORSSEN, NEOCON SCAM ARTIST WHO HEADS BOGUS HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION

[2013] Using Human Rights for Right-Wing Politics

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Using Human Rights for Right-Wing Politics

Peter Thiel, a billionaire hedge fund manager, a personal friend of Thor Halvorssen and a donor to OFF, was a speaker at the 2011 forum. Little did the audience know of Thiel’s personal ties with Halvorssen and the fact that he helped fund the Forum. I believe it’s safe to assume that the vast majority did not have knowledge of Thiel’s views on democracy either. “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” The Electronic Intifada quotes him writing in his manifest. He is also concerned that extensions of women’s rights “have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.”

**Although this article does not mention it the Human Rights Foundation joined with Human Rights Watch, in 2013, to propagandize against the U.S. celebrity singer Jennifer Lopez, charging her with “serenading crooks and dictators,” all of whom, it turns out, are on the U.S. Government’s Official Enemies list.

SourceWatch, referring to When J.Lo Sang for the Dictator.

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Thiel, a self-described libertarian and opponent of democracy who made his fortune as the founder of PayPal, launched Palantir in 2004 to profit from what the Wall Street Journal described as “the government spy-services marketplace.” The CIA’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, was brought in to back up Thiel as one of Palantir’s first outside investors. Today, Palantir’s valuation is reported to be in the billions.