Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a disturbing new report.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a $1.4 billion U.S.-based charity with funding from the Rockefeller family and other donors, has forged a “dangerous partnership with Communist China” and is pouring millions of dollars into China-based nonprofits that are advancing the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy goals.
That’s one of the findings in a new report, “The Rockefeller Network: How the Rockefeller Family Turned Their Oil Fortune into Extreme Climate Activism,” out today from Americans for Public Trust, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative watchdog organization. The report, an advance copy of which was obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon, outlines how the billion-dollar fortune of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller Sr., who died in 1937, is being used “to quietly bankroll numerous radical and leftist projects.”
While political spending by far-left billionaires and networks has attracted attention, the role of nonprofit organizations such as the Rockefeller network has been less extensively scrutinized, even though it is influential. If people think of Rockefeller charity at all, they might recall John D. Rockefeller Sr.’s role in founding the University of Chicago, where the Rockefeller Chapel is a campus landmark, or Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s role in founding New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, where the central sculpture garden is named after her. Today’s Rockefeller charities have taken a dramatic turn in a different direction, the new report says.
“The Rockefeller name used to be a symbol of philanthropy, but they have transformed into a tool of the far left,” said the executive director of Americans for Public Trust, Caitlin Sutherland. “Between bankrolling China-based organizations connected to the Chinese Communist Party, including those driving the Belt and Road Initiative, and their climate activism and alarmism targeting the American energy sector, the Rockefeller Network is showing their true colors. It is long overdue for the Rockefeller Network to be exposed for the dangerous policies they are advocating for in America and around the world.”
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