THE PURPOSE OF AVAAZ: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Wrong Kind of Green Op-Ed

December 21, 2015
By Jay Taber

Avaaz (initially financed by convicted inside trader George Soros) is the Blackwater of
PSYWARmercenaries posing as missionaries. The non-profit Avaaz works closely with its forprofit arm and PR firm Purpose. As a social media NGO, Avaaz promotes campaigns to
undermine governments hostile to US hegemony, especially in South America, Africa and the
Middle East.

Avaaz co-founder and former U.S. Congressman Tom Perriello with war criminal, General
David Petraeus (far left). Under this Flickr photo the caption reads: Passing the Baton, United
States Institute of Peace [2009] [Photo: Jon-Phillip Sheridan | Source] [In July, 2011,
General David Petraeus was approved as CIA Director by both the Senate Intelligence
Committee and then the full Senate, whose vote was an astounding 94-0, astounding because this
is a man who was deeply implicated in war crimes, including torture. Source]

The core cadre of Avaaz Tom Perriello, Ricken Patel, Tom Pravda, Jeremy Heimans, David
Madden, Eli Pariser and Andrea Woodhouse have working relationships with the UN and
World Bank, and coordinate with US-controlled institutions like the UN Security Council and
UN Human Rights Council. When challenges to US hegemony arise such as in Bolivia,
Libya, Syria, Burundi and Congo Avaaz and Purpose create campaigns to discredit and
destabilize these independent governments.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry releases the 2015 Quadrennial Diplomacy and
Development Review (QDDR) outlining the strategic priorities to be pursued by the
U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
with USAID Acting Administrator Alfonso Lenhardt, Deputy Secretary of State for
Management and Resources Heather Higginbottom, and Special Representative for
the QDDR and Avaaz co-founder Tom Perriello at the U.S. Department of State in
Washington, DC on April 28, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

With the US-controlled NATO as the de facto military enforcement arm of the UN, the interests
of Wall Street merge with the Pentagon and U.S. State Department to thwart challenges from
regional bodies like the African Union. Public support in the US and EU for murdering
indigenous African leaders like Lumumba and Gaddafi is aided by Wall Street control of media,
especially social media, which positions Avaaz as a key player in Neoliberal imperialism.

Above: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad demonization campaign by Avaaz. Avaaz The
Behavioural Economics of Hatred: SYRIA: Avaaz, Purpose & the Art of Selling Hate for Empire
This conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity is well-documented, but not well-known.
Most consumers of social media are under the illusion that the UN is an honest broker, and that
the Wall Street fronts Avaaz and Purpose are somehow grassroots. Working with increasingly
corrupt NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch essentially owned by
Soros Avaaz and Purpose create the illusion of advocating for human rights, which, in turn,
serves as pretext for economic sanctions by the IMF and military invasions by NATO.
Ironically, the mass murders and warlords that NATO and the UN use as justification for
invasion are often armed by the US and EU, which begs the questionWho is really committing
crimes against humanity, the gangsters on the ground, or the manipulators of public opinion?