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Nation Magazine — Big Oil Links
by bob feldman
16 Nov 2002
Besides having one of its co-owners--NATION editor Katrina vanden
Heuvel--sitting on the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
[FERI] board between International Rescue Committee board member
William vanden Heuvel and former Texaco board member John Brademas,
there's another link between Big Oil and a NATION magazine co-owner.
NATION magazine Co-Owner Paul Newman has also been the co-chair
of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy [CECP], along
with the former Chair and CEO of Chevron, Ken Derr, in recent
years. Ford Foundation board member Paul Allaire has, at the same
time, been the vice-chair of the CECP Establishment organization
which NATION magazine co-owner Paul Newman co-chairs. The honorary
chair of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy is
David Rockefeller; and another member of the CECP is former International
Rescue Committee John Whitehead
According to the CECP's website, its purpose is to "promote
strategic philanthropy, including making multi-year commitment
to programs that fit the primary interest of individual companies.".
One reason COUNTERPUNCH may be unwilling to expose THE NATION's
links to Big Oil may be because the vice-president of the Institute
for Journalistic Clarity which publishes COUNTERPUNCH, Ford Roosevelt,
has also been, in recent years, a Senior Advisor to the Franklin
& Eleanor Roosevelt Institute on whose board sits former Texaco
Director and former National Endowment for Democracy chair John
Brademas, NATION magazine Co-Owner & Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel
and International Rescue Committee Board member William vanden
Heuvel. One of the editors of COUNTERPUNCH also is apparently
still on the payroll of THE NATION magazine's co-owners. So COUNTERPUNCH
seems to be into attempting to divert anti-war grassroots attention
away from examining either THE NATION's links to Big Oil & the
FERI, MIT's continued 21st-century complicity with the Institute
for Defense Analyses and the U.S. war machine, or the MacArthur
Foundation's recent subsidization of the work of anti-conspiracy
theorist Ken Silverstein--a former co-editor of the Roosevelt
Dynasty-linked COUNTERPUNCH anti-conspiracist newsletter/NATION-satellite
journal. One result is that the "academics for peace" parallel
anti-war movement of the 21st-century is still not effectively
protesting against U.S. university complicity with IDA, the U.S.
war machine and Big Oil.
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