I asked two questions in a previous blog about the State Department's involvement in a joint venture with the Department of Education. We discussed MO DESE promoting quite extensively "International Week" on its website, while making a passing reference (listing only the date) of US Constitution Week and Citizenship Day on the same site.
We are concerned with the emphasis on globalism at the expense of American exceptionalism. We linked to a letter from Hilary Clinton stating how the US and other countries together can resolve to work on poverty and hunger, climate change, public health, and economic revitalization. We questioned when and why the State Department became involved in educational agendas.
David Horowitz may have given us the answer. This is from the William Clinton Foundation website:
The William J. Clinton Foundation (WCF) was established by former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 2001 “to alleviate poverty, improve global health, strengthen economies, and protect the environment.” Claiming to be politically nonpartisan, the foundation administers several major programs, of which the best-known is the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).
The goals sound identical in both Hilary's and Bill's press releases. Many of the sponsors of the Clinton Foundation are those who support cap and trade, and in fact, at this 2007 Summit, Bill Clinton advocated a form of Cap-and-Trade that would raise energy prices while purportedly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Some CGI activities, such as this greenhouse-gas initiative, are of a highly political nature. Others, however, are not politicized – particularly those that focus their philanthropy on impoverished peoples in Africa.
Could it be The Clinton Foundation is a mixed bag of intentions? It seems some of the initiatives are not political but many are...look at the list of many of the sponsors and donors listed on the site. It is a Who's Who List of the Progressive Left: George Soros, The Center for American Progress, Al Gore, Ron Pollack. In fact, the Clinton Initiative is funded heavily by the Democracy Alliance:
Clinton Foundation donors Peter Lewis, Bren Simon, and George Soros are also members of the Democracy Alliance, the nonprofit that would create a permanent political infrastructure of nonprofits, think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups—a kind of “vast left-wing conspiracy” to compete with the conservative movement.
We return to our misgivings about the continuing push for international education goals vs constitutional goals. We have a clearer idea of where the agenda is originating and who is behind it. Now we can deduce why the State Department is partnering with the Department of Education.
This is from Foundation Watch in 2008:
Bill Clinton is masterminding his charitable foundation’s fundraising campaign at the same time that he advises his wife’s presidential campaign. Might that create some conflicts of interest? At the very least, linking nonprofit fundraising to political proximity is sure to generate lots of philanthropic clout—but to what end? Bill Clinton promises to disclose the names of donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation when his wife becomes president. How reassuring.
Hilary Clinton did not win her party's nomination but she accepted a national position with power and influence. Is Bill Clinton pushing his progressive left donors' agenda through the Secretary of State's office via the Department of Education? As noted above, Democracy Alliance wants to create a permanent political infrastructure of nonprofits, think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups. That is not reassuring.
International education, IB Curriculum, social justice vs The US Constitution indeed.
