Discover the Networks

"Follow the money"

- Deep Throat, All the President's Men

I found a site that Herr Barenjager should appreciate. It has visual maps that indicate direct affiliations between various left-wing, anti-war groups, funders, and individuals.

To quote form the site:

This site is a "Guide to the Political Left." It identifies the individuals and organizations that make up the left and also the institutions that fund and sustain it; it maps the paths through which the left exerts its influence on the larger body politic; it defines the left's (often hidden) programmatic agendas and it provides an understanding of its history and ideas.
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The disingenuous tradition of the political left has continued into the present. In the 1960s, the radical organizers of the mass anti-war demonstrations pretended that their only interest was to "Bring the Troops Home," when in fact their agendas embraced a radical menu that was anti-capitalist and welcomed a Communist victory. In the campaign against the war in Iraq, a similar pattern emerged, as the information provided in this database clearly demonstrates

Although this site focuses on the political left as it applies to the anti-war and environmentalist movement, the same principles apply to the Wal-Mart opposition as well. It would be interesting to draw similar visual maps to learn their true agenda (I pretty sure we all know what that is).