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Re:Final National Security Guardrails for Chips for America ... by RobotToaster on Friday September 22, 2023 @03:09PM (#37616342)
>The Times pointed out that CSIS is funded largely by Western and Gulf monarchy governments, arms dealers and oil companies, such as Raytheon, Boeing, Shell, the United Arab Emirates, US Department of Defense, UK Home Office, General Dynamics, Exxon Mobil, Northrop Grumman, Chevron and others.

>That CSIS would promote the expansion of the military and surveillance state is predictable, since that’s who pays its bills; what the Times revealed was a specific, rather direct example of this, using heretofore secret documents.

https://fair.org/home/nyt-exposes-a-favorite-source-as-war-i...

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Re:Final National Security Guardrails for Chips for America ... by SubiculumCode on Friday September 22, 2023 @03:46PM (#37616807)
When I listen to CSIS, I know what their biases are: National Security, and more of it, but I don't rank fair.org that highly, and their review of CSIS seems more accusation than evidence. Donations do not always equal corruption, and they mislead in indicating just those donors without indicating other large donors.

I'll list just the donors 250k or more

    M.J. Chung 
    Dalio Philanthropies 
    John and Julie Hamre 
    Jim McNerney 
    Khosravi Family Foundation 
    The Margot and Thomas Pritzker Family Foundation 
    Andrew and Barbara Taylor 
    Byron D. Trott 

    Government of the United States 
    Government of Japan 
    Government of the Republic of Korea 
    Government of the United Arab Emirates 
    Taiwan 

    Amazon Inc. 
    Aramco  
    Bank of America Corporation 
    Chevron Corporation  
    Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC 
    Exxon Mobil Corporation 
    FedEx 
    General Atomics 
    GSK plc 
    HII 
    Leonardo S.p.A 
    Lockheed Martin Corporation 
    Microsoft 
    Northrop Grumman 
    Pratt Industries, Inc. 
    SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) 

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    Korea Foundation
    Oceans 5
    Open Society Foundations
    Rural India Supporting Trust
    Sarah Scaife Foundation
    SED Fund
    Smith Richardson Foundation
    Stanford University
    The Starr Foundation
    Stavros Niarchos Foundation
    Wadhwani Foundation
Full lists here: Individual Donations: https://www.csis.org/about/financial-information/donors/indi...

US and Allied Partners: https://www.csis.org/about/financial-information/donors/us-a...

Corporate: https://www.csis.org/about/financial-information/donors/corp...

Foundations: https://www.csis.org/about/financial-information/donors/foun...

Being NatSec focused, they tend to think more more more, but it is not clear to me that CSIS is appropriately thought of as propaganda.

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