The New York Times published an expos\u00e9 on a Maoist propaganda shill for the Chinese Communist party, U.S. tech millionaire Neville Roy Singham, and his wife Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink and a bundler for Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 presidential campaign, that reports Singham\u2019s funding to non-profit groups ending up in Code Pink\u2019s coffers and how the so-called antiwar group has in turn become a shill for communist China.<\/p>\n\n
Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans with Obama and Singham.<\/p>\n
Evans, 68, has deep roots in the Democratic Party, having served as the campaign manager for the 1992 presidential campaign of former California Governor Jerry Brown. In the 2008 presidential campaign, Evans served as a host for Obama fundraisers in Hollywood with her then husband Max Palevsky (who passed away in 2010 at age 85) and as a campaign bundler.<\/p>\n
Evans married Singham, 69, in 2017.<\/p>\n
Fellow Code Pink co-founder Susan \u2018Medea\u2019 Benjamin protested against President Trump at his arraignment in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, reported TGP\u2019s Jordan Conradson. Trump was the only U.S. president to not start any new wars, yet the so-called antiwar group Code Pink stood against him.<\/p>\n
Nice shoes pic.twitter.com\/s72pERhNuz<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jordan Conradson (@ConradsonJordan) August 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Among the first things I\u2019ve seen is an inflatable Trump baby being paraded around the block-long media stakeout by Code Pink\u2019s Medea Benjamin. \u201cI don\u2019t want to go to jail, I want my mommy,\u201d cries the man in the costume. A passerby quips, \u201cyeah, it\u2019s just another day in DC.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/hY7MwbmNTA<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) August 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Excerpt from the lengthy New York Times article<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u2026On the surface, No Cold War is a loose collective run mostly by American and British activists who say the West\u2019s rhetoric against China has distracted from issues like climate change and racial injustice.<\/p>\n In fact, a New York Times investigation found, it is part of a lavishly funded influence campaign that defends China and pushes its propaganda. At the center is a charismatic American millionaire, Neville Roy Singham, who is known as a socialist benefactor of far-left causes.<\/p>\n What is less known, and is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.<\/p>\n From a think tank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan, from a political party in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, The Times tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to groups linked to Mr. Singham that mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points.<\/p>\n Some, like No Cold War, popped up in recent years. Others, like the American antiwar group Code Pink, have morphed over time. Code Pink once criticized China\u2019s rights record but now defends its internment of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs, which human rights experts have labeled a crime against humanity.<\/p>\n These groups are funded through American nonprofits flush with at least $275 million in donations.<\/p>\n \u2026In 2017, Mr. Singham married Jodie Evans, a former Democratic political adviser and the co-founder of Code Pink. The wedding, in Jamaica, was a \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d of progressivism. Photos from the event show Amy Goodman, host of \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d; Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry\u2019s ice cream; and V, the playwright formerly known as Eve Ensler, who wrote \u201cThe Vagina Monologues.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2026Since 2017, about a quarter of Code Pink\u2019s donations \u2014 more than $1.4 million \u2014 have come from two groups linked to Mr. Singham, nonprofit records show. The first was one of the UPS store nonprofits. The second was a charity that Goldman Sachs offers as a conduit for clients\u2019 giving, and that Mr. Singham has used in the past.<\/p>\n \u2026In a recent YouTube video chat, she was asked if she had anything negative to say about China.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t, for the life of me, think of anything,\u201d Ms. Evans responded. She ultimately had one complaint: She had trouble using China\u2019s phone-brd payment apps.<\/p>\n \u2026Mr. Singham\u2019s office, adorned in red and yellow, sits on the 18th floor of Shanghai\u2019s swanky Times Square.<\/p>\n \u2026He shares the office with a Chinese media company called Maku Group, which says its goal is to \u201ctell China\u2019s story well,\u201d a term commonly used for foreign propaganda. In a Chinese-language job advertisement, Maku says it produces text, audio and videos for \u201cglobal networks of popular media and progressive think tanks.\u201d<\/p>\n End excerpt. The New York Times article can be read in its entirety at this (paywalled, sorry) link<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Daily Beast published a deep dive report<\/a> in May on Singham but glossed over his ties to Code Pink (excerpt):<\/p>\n \u2026And all the International People\u2019s Media Network\u2019s affiliates, including Tricontinental, appear to drink from the same torrent of dark money pouring out of the bank accounts and nonprofits of tech mogul Neville \u201cRoy\u201d Singham. Efforts to reach Singham for this piece, including through his partner Jodie Evans of the protest group Code Pink, proved fruitless.<\/p>\n A 2022 report by the New Lines Institute for Policy and Strategy outlined how Singham sold his multibillion-dollar software company Thoughtworks five years prior and had since pumped money into a labyrinth of nonprofit organizations\u2014Tricontinental among them. Prashad, for his part, has openly acknowledged Singham as the source of his group\u2019s endowment, which has climbed to more than $14 million, mostly funneled through Goldman Sachs\u2019 anonymized philanthropy fund. The financial institution declined to comment on its relationship with Singham, but insisted it abides by all relevant regulations.<\/p>\n On Twitter, Prashad marveled at his fortune of finding a benefactor with such stupendous wealth and such hardened leftist convictions.<\/p>\n \u201c\u200b\u200bA Marxist with a massive software company! He sold that company a few years ago and decided to give away all the money toward political education for a new generation of radicals,\u201d wrote Prashad, the boarding school-reared nephew of Indian Communist Party politician Brinda Karat.<\/p>\n Singham reminisced about his days as a young Black communist revolutionary in this 2021 article published by the Black Agenda Report<\/a> (excerpt):<\/p>\n Monday, October 25, 2021<\/p>\n Yesterday was one of the most emotionally rewarding days of my life.<\/p>\n Thanks to the fantastic work of comrade Carolyn Baker, I, for the first time, joined the weekly League Of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) video call.<\/p>\n In 1971, I joined the LRBW, and like all disciplined cadre went to work in the factory on my 18th birthday the following year.<\/p>\n Yesterday, prior to joining the live call, I watched the six hours, at double speed, of the previous three sessions.<\/p>\n I eagerly awaited the call. I was finally able to see comrades I had not seen in forty-five to forty-nine years! I saw comrades, who loved and protected me, and vice versa. I cried when I saw Alan Ray. He fought in Vietnam, became a communist, and trained us in self-defense. Seeing everyone was massively cathartic for me. Eventually, being in the Party center and then on the Central Committee meant I did not break discipline on seeing people who had left; nor did I reach out to people when I left.<\/p>\n I have waited to see my leaders and comrades for decades. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend our leader General Baker\u2019s funeral in 2014 as we had planned an event in Berlin.<\/p>\n I saw about forty people on the LRBW video call, who, without a doubt, transformed my life in the deepest ways possible. Despite the physical distance, and, in some cases, the inability to communicate, we have always been unbelievably close. When we were together in Detroit, we all knew that we were only moments away from being arrested or shot. Back then, we studied together ferociously; we had daily, intense self-criticism sessions.<\/p>\n Excerpt from the Wikipedia entry<\/a> for Singham:<\/p>\n Singham\u2019s father was Archie Singham.[4] In his youth, Singham was a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a Black nationalist\u2013Maoist group, taking a job at a Chrysler plant in Detroit in 1972 as an activist in the group.[2] He attended Howard University before starting a consulting firm for equipment-leasing companies from his Chicago home.[2]<\/p>\n Career From 2001 to 2008, Singham was a strategic technical consultant for Huawei.[2][6]<\/p>\n By 2008, ThoughtWorks employed 1,000 people and was growing at the rate of 20\u201330% p.a., with bases around the world. Its clients included Microsoft, Oracle, major banks, and The Guardian newspaper.[7] Singham owned 97% of the common stock of the company.[7] By 2010, its clients included Daimler AG, Siemens and Barclays, and had opened a second headquarters in Bangalore.[8]<\/p>\n In 2010, he opened Thoughtworks\u2019 Fifth Agile Software Development Conference in Beijing, where he spoke about his influence on Huawei.[2]<\/p>\n Singham sold the company to private equity firm Apax Partners in 2017, by which time it had 4,500 employees across 15 countries, including South Africa and Uganda.[5][9] Its chief scientist, Martin Fowler, wrote that Singham had not been involved in the running of the business for some years by that time:<\/p>\n \u201cWhile I was surprised to hear that he was selling the company, the news was not unexpected. Over the last few years Roy has been increasingly involved in his activist work, and spending little time running ThoughtWorks. \u2026 He\u2019s been able to do this because he\u2019s built a management team that\u2019s capable of running the company largely without him. But as I saw him spend more energy on his activist work, it was apparent it would be appealing to him to accelerate that activism with the money that selling ThoughtWorks would bring.\u201d[6][10]<\/p>\n Singham has business interests in Chinese companies in the food and consultancy markets.[2]<\/p>\n Examples of Code Pink shilling for Beijing:<\/p>\n Medea Benjamin, \u201cWashington\u2019s witch hunt against China has turned national security into a convenient tool.\u201d<\/p>\n Washington\u2019s witch hunt against China has turned national security into a convenient tool. https:\/\/t.co\/D2lcFhdU27<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) August 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Jodie Evans, \u201cChina is not our enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n China is Not Our Enemy<\/p>\n Our full one hour interview with CODEPINK’s Jodie Evans @MsJodieEvans<\/a> is now on YouTube.<\/p>\n What can folks do to stand up against the US war machine’s mindless march towards conflict?#Chinaisnotourenemy<\/a> #nomorewar<\/a><\/p>\n Full Video Link \u2026 pic.twitter.com\/XCkuNLZYRe<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jason Smith \u2013 \u4e0a\u5b98\u6770\u6587 (@ShangguanJiewen) July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Code Pink, \u201cHear from Jodie Evans of CODEPINK and Tings Chak from Tri-Continental and The DongSheng News on the reality of China \u2013 challenging the lies, distortion, and exaggeration used to paint them as an enemy. What is life truly like in the country?\u201d<\/p>\n NEW EPISODE<\/p>\n Hear from Jodie Evans of CODEPINK and Tings Chak from Tri-Continental and The DongSheng News on the reality of China \u2013 challenging the lies, distortion, and exaggeration used to paint them as an enemy. What is life truly like in the country? https:\/\/t.co\/AioGQWmXHP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/hQs1G0t2HI<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 CODEPINK (@codepink) June 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n More on Singham and Evans can be read at this deep dive 2022 article by New Lines Magazine<\/a> (excerpt):<\/p>\n \u2026In September 2020, Evans was one of the speakers at an online conference of far-left activists convened under the slogan of \u201cNo Cold War.\u201d The speakers contended that the United States escalates conflict with China, which, according to them, continues to wish for rational, peaceful relations with the West. \u201cToday the U.S. elite are obviously terrified at the tremendous economic success of China,\u201d Evans insisted, arguing that \u201cChina is not threatening the U.S. militarily.\u201d Also, she said, \u201cChina\u2019s success stands in the way of U.S. domination of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2026In 2020, Code Pink initiated a campaign titled \u201cChina Is Not Our Enemy\u201d in which the organization advocates for the U.S. to adopt a thoroughly conciliatory approach toward China. It calls on supporters to lobby members of Congress and hosts podcasts and webinars advancing the same argument.<\/p>\n Code Pink\u2019s website also includes an FAQ section on the Uyghurs. \u201cOur concern is that it is being used as a tool to drive the U.S.\u2019s hybrid war on China,\u201d it states, \u201cinstead of a human rights issue that needs to be addressed as such.\u201d This page provides links to \u201chelpful resources\u201d on the topic, one of which appears to treat the plight of the Uyghurs as a human rights nonissue: A video featuring Evans and British academic John Ross shows the latter characterizing the Uyghur genocide allegation as \u201cfarcical\u201d and a \u201ctotal lie.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Code Pink Exposed as Communist China Shill, Former Obama Bundler Jodie Evans Married to Maoist Millionaire Working in Shanghai<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New York Times published an expos\u00e9 on a Maoist propaganda shill for the Chinese Communist party, U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nSingham founded ThoughtWorks, a Chicago-based IT consulting company that provides custom software, software tools, and consulting services, in the late 1980s; it was incorporated in 1993.[5][6]<\/p>\n