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Newsweek Publisher Has Unification Church Background

Dave Emory’s entire life­time of work is avail­able on a flash dri­ve that can be obtained here. [1] (The flash dri­ve includes the anti-fas­cist books avail­able on this site.)

COMMENT: David Jang, whose busi­ness enter­pris­es con­trol both Newsweek and The Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Times, has a back­ground in the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church, for­mer­ly head­ed by the Rev­erend Sun Myung Moon.

An intel­li­gent analy­sis of the appar­ent method­ol­o­gy of The Com­mu­ni­ty, the Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion Jang now oper­ates, sug­gests the pos­si­bil­i­ty that that orga­ni­za­tion MIGHT actu­al­ly be a clan­des­tine Moonie front–it uses some tac­tics sim­i­lar to Uni­fi­ca­tion Church prac­tices. The evi­dence was NOT suf­fi­cient­ly strong to con­vince a Japan­ese court of that alle­ga­tion in a law­suit filed against The Com­mu­ni­ty.

In FTR #291 [2], we exam­ined the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church as an exten­sion of the Japan­ese Patri­ot­ic Soci­eties, that brought fas­cism to Japan through a pro­gram of polit­i­cal assas­si­na­tion and pro­pa­gan­da.

“Who’s Behind Newsweek?” by Ben Doo­ley; Moth­er Jones; May/June 2014. [3]

EXCERPT: Two days after Barack Oba­ma won reelec­tion, I met a young Chi­nese woman, whom I will call Anne, in the base­ment café at the San Fran­cis­co Pub­lic Library. Anne worked part time and gave a large por­tion of her earn­ings to a group she called “the Com­mu­ni­ty,” a Chris­t­ian sect led by a charis­mat­ic Kore­an pas­tor named David Jang. After join­ing the group in her late teens, Anne had spent more than sev­en years work­ing in its ministries—organizations and busi­ness­es run by Jang’s dis­ci­ples. With short hair and large glass­es, Anne was now in her late 20s but looked younger. She said she rarely had enough mon­ey for small lux­u­ries like cof­fee. We chat­ted with a mutu­al friend while we wait­ed for her hus­band, Caleb, who also worked for a min­istry: the Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Times [2], the flag­ship pub­li­ca­tion of an epony­mous online news com­pa­ny that would, nine months lat­er, become the new own­er of Newsweek [3] mag­a­zine.

Caleb was run­ning late because he was trans­lat­ing Oba­ma’s vic­to­ry speech into Chi­nese for IBT, which pub­lish­es 11 edi­tions in sev­en lan­guages.. . .

. . . . [David] Jang also has a his­to­ry with Moon’s Uni­fi­ca­tion Church. In 2013, a Japan­ese court resolved an almost six-year-long libel case that Chris­t­ian Today, a Jang-found­ed web­site, filed against Mako­to Yamaya, a Sal­va­tion Army major. Yamaya had claimed the Com­mu­ni­ty was part of the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church and that Chris­t­ian Today had mind-con­trolled its employ­ees; the court found that these charges had no basis. But it also found that Jang joined a Uni­fi­ca­tion Church stu­dent group as a young man, even­tu­al­ly ris­ing to the rank of exec­u­tive direc­tor of anoth­er church-affil­i­at­ed stu­dent orga­ni­za­tion. He then went on to a church-run the­o­log­i­cal insti­tute, and helped man­age the tran­si­tion when it became Sun Moon Uni­ver­si­ty in 1993, sub­se­quent­ly leav­ing the church. Four for­mer mem­bers tell me that Jang often spoke of his time in Moon’s church, includ­ing his mar­riage by Moon in a 1975 mass wed­ding, an event also affirmed by the Japan­ese court. . . .