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'''Jeffrey Sachs''' was a panelist of the session on ''Economic Relations With Eastern Europe'' for the [[1990 Bilderberg]].<ref name=bb1990report>[[File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1990.pdf]]</ref>
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'''Jeffrey D. Sachs''' is an [[American]] economist and public policy analyst who is a Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at [[Columbia University]]. He was a panelist of the session on ''Economic Relations With Eastern Europe'' for the [[1990 Bilderberg]].<ref name=bb1990report>[[File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1990.pdf]]</ref>
  
 
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Sachs worked with [[Anders Åslund]] and [[David Lipton]] as a senior advisor to the Russian government under President [[Boris Yeltsin]] and Acting [[Russian Prime Minister]] [[Yegor Gaidar]] on the [[privatisation]] of the [[USSR]].
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===War in Ukraine===
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In November 2024, Sachs explained in a 4-minute video how the [[US]] and [[NATO]] provoked war in Ukraine:{{QB|
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"It started in 1990, when [[US Secretary of State]] [[James Baker]] said to [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] that [[NATO]] would not move one inch eastward...
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The [[US]] then cheated on this, starting in 1994, when [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] signed off on a plan to expand [[NATO]] all the way to [[Ukraine]].
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The expansion of [[NATO]] started in 1999 with [[Poland]], [[Hungary]], and the [[Czech Republic]].
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Then, the [[US]] led the bombing of [[Serbia]] in 1999. That was the use of [[NATO]] to bomb a [[European]] capital for 78 straight days to break the country apart.
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The [[Russian]]s didn't like that very much, but even [[Putin]] started out pro-[[European]] and pro-[[American]]. He considered whether to join [[NATO]] when there was still the idea of some kind of mutually respectful relationship.
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In 2002, the [[US]] unilaterally walked out of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.] What it did was trigger the [[US]] putting in missile systems in [[Eastern Europe]] that [[Russia]] views as a dire, direct threat to [[national security]], by making possible a decapitation strike of missiles that are a few minutes away from [[Moscow]].
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In 2004-2005, the [[US]] engaged in a soft regime change in [[Ukraine]], the so-called First Colour Revolution.
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In 2009, [[Viktor Yanukovych]] won the election and became president in 2010 on the basis of neutrality in [[Ukraine]].
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In 2014, the [[US]] participated actively in the overthrow of [[Viktor Yanukovych|Yanukovych]]. [[Victoria Nuland]] and the US Ambassador to Ukraine [[Geoffrey Pyatt]] talked about [[regime change]]. So they made the new government!
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The [[US]] then said 'now [[NATO]]'s really going to enlarge.' [[Putin]] kept saying 'stop, you promised no [[NATO]] enlargement.'
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[[Estonia]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Romania]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]], seven more countries in the 'not one inch eastward.'
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In 2021, [[Putin]] put on the table a draft [[Russian]]-[[US]] security agreement. The basis of it was no [[NATO]] enlargement.
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The [[Special Military Operation]] started, and five days later [[Zelensky]] said 'okay, okay, neutrality.'
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And then the [[US]] and [[Britain]] said no way, you guys fight on. We've got your back. That's 600,000 deaths now of [[Ukrainian]]s since [[Boris Johnson]] flew to [[Kyiv]] to tell them to be brave. Absolutely ghastly.
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We're not dealing with, as we're told every day, this madman like [[Hitler]]. This is complete bogus, fake history that is a purely [[PR]] narrative of the [[US government]].
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We're playing games here. So God forbid a nuclear power comes at us. I don't know what's going to happen, but we came at them."<ref>''[https://x.com/dbenner83/status/1856128234334626030 "WATCH: Jeffrey Sachs tells the cold, hard truth how the US and NATO provoked war in Ukraine in 4 minutes"]''</ref>}}
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===Ethnic cleansing in Gaza===
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In January 2024, Professor Sachs spoke out on "Israel's war and ethnic cleansing in Gaza". Interviewed by [https://www.actvism.org/en/ acTVism Munich] on [[YouTube]], he began by assessing the stalemate in the [[US Congress]] and the [[European Union]] on providing aid to [[Ukraine]]. He then talked about [[2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War|Israel's war in Gaza]] and about the significance of the recent [[United Nations]] resolutions and the [[US]] veto against them. He went on to talk about [[Israel]]'s objective in [[Gaza]] as well as why the [[US]] continues to fully support it. He then discussed recent developments in civil liberties in relation to [[Israeli-Palestinian conflict|Israel and the Palestinian conflict]] in [[Germany]] and assessed why [[the West]] selectively invokes [[international law]].<ref>''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Evrpm6tXE "Jeffrey Sachs speaks out on Israel's war and ethnic cleansing in Gaza"]''</ref>
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===COVID-19===
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[[Jeffrey Sachs]] was a chair of [[The Lancet's COVID-19 commission]].<ref>https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/ae6edk9kytlfze2yprgdg598f9n4db</ref>
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===Privatisation of the USSR===
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Sachs worked with [[Anders Åslund]] and [[David Lipton]] as a senior advisor to the Russian government under President [[Boris Yeltsin]] and Acting [[Russian Prime Minister]] [[Yegor Gaidar]] on the [[privatisation]] of the [[USSR]], and also advised [[Poland]], [[Slovenia]], and [[Estonia]] as they were beginning their transitions to [[capitalism]].
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The Russian privatization was a thorough disaster, one of the worst collapses in human history. Living standards fell and the population shrank, an almost unprecedented event in a country not at war. Afterwards, most Russians regarded him as "either an emissary of [[Satan]] or of the [[CIA]]."<ref>https://leftbusinessobserver.com/Sachs.html</ref>
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==Later Career==
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In later life, Sachs became more prominent as a critic of development orthodoxy, arguing against the [[IMF]]'s austere prescriptions after the [[1997 Asian crisis]], and pressing for [[debt relief]] for the poorest countries. Sachs has also pushed a number of initiatives, including establishing credit and [[microcredit|microloan programs]].
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During the Greek government-debt crisis in July [[2015]], Sachs, with [[Heiner Flassbeck]], [[Thomas Piketty]], [[Dani Rodrik]] and [[Simon Wren-Lewis]], published an open letter to the Chancellor of Germany [[Angela Merkel]], calling for an end to austerity measures in Greece to service debt<ref>http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/offener-brief-von-oekonomen-an-angela-merkel-jetzt-ist-der-zeitpunkt-die-gescheiterte-sparpolitik-zu-ueberdenken/12021886.html</ref>.
 
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Person.png Jeffrey Sachs  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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NationalityUS
Alma materHarvard University
Member ofBrookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Lancet/COVID-19 Commission, Project Syndicate, The American Academy in Berlin/Distinguished Visitors, WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1995
Interest ofVuk Jeremić
Worked on the privatisation of Russia

Jeffrey D. Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He was a panelist of the session on Economic Relations With Eastern Europe for the 1990 Bilderberg.[1]

Activities

War in Ukraine

In November 2024, Sachs explained in a 4-minute video how the US and NATO provoked war in Ukraine:

"It started in 1990, when US Secretary of State James Baker said to Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move one inch eastward...

The US then cheated on this, starting in 1994, when Clinton signed off on a plan to expand NATO all the way to Ukraine.

The expansion of NATO started in 1999 with Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

Then, the US led the bombing of Serbia in 1999. That was the use of NATO to bomb a European capital for 78 straight days to break the country apart.

The Russians didn't like that very much, but even Putin started out pro-European and pro-American. He considered whether to join NATO when there was still the idea of some kind of mutually respectful relationship.

In 2002, the US unilaterally walked out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. What it did was trigger the US putting in missile systems in Eastern Europe that Russia views as a dire, direct threat to national security, by making possible a decapitation strike of missiles that are a few minutes away from Moscow.

In 2004-2005, the US engaged in a soft regime change in Ukraine, the so-called First Colour Revolution.

In 2009, Viktor Yanukovych won the election and became president in 2010 on the basis of neutrality in Ukraine.

In 2014, the US participated actively in the overthrow of Yanukovych. Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt talked about regime change. So they made the new government!

The US then said 'now NATO's really going to enlarge.' Putin kept saying 'stop, you promised no NATO enlargement.'

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, seven more countries in the 'not one inch eastward.'

In 2021, Putin put on the table a draft Russian-US security agreement. The basis of it was no NATO enlargement.

The Special Military Operation started, and five days later Zelensky said 'okay, okay, neutrality.'

And then the US and Britain said no way, you guys fight on. We've got your back. That's 600,000 deaths now of Ukrainians since Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv to tell them to be brave. Absolutely ghastly.

We're not dealing with, as we're told every day, this madman like Hitler. This is complete bogus, fake history that is a purely PR narrative of the US government.

We're playing games here. So God forbid a nuclear power comes at us. I don't know what's going to happen, but we came at them."[2]

Ethnic cleansing in Gaza

"Israel's war and ethnic cleansing in Gaza"

In January 2024, Professor Sachs spoke out on "Israel's war and ethnic cleansing in Gaza". Interviewed by acTVism Munich on YouTube, he began by assessing the stalemate in the US Congress and the European Union on providing aid to Ukraine. He then talked about Israel's war in Gaza and about the significance of the recent United Nations resolutions and the US veto against them. He went on to talk about Israel's objective in Gaza as well as why the US continues to fully support it. He then discussed recent developments in civil liberties in relation to Israel and the Palestinian conflict in Germany and assessed why the West selectively invokes international law.[3]

COVID-19

Full article: COVID-19

Jeffrey Sachs was a chair of The Lancet's COVID-19 commission.[4]

Privatisation of the USSR

Sachs worked with Anders Åslund and David Lipton as a senior advisor to the Russian government under President Boris Yeltsin and Acting Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar on the privatisation of the USSR, and also advised Poland, Slovenia, and Estonia as they were beginning their transitions to capitalism.

The Russian privatization was a thorough disaster, one of the worst collapses in human history. Living standards fell and the population shrank, an almost unprecedented event in a country not at war. Afterwards, most Russians regarded him as "either an emissary of Satan or of the CIA."[5]

Later Career

In later life, Sachs became more prominent as a critic of development orthodoxy, arguing against the IMF's austere prescriptions after the 1997 Asian crisis, and pressing for debt relief for the poorest countries. Sachs has also pushed a number of initiatives, including establishing credit and microloan programs.

During the Greek government-debt crisis in July 2015, Sachs, with Heiner Flassbeck, Thomas Piketty, Dani Rodrik and Simon Wren-Lewis, published an open letter to the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, calling for an end to austerity measures in Greece to service debt[6].

 

A Document by Jeffrey Sachs

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Ukraine is the latest neocon disasterArticle27 June 2022Neoconservatism
Joe Biden/Presidency
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Robert Kagan
Victoria Nuland
NATO
Institute for the Study of War		The same neocons who turned the Middle East into a disaster area are now creating a similar catastrophe in Ukraine – for Ukrainians and for the rest of the world, argues Prof Jeffrey Sachs<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/199010 May 199013 May 1990New York
US
Glen Cove		38th Bilderberg meeting, 119 guests
WEF/Annual Meeting/201126 January 201130 January 2011World Economic Forum
Switzerland		2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/201323 January 201327 January 2013World Economic Forum
Switzerland		2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/201422 January 201425 January 2014World Economic Forum
Switzerland		2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/201620 January 201623 January 2016World Economic Forum
Switzerland		Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
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References

  1. ↑ File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1990.pdf
  2. ↑ "WATCH: Jeffrey Sachs tells the cold, hard truth how the US and NATO provoked war in Ukraine in 4 minutes"
  3. ↑ "Jeffrey Sachs speaks out on Israel's war and ethnic cleansing in Gaza"
  4. ↑ https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/ae6edk9kytlfze2yprgdg598f9n4db
  5. ↑ https://leftbusinessobserver.com/Sachs.html
  6. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/offener-brief-von-oekonomen-an-angela-merkel-jetzt-ist-der-zeitpunkt-die-gescheiterte-sparpolitik-zu-ueberdenken/12021886.html
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