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'''Harold van Buren Cleveland''' was a US economist and author.
 
  
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==Background==
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'''Peter van Buren''' (born 1960) is a former [[United States Foreign Service]] employee, and the author of two novels and two non-fiction books about military affairs.
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He was born in New York City to [[Stanley Matthews Cleveland]] and [[Marian Van Buren]]. His siblings were [[Harlan Cleveland]], a [[diplomat]] and fellow Bilderberger; [[Anne Cleveland White]], an artist; and [[Stanley Cleveland]], a [[diplomat]].  
 
  
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Harold Van B. Cleveland graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1938 and from its law school in 1942, when he joined the War Production Board as an industrial specialist.  
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==Early life==
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Peter van Buren was born in [[New York City]].
  
 
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Cleveland worked for the [[US State Department]]. After the war he and [[Ben T. Moore]], as members of the State Department's economic bureau, wrote a report outlining a program for the economic revival of [[Europe]].
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Van Buren served in the [[U.S. Department of State]] for 24 years, including a year in [[Iraq War|Iraq]] as a team leader for two [[Provincial Reconstruction Team]]s (PRTs).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/peter-van-buren/|title=Peter Van Buren|date=May 16, 2011|website=The Nation|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref>
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After his book, ''We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People'', was published in 2012 Van Buren claims to have experienced a series of escalating, adverse actions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/04/12/the_man_the_state_dept_wants_silenced/|title=The man the State Dept. wants silenced|website=Salon|date=12 April 2012|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="WashDiplomat1">{{cite web |url=http://washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8467:us-foreign-service-officer-blacklisted-for-scathing-expose&catid=1491&Itemid=428#.UBvzWsf_Hx4.twitter |title=U.S. Foreign Service Officer Blacklisted for Scathing Exposé |last1=Seminara |first1=Dave |date=July 31, 2012 |website=The Washington Diplomat |access-date=June 24, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327134507/http://washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8467:us-foreign-service-officer-blacklisted-for-scathing-expose&catid=1491&Itemid=428 |archivedate=March 27, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> His former employer, the U. S. State Department, claimed van Buren had not properly cleared his book for publication under Department rules, and that the book contained unauthorized disclosures of classified material.<ref name="WaPoDavidson">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/states-actions-against-peter-van-buren-offer-a-few-lessons-on-use-of-classified-info-power/2011/10/27/gIQAdAcHNM_story.html |title=State's actions against Peter Van Buren offer a few lessons on use of classified info, power |last1=Davidson |first1=Joe |date=October 27, 2011 |website=The Washington Post |access-date=June 24, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624060718/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/states-actions-against-peter-van-buren-offer-a-few-lessons-on-use-of-classified-info-power/2011/10/27/gIQAdAcHNM_story.html |archivedate=June 24, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' noted that "Van Buren has tested the First Amendment almost daily."<ref name="WaPoRein">{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/state-dept-moves-to-fire-peter-van-buren-author-of-book-critical-of-iraq-reconstruction-effort/2012/01/31/gIQAiXNSCS_blog.html | work=The Washington Post | first=Lisa | last=Rein | title=State Dept. moves to fire Peter Van Buren, author of book critical of Iraq reconstruction effort | date=March 14, 2012 |access-date=June 24, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624064113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/state-dept-moves-to-fire-peter-van-buren-author-of-book-critical-of-iraq-reconstruction-effort/2012/01/31/gIQAiXNSCS_blog.html |archivedate=June 24, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Government Accountability Project]] and the [[ACLU]] helped defend van Buren, and the State Department eventually allowed him to retire with his standard pension and benefits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://diplopundit.net/category/peter-van-buren/|title=Diplopundit.net|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="WaPoRein" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/world/us-envoy-peter-van-buren-takes-caustic-pen-to-iraq-war.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|title=U.S. Envoy, Peter Van Buren, Takes Caustic Pen to Iraq War|date=7 October 2011|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="FP1">{{cite web |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/29/how_i_became_a_state_department_outcast |title=How the State Department Came After Me (For telling the truth about what I saw in Iraq) |last1=Van Buren |first1=Peter |date=September 29, 2011 |website=Foreign Policy |publisher=FP Group (Graham Holdings Company) |access-date=June 24, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206092942/https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/09/29/how-the-state-department-came-after-me/ |archivedate=February 6, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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Van Buren was associate producer for the film ''Silenced'' (2014) by [[James Spione]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/53208997c07f5df7d2000113-silenced|title=Silenced |website=Tribeca Film Festival}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nakededgefilms.com/films/silenced/|title=Silenced|first=Mattia |last=Viviani |website=Naked Edge Films}}</ref>
  
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Their study and a parallel one from the department's policy planning staff were submitted to Gen. [[George C. Marshall]], the Secretary of State, who used them to shape what became known as the [[Marshall Plan]]. Formally called the European Recovery Program, it was proposed by General Marshall in [[1947]].
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In August 2018, Twitter banned Van Buren for life for writing that "harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence someone else's voice."<ref name="PVBsuspension">{{cite web |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/i-was-banned-for-life-from-twitter/ |title=I Was Banned for Life From Twitter |last1=Van Buren |first1=Peter |date=August 9, 2018 |website=The American Conservative |publisher=American Ideas Institute |access-date=August 10, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810042328/https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/i-was-banned-for-life-from-twitter/ |archivedate=August 10, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
  
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Cleveland helped carry it out as a deputy director in the European division of the Economic Cooperation Administration. He returned to [[Washington]] as an economist for the Committee for [[Economic Development]] in the early 1950's.
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*{{cite book|title=Hooper's War: A Novel of WWII Japan)|publisher= Luminis Books|date= May 15, 2017 |isbn= 978-1941311127}}
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*{{cite book|title=Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99 Percent|publisher= Luminis Books|date= April 25, 2014|isbn= 978-1935462910}}
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*{{cite book|title=We Meant Well|url=https://archive.org/details/wemeantwellhowih0000vanb|url-access=registration|publisher= Metropolitan Books|date= September 27, 2011 |isbn=9780805094367}}
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*{{cite book|title=Why Peace (as a contributor)|publisher= Marc Guttman|date= April 23, 2012 |asin=B007WTUR6E}}
  
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He was later counsel for the [[John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company]] in [[Boston]] and director of Atlantic Policy Studies for the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] in Manhattan.
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He joined [[Citibank]] in [[1965]], where he worked for 20 years, becoming a vice president and chief international economist.
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*[http://wemeantwell.com/ Website] ''(wemeantwell.com)''
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*[https://twitter.com/WeMeantWell Twitter account] ''(@wemeantwell)'' - '''account suspended August 2018'''
  
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Cleveland was the author and co-author of many books and articles, including "''The Atlantic Idea and Its European Rivals'' (1966, McGraw-Hill for the Council on Foreign Relations), and a history of Citibank.
 
  
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Peter van Buren (born 1960) is a former United States Foreign Service employee, and the author of two novels and two non-fiction books about military affairs.

Early life

Peter van Buren was born in New York City.

Career

Van Buren served in the U.S. Department of State for 24 years, including a year in Iraq as a team leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs).[1]

After his book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, was published in 2012 Van Buren claims to have experienced a series of escalating, adverse actions.[2][3] His former employer, the U. S. State Department, claimed van Buren had not properly cleared his book for publication under Department rules, and that the book contained unauthorized disclosures of classified material.[4] The Washington Post noted that "Van Buren has tested the First Amendment almost daily."[5] The Government Accountability Project and the ACLU helped defend van Buren, and the State Department eventually allowed him to retire with his standard pension and benefits.[6][5][7][8]

Van Buren was associate producer for the film Silenced (2014) by James Spione.[9][10]

In August 2018, Twitter banned Van Buren for life for writing that "harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence someone else's voice."[11]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Peter Van Buren". The Nation. May 16, 2011. Retrieved 2018-04-04.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  2. ↑ "The man the State Dept. wants silenced". Salon. 12 April 2012.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  3. ↑ Seminara, Dave (July 31, 2012). "U.S. Foreign Service Officer Blacklisted for Scathing Exposé". The Washington Diplomat. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2018.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  4. ↑ Davidson, Joe (October 27, 2011). "State's actions against Peter Van Buren offer a few lessons on use of classified info, power". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 24, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2018.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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  8. ↑ Van Buren, Peter (September 29, 2011). "How the State Department Came After Me (For telling the truth about what I saw in Iraq)". Foreign Policy. FP Group (Graham Holdings Company). Archived from the original on February 6, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2018.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  9. ↑ "Silenced". Tribeca Film Festival.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  10. ↑ Viviani, Mattia. "Silenced". Naked Edge Films.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  11. ↑ Van Buren, Peter (August 9, 2018). "I Was Banned for Life From Twitter". The American Conservative. American Ideas Institute. Archived from the original on August 10, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2018.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").

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