John Bolton
 John Bolton          (spook, politician, neoconservative) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | John Robert Bolton 1948-11-20 Baltimore, Maryland, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Yale University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Evangelical Lutheranism | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Jennifer Sarah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Christine Bolton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Covington & Burling, Knights of Malta, Langley Intelligence Group Network, Le Cercle, Middle East Media Research Institute, Project for the New American Century, United Against Nuclear Iran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Republican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Bolton is a neoconservative who has held various jobs in the US government, including US Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
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Career
Bolton was US Ambassador to the UN. He has been assisted[citation needed] by fellow Cercle attendee, Laura Jordan Dietrich, who was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs when Bolton as US Secretary of State.
National Security Advisor
On 22 March 2018, Donald Trump announced that John Bolton would be succeed H. R. McMaster as US National Security Advisor on 9 April 2018. Bolton tweeted his official statement on accepting @POTUS' request to become the next National Security Advisor.[1]
Awards
He won the Zionist Organization of America's 2006 Defender of Israel Award – given to him for the role he played in undermining the "Zionism is Racism" declaration at the United Nations Anti-Racism conference in Durban, South Africa.
Affiliations
- Project for the New American Century
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
- Manhattan Institute
- National Policy Forum
- New Atlantic Initiative
- American Enterprise Institute – senior vice president for policy (2001)
- Federalist Society
External Resources
- Tom Barry, Israel's Man at the UN, International Relations Center, 26 July 2006.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2003 | 15 May 2003 | 18 May 2003 | France Versailles | The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France |
| Herzliya Conference/2009 | 2 February 2009 | 4 February 2009 | Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Canada Takes A Hostage: Free Meng Wanzhou | Article | 8 December 2018 | Christopher Black | Canadians should be angry about these traitors isolating Canada from China, from Russia, from Iran and their great cultures, and condemning Canada to be nothing more than an outpost of the American empire. For traitors they are as they betray the Canadian people by serving the interests of the Americans and their war machine. Free Meng Wanzhou, for so long as she is held hostage, so are we all. |
| Document:Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness | Article | 3 February 2019 | William Engdahl | Leaving aside whether or not Maduro is a saint, the decision by President Trump to back the Bolton-Pence call for a US intervention in Venezuela may prove a fatal error for the Trump presidency. |
| Document:John Bolton on Trump | blog post | 18 June 2020 | Mr Bolton should have come forward during President Trump's impeachment proceedings rather than save his account for a $2 million book contract | |
| Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East | Article | 10 October 2018 | Ted Snider | Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump. |
| Document:The Gulf of Credibility | blog post | 14 June 2019 | Craig Murray | That Iran would target a Japanese ship and a friendly Russian crewed ship is a ludicrous allegation |
| Document:Trump Set to Recognise Israel’s Claim to Occupied Golan Heights and its Sizeable Oil Reserves | Article | 26 May 2018 | Whitney Webb | Given that Genie Energy’s contract to conduct exploratory drilling in the Golan Heights expires this year, its investors are in urgent need of a way to extract and sell the region’s oil – and a US decision on Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights could be just the answer to the company’s problems. |
