Atlantic Council/Corporate Members
The corporate members include several different levels of support,Strategic Partnership,Chairman’s Circle,President’s Circle, event support etc. The donors the Council caters to are heavily dominated by arms manufactures, big tech companies and oil companies.[1]
In return, the Council promises "finding solutions to issues of mutual concern" to these corporations.
With Event Sponsorships, the Atlantic Council offers to harness its "high-level convening power" for special events. The "benefits are strategically tailored around the gathering and your company’s interests". Especially the energy forum in Abu Dhabi and the Digital Forensic Research Lab are mentioned as important.
Known members
30 of the 85 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Accenture | multinational corporation that is heavily involved in privatization and public-private partnerships in sectors such as schools. |
| Airbus | Produces 50% of all jet aircraft in the world. Largest airliner manufacturer during the 2020s. Accused of bribery of multiple countries. Received a ban from a group of dozens of banks for "involvement in nuclear weapons production". |
| Baker Donelson | Large U.S. law firm and lobbying group |
| Bank of America | Second biggest bank in the US |
| BlackRock | Who owns a piece of everything? They do! |
| Boeing | US based arms manufacturer which also makes civilian aircraft that since the 1990s have became known for their sometimes dubious reliability. |
| British Petroleum | |
| Chevron | |
| ConocoPhillips | American multinational oil and gas corporation |
| Edelman | PR company |
| Eni | Italian multinational oil and gas founded by Enrico Mattei. |
| Equinor | |
| ExxonMobil | |
| The world's most popular social network, with over 1,000,000,000 users in 2014. | |
| JPMorgan Chase | A multinational banking and financial services holding company. Deep state power for more than a century. |
| Lockheed | "Nobody is doing a better job of arming the world than Lockheed-Martin" |
| McKinsey & Company | corporate hit-men to loot the economy |
| Microsoft | Started in 1975 with Paul Allen, Bill Gates developed Microsoft from a operating system maker of computers into one of the most prolific companies of all time, valued over $1 trillion, 3rd most valuable in the world. MS has over a billion in fines from corruption, mass surveillance violations & tax evasion. MS has market shares in dozens of markets, leading in the Platformization-epidemic of the 2010s started by big tech. It was the first partner in the NSA-PRISM program. |
| Northrop Grumman | |
| Penguin Random House | Corporate publishing house under deep state dominance |
| Procter & Gamble | Huge multi-billion dollar multinational corporation; specialising in consumer goods. |
| Raytheon | Military-industrial complex. |
| Reuters | |
| Science Applications International Corporation | A company which specializes in complex engineering and technology programs for U.S. military and intelligence agencies |
| Shell | Biggest Dutch company. Caused trillions in damage due to fracking in Groningen. Convicted worldwide for crimes against locals. Employs hitmen and deep state operatives in African countries. Mislead shareholders for up to $1bn. |
| Squire Patton Boggs | US law firm and lobbyist with many deep state operatives |
| Thales Group | Large French weapons manufacturer |
| Total | A big oil company. |
| US/Chamber of Commerce | "[R]eally one of the most powerful lobbies in this country. It’s so powerful you almost never read about it. It’s one of those deep presences that rarely rise to the level of being written about in history." |
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