Atlantic Council
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The Atlantic Council is an influential extremely militaristic influence network and think-tank, staffed with military, CIA, and their attendant politicians; and CEOs from strategic industries, like oil and media. It has strong connections to NATO, and is a central part of the modern military-industrial congressional complex.
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Operations
- 3 Members
- 4 The right kind of Salafis
- 5 Propaganda tentacles
- 6 Funding
- 7 An event carried out
- 8 Quotes by Atlantic Council
- 9 Related Quotation
- 10 Employees on Wikispooks
- 11 Known members
- 12 Event Planned
- 13 Sponsors
- 14 Related Documents
- 15 A document sourced from Atlantic Council
- 16 References
Introduction
| Facebook’s Partner: The Atlantic Council (5 Frightening Facts) |
The name of the think-tank itself is meant to evoke the North Atlantic Council, the highest political decision-making body of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Atlantic Council is the biggest and most powerful member of the Atlantic Treaty Association (which has similar associates in every NATO-country).
Established in 1961 by former U.S. Secretaries of State Dean Acheson and Christian Herter, the Atlantic Council of the United States was originally conceived as a means to coordinate support for the Cold War-era NATO alliance, with the stated mission to encourage the continuation of cooperation between North America and Europe, (i.e. to control Western Europe).
The Atlantic Council is meant to secure the legitimacy of U.S. policies and neoliberal economics in the eyes of world audiences and academia, for the purpose of advancing studies legitimizing “Euro-Atlantic” interventionism and Western-backed “regime change”; spreading the cultural and ideological values of imperialism; and debunking policies favoring independent development and income redistribution among historically dispossessed and exploited nations and peoples.[1]
Operations
In 2018, The Atlantic Council received a donation of $900,000 from the U.S. State Department for a “Peace Process Support Network” program to “promote non-violent conflict resolution” in support of Venezuela’s scattered opposition, with which the council enjoys very close ties. The council also advocates the arming of extremist militants in Syria (a “National Stabilization Force”) and a hard-line policy toward Russia.
Members
- Full article: Atlantic Council/Board
- Full article: Atlantic Council/Board
- Full article: Atlantic Council/Members
- Full article: Atlantic Council/Members
- Full article: Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab/Member
- Full article: Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab/Member
World War 3
Matthew Kroenig, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, called Washington D.C to prepare for war with both Russia and China in the days before the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]|2022 Russian war with Ukraine].[2]
The right kind of Salafis
In 2015, Atlantic Council published an op-ed by Mona Alami, arguing that "the right kind" of Salafi islamists would be acceptable to support in the proxy war on Syria. Alami highlighted Jaysh al-Islam leader Zahran Alloush as one of these, since he had "reversed previous policies hostile to Western values". Alami explained how "By identifying influential figures and providing the appropriate support, they will influence the future of their movements and possibly of Syria at large."[3]
Propaganda tentacles
- James C. Smith, CEO of the world's biggest news agency, Thomson Reuters, is on the board of Atlantic Council.
- Rupert Murdoch, owner of large parts of the private press in English-speaking countries, is on the board.
- In September 2014, The Atlantic Council hired Call of Duty: Black Ops series director Dave Anthony as a nonresident senior fellow, to make sure computer games have the desired pro-NATO angle ('Who are the good guys and bad guys'.) "Call of Duty Ghosts, for instance, you play as a U.S. soldier fighting against a red-beret wearing anti-American Venezuelan dictator, clearly based on President Hugo Chavez, while in Call of Duty 4, you follow the U.S. Army in Iraq"[4], where Russia gets blamed for a US war crime, the 'Highway of Death'".[5] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare featured the White Helmets in a favorable way.[6]
Funding
Apart from legitimizing US imperial interest, the Atlantic Council also acts as a lobbying group to NATO, with many donors having strong ties to the oil and weapons industries. The leading donors in 2020 were:[7]
- Adrienne Arsht
- British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Embassy of the United Arab Emirates to the United States
- Facebook, which announced in May 2018 that it was "partnering" with the Atlantic Council "to combat election-related propaganda and misinformation from proliferating on its service."[8]
- Bahaa R. Hariri (Lebanese businessman cut-out for Saudi Arabia)
Other notable donors are: OCP Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc., System Capital Management, United States Department of State, The Wallenberg Foundations, Open Society Foundation,The Victor Pinchuk Foundation, the Pentagon and NATO, Lockheed Martin and other war industries (including the Italian Leonardo), ExxonMobil and other multinationals, the Bank of America, the Rockefeller Foundation and other financial groups.
The complete list of donors is an interesting read.[9]
An event carried out
| Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| StratCom DC 2019 | Washington DC | Spooky conference arranged by the powerful Atlantic Council to discuss how to expand censorship |
Quotes by Atlantic Council
| Page | Quote | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold War II | “The United States remains the world’s leading power with global interests, and it cannot afford to choose between Europe and the Indo-Pacific. Instead, Washington and its allies should develop a defense strategy capable of deterring and, if necessary, defeating Russia and China at the same time.” | 18 February 2022 | ForeignPolicy.com |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Nimmo | “Ben Nimmo works for the Atlantic Council, funded inter alia by NATO. He is also on a retainer of £2,500 per month from the Integrity Initiative, in addition to payments for individual pieces of work. For his attack on Scottish Nationalists Nimmo was therefore paid by the Atlantic Council (your taxes through NATO), by the Integrity Initiative (your taxes) and by the Herald (thankfully shortly going bankrupt)... Nimmo’s role as witchfinder-general for Russian Bots appears very remunerative. His August 2016 invoice to The Institute for Statecraft, apparently the 71st invoice he had issued to various neo-con bodies that year, was for £5,000.” | Craig Murray Ben Nimmo | 22 December 2018 |
Employees on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Ashooh | Middle East Strategy Task Force/Deputy Director | 2015 | 2017 |
| Andy Carvin | Academic | February 2019 | |
| Ben Judah | Academic | November 2020 | |
| Frederick Kempe | President and CEO | 2007 | |
| Richard Morningstar | Director of Global Energy Center | 2014 |
Known members
34 of the 350 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| David Aaron | Deep state connected diplomat. Attended Bilderberg 1977 as Deputy National Security Advisor. |
| Dmitri Alperovitch | Spooky businessman |
| Judith Hippler Bello | Big Pharma lobbyist who was one of the founding members of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue |
| Hans Binnendijk | Dutch born academic and US deep state functionary, a member of Atlantic Council and RAND corporation, deeply involved with NATO. |
| Henrik Breitenbauch | II connected Danish academic |
| Graham Brookie | "Former U.S. government advisor on homeland security and counterterrorism" connected to the Integrity Initiative/Institute for Statecraft complex |
| Ian Brzezinski | Son of Zbigniew Brzezinski, member of the Integrity Initiative's US Cluster. |
| Victor Chu | Hong Kong-based businessman and deep state actor. GLT 1998, Chatham house governor, WEF Trustee, Atlantic Council.. |
| Emilio Collado | Big oil, World Bank, Bilderberg Steering committee. |
| James Cunningham | US diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 2001 |
| Nelson Cunningham | Well-connected Kissinger associate |
| Borzou Daragahi | Spooky establishment journalist |
| William Draper | former President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States. He also led the highly strategic United Nations Development Programme, the biggest source of multilateral development grant assistance, and the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Both institution have a huge influence on policies in countries in the global south, an influence which he also made sure was used. Skull and Bones. Atlantic Council. His father was active in population control. |
| Naz Durakoğlu | Turkish-American civil servant, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs under Joe Biden. |
| Susan Eisenhower | Granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Member of many think tanks, has written extensively on nuclear and space issues |
| Daniel Fried | Spooky US diplomat |
| Jeffrey Gedmin | US spooky/hawkish neoconservative academic |
| Tom Glocer | Former CEO of Reuters, the news agency that on its own provides the majority of the world's news. Also board of deep state Atlantic Council. |
| Lincoln Gordon | 3 Early Bilderbergs, US Ambassador to Brazil in the 1960s, where he helped arrange the 1964 military coup. |
| David Hobbs | Expert in oil industry structure working for Atlantic Council. |
| Robert Hunter | Has played a national policy role in eight U.S. presidential election campaigns and written speeches and articles for presidential candidates, three U.S. Presidents four Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense, Senators, Representatives and other political figures. As United States Ambassador to NATO during the Clinton Administration, he was principal architect and negotiator of the post-Cold War "new NATO" and of the NATO airstrike decisions in the Bosnian War. |
| Jan Lodal | Former Chairman of Atlantic Council |
| Katherine Maher | WEF YGL, Wikimedia Foundation |
| Terry McAuliffe | Virginia politician. Attended two Bilderbergs. |
| Ben Nimmo | "Nimmo is a former spokesperson for NATO, who has essentially dedicated his career to fear-mongering about Russia." |
| Friedbert Pflüger | German politician |
| Alan Riley | UK solicitor/academic who worked for the Institute for Statecraft |
| Ron Ritchie | Founder of Institute for Research on Public Policy. Atlantic Council, Club of Rome, Ditchley Foundation |
| Sally Shelton | Spooky US diplomat Atlantic Council, USAID, and NED. Married former CIA director William Colby. |
| Gregory Treverton | Spooky US "intelligence stalwart" interested in "terrorism" |
| Alexander Vershbow | SDS connected regular at the Brussels Forum |
| Peter Westmacott | Chatham House, UK ambassador |
| Damon Wilson | President of the CIA front organization National Endowment for Democracy |
| Anders Åslund | Quad Bilderberger, Integrity Initiative. Worked on the Russian demographic catastrophe in the 1990s. |
Event Planned
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Brussels DisinfoLab | 11 April 2018 08:30:00 | 11 April 2018 13:30:00 | Belgium Brussels Euractiv | A 2018 conference set up jointly by the EU Disinfolab and the Atlantic Council |
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Bertelsmann Foundation | |
| Carnegie Corporation | Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, with large grants especially to form the education sector. Lots of grants to "security" think tanks too. |
| ClimateWorks | Large funder of projects intended to steer public opinion and take control over all government policy under the pretext of fighting climate change. Part of "a blob" of similar very wealthy interconnected foundations with opaque structures. Backers include Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg. |
| Hewlett Foundation | Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects. |
| National Endowment for Democracy | The "traditional intermediary of the CIA", promoting the US "national interest" abroad by financing groups and individuals. |
| Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs | A significant donor to NGOs and planning organizations. Many of the recipients dovetail with NATO objectives like regime changes and controlling the narrative. |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund | Rockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War. |
| Smith Richardson Foundation | CIA front organization that funds select projects with $$$ |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense | blog post | 3 September 2020 | Craig Murray | The US and Saudi Arabia have every reason to instigate a split between Germany and Russia at this time. Navalny is certainly a victim of international politics. That he is a victim of Putin I tend to doubt. |
| Document:The Secret Society That Rules The World | Article | 7 November 2018 | Bas Spliet | In his 1999 campaign autobiography, President George W. Bush mentioned his membership in passing: "My senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more." |
| Document:Upskilling to Upscale: Unleashing the Capacity of Civil Society to Counter Disinformation | project plan | June 2018 | Integrity Initiative | A central II-document. The master plan for a huge network of British-directed NGOs in Europe. ‘Disinformation’ refers to everything not fitting the Western government narrative... |
A document sourced from Atlantic Council
| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:The Kremlin's Trojan Horses.pdf | paper | "Russian Propaganda" | 18 November 2016 | Alina Polyakova Marlene Laruelle Stefan Meister Neil Barnett | A cartoonishly over-the-top piece of anti-Russian hysteria from the Atlantic Council. |
References
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/facebook-partners-with-hawkish-atlantic-council-a-nato-lobby-group-to-protect-democracy/5656905
- ↑ https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/18/us-russia-china-war-nato-quadrilateral-security-dialogue/
- ↑ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/syriasource/syria-the-right-salafis-can-make-all-the-difference/
- ↑ https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-air-force-video-game-airman-challenge-drone-recruitment/264490/
- ↑ https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/call-of-duty-game-blames-russia-for-a-us-war-crime/
- ↑ https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/06/new-call-of-duty-encourages-support-for-the-white-helmets/
- ↑ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/support-the-council/honor-roll-of-contributors/
- ↑ https://www.ukcolumn.org/censored#timeline-item-26
- ↑ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/support-the-council/honor-roll-of-contributors/
