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16-02-08, 23:02
Volgens De New York Times wil het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie de buitenlandse media manipuleren. Het Pentagon ontwikkelt plannen om met propagandamateriaal de publieke opinie in het buitenland te beïnvloeden
In a recent interview with a Dutch paper Hirsi Ali bragged about AEI funding (http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cf...ali122006.htm).
"They are really independent. Anyone who wants to give money is welcome but they cannot interfere with the allotment of funds. It's even possible that I could get money from someone who is opposed to women's rights. That's really great."
Scientists and economists (http://environment.guardian.co.uk/cl...004397,00.html) have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Volkskrant: "In Amerika onderhandelde Hirsi Ali de afgelopen maanden met enkele denktanks. De liberale Johns Hopkins University kon haar naar eigen zeggen niet betalen en bij de progressieve Brookings Institution voelde ze zich niet thuis. Ze koos voor het American Enterprise Institute (AEI), een conservatieve denktank die wordt gezien als een van de belangrijkste adviseurs van de regering-Bush."
More recently, it has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's foreign policy. AEI rents office space to the Project for the New American Century, one of the leading voices that pushed the Bush administration's plan for "regime change" through war in Iraq. AEI reps have also aggressively denied that the war has anything to do with oil,
In 1980, the American Enterprise Institute for the sum of $25,000 produced a study in support of the tobacco industry titled, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Regulation: Consumer Products. The study was desgined to counteract "social cost" arguments against smoking by broadening the social cost issue to include other consumer products such as alcohol and sacchrin.
NGO Watch
In June 2003, AEI and another right-wing group, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, launched a new website NGOWatch.org/NGOwatch.org to expose the funding, operations and agendas of international NGOs, and particularly their alleged efforts to constrain US freedom of action in international affairs and influence the behavior of corporations abroad. [4] AEI states that "The extraordinary growth of advocacy NGOs in liberal democracies has the potential to undermine the sovereignty of constitutional democracies, as well as the effectiveness of credible NGOs."[5] Ralph Nader responds with "What they are condemning, with vague, ironic regulatory nostrums proposed against dissenting citizen groups, is democracy itself."
The Guardian reported further that AEI "has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil, and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees," added The Guardian. [8]
AEI Scholars Call for Iran Regime Change and Possible War
As tensions with Iran increase, many of the neoconservatives who laid the ideological and strategic frameworks for the invasion of Iraq are calling on the Bush administration to prepare for a preventive war against Iran and to immediately implement a "regime change" strategy.
In a recent interview with a Dutch paper Hirsi Ali bragged about AEI funding (http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cf...ali122006.htm).
"They are really independent. Anyone who wants to give money is welcome but they cannot interfere with the allotment of funds. It's even possible that I could get money from someone who is opposed to women's rights. That's really great."
Scientists and economists (http://environment.guardian.co.uk/cl...004397,00.html) have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Volkskrant: "In Amerika onderhandelde Hirsi Ali de afgelopen maanden met enkele denktanks. De liberale Johns Hopkins University kon haar naar eigen zeggen niet betalen en bij de progressieve Brookings Institution voelde ze zich niet thuis. Ze koos voor het American Enterprise Institute (AEI), een conservatieve denktank die wordt gezien als een van de belangrijkste adviseurs van de regering-Bush."
More recently, it has emerged as one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's foreign policy. AEI rents office space to the Project for the New American Century, one of the leading voices that pushed the Bush administration's plan for "regime change" through war in Iraq. AEI reps have also aggressively denied that the war has anything to do with oil,
In 1980, the American Enterprise Institute for the sum of $25,000 produced a study in support of the tobacco industry titled, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Regulation: Consumer Products. The study was desgined to counteract "social cost" arguments against smoking by broadening the social cost issue to include other consumer products such as alcohol and sacchrin.
NGO Watch
In June 2003, AEI and another right-wing group, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, launched a new website NGOWatch.org/NGOwatch.org to expose the funding, operations and agendas of international NGOs, and particularly their alleged efforts to constrain US freedom of action in international affairs and influence the behavior of corporations abroad. [4] AEI states that "The extraordinary growth of advocacy NGOs in liberal democracies has the potential to undermine the sovereignty of constitutional democracies, as well as the effectiveness of credible NGOs."[5] Ralph Nader responds with "What they are condemning, with vague, ironic regulatory nostrums proposed against dissenting citizen groups, is democracy itself."
The Guardian reported further that AEI "has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil, and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees," added The Guardian. [8]
AEI Scholars Call for Iran Regime Change and Possible War
As tensions with Iran increase, many of the neoconservatives who laid the ideological and strategic frameworks for the invasion of Iraq are calling on the Bush administration to prepare for a preventive war against Iran and to immediately implement a "regime change" strategy.