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Who is ICG: International Crisis Group?
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George Soros has created or financed several very important and prestigious associations and foundations; the Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group. …. The International Crisis Group (ICG) was created in 1994 as a non-governmental (NGO) diplomatic organization, headed by the US Democratic Senator George Mitchell (who, later gave his name to the Report on the Israeli-Palestinian Question). Actively working in Burundi, Nigeria and Sierra Leone (African countries) at the beginning, the ICG was getting closer to NATO on the Yugoslavian crisis. It is currently presided over by Martti Ahtisaari, the former President of Finland ….His Administrative Council gathers the elite of NATO personalities. By his side, former national security advisors like Richard Allen and Zbigniew Brzezinski, …. and former NATO Supreme Commander during the Yugoslavian War, General Wesley Clark. We also find some … Russian oligarch Mijaíl Khodorkovsky, all of them members of the Carlyle Group. …His agency includes the most important neoliberal economists. Likewise, he created a Network Media Program ….the CIA radio station during the Cold War. Besides, he has subsidized several “independent” mass media stations like B92 radio during the Yugoslavian War and today the “free” newspapers in Iraq. He controls the Project Syndicate, a mass media agency publishing editorials on political personalities in 181 international daily papers. These authors include a great number of ICG managers, as well as the cream of neoliberal economists. READ MORE http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Crisis_Group
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Executive Committee
Accessed April 2009: [3]- Morton Abramowitz - Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Turkey
- Emma Bonino - Vice Chair - Former Italian Minister of International Trade and European Affairs and European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid
- Cheryl Carolus - Former South African High Commissioner to the UK and Secretary-General of the ANC
- Maria Livanos Cattaui - Former Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce
- Yoichi Funabashi - Editor-in-Chief & Columnist, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
- Frank Giustra - Chairman, Endeavour Financial, Canada
- Stephen Solarz - Former U.S. Congressman
- George Soros - Chairman, Open Society Institute
- Par Stenback - Former Foreign Minister of Finland
U.S. Board Members
- Morton Abramowitz, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
- Kenneth Adelman, Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President
- Wesley Clark, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
- Stanley Fischer,Vice-Chairman, Citigroup Inc. and former First Deputy Managing Director of International Monetary Fund
- Carla Hills, Former U.S. Secretary of Housing; former U.S. Trade Representative
- Swanee Hunt, Founder and Chair of Women Waging Peace; former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
- Elliott F. Kulick, Chairman, Pegasus International
- Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Novelist and journalist
- Douglas Schoen, Founding Partner of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates
- George Soros, Chairman, Open Society Institute
- William O. Taylor, Chairman Emeritus, The Boston Globe
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The Young Turks
The Young Turks is a radio and internet Talk Show hosted by Cenk Uygur (pronounced Jenk Yu-gur), who is (as you might expect) Turkish-American (he was born in Istanbul). The name is a play on the Young Turks
of the late Ottoman Empire, and the figurative use of the term for the youngsters challenging the old guard (in this case, of the liberal establishment). Other co-hosts and helpers include Ben Mankiewicz, Jayar Jackson, Jesus Godoy, Dave Koller, Wes Clark Jr, Teresa Strausser, RJ Eskow, and Micheal Shure. Ana Kasparian (who is, somewhat amusingly, Armenian-American) co-hosts during the third hour, which focuses on pop culture instead of politics.
of the late Ottoman Empire, and the figurative use of the term for the youngsters challenging the old guard (in this case, of the liberal establishment). Other co-hosts and helpers include Ben Mankiewicz, Jayar Jackson, Jesus Godoy, Dave Koller, Wes Clark Jr, Teresa Strausser, RJ Eskow, and Micheal Shure. Ana Kasparian (who is, somewhat amusingly, Armenian-American) co-hosts during the third hour, which focuses on pop culture instead of politics.