[Aaus-list] [Ukrainians For Obama] American Committee for East-West Accord - phantom support group for Stephen F. Cohen?

irene jarosewich i.jarosewich at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 09:26:58 EST 2016


don't want to speculate about who pays the board fees, but thanks for
prompt to read more about Willian vanden Heuvel, about whom I knew nothing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_vanden_Heuvel

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-j-vanden-heuvel/



On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote:

>
> American Committee for East-West Accord - phantom support group for
> Stephen F. Cohen?
>
> A week ago, The Nation published the following article:
> Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending
> Bill
> Under pressure from the Pentagon, Congress has stripped the spending bill
> of an amendment that prevented funds from falling into the hands of
> Ukrainian neo-fascist groups.
> By James Carden
> January 14, 2016
>
> http://www.thenation.com/article/congress-has-removed-a-ban-on-funding-neo-nazis-from-its-year-end-spending-bill/
>
> At the bottom it reads,
> "  James Carden James W. Carden is a contributing writer at The Nation
> and the executive editor for the American Committee for East-West Accord's
> EastWestAccord.com."
>
> Who is eastwestaccord.com?
> http://eastwestaccord.com/
>
> The Board of Directors
> http://eastwestaccord.com/board-of-directors/
>
> that includes Bill Bradley, Jack Matlock, Jr, Stephen F. Cohen, William
> vanden Heuvel (Katrina vanden Heuvel's - The Nation's publisher - father),
> Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (FDR's granddaughter, daughter of FDR's oldest son),
> a former P&G CEO and Disney Board Director.
>
> The organization announced its formation in June 2015:
> Johnson's Russia List
> http://russialist.org/announcement-committee-for-east-west-accord/
>
> "... the creation of the new Committee for East-West Accord, a
> nonpartisan, tax-exempt educational organization of American citizens from
> different professions – business, academia, government service, science,
> law, and others – who are deeply concerned about the possibility of a new
> cold war between the United States/Europe and Russia.
>
> The Committee is new but not without a distinguished predecessor. Its name
> derives from The American Committee on East-West Accord, a pro-detente
> organization founded in 1974 by illustrious Americans – among them, CEOs of
> multinational corporations, political figures, educational leaders, and
> policy thinkers such as George F. Kennan ..."
>
>
> Altogether, it's not trivial, and there's some serious firepower w/ a
> former Democratic U.S. Senator (and NBA All-Star, and at one-time visibily
> aligned with CCRF), three former ambassadors.
>
> Any idea where the $duckie$ are coming from?
>
> fyi,
>
> MP
> pyz at brama.com
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