Over on Critical Montages there’s an interesting report on the doings of
some NGO’s controlled by Peter Ackerman, a Wall Street investor who once
worked closely with Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham in the 1980s. While
Milken went to prison for insider trading, Ackerman walked away with
hundreds of millions of dollars after the firm went bankrupt.
Modeling himself after George Soros, Ackerman assumed the guise of Deep
Thinker after earning a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he now serves as President of the
Board of Trustees. Like many other such schools, including Columbia
University’s School of International Affairs, Fletcher is a breeding
ground for spooks:
The Critical Montages report contains links to exchange between
Greenleft Weekly, an Australian radical newspaper, and some of
Ackerman’s minions. It was kicked off by an interview with Eva Gollinger
about American efforts to destabilize Venezuela in which she refers to
NGO efforts to turn Venezuela students into shock troops against the
government:
On top of that, some of the same groups or individuals have
participated since 2004 in training sessions with other US entities such
as the Albert Einstein Institute and the International Centre on
Non-Violent Conflict. These are the entities that were responsible for
helping to promote, fund and advise the “coloured” revolutions in
Eastern Europe [in the] Ukraine, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Georgia. They
failed in Belarus and they began working here in April 2003, first with
traditional opposition leaders and then, as in those movements in
Eastern Europe, they used young people — students.
Ackerman founded the International Centre on Non-Violent Conflict (ICNC)
and is responsible for all its funding. It should be mentioned, of
course, that the millions of dollars that is required to keep this
operation afloat came out of the piracy that Milken and Ackerman
conducted at Drexel Burnham. As masters of the junk bond trade, they
were responsible for companies firing tens of thousands of workers as a
result of “asset stripping” to cover corporate debt.
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/peter-ackerman-billionaire-sponsor-of-toxic-ngos/
