Can someone fill me in on that new liberal think tank?

[WilliamPitt]

Is it a Soros thing? Does it have a website? Any and all help is appreciated.

[ShaneGR]

1. John Podesta's baby

He might be getting some funding from Soros, but it's Podesta's creation.

http://www.centerforamericanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?cid={E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03}&bin_id={D4279185-2138-4D60-8557-E26508FD8C13}

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[Booberdawg]

12. saved!

thanks!:thumbsup:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

25. Moveon.org Documentary, Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War

I wanna see it! http://www.centerforamericanprogress.org/site/lookup.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=10775

American Progress, Moveon.org Launch Breakthrough Documentary, Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War

Internet-Only Distribution, November 2003

• Watch Trailer (Real | Windows)
• Film Overview and Interviewees, including five clips in Real and Windows format
This event is by invitation only.

A new, provocative documentary produced and directed by award winning filmmaker Robert Greenwald and sponsored by MoveOn.org and The Center for American Progress will reveal the distortion of intelligence by the Bush Administration which lead to the first pre-emptive war in the history of the United States.

The film has extensive and never before seen interviews with over 20 experts including former Ambassador Joe Wilson, former head of the CIA, Stansfield Turner, CIA operative Robert Baer, weapons inspector David Albright, the former U.S. Diplomat to Greece, John Brady Kiesling, who resigned over the war, former anti-terrorism expert Rand Beers and more insiders at the CIA, the Pentagon, the foreign service and several weapons inspection teams. The information is hard hitting and uncensored.

Starting Monday, November 3, almost 3 million people will be informed of the film concurrently through screenings and an unprecedented non-profit online coalition:

High profile screenings will be hosted in Washington D.C. by The Center for American Progress and writer/comedian Al Franken (11/3), New York by George Soros (11/4), at Harvard by Tom Hayden (12/06), San Francisco by Alternet (11/25). Additional screenings will be scheduled throughout the country.
On the Internet, MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, The Nation Institute, Allternet, Buzzflash and Working Assets will be alerting their readerships and members about the film, which can be purchased on www.truthuncovered.com for viewing.

[sistersofmercy]

30. Here's a link for you.

Check it out I found this a few days ago while doing my usual googling for various subjects. Pretty much I'm usual lookiong for dirt on INC because I don't want the slithering Chalabi and thugs inc to get a free pass on the intelligence provided by them, but I digress.
http://www.nci.org/c/c81199.htm

[FauxNewsBlues]

2. Center for american progress

http://www.centerforamericanprogress.org/

John Podesta from the Clinton team is running it. No idea on the funding.

[KoKo]

11. I subscribed last week. They have a great newletter they update with

current articles and opinions, which they will e-mail you if you sign up for it. They have daily releases which I didn't sign up for, but the newletter is once a week.

It would probably be a good idea if most of us registered with them. Shows support and maybe we can have an influence in their policies if we show interest early on.

I have a feeling Soros money went into it. He was supposed to be giving money to Dem Organizations to try to increase the vote. Having a Think Tank is a good start. My impression from light reads of the first two newsletters is that they are more Liberal than DLC. I hope they stay that way. We see enough of the DLC from Joe Biden who seems to have a permanent home on the Sunday Pundit Shows and the weekly Pundit Shows. Enough already!

[Spazito]

3. There is also The Coalition For a Realistic Foreign Policy that has..

recently formed. Here is the link:

http://www.realisticforeignpolicy.org/

[La_Serpiente]

4. They have some pretty good people running it

Eric Alterman will be looking at the media and democracy. There are other fellows too.

However, I just hope it is not another arm of the DLC. Those guys are in a world of their own.

They call for progressive multilateralism, but say f the UN and supported the war against Iraq.

[KoKo]

14. Alterman is defintely NOT DLC! I just finished his book and am a reader

of his blog. I think he "tempers" what he says sometimes to fit in, but when he has an opportunity he cuts loose. He was incredible on the "New Yorker Magazine Seminar on the Media" which C-Span aired last week. He was on with PNAC'er William Krystol, and Frank Rich, NYT's, and the Managing Editor of the LA Times (not as likeable as I would have thought) and a veteran writer from New York Magazine (can't think of name this second). Oh, On Edit: It was Ken Auletta.

Alterman was incredible going after Krystol who sat and grinned and looked like he was on top of the world, until Alterman attacked him for founding PNAC where there were a few cracks in Krystol's facade where he "stammered" a couple of lame replies. Anyway Alterman was the only one who throroughly trashed the media for lack of honest reporting leading up to Invasion and afterwards. He also took after PNAC while Frank Rich and the LA Times guy mostly apologized for the reporting (surprising, given the LA Times has in general reported much that was hidden and Frank Rich has written columns which have been posted here on DU which we've all cheered. (there was one Rich column that most disagreed with where he defended Iraq Invasion to some degree) but the rest have been very supportive of us Dems and not kind to Chimp.

Anyway, sorry they never repeated it on C-Span, I don't think anyone here saw it and posted about it.

[FrenchieCat]

18. I saw it....

and you are right. Boy that Kristol does have balls. He'll be telling us the horrible truth, shrugging his shoulders and acting like SO What? with a big grin on his face. That boy is scary!

[janekat]

5. I think there's an article on it in this week's Newsweek

I have it somewhere...

[kentuck]

6. I don't think it's a liberal think tank... I think it is bi-partisan??

Which I would interpret as DLC, but that would just be my opinion.

[La_Serpiente]

7. It probaly is

Chuck Hagel just gave a speech there this past weekend.

But he is the only one I would think.

I mean, they have Democrats speak at the CATO Institute sometimes.

[janekat]

8. Hegel spoke out against Bush last week. Has the Repub's worried.

maybe he'll come to the good guys side...

[WilliamPitt]

9. Yeah. Compromise sucks.

[kentuck]

13. Although that sounds tongue in cheek, Will...

I'm afraid in this day and age, compromise is surrender. At least, that is what I pick up from Bush and his lackeys...

[KoKo]

15. Yes, at this point we have been almost "compromised away." What good

did it do? Bush's "Blank Check" from Congress certainly was a productive compromise. The compromise that caused untold suffering from Amercans and Iraqi citizens for probably decades to come.

Compromise is what got us to this point. Remember the Mid-terms.....and "The Plan" our Dem Leadership had?

[HootieMcBoob]

24. I don't think there's any compromising here

Hagel in this instance has been a harsh critic of the Bush administration. what you seem to be concerned about, rather than compromise, is just giving in to the other side. this has been the problem that democrats have had for some time now. I think the tide is beginning to turn and if there is any compromise on this issue it will have to come from the "other side".

[ShaneGR]

17. Considering Podesta was Clintons Chief of Staff

I would expect them to advocate the best positions for electoral victory.

[Booberdawg]

20. the site in the link you gave in the first post looks pretty progressive

to me. Didn't look bi-partisan at all.

[salin]

29. There are TWO new groups one liberal one bipartisan

Podesta is the liberal one. Definitely not nonpartisan.

The other is related to foreign policy (don't remember the name) that one IS bipartisan.

[jiacinto]

10. The American Majority Institute

Being funded by John Podesta.

[Booberdawg]

16. more!

[FrenchieCat]

19. As you may already know,

Clark gave the keynote opening speech at the first day of the convention. It was a great speech. I believe there is a link to the speech to those who haven't seen it (I'm sure that the link given previously to the website can take you to it). It is definitely one to watch. He was introduced by Soros. A most wonderful introduction. Clark does have balls. I'll give him that (and as a supporter, and a whole lot more).

[coda]

21. You're probably hearing about the conference they co-sponsered?

Podesta's, Center for American Progress

http://www.centerforamericanprogress.org/


If you can find time, listen to some of the downloads from the conference (New American Strategies for Security and Peace) on Oct, 28th and 29th

Podesta starts to speak at about the 9 minute mark (very good)

Sorenson's intro for Clark was incredible.

Clark was spot on....

Zbigniew Brzezinski made a great speech also, made some terrific points.

Joe Biden's, what I heard (didn't get to finish), was surprisingly good.

Haven't got to Wilson and the others yet, but those I've heard are well worth the time spent.

Promise. :-)

http://www.newamericanstrategies.org/downloads/

[ElsewheresDaughter]

22. Hagel (R) was a keynote speaker at one of their meetings last week

:shrug:

[HootieMcBoob]

23. Link to Podesta on Washington Journal

talking about the launching of Center for American Progress.

http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=podesta&image1.x=0&image1.y=0

[Democat]

26. Will is talking about America Coming Together (ACT)

Labor, environmental and women's organizations, with strong backing from international financier George Soros, have joined forces behind a new political group that plans to spend an unprecedented $75 million to mobilize voters to defeat President Bush in 2004.

The organization, Americans Coming Together (ACT), will conduct "a massive get-out-the-vote operation that we think will defeat George W. Bush in 2004," said Ellen Malcolm, the president of EMILY's List, who will become ACT's president.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A31042-2003Aug7

Here is their website:
http://www.americanscomingtogether.com/

[HootieMcBoob]

27. American's coming together isn't a "think tank"

you described it accurately in your post as "a massive get-out-the-vote operation". It's a very important organization but it's not a think tank. Center for American Progress, on the other hand, is a think tank. Sort of a progressive Heritage Foundation. Here's a link to what they're about: http://www.centerforamericanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?cid=%7BE9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03%7D&bin_id=%7BB6C05ACA-8555-45E8-BE01-A1B6B5FE29DD%7D

In an interview I saw with Podesta he said that Soros has donated money to the center but he didn't say how much.

[KoKo]

28. Thanks for the verification "Hootie." I suspected Soros money was

involved but had not heard or read anything. Now, some folks have big problems with Soros. Michael Ruppert for one. But, I would rather have a flawed Democratic Think Tank than none at all. It's a beginning. Maybe others will sprout up from people with less suspicious ties than Soros.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

31. I know you were probably asking for a reason, but as a writer

I request you also familiarize yourself with the work of THIS think tank.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml

[Booberdawg]

32. kick

[Booberdawg]

33. one more kick