Trilateral Commission
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The Trilateral Commission is a private organization, founded in 1973 at the initiative of David Rockefeller, of over 300 private citizens from Europe, Japan, and North America to promote closer cooperation between these three areas.
The organization has come under much scrutiny and criticism by political activists and academics working in the social and political sciences. The Trilateral Commission has found its way into a number of conspiracy theories, especially relating to the Round table groups.
Membership
The three current chairmen are:
- Thomas Foley, North America
- Peter Sutherland, Europe
- Yotaro Kobayashi, Pacific Asia
Some other people who are or have been members:
- Georges Berthoin
- Tim Collins
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- George H.W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter
- Gerhard Casper
- Dick Cheney
- Bill Clinton
- Henry Kissinger
- Otto Graf Lambsdorff
- Ritt Bjerregaard
- Carl Palme
- Jorge Braga de Macedo
- Kiichi Miyazawa
- Akio Morita
- David Rockefeller
- Paul Volcker
- Isamu Yamashita
- Dianne Feinstein
- Bill Emmott
External links
- Official website (http://www.trilateral.org/)
- Noam Chomsky: The Carter Administration: Myth and Reality (http://www.chomsky.info/books/priorities01.htm) (commentary on The Crisis of Democracy, a 1975 Trilateral Commission report)
- The Trilateral Commission: Effect on the Middle East (http://truedemocracy.net/sample/art1.htm)
- The Political Graveyard's (incomplete) list of Trilateral Commission members (http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/trilateral-commission.html)
- Is the Trilateral Commission the secret organization that runs the world? (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_295.html) (from The Straight Dope, 1987)da:Den Trilaterale Kommission