Michael J. Abramowitz Digg
>Read cable for info on [Freedom House], (AMBASSADOR [Yovanovich] COMPLAINS TO KYRGYZ OMBUDSMAN ABOUT "INSPECTIONS" OF U.S. NGO'S)
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Michael J. Abramowitz is president of Freedom House.
Before joining Freedom House in February 2017, he was director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education. He led the museum’s genocide prevention efforts and later oversaw its public education programs.
He was previously National Editor and then White House correspondent for the Washington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Hoover Institution. A graduate of Harvard College, he is also a board member of the National Security Archive.
https://freedomhouse.org/expert/michael-j-abramowitz
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How Trump is undermining press freedom around the world
By Michael J. Abramowitz and Arch Puddington
May 2, 2017 at 6:00 a.m. PDT
Global press freedom has long been in decline and is now at its lowest point in the past 13 years, according to Freedom House’s latest assessment, released last week. What is new, and especially disquieting, are the mounting pressures on the media in the United States, including sharp attacks on reporters by the Trump administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/05/02/how-trump-is-undermining-press-freedom-around-the-world/
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Freedom House 2018 Report on Democracy
“The greatest danger comes from the fact that American democracy is not infinitely durable, especially if a president shows little respect for its tenets,” said Michael J Abramowitz, president of Freedom House. “Anti-democratic rhetoric and the rejection of democratic constraints on power can be first steps towards real restrictions on freedom.”
“Challenges to democracy in the United States have outsized effects beyond American borders,” Mr. Abramowitz added. “Other nations watch what is happening in the United States and take cues from its leaders’ behavior. The ongoing deterioration of American democracy will accelerate the decline of democracy around the world.”
https://slulibrary.saintleo.edu/c.php?g=368038&p=6650511
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Freedom House 2018 Annual Awards Dinner | Photo, attached
Michael J. Abramowitz, former US Vice President Joe Biden and D. Jeffery Hirschberg attend the Freedom House 2018 Annual Awards Dinner on May 23, 2018 in Washington, DC.
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Michael+J.+Abramowitz/Freedom+House+2018+Annual+Awards+Dinner/cR7Z4gsEKLV
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President Trump Is Leading an Assault on Democracy in the U.S. And Around the World, Report Claims
"The core institutions of American democracy are being battered by an administration that has treated the country's traditional checks and balances with disdain," Michael J. Abramowitz, president of Freedom House said. "The Trump administration has made a sharp break from the political consensus of the last 70 years by casting aside democracy as the animating force behind American foreign policy."
https://www.newsweek.com/president-trump-democracy-us-world-782427
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Funding of Freedom House
According to the Freedom House Financial Statement 2016, Freedom House "was substantially funded by grants from the U.S. Government", with grants from the United States government accounting for approximately 86% of revenue.[5]
Below are the organizations and entities who funded Freedom House in 2016:[5]
Government of the United States – $24,813,164 (85.5%)
International public agencies – 2,266,949 (7.8%)
Corporations and foundations – 1,113,262 (3.8%)
Individual contributions – 1,113,262 (2.8%)
In its 2017 and 2018 financial statements, Freedom House once again disclosed that it "was substantially funded by grants from the U.S. Government." In 2017, the organization received $29,502,776, 90% of its total revenue that year, from the US government.[36] In 2018, the US government gave Freedom House $35,206,355, or 88% of its annual revenue.[37]
>And Americans PAY these fuckers MILLIONS of dollars every year? To usurp POTUS foreign policy? And bad-mouth POTUS around the world?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House
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2017_Audited_Financial_Statements
https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2017_Audited_Financial_Statements.pdf
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democracyprojectreport | (attached)
https://www.democracyprojectreport.org/