Talk:Atlantic Council

message: This article is on the US organization named Atlantic Council of the United States and should be so titled, not just 'Atlantic Council' because first, no such organization is considered here, and second, the US organization does not claim monopoly on 'Atlantic Council' which is part of the name of the Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom and other similar organizations.  The present title is confusing. Apcbg 14:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Renaming proposal

message: The article notes there are Atlantic Councils in "many countries". If so, why does this article have a paragraph on the US Atlantic Council? is this showing US bias? May I suggest either a paragraph for each of the Atlantic Councils, a selection (and indication to how that selection has been made) or a general article about Atlantic Councils and then links to specific Atlantic Councils.
Right now the article seems to describe the US Atlantic Council and links to the Bulgarian Atlantic Council - it's quite a thin article; suggests there is little information about the topic and only the USA and Bulgaria participate. cheers. --mgaved (talk) 10:13, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You are quite right.  Originally this was an article on the US Atlantic Council alone, and essentially still is. As an article on 'Atlantic councils' in general it is surely unballanced as it cannot go into great details (as it doe for the US council) for all such organizations.  The right thing to do would be to rename this article 'US Atlantic Council' as suggested in the preceding section.  The general article on 'Atlantic councils' should probably be either a redirect to Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), or a brief article based on the present introduction to this article plus links to particular councils' articles and the ATA article. Apcbg (talk) 10:42, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unbalanced article?

message: Reads like an advertisment, especially this part " ... the Council has emerged as a think tank with a reputation for bringing together policy makers from both sides of the Atlantic, and beyond. ... ".   Not encyclopedic, more like public relations gibberish.  Cowicide (talk) 22:42, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: I introduced the about template to distinguish the Atlantic Council from the North Atlantic Council. While the names are distinguishable, they can be confused, leading to interpretation of articles like this as if the NATO had decided military mobilization to deter Russia, which it hasn't, it's just the think tank... doing its... thing. -- Seelefant (talk) 20:34, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
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message: The Atlantic Council is a right wing think tank of former CIA employees (it is a fact, check the management names–all of them were former CIA employees).  The Atlantic Council is an extreme right wing neocon think tank that definitely does not value peace and cooperation in the world. To the contrary, they are for example doing their very best to start a major war with Russia in Ukraine.  Who loses if Ukraine has a civil war? Ukrainians do, that's who. A quick look at the Atlantic Council website reveals an endless array of "Russia is evil" and "Adolf Putler" hate speech and propaganda directed at Russia, most of it lies and misinformation. 
Face the facts: this is no "non partisan" think tank: this is a neo-conservative right wing think tank linked to the CIA, major defense corporations, and America's bloated military industrial complex. Its mission seems to be starting war/fomenting war with Russia, Syria, and China.  
Right wing think tank serving American business elite. Definitely not serving the American public in any capacity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a00:1028:8d1c:741e:3d13:cf11:3eb2:574c (talk) 15:21, 8 June 2015‎ (UTC)
:That's an interesting theory, but it doesn't bear much relation to reality.  Liberal Barack Obama picked much of his defense and foreign policy team from among members of the council.  In fact, the last THREE chairmen have been Obama appointees either before or after their terms.  The current vice-chair is an investment banker and the president was a journalist; the executive vice-president worked for both the Clinton and Bush administrations, as well as NATO. NONE of them show any sign they might have been members of the CIA.  And frankly, even if they ALL were, that would do absolutely nothing to show that they are or were ever "right wing" politically.  The CIA is a bureaucracy, and bureaucracies attract bureaucrats, who often (especially in the USA), are on the left wing, politically, because the right wing wants to reduce the size, power, and influence of bureaucracies. ~ MD Otley (talk) 02:43, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  After reading that the Atlantic Council came out in favour of TPP because it is wanted for security (while so far it has only ever been referred to as a trade partnership) I came here and wondered what exactly the Atlantic Council was. an NGO or what precisely. It seems to be an internationally funded think tank/policy organisation, but non-partisan would no longer be true. The TPP  (Trans-Pacific Partnership) is promoted by the current Obama administration as 'we must write the rules or the Chinese will'. If the Atlantic Council were non-partisan, i.e. not taking sides on power issues, they would have stayed out of this.  101.166.86.118 (talk) 06:41, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Feels like there are editors with partisan axes to grind here! I have seen no reliable sources that document the organisation as being anything other than a cross party, multilateral think tank interested in classical ideas of liberalism. Am happy to be persuaded otherwise, but I would like to see a good spread of evidence set out here on the talk page first.Erasmus Sydney (talk) 22:48, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  This extremist critique could be contrasted with what actually happened in Ukraine in 2022, the launching of war by Russia. Are there any sources as to who said this in 2015, what they say now, what links they have abroad, and so on? 213.205.198.113 (talk) 15:09, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is extremely biased and lacks much needed criticism 

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message: Deleted unnecessary politically suggestive line. It gave undue weight to what was essentially the opinion of one journalist who gave one example: A company who supported a free trade agreement donated money to a pro free trade think tank which then published a report...supporting free trade. Not particularly insightful and I don't think it's appropriate for a Wikipedia article to have a line suggesting a lack of integrity on the part of a think tank especially when the source is an opinion piece which does a poor job of establishing that that's the case.  Alexanderhamilton3 (talk) 17:59, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
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