Czech President Vaclav Klaus to join the Cato Institute in Spring

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http://praguemonitor.com/2013/01/17/klaus-join-us-cato-institute-spring

Prague, Jan 16 (CTK) - Outgoing Czech President Vaclav Klaus will cooperate with the U.S. conservative think-tank Cato Institute as from March, when his second and last five-year term expires, the Presidential Office announced on Klaus's web page yesterday.

Klaus's successor will emerge from the second round of the direct presidential election on January 25-26.

Klaus's cooperation with the Cato Institute was also mentioned by the double issue of Cato Policy Report at the end of last year.

Klaus attended several conferences organised by the think-tank in the past.

In 2009, he spoke at a Washington conference on the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in central and east Europe.

In 2008, Klaus mentioned the institute among the organisations that share his critical stand on the theories according to which man is behind glogal warming. He dismissed the theories as populist.

Cato Institute, founded in 1974, focuses on free market, freedom and economic policy. It takes critical views of some aspects of President Barack Obama's policy.

It is the sixth most influential research organisation in the United States according to the Global Go To Think Tank standings of 2011.

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He's one of the good guys

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Memory time!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLoDMv4XsWw

[Lucille]

They dumped him for not towing the lion. Reason linked to a piece by the neo-Trot propagandist and smear merchant James Kirchick announcing the split.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/22/december-22-am-links


The Cato Institute has officially ended its relationship with former Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, a longtime libertarian hero, reportedly over his defense of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and his hostility to homosexuality.

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Despite the belated and sub rosa quality of the move, Cato’s decision to distance itself from Klaus represents a growing rift within the libertarian movement on foreign policy. On one side are isolationist stalwarts like former presidential candidate Ron Paul, a regular presence on Kremlin-funded propaganda network RT, whose think tank espouses Russian talking points on a variety of issues ranging from Crimea to Syria. Sidelining Klaus, a source at Cato tells me, draws a “sharp distinction between Cato and the Putinista wing of the libertarian movement.”

On the other side are libertarians who, to varying degrees, oppose Russian behavior, even if they propose little by means of resisting it. These libertarians may believe that the United States should take a hands-off approach to Russia, soften its criticism of Moscow’s human rights record, and oppose NATO expansion—yet they fundamentally differ from the former group in that they reject the notion that there is any justice or legal rationale to Moscow’s actions. Cato’s rejection of Vaclav Klaus draws a firm line in the sand and will serve as an important marker for the development of a post-Cold War libertarian foreign policy.

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