While All Eyes Are on the Russia-Ukraine War, Bill Clinton Announces the Resurrection of the Clinton Global Initiative

Former President Bill Clinton announced in a letter on the Clinton Foundation website the reinstatement of the Clinton Global Initiative with a kick-off meeting in New York in September.

The Clinton's terminated CGI at the end of 2016, but are resurrecting it now "To meet the urgency of this moment." Clinton cited a myriad of reasons that he believes the "CGI community" can address including COVID, war, and attack on democracy and a myriad of woke objectives.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has ripped the cover off of longstanding inequities and vulnerabilities across our global community," Clinton said.

"Democracy is under assault around the world, most glaringly in Ukraine where Russia has launched an unjustified and unprovoked invasion that has put millions of lives in grave danger," Clinton said.

"The number of displaced people and refugees worldwide is higher than it has ever been-more than one in 95 of all people alive on the planet today has been forced to flee their home-and rising," Clinton said.

According to Clinton, CGI members will not only "Take action and achieve real results" but will also "Create a culture of possibility" to help the sheep "In a world hungry for hope."

As reported by the Associated Press, "The initiative, which began meeting annually in 2005 and boasted speakers ranging from former presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter to celebrity philanthropists like Bono and Ben Affleck, ended in 2016 during former Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, when questions were raised about the appearance of potential conflicts of interests if donors then had business before Hillary Clinton's administration."

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