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Last Updated: March 12, 2008
The 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), crafted by then-Defense Department staffers I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and Zalmay Khalilzad, is widely regarded as an early formulation of the...
Last Updated: May 11, 2010
A Lebanese-American investment banker closely tied to many neoconservative figures, Abdelnour wants the United States or Israel to “annihilate” Hezbollah.
Last Updated: January 27, 2011
The Iran-Contra veteran is a well-known neoconservative ideologue who works as a senior fellow on Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Last Updated: October 27, 2011
Vitriolic right-wing blogger Rachel Abrams, who comes from a well-established neoconservative family, is notorious for her vindictive, inflated, and sometimes childish rhetoric.
Last Updated: May 16, 2011
Addington, an author of the infamous “torture memos” who is now VP at the Heritage Foundation, has remained conspicuously silent as the debate over torture has heated up since the slaying of Osama bin Laden.
Last Updated: October 23, 2006
Carol Adelman, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, is a specialist in international aid and health issues. She is director of Hudson's Center for Global Prosperity, which, according to its...
Last Updated: October 29, 2008
A longtime Washington insider closely aligned with neoconservatives, Ken Adelman has served several Republican administrations since the mid-1970s and was a vocal proponent of the invasion of Iraq.
Last Updated: January 25, 2012
A Casino magnate and key backer of U.S. and Israeli right-wing groups, Sheldon Adelson’s support for Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has underscored the unprecedented power wealthy individuals have to influence the outcomes of elections since the Supreme Court’s controversial “Citizens United” ruling.
Last Updated: July 12, 2006
Harold Agnew is a nuclear physicist who worked on both the creation of the first atomic weapons and on the project to build the hydrogen bomb. As a young member of the Manhattan Project, Agnew flew...
Last Updated: May 04, 2011
Akins, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and advisor to the hawkish Iran Policy Committee, helped play a role forging elite Middle East consensus over Israel during the 1970s and foresaw the popular backlash in the region over U.S. policies.
Last Updated: November 01, 2006
As Donald Rumsfeld's undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics from May 2001 to May 2003, Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge Jr. held the purse strings at the Pentagon,...
Last Updated: June 23, 2009
Ensconced at the conservative Hoover Institution, this former member of Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board now seems to spend much of his time distressing over President Obama and venerating the memory of Ronald Reagan...
Last Updated: August 07, 2007
The Manhattan-based American Center for Democracy (ACD) says on its website that it "monitors and exposes the enemies of freedom and their modus operandi, and explores pragmatic ways to...
Last Updated: August 10, 2011
The American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus is an alliance of neoconservatives, liberal hawks, and peace activists working toward greater autonomy in the Caucasus, apparently with an eye to the emasculation of Russia for U.S. strategic benefit.
Last Updated: August 10, 2011
The American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus is an alliance of neoconservatives, liberal hawks, and peace activists working toward greater autonomy in the Caucasus, apparently with an eye to the emasculation of Russia for U.S. strategic benefit.
Last Updated: July 29, 2009
A core member of the Old Right, the ACU has helped drive the Republican Party further right since the election of President Obama.
Last Updated: January 20, 2009
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), based in Washington D.C., has been a leading member of the neoconservative advocacy community for nearly three decades and is one...
Last Updated: February 15, 2007
Founded in 1982 to serve as an elite source of policy debate and analysis for U.S. policymakers, the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) has consistently pressed for hawkish agendas in U.S....
Last Updated: May 11, 2010
“America’s pro-Israel lobby,” AIPAC has been a major backer of sanctions legislation that some observers argue will hurt the Obama administration’s attempts to curtail Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Last Updated: October 18, 2010
Once described as the “heart and soul of the military-industrial complex,” the American Security Council was an influential old-guard conservative group during the early Cold War that latter served as a key institutional vehicle for anti-détente militarism.
Last Updated: August 10, 2011
The American Turkish Council is an influential beltway organization chaired by former Bush Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage that serves as a conduit for U.S.-Turkish relations despite being marred by scandals involving bribery of government officials.
Last Updated: November 21, 2003
About . Founded in 2001 by then-Bradley Foundation head Michael Joyce at the behest of Karl Rove, George W. Bush's personal adviser, Americans for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise...
Last Updated: November 09, 2010
Founded shortly after 9/11, the Claremont Institute-based Americans for Victory over Terrorism champions “victory” in the “war on terrorism,” in part by promoting “research about Islam and Islamism” and “attacking those who would blame America first.”
Last Updated: February 06, 2012
Amitay has been a key “pro-Israel” lobbyist for decades, serving as head of American Israeli Public Affairs Committee and chair of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
Last Updated: July 08, 2010
Anderson is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and a veteran foreign policy hawk whose career has included serving four Republican presidents.
Last Updated: October 28, 2009
The new owner of neocon mouthpiece the Weekly Standard is an Evangelical business tycoon whose media holdings provide a powerful voice for his rightwing views on taxes, national security, and family values.
Last Updated: May 26, 2011
Journalist and former American Enterprise Institute Fellow Anne Applebaum writes a column for the Washington Post in which she has revealed an on-again-off-again affinity for U.S. military interventions.
Last Updated: May 03, 2007
The Israel-based Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR) is a hardline advocacy and research institute founded in 1997 that espouses a Likud Party line on Israeli security, arguing on its website...
Last Updated: October 21, 2010
An academic center of the American conservative movement, the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs has been a vigorous defender of the war on terrorism and an unequivocal supporter for Israel.
Last Updated: December 20, 2007
John David Ashcroft, a former Republican governor and senator from Missouri and high-profile member of the conservative judicial group Federalist Society, served as U.S. attorney general during...
Last Updated: October 18, 2007
A self-styled member of the Iranian student dissident movement, Akbar Atri has, since fleeing Iran in 2005, become a favorite of the neoconservative faction in the United States, where he has...
Last Updated: June 16, 2010
A former Lockheed Martin CEO and board member at the Center for a New American Security, Augustine recently led a defense acquisitions task force organized by Business Executives for National Security, a group that aims to help government do national security “faster,” “better,” and “cheaper.”
Last Updated: January 04, 2012
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is a right-wing evangelical congresswoman and former GOP presidential candidate who believes the United States must support Israel because of the Bible.
Last Updated: June 05, 2009
Last Updated: October 05, 2010
Attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, William Barr has been a prominent conservative activist for decades.
Last Updated: July 21, 2010
The Christian Zionist leader and former presidential candidate has been busy founding militarist pressure groups that attacking President Obama and other Democrats for being soft on terrorism and not sufficiently supportive of Israel.
Last Updated: May 03, 2007
A Canadian international human rights law scholar, Anne Bayefsky is closely associated with the pro-Israel Right in the United States and internationally. Her writing, which often appears in rightist...
Last Updated: October 17, 2007
Gary Becker, the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics, is a conservative writer and economist based at the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. A well known...
Last Updated: October 05, 2010
A longtime right-wing activist, Bell sees the Tea Party and social conservatism as being at heart a single movement based on what he terms “America’s founding values.”
Last Updated: December 03, 2010
This now defunct speakers bureau and PR firm played an important role promoting neoconservative voices in the U.S. media after 9/11.
Last Updated: December 03, 2010
Benador Public Relations is the successor company to Benador Associates, a PR firm that played a key role promoting major neoconservative figures during the first George W. Bush administration.
Last Updated: December 04, 2010
Eleana Benador is a publicist whose firm helped promote a plank of neoconservative writers after 9/11.
Last Updated: December 03, 2010
Gabriel Benador is the associate director of Benador Public Relations, the successor firm to Benador Associates, a public relations company that served as a key promoter of neoconservative ideologues after the 9/11 attacks and during the run up to the invasion of Iraq.
Last Updated: July 18, 2007
William Bennett was for decades a key right-wing player in U.S. politics and is now a conservative radio talk show host. The one-time self-appointed moral compass for America, Bennett's...
Last Updated: October 05, 2010
Jeffrey Bergner is a corporate lobbyist and longtime supporter of neoconservative groups like the Hudson Institute and the Project for the New American Century.
Last Updated: January 25, 2011
Vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, Berman’s preferred strategy for pressuring Iran is to do a replay of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, a cornerstone of neoconservative advocacy during the early 1970s which threatened trade relations with the Soviet Union if it didn’t allow Jewish emigration to Israel.
Last Updated: August 18, 2010
The erstwhile media mogul and conservative writer, Black was recently released from prison—after serving just over two years of his six-year sentence for fraud convictions—as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limited the effect of a federal fraud law.
Last Updated: June 16, 2010
The controversial U.S. security contractor, Xe Services—formerly Blackwater—was recently put up for sale by it’s founder, Erik Prince.
Last Updated: December 12, 2011
Block, a former AIPAC spokesperson who defines himself as a progressive “pro-Israel” Democrat, has collaborated with neoconservatives and other hardliners to marginalize critics of Israel in the Democratic Party, in part by attempting to smear them as “anti-Semitic.”
Last Updated: October 03, 2011
When he is not busy down playing President Obama’s military successes, the former ambassador to the UN and neoconservative wonk endorses Israeli use of nuclear weapons against Iran.
Last Updated: October 25, 2011
Bonazzi is the executive director of the neoconservative-aligned European Foundation for Democracy, based in Brussels.
Last Updated: February 02, 2012
Boot, an adviser to the Mitt Romeny campaign, wants the United States to bomb Iran even though he admits such a policy would ultimately fail.
Last Updated: January 17, 2011
Bork, a project director at the Foreign Policy Initiative and the daughter of former Supreme Court justice nominee Robert Bork, has used her perch at FPI to continue the time-honored neoconservative tactic of organizing elite public sign-on letters to pressure public figures.
Last Updated: April 18, 2011
Conservative legal scholar and former Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork is a long-time rightwing activist who has supported the work of several advocacy groups, including the neoconservative Hudson Institute.
Last Updated: February 24, 2009
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (“the Bradley Foundation”) has been called "the country's largest and most influential right-wing organization" because of the volume...
Last Updated: September 09, 2009
Last Updated: July 12, 2006
"Some in America . speak of setting timetables for the withdrawal of our forces. This would be an historic mistake. Withdrawing our troops before Iraqis can defend themselves would endanger...
Last Updated: August 23, 2007
Linton Brooks, an experienced arms control negotiator and proponent of controversial strategic weapons programs, served as director of the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security...
Last Updated: April 28, 2010
A frontrunner to replace Katherine Sibelius as governor of Kansas, Brownback has been one of the Senate’s leading domestic conservatives and foreign policy hawks.
Last Updated: February 03, 2012
The late Mark Broxmeyer, an erstwhile Long Island real estate mogul, was a major fundraiser for the neoconservative Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, along with a host of Republican Party initiatives.
Last Updated: February 08, 2012
Following her acrimonious departure from JINSA, “pro-Israel” hawk Shoshana Bryen will carry on her advocacy efforts at the conservative Jewish Policy Center.
Last Updated: February 03, 2012
Stephen Bryen has played an important role forging connections between right-wing advocacy groups, conservative policy elites, weapons contractors, and the U.S. “pro-Israel” lobby.
Last Updated: April 27, 2008
In January 2007, after eight years in office, Jeb Bush left the governorship of Florida as one of the most popular executives in the state’s history.1 The brother of President George W. Bush...
Last Updated: December 10, 2011
Herman Cain, a former GOP presidential nomination, has expressed a number of hawkish foreign policy positions, even if he tends to be rather hazy on the details.
Last Updated: March 12, 2008
In November 2007, Stephen Cambone, the controversial undersecretary of defense for intelligence in the Donald Rumsfeld-led Pentagon, became vice president for strategy of QinetiQ North America, a...
Last Updated: April 30, 2004
Frank Carlucci, Ronald Reagan’s defense secretary and a former CIA deputy director, has had a colorful career as a government insider and corporate player. The Carlyle Group, which Carlucci...
Last Updated: October 05, 2011
The conservative Democrat from Pennsylvania who served two terms in Congress now works for the same defense contractor—BAE Systems—that he assisted in gaining Pentagon contracts while in office.
Last Updated: February 23, 2009
Castle Rock Foundation . The Castle Rock Foundation (CRF), a major supporter of the Heritage Foundation and other rightist institutions and causes, is an outgrowth of the Adolph Coors Foundation,...
Last Updated: July 30, 2009
The go-to security policy think tank for the Obama administration, the Center for a New American Security is staffed with a host of counterintelligence enthusiasts, some of whom seem right at home working closely with neoconservatives.
Last Updated: February 10, 2012
The Center for American Freedom, a new neoconservative advocacy group, publishes the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative “combat journalism” outlet designed to counter the supposedly liberal media elite.
Last Updated: December 21, 2011
Long active in the promotion of neoconservative foreign policies, the Center for Security Policy, led by Frank Gaffney, has also distinguished itself as a banner member of the “Islamophobia network.”
Last Updated: April 28, 2010
A favorite of the neocon crowd, Chalabi has recently been accused of unjustly marginalizing political opponents in Iraq while at the same time courting Iran.
Last Updated: June 09, 2009
The former secretary of labor has returned to the Heritage Foundation, where she worked before being tapped by George W. Bush in 2001...
Last Updated: April 30, 2004
George W. Bush's first choice for labor secretary, Linda Chavez is a right-wing pundit, anti-union demagogue, and foreign policy hawk. She has supported or worked for a string of rightist...
Last Updated: April 08, 2010
A standard-bearer for her father’s militarist agenda, Liz Cheney and her group Keep America Safe have resorted to McCarthy-esque tactics in attacking the Obama administration.
Last Updated: April 16, 2009
Lynne Cheney, the wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has been a high-profile supporter of rightist causes for decades, including from her current perch as senior fellow at the American...
Last Updated: April 17, 2009
Dick Cheney is widely considered one of the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history, having played an instrumental role in everything from expanding presidential war...
Last Updated: May 11, 2009
The former head of DHS and a key advocate of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” Chertoff recently founded a risk management firm and joined the law firm of Covington & Burling...
Last Updated: April 27, 2008
Created in early 2006 by Christian Right leader John Hagee, the influential evangelical pastor of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is a Christian...
Last Updated: December 05, 2010
A bastion of conservative scholarship and advocacy, the Claremont Institute hosts a number of programs that push hawkish foreign policies.
Last Updated: December 20, 2011
A controversial film distribution company, the Clarion Fund has released several films that attack “Radical Islam” while promoting views on its website that call into question the trustworthiness of all Muslims.
Last Updated: May 12, 2010
In a recent paper for the “pro-Israel” WINEP, Clawson argues for cautious measures in approaching Iranian factions about that country’s nuclear program.
Last Updated: January 12, 2012
Founded by AIPAC heavyweight Morris Amitay, the Coalition for Democracy in Iran is a defunct pressure group that helped push anti-Iran resolutions through Congress.
Last Updated: August 20, 2009
A neocon admired by some liberal hawks, Cohen disparages the Obama administration’s pursuit of diplomacy as shallow and merely an effort not to be like Bush...
Last Updated: August 27, 2008
The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI) was a short-lived yet influential group of hawkish Beltway think-tankers and politicians who came together at the behest of the George W. Bush...
Last Updated: November 24, 2009
At a recent CPD roundtable promoting U.S. missile defenses, participants were presented a video pushing discredited threats, like terrorists employing nuclear-armed ballistic missiles or knocking out the nation's infrastructure using EMP weapons...
Last Updated: February 16, 2004
About . Concerned Women for America (CWA) was founded in San Diego in 1979 by Christian Right social conservative Beverly LaHaye. Well connected to the Christian Right network, Beverly LaHaye is...
Last Updated: August 04, 2010
The former director of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative and a key right-wing opponent of Obama administration arms control initiatives, Cooper was recently given the “Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Award” by the Department of Defense’s Strategic Defense Initiative.
Last Updated: November 08, 2010
The Council for a Community of Democracies, a U.S-based NGO dedicated to advancing the positions of the intergovernmental organization Community of Democracies, touts U.S. exceptionalism while urging international cooperation in toppling undemocratic regimes.
Last Updated: August 13, 2008
The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a secretive right-wing nationalist group that was formed in 1981 to counter what its leaders saw as the excessive influence of purportedly liberal...
Last Updated: May 05, 2011
Cowan, a Fox News contributor and former military intelligence officer, is a member of the military committee of the Iran Policy Committee.
Last Updated: January 12, 2009
Christopher Cox served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the second term of the George W. Bush administration; prior to that, he represented California in the House of...
Last Updated: October 09, 2009
The former head of the Bush administration’s International Broadcasting Bureau, Cropsey has moved to the neocon-led Hudson Institute, where he writes screeds accusing President Obama of “appeasing” the Russians and attacking his efforts at rapprochement with the Muslim world.
Last Updated: May 08, 2007
J.D. Crouch II is a former deputy national security adviser and assistant to President George W. Bush who resigned in early May 2007. Regarded as one of the administration's staunchest foreign...
Last Updated: October 05, 2010
D’Souza, recently appointed president of the Evangelical Christian King’s College in New York City, has made a splash with his new book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which makes the peculiar argument that the anti-colonialism espoused by Obama’s father is behind the president’s purportedly radical policies.
Last Updated: March 12, 2011
The former Costa Rican ambassador to the United States, Jaime Daremblum now works as a rightwing pundit at the Hudson Institute, where he pushes the notion that Iran is using countries like Venezuela to threaten the United States.
Last Updated: September 19, 2007
Midge Decter is best known as a member of a leading neoconservative family, the Podhoretz clan. Her second husband, Norman Podhoretz, was editor of the neoconservative flagship magazine Commentary...
Last Updated: December 19, 2010
When its tax-exempt status got in the way of aggressive lobbying, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies created a new organization called Defense of Democracies, whose first project was a controversial ad campaign that raised concerns about partisanship.
Last Updated: February 14, 2011
The Democratic Leadership Council, which closed shop in 2011, was at the forefront of efforts to push the Democratic Party to adopt more conservative domestic policies and remain supportive of hawkish, Israel-centric Mideast policies.
Last Updated: March 17, 2009
Christopher DeMuth served as president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a key intellectual recruiting ground for the George W. Bush presidency and a preeminent think tank of...
Last Updated: October 25, 2011
A neoconservative media consultant and former AIPAC spokesperson, Toby Dershowitz is vice president of the Likud-linked Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Last Updated: November 21, 2003
About . The Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel (DCAP) was established by the Bush administration to oversee production of the president's Nuclear Posture Review, which is a classified study...
Last Updated: May 30, 2011
Since Diehl took over as the Washington Post’s deputy editorial page editor in 2001, the newspaper’s editorial slant has become increasingly hawkish and conservative.
Last Updated: November 23, 2010
Thomas Dine, former director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, has supported both moderate and hawkish Mideast policy campaigns.
Last Updated: January 26, 2009
Paula Dobriansky was the undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs during the presidency of George W. Bush. A long-standing Washington political figure with ties to neoconservative...
Last Updated: November 22, 2010
A major figure in U.S. organized labor, Donahue was an ardent anti-communist during the Cold War.
Last Updated: November 29, 2007
Thomas Donnelly, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a former deputy director of the now-defunct Project for the New American Century (PNAC), writes frequently on defense and...
Last Updated: December 05, 2010
A former Bush administration foreign policy adviser, Doran is a promoter of “soft power” strategies for overthrowing the Iranian government.
Last Updated: February 22, 2009
The Ann Arbor-based Earhart Foundation, perhaps best known for its support of several Nobel-winning economists, is arguably one of the least understood foundations in U.S. philanthropy. It appears to...
Last Updated: December 30, 2007
Nicholas Eberstadt, a long-standing participant in hawkish U.S. advocacy groups dating back to the early 1980s, is an Asia scholar and demographer associated with the American Enterprise Institute...
Last Updated: December 03, 2010
A longtime defense industry executive, Stanley Ebner has also supported the hawkish Center for Security Policy.
Last Updated: September 13, 2011
An undersecretary of defense under Donald Rumsfeld, Edelman is a fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and serves on the boards of the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative and the congressionally funded United States Institute for Peace.
Last Updated: April 30, 2007
Rachel Ehrenfeld, a prominent voice in the rightist discourse connecting terrorism and transnational crime, is the founder of the American Center for Democracy (ACD), a Manhattan-based policy center...
Last Updated: January 28, 2011
ECI is a hawkish "pro-Israel" pressure group tied to right-wing Republican Party figures.
Last Updated: September 23, 2011
Despite his history of making questionable claims, self-proclaimed terrorism “expert” Steve Emerson has made a lucrative career warning about terrorist threats and condemning Islamists.
Last Updated: October 19, 2009
Despite many challenges to its credibility, the work of this Congressional commission continues be cited by hardliners to revive Cold War-era fears of nuclear annihilation and justify aggressive policies toward Iran and North Korea.
Last Updated: November 11, 2010
The now-defunct Empower America, a right-wing pressure group founded by former Education Secretary William Bennett in 1993, was the predecessor to the Tea Party-aligned FreedomWorks.
Last Updated: December 20, 2011
An “unabashedly pro-Israel and pro-American think tank,” EMET promotes the work of “pro-Israel” hawks in Washington, stokes fear of Islam and Muslims, and advocates a militarist U.S. posture toward the Middle East.
Last Updated: June 06, 2005
Like other armed service secretaries originally appointed by George W. Bush—including James Roche and Thomas White—Gordon England arrived at the Pentagon fresh from duties as an executive...
Last Updated: January 20, 2012
The post-Senate perch of Rick Santorum, EPPC sits at the crossroads of faith-based politics and hawkish neoconservativism.
Last Updated: August 04, 2010
The idiosyncratic social theorist and founder of the Communitarian Network thinks the United States should bomb Iran and “unshackle” the troops in Afghanistan.
Last Updated: October 25, 2011
Under a banner of tolerance and diversity, EFD works to promote hawkish security policies in Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.
Last Updated: September 08, 2008
Michael D. Evans is a prominent Christian evangelical author whose works promote a hardline Christian Zionist1 view of Middle East peace issues in which defending Israel is seen as a Christian duty...
Last Updated: November 19, 2003
Mark Falcoff, a Latin American expert at the American Enterprise Institute, was an active supporter in the 1980s of the Nicaraguan Contras and supported the work of PRODEMCA, a purported...
Last Updated: January 27, 2012
Affiliated with Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, Family Security Matters offers hawkish, anti-Islamic rhetoric under the guise of “empowering” Americans and protecting families.
Last Updated: August 10, 2011
The Federalist Society, initially designed as a conservative alternative to the National Lawyers Guild, has blossomed into a powerful and influential group whose agenda includes promoting hardline anti-terror policies.
Last Updated: November 20, 2009
A former Pentagon official whose office generated information that was used to push the United States toward war with Iraq, Feith is now at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, where he advocates hawkish strategic weapons policies...
Last Updated: May 16, 2011
The Heritage Foundation president thinks that the Obama administration is losing it s way in what he terms “the long war against extremists.”
Last Updated: September 30, 2008
Described by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), where she served on the board, as “a prominent Republican Party activist,” Finley worked for many years as a Washington,...
Last Updated: January 19, 2009
Fred Fleitz is a career intelligence officer who served as chief of staff to John Bolton in the State Department and as a Republican staffer on the House Intelligence Committee during the George W....
Last Updated: January 17, 2011
Jamie Fly, a former adviser to the George W. Bush administration, is the executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and blogs for the Weekly Standard, two premier neoconservative institutions.
Last Updated: February 05, 2011
A retired U.S. Air Force general and defense industry executive, Fogleman has been a long time government adviser on defense and security policy.
Last Updated: May 12, 2008
Malcolm Stevenson “Steve” Forbes Jr., head of the Forbes magazine empire, is an active supporter of a number of militarist policy organizations that have pushed for an expansive...
Last Updated: January 16, 2011
The Foreign Policy Initiative, a premier neoconservative pressure group in Washington, has had surprising success in getting credible human rights groups to collaborate with them on advocacy campaigns, repeating a tactic that was used to great effect by neocons during the lead up to the 2002 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Last Updated: June 01, 2004
Overview. One of the oldest right-wing think tanks, FPRI has a mission to bring “the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests.”...
Last Updated: October 18, 2007
The Forgotten American Coalition (FAC), chaired by Gary Bauer, is a pro-war letterhead group that includes some 40 high-profile Christian Right leaders, neoconservatives, social conservatives, and...
Last Updated: August 04, 2010
Forstmann, a high-powered business executive who is considered a pioneer of modern corporate buyouts, has supported the work of various neoconservative groups.
Last Updated: January 19, 2009
Randall Fort, a former corporate officer with Goldman Sachs and program director at TRW's space and defense groups, served as assistant secretary for intelligence and research in the State...
Last Updated: November 21, 2003
About The so-called Foster Panel--after its head, John S. Foster, Jr.--was established at the urging of Sen. Jon Kyl by the fiscal year 1999 Defense Authorization Act to report on the safety and...
Last Updated: September 12, 2007
John Foster Jr. is a distinguished scientist whose career working in the U.S. weapons complex dates back to the early years of the atomic era. Closely affiliated with a long line of hardline policy...
Last Updated: November 16, 2011
A “non-partisan policy institute” that aims to defend democracies against “militant Islamism,” the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies has become an influential base of hawkish advocacy, especially on Middle East policy.
Last Updated: January 12, 2012
The Foundation for Democracy in Iran, whose president has alleged that Iran was involved in the 9/11 attacks, frequently attackes Iranian-Americans who don’t share its hawkish views about the Islamic Republic.
Last Updated: July 10, 2007
Hillel Fradkin is a specialist in Islamic studies and a noted Straussian scholar with a long track record of working for or supporting major neoconservative and hardline pro-Israel outfits, including...
Last Updated: July 01, 2011
Although no longer as closely associated with neoconservative activism as it was during much of the last few decades, Freedom House continues to support campaigns aligned with hawkish factions in U.S. politics.
Last Updated: November 22, 2010
Freedom Watch, a pressure group led by right-wing activist Larry Klayman, promotes a hodgepodge of conservative foreign and domestic polices, claiming to be “the only political advocacy group that speaks through actions, rather than just words.”
Last Updated: November 22, 2010
Freedom’s Watch was a pro-Iraq War advocacy group established by prominent Republican Party donors that worked to counter flagging public support for the “war on terror.”
Last Updated: November 10, 2010
FreedomWorks is one of several establishment Republican Party –aligned groups that have endeavored to claim the mantel of the Tea Party revolt.
Last Updated: April 16, 2011
Following a brief stint as Dick Cheney’s deputy national security advisor, Friedberg returned to Princeton, where he specializes in East Asian security issues.
Last Updated: April 08, 2010
Notorious for his argument that failure in the “war on terror” could lead to a new holocaust, Frum was ousted from the American Enterprise Institute after criticizing the Republican Party’s approach to healthcare reform.
Last Updated: March 13, 2007
One of the most well-known U.S. academics due in large measure to his famous "end of history" thesis, Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist based at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced...
Last Updated: August 22, 2007
Brigitte Gabriel has made a post-9/11 career out of roundly denouncing Islam, decrying "political correctness," and promoting the concept of an existential clash of cultures. She founded...
Last Updated: October 17, 2011
Devon Gaffney Cross, a longstanding neoconservative activist, has reemerged as a supporter of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s presidential campaign and member of the heavily criticized advocacy group Secure America Now.
Last Updated: August 29, 2011
Gaffney is a leading anti-Islam pundit in the United States who has helped foster a discriminatory discourse in the country aimed at marginalizing Muslims and outlawing the practice of their faith.
Last Updated: June 20, 2011
Garner, the erstwhile “mayor of Baghdad,” has capitalized on his experiences in Iraq to pursue oil deals in Kurdish areas of the country.
Last Updated: April 17, 2007
Jeffrey Gedmin, a longtime supporter of neoconservative advocacy efforts aimed at pushing interventionist overseas foreign and military policies, was named the director of Radio Free Europe/Radio...
Last Updated: September 08, 2011
Unlike some of his neoconservative brethren, Gerecht remains a fervent champion of imposing democracy in the Middle East, even if it requires U.S. covert action to do so.
Last Updated: June 19, 2007
Carl Gershman is the longtime head of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and a former leading figure in U.S. sectarian politics, dating back to the mid-1970s when he was head of the Social...
Last Updated: October 11, 2007
Mark Gerson, author of the 1996 book The Neoconservative Vision, an oft-cited sycophantic book about the roots and trajectory of the political faction, is CEO of Gerson Lehrman Group, a consulting firm of global experts.
Last Updated: June 01, 2011
A conservative syndicated columnist who writes regularly for the Washington Post, Gerson’s track record includes coining the phrase “axis of evil” and developing the Bush administration’s messaging on the Iraq War.
Last Updated: January 24, 2012
Gingrich's shrill claims about threats from “Islamofascists” and the purported fallacy of the "Palestinian people" seem to be in lockstep with the views of his "pro-Israel" backers, including the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson
Last Updated: November 09, 2010
Conservative journalist and diplomat best known for his prediction, made just before the stock market dropped, that the Dow Jones was on the verge of a tremendous upsurge, James Glassman is a former American Enterprise Institute fellow who hosts the TV show Ideas in Action and directs the George W. Bush Institute.
Last Updated: July 06, 2010
An editor for the right-wing Jerusalem Post and fellow at the neocon Center for Security Policy, Glick has recently gotten into the parody business, producing a video that makes light of the people killed during the Israeli raid on the Palestinian peace flotilla.
Last Updated: August 03, 2008
Global Governance Watch (GGW) is a joint initiative of two influential rightist groups, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Federalist Society. GGW was founded in 2008 with the mission...
Last Updated: August 04, 2008
Global Governance Watch (GGW) is a joint initiative of two influential rightist groups, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Federalist Society. GGW was founded in 2008 with the mission...
Last Updated: April 30, 2011
Goldberg, often accused of bolstering efforts to push the United States into conflict in the Middle East, is now calling for restraint on Iran, arguing that a military attack on the country would prove counterproductive.
Last Updated: July 21, 2010
The former Weekly Standard editor recently added to his lengthy resume of support for militarist “pro-Israel” groups when he became “advisor” to the Emergency Committee for Israel.
Last Updated: June 28, 2011
Gompert, a former vice president of the RAND Corporation known for his hawkish views on defense, served briefly as President Barack Obama’s acting director of national intelligence before becoming a director at Pentagon contractor Global Integrated Security.
Last Updated: December 10, 2011
J.D. Gordon, a former Navy spokesperson and Pentagon PR officer, is a right-wing beltway lobbyist who served as foreign policy adviser to the Herman Cain campaign.
Last Updated: September 05, 2007
Daniel Gouré, a close associate of a number of George W. Bush administration hardline foreign policy figures and frequent commentator on defense issues, is vice president of the Lexington...
Last Updated: November 03, 2010
Grace Park Media has produced a number of rightist TV shows and documentaries, including a documentary on the history of neoconservatism written by a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and James Glassman’s Ideas in Action.
Last Updated: November 07, 2006
William R. Graham, a former science adviser to Ronald Reagan and an executive at a number of high-tech defense contractors, has been a key member of the missile defense lobby during the past two...
Last Updated: September 10, 2009
His tendency to play loose with the facts while a top official in Bush’s National Security Council has not stymied Hadley’s professional career. He now commands lucrative fees through a high-profile speakers bureau and has been appointed to the congressionally funded U.S. Institute for Peace...
Last Updated: April 24, 2008
John Hagee is a controversial Christian Right leader who is the pastor of an evangelical “megachurch” in San Antonio, Texas. Hagee is also the founder of Christians United for Israel...
Last Updated: April 07, 2011
Hannah, a political pundit and former Dick Cheney advisor closely associated with the hawkish “pro-Israel” lobby, is now a senior fellow at the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Last Updated: December 05, 2007
Before his death on October 24, 2007, Norman Hascoe served as president of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a neoconservative-aligned advocacy outfit that strives to link...
Last Updated: August 18, 2010
A bastion of trans-Atlantic neoconservatism, the UK-based Henry Jackson Society promotes “regime change” in Iran and Likud-aligned policies in the Middle East.
Last Updated: May 16, 2011
The Heritage Foundation, which has consistently harangued the Obama administration for purportedly being weak on foreign policy, argues that containment of Iran will fail and all military options should be on the table.
Last Updated: May 30, 2011
Hiatt, the Washington Post’s “liberal hawk” editorial page editor, says that he is opposed to the efforts of some of his contributors—like neoconservative pundit Jennifer Rubin—to demonize opponents by referring to their “mental health,” but he apparently sees no reason to “censor” them.
Last Updated: December 04, 2010
High Frontier, a pressure group pushing for “Star Wars” missile defense systems, has deep connections to defense contractors, government officials, and prominent neoconservatives.
Last Updated: January 03, 2012
Charles Hill is a former diplomat who has used his Foreign Service experience to craft a worldview friendly to neoconservatives.
Last Updated: November 19, 2003
Gertrude Himmelfarb, the wife of neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol and mother of William Kristol, is a scholar whose work has focused on issues of virtue, morality, Victorian society, and...
Last Updated: June 20, 2011
Hirsi Ali, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who has a made a career denouncing Islam, argues that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood may be more dangerous than Al Qaeda precisely because it has given up armed struggle.
Last Updated: February 27, 2008
. Amoretta Hoeber, an advisor to the Frank Gaffney-run Center for Security Policy, runs a small Maryland-based defense consultancy firm. Hoeber is a former Reagan-era defense official who has been...
Last Updated: January 30, 2012
The Stanford University-based Hoover Institution has served for decades as an outside-the-beltway home for Republican Party apparatchiks and as an important source of militarist policy proposals.
Last Updated: July 07, 2004
Charles Horner is a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute, where he specializes in China, international science and technology relations, and international treaties, particularly the...
Last Updated: September 16, 2011
Horowitz, an ex-lefty known for making vitriolic attacks on his former comrades, has turned the demonization of Muslims into a lucrative enterprise
Last Updated: November 19, 2003
Rachelle Horowitz, the wife of longtime AFL-CIO principal Thomas Donahue, was a leader of the hawkish wing of the Socialist Party USA that splintered off from the party in 1972 to become Social...
Last Updated: September 09, 2010
Israeli bloggers recently revealed that this cornerstone neocon institution has been a key funder of an Israeli NGO that is leading efforts to purge universities of left-wing and “post-Zionist” influence.
Last Updated: January 19, 2012
Huntsman, the millionaire scion of the Huntsman chemical empire, is a former Utah governor who served as President Obama’s first ambassador to China and was a candidate for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
Last Updated: November 03, 2010
Ideas in Action is a rightist TV program co-produced by the George W. Bush Institute and Grace Creek Media that often features prominent neoconservatives opining on U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
Last Updated: March 16, 2008
Fred Iklé, a distinguished scholar at the Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a former defense undersecretary, is an erstwhile Cold Warrior who has...
Last Updated: March 12, 2007
The Immigration Reform Caucus, established in May 1999 by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), a leading conservative in Congress who promotes a far-right agenda in both domestic and foreign policy, has grown...
Last Updated: February 16, 2004
About . The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), originally an ad hoc organization called Women for Clarence Thomas, was founded in 1991. Barbara Ledeen, wife of Michael Ledeen, was its first...
Last Updated: August 23, 2011
The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies is an enigmatic Israel-based organization with deep ties to U.S. neoconservatives that is notorious for publishing tirades about Islam’s purported take over of the West.
Last Updated: December 09, 2011
Chaired by Liz Cheney and led by Kimberly Kagan, the ISW promotes hawkish stances on U.S counterinsurgency operations.
Last Updated: October 20, 2010
The Institute of World Politics is a Washington, D.C.-based graduate school closely tied to right-wing networks in the United States.
Last Updated: February 25, 2007
The Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), founded in 1981, describes itself as "an ecumenical alliance of U.S. Christians working to reform their churches' social witness, in accord...
Last Updated: February 25, 2007
The Institute on Religion and Public Life (IRPL), publisher of the journal First Things, describes itself as an "interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to...
Last Updated: August 10, 2011
The International Intelligence Summit is a forum for intelligence and military experts who advocate new tactics in the “war on terror.”
Last Updated: August 17, 2008
The International Republican Institute (IRI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that serves as a vehicle for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the U.S. Agency for International...
Last Updated: January 12, 2012
IPC advocates regime change in Iran by empowering opposition groups—by which it means the terrorist-designated MEK, not the Green Movement.
Last Updated: April 05, 2011
In March 2011, with the United States engaged in several military conflicts across the Greater Middle East, Freedom House and the Progressive Policy Institute created the Iran Strategy Task Force to lobby the Obama administration to aggressively pursue regime change in Iran.
Last Updated: January 11, 2011
A former military intelligence officer and defense industry executive with a track record of advancing hawkish U.S. defense policies and supporting neoconservative campaigns, Jackson now advocates reevaluating the former Soviet republics’ integration into NATO and Europe.
Last Updated: March 23, 2005
About . The mission of the Jamestown Foundation is “to inform and educate policy makers and the broad policy community about events and trends in those societies which are strategically or...
Last Updated: June 09, 2009
Zuhdi Jasser ,a physician and devout Muslim connected to various neoconservative groups, is the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, which touts itself as "a leading voice for liberty-minded Muslims in America in the war on terror"...
Last Updated: May 29, 2007
After a nearly 40-year career in the U.S. Navy, Adm. David E. Jeremiah retired and now serves on a long list of boards of defense-related companies and supports the work of a key right-wing...
Last Updated: June 27, 2007
The Jerusalem Summit is an Israel-based advocacy outfit that brings together Evangelicals, neoconservatives, and hardline pro-Israel figures from across the globe in an effort to shape the debate...
Last Updated: January 22, 2012
Long a prominent member of the rightwing “pro-Israel” establishment, JINSA has floundered recently in the wake of funding difficulties and staff shake-ups.
Last Updated: February 22, 2009
The John M. Olin Foundation, once one of the country’s premier conservative foundations, closed down in 2005 after a half century of operations. Among its more notable grantees were the...
Last Updated: June 02, 2010
Robert Joseph, a controversial Bush administration arms control official, now peddles diatribes on the Obama administration’s efforts to reform strategic policies from his perch at the National Institute for Public Policy.
Last Updated: October 24, 2006
Michael Joyce, who passed away in early 2006, was once described by neoconservative guru Irving Kristol as the "godfather of modern philanthropy." Joyce was a key financial booster of the...
Last Updated: July 06, 2010
A founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Lawrence Kadish has been a prominent backer of a number of neoconservative and right-wing “pro-Israel” groups.
Last Updated: August 15, 2007
Donald Kagan, the father of neoconservative writers Robert and Frederick Kagan, is a historian and classics scholar at Yale University. Kagan, along with Victor Davis Hanson, serves as a sort of...
Last Updated: June 16, 2010
In a recently published book, Kagan, a neoconservative writer at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that the United States must remain committed to fighting “Long Wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Last Updated: December 09, 2011
A military historian, Kimberly Kagan heads the Institute for the Study of War, where she promotes the continuation of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Last Updated: April 29, 2011
From his perch at the Brookings Institution and the Washington Post, this veteran neoconservative writer has championed the new START Treaty, warned against cuts in defense spending, and called for a U.S. foreign policy based on idealism and not pragmatism.
Last Updated: November 21, 2003
Kaminsky, a longtime Republican insider who has served a number of administrations, is associated with the hawkish Center for Security Policy and Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.. ...
Last Updated: March 27, 2008
Max Kampelman is a retired diplomat and Cold War-era arms control negotiator who has supported the work of several neoconservative-led advocacy groups that have been instrumental in pushing...
Last Updated: April 25, 2011
Kansteiner is a long-standing Republican Party operative active in international business and policy initiatives.
Last Updated: November 08, 2010
Tom Karako is a visiting professor at Kenyon College, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a senior adviser for Americans for Victory over Terrorism.
Last Updated: December 09, 2011
A decorated former general credited with helping conceive the Iraq “surge,” Jack Keane has used his military experience to promote long-term U.S. engagements abroad—and to turn a profit in the private sector.
Last Updated: February 26, 2010
This new rightwing pressure group—led by Liz Cheney and William Kristol—is circulating a petition pushing to keep “Gitmo” open, claiming it is a “safe, secure, and humane” way to keep “terrorists” locked up.
Last Updated: September 09, 2010
One of a string of astrotruf groups recently launched by neoconservatives and Christian Right figures, Keep Israel Safe has produced several webvideos that mischaracterize the Obama administration’s policies on Israel and Iran.
Last Updated: July 12, 2006
Penn Kemble, an influential organizer of an array of neoconservative-led causes for more than three decades who refused to join his ideological ilk in their move from the Democratic Party to the...
Last Updated: May 11, 2009
A former congressman and standout NFL quarterback who was associated with the hawkish wing of the Republican Party, Jack Kemp passed away in early May 2009...
Last Updated: November 08, 2010
Brian Kennedy is the president of the Claremont Institute and senior adviser to the Bill Bennett-founded Americans for Victory over Terrorism.
Last Updated: February 10, 2011
A fellow at the Hudson Institute, Keyworth’s record includes working as an executive for defense contractors and serving as President Reagan’s science advisor, during which time he advocated for “Star Wars” missile defense.
Last Updated: July 01, 2011
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the Bush presidency, Khalilzad is president of the international consulting firm Khalilzad Associates and an outspoken supporter of aggressive U.S. support for toppling Mideast regimes caught up in the “Arab Spring” as part of an effort to contain Iran.
Last Updated: December 27, 2011
Based at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, James Kirchick has helped lead efforts by neoconservatives to sideline libertarian, antiwar Republicans like presidential candidate Ron Paul.
Last Updated: September 12, 2011
Because of his close ties to the “Israel lobby,” this Republican Senator from Illinois has been dubbed “AIPAC’s Million Dollar Baby.”
Last Updated: December 11, 2006
The first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and an important intellectual leader of the neoconservative political faction, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick passed away on December 7, 2006....
Last Updated: September 19, 2006
In December 2002, the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influential Beltway think tank whose plank of neoconservative ideologues filled many high-level administration...
Last Updated: September 09, 2011
Kramer is a Russia hawk who has served as the executive director of Freedom House, a U.S. government-funded democracy advocacy group that has been closely associated with neoconservative advocacy for decades.
Last Updated: May 31, 2011
Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist-turned-award-winning-columnist who writes for the Washington Post, has been an important architect of the neoconservative foreign policy agenda and promoter of U.S. military intervention in the Middle East.
Last Updated: September 28, 2009
The “godfather” of neoconservatism passed away in mid-September.
Last Updated: July 22, 2010
Perhaps inspired by his success using pressure groups to help push the country to war in Iraq, Kristol has been involved in the establishment of a passel of new neocon groups in the past year, including Keep America Safe, the Emergency Committee for Israel, and the Foreign Policy Initiative.
Last Updated: May 06, 2008
Charles M. Kupperman, a longtime defense contracting executive, has been associated with a number of influential militarist think tanks and institutions including the Center for Security Policy...
Last Updated: February 14, 2011
Senator Kyl, an advocate of extravagant weapons systems and militarist U.S. foreign policies, will not run for re-election in 2012.
Last Updated: June 01, 2010
A State Department official during the Bush administration with a history of working for neoconservative groups, Lagon recently became a visiting professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Last Updated: November 20, 2009
In his obsession with getting the U.S. to force regime change in Tehran, Ledeen argues that the real enemy in Afghanistan is Iran...
Last Updated: July 21, 2008
The former secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan and a member of the 9/11 Commission, John F. Lehman is chairman of the private equity firm J.F. Lehman & Company and an advisor to Sen. John...
Last Updated: April 20, 2011
An investment banker who advocates supply-side economics and a return to the gold standard, Lehrman has supported a number of militarist pressure groups since the Cold War, including the Project for the New American Century and the Reagan-era Citizens for America.
Last Updated: June 25, 2009
The former head of AmeriCorps and a long-time philanthropic supporter of neoconservatism, Lenkowksy accuses Obama of pushing policies that will hurt charitable giving...
Last Updated: April 02, 2007
Bernard Lewis, the renowned historian of the Middle East who celebrated his 90th birthday in 2006, has provided much of the ideological ammunition for the Bush administration policy of Middle East...
Last Updated: June 27, 2005
Overview. The Lexington Institute (LI) is a policy institute whose members seek to “inform, educate, and shape the public debate of national priorities in those areas that are of surpassing...
Last Updated: September 08, 2010
Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff who was convicted in connection to the PlameGate affair is now senior vice president of the Hudson Institute.
Last Updated: November 30, 2008
A professor at Georgetown University and member of the Committee on the Present Danger, Lieber is a leading academic apologist for the Bush Doctrine of preemption.
Last Updated: February 14, 2011
The neoconservative Democrat from Connecticut, one of the Senate’s fiercest hawks, has announced he will not run for re-election in 2012.
Last Updated: November 09, 2010
Seth Leibsohn is a fellow at the Claremont Institute, executive director of Americans for Victory over Terrorism, and producer of Bill Bennett's Morning In America.
Last Updated: March 01, 2011
A research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Lindberg has supported a number of advocacy campaigns spearheaded by neoconservative groups, including the Project for the New American Century and the Foreign Policy Initiative.
Last Updated: June 27, 2011
Robert Livingston is a former congressman from Louisiana who heads the lobbying firm the Livingston Group, and has served as a advisor to the neoconservative Center for Security Policy.
Last Updated: August 22, 2011
Robert J. Loewenberg heads the quixotic Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, the Jerusalem-based right-wing think tank notorious for its more-hawkish-than-Likud take on Middle East peace.
Last Updated: February 18, 2011
Lopez is a former CIA operations officer and long-standing conservative activist who helps lead a number of anti-Iran initiatives and claims that a shadowy “Iran Lobby” is working to shape Obama administration policy.
Last Updated: May 08, 2007
A former consultant to the Donald Rumsfeld-led Pentagon, Mario Loyola is a visiting fellow at the neoconservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), an advocacy outlet created in the...
Last Updated: June 09, 2009
A former Bush administration foreign policy operative and veteran of the Pentagon’s controversial Office of Special Plans, Luti is now a VP at defense contractor Northrop Grumman...
Last Updated: April 06, 2010
A fellow at the “pro-Israel” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Makovsky has authored a number of books on Mideast policy, including the 2009 book cowritten with Dennis Ross, Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction in the Middle East.
Last Updated: April 11, 2010
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Makovsky thinks that for President Obama to peacefully resolve the impasse over Iran’s nuclear program he may have to go to war.
Last Updated: November 28, 2006
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a largely rightist organization that publishes materials to influence opinion on national and local (New York) issues. Left-center critiques of the...
Last Updated: November 18, 2007
Will Marshall, cofounder of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and head of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), has been a leading figure in the effort to push the Democratic Party toward...
Last Updated: May 31, 2010
Head of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, May regards as “cruel” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s efforts to push Israel to respect Palestinians' "legitimate aspirations” and work toward a “comprehensive peace.”
Last Updated: May 22, 2008
Barry McCaffrey, a retired general and the top anti-drug official during the Bill Clinton administration, is a prominent military commentator for MSNBC and NBC’s Nightly News whose initial...
Last Updated: November 11, 2008
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, is a leading advocate in the U.S. Senate for aggressive foreign policies, including an interventionist “war on...
Last Updated: October 19, 2010
The National Review writer and former federal prosecutor thinks that Islamists, both peaceful and violent, intend to overthrow the U.S. government.
Last Updated: October 01, 2009
Tightly connected to military contractors and to several militarist advocacy groups, this retired general argues that President Obama is naïve about the threat from “radical Islam” and should increase troops in Afghanistan.
Last Updated: December 30, 2007
Daniel McKivergan, former deputy director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), is a policy analyst and writer closely associated with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), for whom he has served as...
Last Updated: June 02, 2010
The Reagan-era Cold Warrior recently re-emerged on the national scene when he cowrote an op-ed for the right-wing Washington Times that called for a return to the principles of “peace through strength” and warned that America’s very existence was in jeopardy because of a dizzying array of purported threats, including insecure borders, Shariah law, and unlawful combatants.
Last Updated: February 23, 2011
Meleagrou-Hitchens, a terrorism scholar based at London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, thinks that even “soft” Islamism can lead to terrorism.
Last Updated: February 26, 2009
Richard Mellon Scaife, owner of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and chairman of the Scaife Foundations, has been a key financier of the American Right for decades. In 2006, Scaife’s three major...
Last Updated: October 24, 2006
Philip Merrill, a minor media mogul and former president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, was found dead in the Chesapeake Bay in late June 2006, apparently the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot...
Last Updated: November 29, 2011
The neoconservative Middle East Forum is a Philadelphia-base bastion of Islamophobic rhetoric whose main claim to fame has been its attack on academics who do not toe a hawkish “pro-Israel” line in their curriculum.
Last Updated: November 09, 2011
The “nonpartisan” MEMRI, which has received funding from the U.S. State Department and dozens of U.S.-based foundations, has drawn fire for its ties to neoconservative and anti-Islamic organizations, as well as for producing selective and at times inaccurate translations of Middle Eastern sources.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011
Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies is a stronghold of rightist foreign policy scholars.
Last Updated: February 11, 2011
Retired General Thomas Moorman has represented defense industry interests at the same time as he served on government boards promoting weapons programs.
Last Updated: September 16, 2009
Last Updated: February 01, 2011
The bingo magnate and notorious backer of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories, Irving Moskowitz has also funded the campaigns of rightwing U.S. politicians like Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Last Updated: August 10, 2011
Though billing itself as a nonpartisan organization to “support the troops,” Move America Forward pursues a hawkish agenda aimed at increasing U.S. military intervention abroad.
Last Updated: January 17, 2012
Muravchik, a neoconserviative ideologue based at the School of Advanced International Studies, has longed pushed for a U.S. attack on Iran, including back in 2006, when he argued in Foreign Policy that Bush would have to bomb the country “before leaving office.”
Last Updated: February 14, 2008
Laurent Murawiec is a senior fellow at the rightist Hudson Institute, a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, a former analyst for the Rand Corporation, and the ex-editor of the Executive...
Last Updated: August 03, 2011
Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp and a long-time supporter of neoconservative campaigns, has been embroiled in scandal as former executives of his company are alleged to have hacked the voicemail of hundreds of politicians and celebrities, bribed British police, and attempted to illegally obtain the phone records of deceased 9/11 victims.
Last Updated: September 10, 2009
One of the foremost U.S. experts on counterinsurgency, Nagl is president of the Center for a New American Security, an influential inside-the-beltway think tank with close ties to the Obama administration and neoconservatives...
Last Updated: March 31, 2011
Nash is a Fox News analyst, executive for military contractors, and advisor to several rightwing advocacy organizations, including the Center for Security Policy.
Last Updated: July 19, 2007
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created by the Reagan administration in the early 1980s to push democratic reform and roll back Soviet influence in various parts of the globe. In his...
Last Updated: June 02, 2010
Although NIPP claims to have moved beyond Cold War ideas in its analysis of strategic policies, its writers continue to be deeply ensconced in Soviet-era ideas, as evidenced by their recent criticisms of the Obama administration.
Last Updated: March 25, 2007
The National Interest was founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol as a foreign policy counterpart to his Public Interest, which until it was shuttered in 2005 was a key outlet for neoconservative views on...
Last Updated: November 23, 2010
In a new report, the National Strategy Information Center, which has been promoting militarist U.S. foreign policies since the 1960s, hypes the notion that the world is on the verge of chaos and that shadowy forces are engaged in an existential battle “against the West.”
Last Updated: May 11, 2009
A controversial Reagan-era official who was involved in implementing counter-insurgency policies in Central America, Negroponte served as the first national intelligence director during the George W. Bush administration. Yale announced in January that Negroponte would teach grand strategy at the university...
Last Updated: December 01, 2011
Hillel Neuer has guided UN Watch’s evolution from a “pro-Israel” critic of the United Nations to an outfit closely aligned with U.S. neoconservatives.
Last Updated: January 19, 2009
"Father Richard," as he was called by President George W. Bush and others, was a Catholic priest and the president of the neoconservative-aligned Institute on Religion and Public Life...
Last Updated: December 17, 2010
Founded to help ensure Europe’s allegiance to U.S. policies, the now-defunct New Atlantic Initiative was aimed in part at preventing the emergence of a European strategic rival to the United States.
Last Updated: September 15, 2011
Under the guise of seeking accountability and transparency, the neoconservative-linked NGO Monitor launches partisan-minded assaults against NGOs who criticize the Israeli government.
Last Updated: March 07, 2011
Noriega, a former Bush administration policymaker now at the American Enterprise Institute, continues to push hardline U.S. security polices and a free market agenda for Latin America.
Last Updated: February 22, 2007
In a February 20, 2007 article for the right-wing National Review Online, Michael Novak, a prominent writer at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and longtime player in the...
Last Updated: June 16, 2010
O’Hanlon, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, has a knack for getting invited on military-sponsored tours of war zones and then promoting the views of the generals in op-eds for major newspapers.
Last Updated: July 25, 2007
The Office of Iranian Affairs (OIA) was created in early 2006 within the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Near East Affairs, apparently as part of an effort to channel funds to groups that could...
Last Updated: April 04, 2011
The Office of Special Plans was a controversial Pentagon policy outfit that was widely accused of providing the George W. Bush administration with inaccurate, skewed intelligence linking Iraq and al-Qaeda in an effort to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Last Updated: November 28, 2007
One Jerusalem, a rightist New York-based organization devoted to maintaining a united Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel, was originally created in 2000 to combat peace proposals pushed by then Prime...
Last Updated: December 19, 2010
Ottolenghi is a Brussels-based neocon and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Last Updated: November 10, 2010
A former diplomat and longstanding democracy promoter who has supported the work of several neoconservative advocacy groups, Palmer has been a vociferous critic of the Obama administration’s track record in supporting internet freedom in China and Iran.
Last Updated: November 19, 2003
Keith Payne, a longtime advocate of Strangelovian nuclear war-fighting strategies and missile defense, founded his National Institute for Public Policy in the early 1980s. In 2002, Payne was tapped...
Last Updated: March 11, 2004
Congressman Steve Pearce (R-NM) is serving his first term in Congress. Shortly after being elected, Pearce joined a short list of other freshman members to be tapped as an assistant majority whip. He...
Last Updated: January 12, 2012
Although classified by the State Department as a terrorist organization, the MEK’s delisting has been the focus of an aggressive lobbying campaign supported by a host of high-profile public figures from across the U.S. political spectrum, including a crop of prominent neoconservatives.
Last Updated: February 10, 2012
Although he has largely faded from public attention since his high-profile role promoting the invasion of Iraq during the first George W. Bush administration, Richard Perle, the neoconservative figurehead associated with the American Enterprise Institute, is again raising public alarm about a hypothetical nuclear weapons program—this time in Iran.
Last Updated: January 20, 2012
Rick Perry, George W. Bush’s successor as Texas governor who unsuccessfully campaigned for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has argued that his support for Israel is based on his Christian faith and pushed for U.S. military intervention in Mexico.
Last Updated: October 03, 2011
A self-styled terrorism “expert” who lends his name to hawkish U.S. policies in the Middle East, former right-wing Lebanese militia member Walid Phares is now advising Mitt Romney’s campaign for president.
Last Updated: January 12, 2011
The Philanthropy Roundtable aims to foster rightist causes and assist the “war on terror” by helping shape conservative charitable giving.
Last Updated: November 29, 2011
Founder of the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes is an influential advocate of militarist U.S. policies in the Middle East and a controversial critic of “lawful Islamism” in the West.
Last Updated: September 04, 2007
Richard Pipes, a historian of Russia and Communism at Harvard University, was a key anti-Soviet crusader in the 1970s and 1980s. He served as a consultant to Washington State Democratic Sen. Henry...
Last Updated: January 18, 2007
Danielle Pletka established herself as a foreign policy hawk while working as a reporter for Insight Magazine during the George H.W. Bush administration, and later as a member of the professional...
Last Updated: October 29, 2007
John Podhoretz, the son of Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter, is a second-generation neoconservative. Like his father and mother, "JPod," as he is sometimes called, has been a vociferous...
Last Updated: February 27, 2008
Norman Podhoretz has been a leading writer and ideologue of the neoconservative political faction since the group began to emerge in the late 1960s. Along with Irving Kristol, Podhoretz is widely...
Last Updated: July 22, 2010
Pollack established himself among neoconservative ranks with his role in the establishment of the Emergency Committee for Israel, a militarist “pro-Israel” advocacy organization that emerged in mid-2010.
Last Updated: June 20, 2007
Dennis Prager is a conservative radio talk show host, a syndicated columnist with the Creators Syndicate, and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the Weekly Standard, among...
Last Updated: August 02, 2010
Erik Prince and his company Blackwater Worldwide have been besieged with criminal allegations and a badly tarnished image, spurring the Christian-right billionaire to ramp up his anti-government rhetoric.
Last Updated: January 13, 2011
The Progressive Policy Institute, the associated think tank of the Democratic Leadership Council, promotes a hawkish line on foreign policy agenda, including getting tough with Iran.
Last Updated: June 19, 2008
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was established in 1997 by a number of leading neoconservative writers and pundits to advocate aggressive U.S. foreign policies and “rally...
Last Updated: January 11, 2011
The Project on Transitional Democracies, a successor group to the U.S. Committee on NATO, promotes reforms in post-Soviet states and has pressed a get-tough line on Russia.
Last Updated: February 27, 2011
Before there was Palin there was Quayle. The former vice president and long-standing supporter of various neoconservative groups is now an investment banker.
Last Updated: October 31, 2007
Echoing the rhetoric of many pro-Israel hardliners in the United States, Réalité EU is a London-based outfit that promotes aggressive European policies toward Iran and other extremist...
Last Updated: July 20, 2008
Touting itself as the “the nation’s leading conservative publisher,” 1 Regnery Publishing was founded by Henry Regnery in 1947 in Chicago. Initially affiliated with the University...
Last Updated: June 17, 2009
The controversial Iran-Contra veteran who served as an assistant secretary of state under George W. Bush remains a divisive figure in U.S.-Latin American relations...
Last Updated: February 09, 2011
Harold Rhode, a controversial former Pentagon adviser now based at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, thinks that while Turkey and Iran battle each other for the hearts and minds of the Arab street they are “working together against the non-Muslim world.”
Last Updated: May 11, 2009
The former secretary of state has returned to Stanford, where she was provost before joining the Bush administration, to teach political science and work as a fellow at the hawkish Hoover Institution...
Last Updated: August 01, 2009
James Roche, a Navy veteran and former secretary of the Air Force, is a defense industry executive and long time supporter of a number of hardline Israel-centric policy groups, including the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Center for Security Policy.
Last Updated: August 24, 2008
Peter Rodman, who passed away August 2, 2008, was an assistant secretary of defense for international security under Donald Rumsfeld in the George W. Bush administration; he joined the Brookings...
Last Updated: January 22, 2012
The former Massachusetts governor and leading Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has emerged as one of the main war-with-Iran campaigners among the GOP candidates, claiming that if President Obama gets re-elected, "Iran will have a nuclear weapon," but if he is elected "Iran will not have a nuclear weapon."
Last Updated: March 12, 2011
Supported in part by rightwing donors from the “Israel Lobby,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) has used her perch as chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to push hawkish policies in the Middle East and Latin America.
Last Updated: January 06, 2012
Now based at the right-wing Middle East Forum, Rosen is a former pioneering AIPAC lobbyist who was indicted for passing Pentagon secrets to the Israeli government.
Last Updated: January 26, 2012
Since stepping down from his NSC post and returning to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Ross has written on a number of issues close to his heart, like getting tough on Iran.
Last Updated: August 15, 2007
Karl Rove, the often controversial longtime adviser to President George W. Bush, served as the White House's deputy chief of staff and senior adviser until August 2007. Widely regarded as the key...
Last Updated: March 11, 2011
George Bush Senior’s assistant secretary of defense, Rowen is a fellow emeritus at the Hoover Institution, where he focuses on U.S and Asian security and development issues.
Last Updated: May 30, 2011
Jennifer Rubin uses her perch at the Washington Post to attack Republicans and Democrats whom she perceives to be weak on U.S. defense and insufficiently supportive of her militarist views of Israeli security.
Last Updated: July 01, 2011
Rubin, a “scholar” at the American Enterprise Institute who has attacked what he call’s Right Web’s “fake, conspiracy riddled biographies,” views the revolt in Egypt through the lens of Iran’s Islamic revolution.
Last Updated: November 01, 2007
The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, commonly called the Rumsfeld Commission or the Rumsfeld Missile Commission after its chair Donald Rumsfeld, operated from...
Last Updated: November 01, 2007
The Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, frequently called the Rumsfeld Space Commission or simply the Space Commission, was established in 1999 by...
Last Updated: June 14, 2011
Largely quiet since his untimely resignation from the Bush administration, Rumsfeld has reemerged of late to defend his track record, as well as the decision to torture terror suspects.
Last Updated: January 22, 2012
Although his congressional career was marked mostly for its extreme social conservatism, former Sen. Rick Santorum has made a post-Senate career—and presidential campaign—out of promoting stridently militarist U.S. foreign policies.
Last Updated: February 24, 2009
The Scaife Foundations are a quartet of conservative foundations—the Sarah Scaife, the Carthage, the Allegheny, and the Scaife Family—that have served as the primary vehicles for the...
Last Updated: December 06, 2010
A well-connected lobbyist and political insider who advised the McCain-Palin campaign, Scheunemann’s clients have also included Tea Party politicos, defense contractors, and George Soros’ Open Society.
Last Updated: February 05, 2011
The former defense secretary thinks that the United States should consider extending its “nuclear umbrella” to the Middle East in order to keep other countries in the region from going nuclear in the event Iran develops the bomb.
Last Updated: January 18, 2007
A resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and author of numerous texts on intelligence reform and national security, Gary Schmitt helped found and direct the Project for the New...
Last Updated: September 19, 2007
Bill Schneider is a well-known media personality based at CNN; he has been described as "one of the country's leading political commentators" (by his employer, CNN), "the...
Last Updated: March 07, 2007
William Schneider Jr., a longtime proponent of controversial weapons programs and hardline advocacy groups like the Center for Security Policy (CSP), has worked as a defense adviser to the George W....
Last Updated: May 06, 2011
Nick Schulz is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, where he serves as editor of AEI’s in-house magazine The American.
Last Updated: October 25, 2011
The project of two hawkish pollsters, Secure America Now has released widely criticized polls implying popular U.S. support for hawkish Middle East policies.
Last Updated: November 13, 2009
Criticized for offering trainings to law enforcement agencies that promote prejudicial profiling of Muslims, SSI hypes the threat of “radical Islam” to market its anti-terror products in the United States and Israel.
Last Updated: April 08, 2010
A high-powered Republican Party donor and real estate magnate, Sembler has supported a number of hawkish advocacy groups, including most recently Liz Cheney’s Keep America Safe.
Last Updated: April 12, 2010
The “spinmeister” who painted a rosy picture of the war in Iraq while working as a coalition spokesperson, Senor now doubles as cofounder of both a private equity firm and a neocon pressure group, the Foreign Policy Initiative.
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Ilan Sharon, executive director of Minnesotans Against Terrorism and a member of the advisory board of the Clarion Fund, frequently lectures on the rise of radical Islam.
Last Updated: March 07, 2007
Nina Shea, a longtime supporter of interventionist U.S. policies dating back to the Contra wars in Nicaragua, is vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF). CIRF is a...
Last Updated: January 06, 2011
A well regarded expert on military history who is not typically associated with rightist political causes, Dennis Showalter has advised the neoconservative-led Institute for the Study of War and Center for Security Policy.
Last Updated: July 01, 2010
A former Pentagon advisor and well known Leo Strauss scholar, Shulsky uses his perch at the neocon Hudson Institute to criticize Obama's arms control efforts.
Last Updated: April 18, 2007
Laurence Silberman is a senior U.S. circuit court judge in the District of Columbia, regarded as one of the most important courts in the country, second only to the Supreme Court. He is also a...
Last Updated: February 22, 2009
Although often associated with the passel of foundations that buttress the American right-wing—including, among others, the Scaife, Castle Rock, and Bradley foundations—the Smith...
Last Updated: November 10, 2011
Lee Smith, a writer at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is perhaps best known for accusing critics of hardline Israeli policies—and U.S. support for them—of being “Jew-baiters.”
Last Updated: August 23, 2011
The Society of Americans for National Existence is an anti-Muslim advocacy group that has spearheaded efforts to get U.S. states to pass laws criminalizing sharia law.
Last Updated: October 09, 2009
This longtime foreign policy hardliner is one of a chorus of rightist voices criticizing the recent agreement between Iran and the U.N. Security Council’s five permanent members (plus Germany) regarding its nuclear program...
Last Updated: February 03, 2012
As a principle at the rightist William Rosenwald Family Fund and a board member for a host of neoconservative and “pro-Israel” outfits, David Steinmann has worked for decades to channel money to right-wing pressure groups.
Last Updated: October 18, 2006
Perhaps better known in Britain-where one broadsheet calls him "Rupert Murdoch's representative on Earth"-than in the United States, Irwin Stelzer is an economist at the Washington-based...
Last Updated: August 22, 2011
The neoconservative editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page apparently thinks that President Obama is too stupid to be a neocon.
Last Updated: February 20, 2011
Sarah Stern is the founder and president Endowment for Middle East Truth and an adviser to the Clarion Fund.
Last Updated: October 05, 2011
Tom Tancredo, the former House Republican notorious for his anti-immigrant activism, has become a leading promoter of Islamophobic rhetoric in the United States.
Last Updated: May 27, 2010
Tanter, founder of the hawkish Iran Policy Committee, recently revived his arguments for why the U.S. should support the People's Mujahedin Organization (MEK), an Iranian opposition group classified as a terrorist organization by the State Department.
Last Updated: November 01, 2007
Arguably the most notorious attempt by right-wing figures to challenge the authority of the CIA ("Team A") over intelligence—similar to the effort by the Pentagon's Office of...
Last Updated: October 23, 2010
The now-defunct internet magazine Tech Central Station served as a platform for advocates of militarist U.S. foreign policies, and is now published as TCSDaily on the website of the conservative TV program, Ideas in Action.
Last Updated: July 07, 2011
The Israel Project is dedicated to providing a “more positive public face” for hardline Israeli policy.
Last Updated: May 30, 2011
A speechwriter for President George W. Bush who is now a columnist at the Washington Post and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Thiessen is an enthusiastic defender of “enhanced interrogation techniques” and the “war on terror.”
Last Updated: January 25, 2012
Failed 2008 presidential candidate and Iraq war booster Fred Thompson has become one of the latest GOP notables to endorse Newt Gingrich for president in 2012.
Last Updated: December 01, 2011
Thompson, a former Wisconsin governor who served as secretary of Health and Human Services during the George W. Bush administration, is a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Last Updated: January 26, 2012
Conservative author and sometime congressional candidate Kenneth Timmerman has a long history of pushing regime change in Iran and, more recently, a “clash of civilizations” narrative between Christendom and the Muslim Middle East.
Last Updated: December 11, 2003
John Tkacik is a Heritage Foundation China scholar and a signatory to the Project for the New American Century's 2002 letter to President Bush on Hong Kong, which warned of increasing...
Last Updated: February 10, 2011
Alex Traiman is a filmmaker and writer from a rightwing Israeli settlement in the West Bank who directed the controversial Clarion Fund film, Iranium.
Last Updated: December 19, 2010
This Brussels-based organization, founded by the American Jewish Committee, has served as an outlet for neoconservative advocacy in Europe.
Last Updated: May 11, 2010
Since the election of President Obama, this neocon-aligned advocacy group has endeavored to paint itself as a centrist organization, “just the ultimate lobbyists and powerbrokers for a Free and Democratic Lebanon.”
Last Updated: December 17, 2010
Founded to push for the expansion of NATO after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. Committee on NATO was a neocon-led initiative closely tied to hawkish political factions in the United States.
Last Updated: November 29, 2006
Congress established the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, or U.S.-China Commission as it is commonly known, in October 2000, as part of the 2001 Defense Authorization...
Last Updated: December 01, 2011
The “nonpartisan” UN Watch, which devotes most of its energy to lambasting UN criticism of Israel, has counted on the financial support of the American Jewish Committee, the Becker Foundation, and a handful of other private donors in recent years.
Last Updated: February 01, 2010
The neoconservative-aligned UANI recently launched a new program aimed at pressuring companies that do business with Iran by threatening legal action if they don’t “fully disclose” business dealings in Iran.
Last Updated: May 12, 2008
Retired Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely is a former military analyst for Fox News and is the host of the conservative radio show, “Stand Up America.”1 Vallely, who serves on the boards of a...
Last Updated: March 31, 2011
Van Cleave is a former Pentagon official who has been closely associated with hawkish advocacy campaigns for decades, including efforts to derail the Obama administration’s passage of a new START Treaty with Russia.
Last Updated: August 03, 2010
A long-time China hawk, Arthur Waldron claims that the United States must be willing to rollback Chinese influence in Asia or be prepared to sacrifice allies and its reputation.
Last Updated: October 25, 2010
Waller, a neoconservative academic at the Institute of World Politics, uses his blogs to hype purported threats about sharia law and to promote the argument that the United States should “snatch” the founder of WikiLeaks and pursue espionage charges against him.
Last Updated: April 16, 2011
Retired Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-WY) is an old-school Cold Warrior who continues to promote rightwing defense and foreign policy initiatives as chair of Frontiers of Freedom.
Last Updated: February 07, 2011
The former U.S. “Drug Czar,” John Walters continues to worry about “narcoterrorism” from his perch as an executive at the Hudson Institute.
Last Updated: November 08, 2010
Andrew Walworth is TV producer who served as executive producer of Ideas in Action, a weekly TV program hosted by James Glassman and produced by the George W. Bush Institute and Grace Creek Media.
Last Updated: September 10, 2009
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Ben Wattenberg, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and moderator of PBS's Think Tank, was a member of a core group of Democratic Party hawks who, in the 1970s, shifted to the...
Last Updated: January 04, 2012
The track record of former Rep. Vin Weber, a policy adviser to Mitt Romney, includes supporting a number of pro-war advocacy campaigns, including those spearheaded by the Project for the New American Century.
Last Updated: July 25, 2007
Ruth Wedgwood is an international law expert specializing in human rights who is based at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is a former member of ex-Pentagon...
Last Updated: August 13, 2009
The Weekly Standard is the flagship publication of contemporary neoconservatism.
Last Updated: September 27, 2011
A former adviser to President George W. Bush, Wehner has used his perch at the neoconservative Ethics and Public Policy Center to promote militarist U.S. foreign policies and a conservative Christian domestic agenda.
Last Updated: February 27, 2008
Called by some critics a “Catholic neocon” or a “theocon,” George Weigel is a Catholic theologian based at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and a...
Last Updated: October 11, 2011
Since losing his bid for reelection while under investigation for his ties to an arms contractor, former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) has been able to lobby more openly for defense industry interests, including in Libya.
Last Updated: January 12, 2009
Paul Weyrich, a key strategist of the New Right, passed away on December 18, 2008. He was 66 years old. Sometimes referred to as a “pillar of the modern conservative movement,”...
Last Updated: November 21, 2003
After series of high-profile clashes with Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz over Iraq planning and army modernization issues, White resigned from his post as army secretary in early 2003. During his...
Last Updated: February 01, 2011
Wieseltier, the literary editor of the New Republic who has a penchant for accusing critics of Israel with antisemitism, has excoriated the Obama administration’s cautiousness in its response to the tumult in Egypt, arguing that the president has replaced the “freedom agenda” with an “acceptance agenda.”
Last Updated: August 29, 2007
Described as Donald Rumsfeld's "right-hand man" in the early years of the George W. Bush administration by the Weekly Standard's William Kristol and Robert Kagan (Weekly Standard,...
Last Updated: February 29, 2004
Heather Wilson has represented the 1st Congressional District of New Mexico since June 23, 1998. . Wilson is the first woman veteran in U.S. history to serve in Congress. A graduate of the U.S. Air...
Last Updated: April 14, 2008
Pete Wilson, the former governor of California and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, has been an important Republican Party figure for more than three decades, having also served as a U.S....
Last Updated: November 18, 2007
Marshall Wittmann is a Washington insider who has worked for two of the Senate's more hawkish figures: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), for whom Wittmann currently serves as communications director,...
Last Updated: July 10, 2009
The former Pentagon number two and ex head of the World Bank added his voice to the chorus of hardliners denouncing President Obama’s “weakness” in confronting the election crisis in Iran...
Last Updated: April 20, 2011
Woolsey, a former CIA director who views the “War on Terror” as the “Long War,” is board chairman of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and chair of Woolsey Partners LLC.
Last Updated: August 08, 2007
David Wurmser, a scholar with strong ties to a number of neoconservative policy institutes, served as Mideast adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney from 2003 to mid-2007. Previously, Wurmser had...
Last Updated: May 06, 2007
Meyrav Wurmser, the director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the neoconservative-aligned Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, and a contributing expert at the Israel-based Ariel Center, is a...
Last Updated: August 23, 2011
David Yerushalmi, a hardline anti-Muslim activist and the founder of the Society of Americans for National Existence, has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “Jewish fascist.”
Last Updated: June 08, 2011
Yoo, the former deputy assistant attorney general who is known for his extreme views on executive wartime powers and for helping author the infamous “torture memos,” is one of many former Bush figures who has cited the death of Osama bin Laden as vindication of their support for “enhance interrogation techniques.”
Last Updated: November 28, 2007
A vice president with the global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, Dov Zakheim has spent more than two decades working in the defense industry, in both governmental and private capacities. A...
Last Updated: July 27, 2009
Karl Zinsmeister, a former fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and correspondent for the right-wing magazine National Review, was named head of President George W. Bush's Domestic...
Last Updated: September 30, 2011
Despite having a reputation as a non-ideological operator, World Bank head Robert Zoellick’s aggressive promotion of U.S. trade interests has at times mirrored his support for militarist U.S. foreign policies.
The Center for American Freedom, a new neoconservative advocacy group, publishes the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative “combat journalism” outlet designed to counter the supposedly liberal media elite.
Although he has largely faded from public attention since his high-profile role promoting the invasion of Iraq during the first George W. Bush administration, Richard Perle, the neoconservative figurehead associated with the American Enterprise Institute, is again raising public alarm about a hypothetical nuclear weapons program—this time in Iran.
Following her acrimonious departure from JINSA, “pro-Israel” hawk Shoshana Bryen will carry on her advocacy efforts at the conservative Jewish Policy Center.
Amitay has been a key “pro-Israel” lobbyist for decades, serving as head of American Israeli Public Affairs Committee and chair of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
Stephen Bryen has played an important role forging connections between right-wing advocacy groups, conservative policy elites, weapons contractors, and the U.S. “pro-Israel” lobby.
February 12 2012
February, 07 2012
A new book by Tom Engelhardt argues that the United States’ domestic woes are not isolated challenges but part of a broader imperial decline, hastened by a culture of militarism and foreign policy overreach.
February, 03 2012
Leon Panetta's surprise announcement that U.S. troops will phase out their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013 is drawing mixed reactions, as well as a fair bit of confusion, from both critics and supporters of the 11-year-old war.
January, 16 2012
U.S. policymakers worry that Israel might attack Iran without giving prior warning to Washington.
January, 13 2012
In contrast to assertions from U.S. policymakers about a Persian menace emerging in the American neighborhood, Iran has only weak and superficial ties to Latin America.
January, 13 2012
Egypt and Israel may be at a crossroads in their relations, but each is violating the terms of its U.S. military assistance.
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