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American Center for Democracy

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...

American Committee for Peace in Chechnya

Last Updated: April 19, 2005

Overview. The American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC) describes itself as "the only private, nongovernmental organization in North America exclusively dedicated to promoting the peaceful...

American Conservative Union

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.

American Enterprise Institute

Last Updated: January 19, 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...

American Foreign Policy Council

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....

American Israel Public Affairs Committee

Last Updated: June 17, 2009

American Security Council

Last Updated: November 21, 2003

About. Founded in the mid-1950s by Gen. Robert Wood and the Chicago Tribune's Robert R. McCormick, the American Security Council served for decades as one of the country's leading...

American-Turkish Council

Last Updated: October 16, 2005

Overview . The American-Turkish Council (ATC) was created in 1994 as the U.S.-based counterpart to the Turkish-U.S. Business Council, a "bilateral business council" that aims to foster...

Americans for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise

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...

Americans for Victory over Terrorism

Last Updated: October 24, 2006

Founded in 2002 by a William Bennett-led group of neoconservatives and hardline nationalists to defend George W. Bush's policies in the "war on terror," Americans for Victory over...

Ariel Center for Policy Research

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...

Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs

Last Updated: November 21, 2003

About. Based at Ashbrook University in Ashland, Ohio, the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs was founded in honor of John M. Ashbrook, a former Ohio congressman who was "a popular and forceful...

Bradley Foundation

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...

Castle Rock Foundation

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,...

Center for a New American Security

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.

Center for Equal Opportunity

Last Updated: August 30, 2004

Overview . The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), founded in 1995, is a think tank "devoted exclusively to the promotion of colorblind equal opportunity and racial harmony." Established by...

Center for Immigration Studies

Last Updated: October 31, 2004

Overview . The Center for Immigration Studies describes itself as "the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic,...

Center for Security Policy

Last Updated: December 01, 2009

Parroting rightwing media talking points, CSP recently questioned whether the Obama administration was really on the side of the United States.

Christians United for Israel

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...

Claremont Institute

Last Updated: February 07, 2007

Often accused of a being a bastion of Straussian scholarship and a neoconservative stronghold, the Claremont Institute, based in Claremont, California, is home to a number of rightist academics and...

Clarion Fund

Last Updated: May 12, 2009

A little-known group connected to the Israeli right-wing, the Clarion Fund recently released a new documentary called the The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America...

Coalition for Democracy in Iran

Last Updated: December 05, 2007

The Coalition for Democracy in Iran (CDI) was an advocacy outfit supported by a number of neoconservative writers and based in the office of Morris Amitay, the one-time director of the American...

Committee for the Liberation of Iraq

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...

Committee on the Present Danger

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...

Concerned Women for America

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...

Council for a Community of Democracies

Last Updated: November 21, 2003

About . The Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD) is one of a number of neoconish organizations that touts U.S. exceptionalism while it urges global cooperation in toppling undemocratic...

Council for National Policy

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...

Council of Conservative Citizens

Last Updated: September 01, 2004

Overview . The Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a 501(c)4 organization, was founded to "build a network of conservative groups and individuals at the state and local level" to...

Defense of Democracies

Last Updated: March 26, 2008

Defense of Democracies was created in February 2008 as a spin-off organization of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) to undertake advocacy campaigns that FDD cannot participate in as a...

Democratic Leadership Council

Last Updated: August 31, 2006

In late July 2006, the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) held a three-day conference in Colorado during which it unveiled a policy manifesto, presented by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), aimed...

Earhart Foundation

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...

Empower America

Last Updated: April 17, 2008

Empower America, a group founded by former Education Secretary William Bennett in 1993 that after 9/11 helped promote militarist “war on terror” policies, merged in 2004 with Citizens for...

Ethics and Public Policy Center

Last Updated: February 21, 2007

The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), founded in 1976, was a leading player in the early effort to discredit the secular humanist tradition in the United States. The center is one of several...

Family Security Matters

Last Updated: October 10, 2007

Family Security Matters (FSM) is a rightist advocacy outfit based in Washington, DC, that bills itself as the "national security resource for American families." Closely connected to other...

Federalist Society

Last Updated: November 29, 2006

Shortly after the November 2006 midterm elections, in which Democrats took power in both houses of Congress, Vice President Dick Cheney told attendees of the Federalist Society's annual...

Federation for American Immigration Reform

Last Updated: July 13, 2004

Overview . The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has two major goals: (1) "to end illegal immigration," and (2) "to set legal immigration at the lowest feasible levels...

Foreign Policy Initiative

Last Updated: July 07, 2009

In a replay of the modus operandi of the Project for the New American Century, the newly enshrined Foreign Policy Initiative released an open letter to President Obama on human rights in Russia that included signatories from both the neocon camp and established human rights organizations...

Foreign Policy Research Institute

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.”...

Forgotten American Coalition

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...

Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Last Updated: March 27, 2008

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and its spin-off organization, Defense of Democracies, are nominally nonpartisan advocacy organizations that promote a hawkish and neoconservative line...

Foundation for Democracy in Iran

Last Updated: December 05, 2007

The Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI) is a Bethesda, Maryland-based advocacy group that appears to be the personal project of Kenneth Timmerman, an active supporter of a number of hardline...

Freedom House

Last Updated: July 25, 2007

Freedom House, a largely U.S. government-funded group, was founded in 1941 by Wendell Willkie and Eleanor Roosevelt in an effort to support President Franklin Roosevelt's advocacy of U.S....

Freedom’s Watch

Last Updated: March 18, 2008

Established in August 2007, Freedom's Watch (FW) is a well-funded pro-Iraq War advocacy group that was set up by prominent conservatives to, in their words, "protect America's interests...

FreedomWorks

Last Updated: November 18, 2007

FreedomWorks is a conservative advocacy outfit created in 2004 as part of a merger between Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), a rightist pro-free market organization, and Empower America, which was...

Global Governance Watch

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...

Global Governance Watch

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...

Henry Jackson Society

Last Updated: November 01, 2007

The Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a British-based advocacy organization closely aligned with the neoconservative political faction in the United States, was started in early 2005 to promote a...

Heritage Foundation

Last Updated: July 10, 2007

The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank, has been a mainstay of conservative domestic and foreign policy thought since 1973, when Paul Weyrich and Edwin Feulner founded it with the...

High Frontier

Last Updated: March 03, 2004

About . Lieutenant General Daniel O. Graham, who had advised presidential candidate Ronald Reagan on national security issues, founded High Frontier in 1981. High Frontier is a think tank that...

Hoover Institution

Last Updated: September 19, 2007

Founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, based on the campus of Stanford University, is one of the oldest research institutes in the United States....

Hudson Institute

Last Updated: November 08, 2007

The Hudson Institute, a member of a closely knit group of neoconservative policy institutes that frequently champion aggressive and Israel-centric U.S. foreign policies, was founded in 1961 by...

Independent Women’s Forum

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...

Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies

Last Updated: September 13, 2006

The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) is a Jerusalem-based think tank, with a Washington office, founded in 1984 by Robert Loewenberg. During the lead-up to the U.S....

Institute on Religion and Democracy

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...

Institute on Religion and Public Life

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...

International Intelligence Summit

Last Updated: October 11, 2006

The International Intelligence Summit is a program of the Intelligence and Homeland Security Education Center (IHEC), a privately funded "charity" that undertakes education programs aimed at...

International Republican Institute

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...

Iran Policy Committee

Last Updated: February 01, 2007

Dubbing its agenda a “third alternative” for U.S. policy toward Iran, the Iran Policy Committee (IPC) argues that the United States must “keep open diplomatic and military options,...

Jamestown Foundation

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...

Jerusalem Summit

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...

Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs

Last Updated: May 23, 2007

Describing itself as "the most influential group on the issue of U.S.-Israel military relations," the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is a rightist Washington-based...

John M. Olin Foundation

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...

Lexington Institute

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...

Manhattan Institute

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...

Middle East Forum

Last Updated: June 11, 2007

The Middle East Forum (MEF), a Philadelphia-based policy institute founded by Daniel Pipes, is one of a number of hardline neoconservative think tanks devoted to promoting a broad war on terror...

Middle East Media Research Institute

Last Updated: March 08, 2007

In early March 2007, Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-born psychiatrist living in the United States, spoke at the Secular Islam Summit held in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she said: "I don't believe...

Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies

Last Updated: March 12, 2008

The Department of Defense and Strategic Studies (DSS) at Missouri State University (formerly Southwest Missouri State University) is a stronghold of conservative scholars. Its faculty has included a...

Move America Forward

Last Updated: April 19, 2005

About . Move America Forward (MAF) bills itself as a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that is “committed to supporting America’s efforts to defeat terrorism and supporting the brave...

National Endowment for Democracy

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...

National Institute for Public Policy

Last Updated: May 05, 2004

Overview . Founded in 1981, the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) "devotes its agenda to assessing U.S. foreign and defense polices in this new environment." According to NIPP,...

National Interest

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...

National Strategy Information Center

Last Updated: February 16, 2004

About . The National Strategy Information Center (NSIC), founded in 1962, was the first right-wing think tank to address such issues as national security strategy, low-intensity conflict, operations...

New Atlantic Initiative

Last Updated: April 04, 2004

About . The New Atlantic Initiative was launched in June 1996 following the Congress of Prague, where more than 300 conservative politicians, scholars, and investors discussed “the new agenda...

NumbersUSA

Last Updated: October 25, 2004

Overview . Founded in 1997, NumbersUSA states that it is a "non-profit, non-partisan, public policy organization that favors an environmentally sustainable and economically just America."...

One Jerusalem

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...

Philanthropy Roundtable

Last Updated: May 31, 2004

Overview . The Philanthropy Roundtable, like many of the right's counter-establishment organizations, was launched in the late 1970s. It was not, however, until 1991 that the informal group of...

ProEnglish

Last Updated: August 30, 2004

Overview . ProEnglish is a nonprofit organization that is among an array of national and state nonprofit organizations dedicated to ensuring that English be declared the official language of the...

Progressive Policy Institute

Last Updated: September 07, 2006

"Don't look now, but neoconservatism is making a comeback-and not among the Republicans who have made it famous, but in the Democratic Party," declared writer Jacob Heilbrunn in a May 28,...

Project for the New American Century

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...

Project on Transitional Democracies

Last Updated: March 31, 2004

About . The Project on Transitional Democracies is a spin-off of the U.S. Committee on NATO, which closed its doors in late 2003. However, the offices of the NATO committee, which was founded in...

ProjectUSA

Last Updated: November 14, 2004

Overview . ProjectUSA is an immigration restrictionist organization whose slogan is: "For a moderate and democratic immigration policy." It advocates: "ending illegal immigration;"...

Réalité EU

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...

Scaife Foundations

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...

Smith Richardson Foundation

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...

Social Contract Press

Last Updated: August 30, 2004

Overview . Social Contract Press, founded in 1990 by John Tanton, is "an educational and publishing organization advocating open discussion of such related issues as population size and rate of...

Tech Central Station

Last Updated: November 21, 2003

About . Launched in 2000 by James Glassman, a Washington Post columnist and American Enterprise Institute fellow, Tech Central Station (TCS) is a dot.com that purports to be a "virtual think...

The Israel Project

Last Updated: July 26, 2007

The Israel Project (TIP) is a Washington- and Jerusalem-based lobbying organization that aims to provide journalists and the public with information about Israel and the Middle East with the goal of...

Transatlantic Institute

Last Updated: November 01, 2007

Based in Brussels, Belgium, the Transatlantic Institute is a research outfit whose mission is to serve "as an intellectual bridge between the United States and the European Union." (A...

U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon

Last Updated: June 11, 2007

Although it is now to a large degree defunct, the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL), founded in 1997 by investment banker Ziad Abdelnour, describes itself as the "Cyber-Center for...

U.S. Committee on NATO

Last Updated: April 01, 2004

About . Founded in 1996 by Bruce Jackson together with Greg Craig, the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO (later renamed U.S. Committee on NATO) ceased to exist in 2003. After spearheading two phases of...

U.S. English

Last Updated: September 07, 2004

Overview . U.S. English claims that it is "the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United...

UN Watch

Last Updated: October 29, 2009

Often accused of excessive bias toward Israel, the Geneva-based UN Watch has used a new UN report on war crimes during Israel's 2008 offensive in Gaza as fodder for its condemnations of the Human Rights Council.

United Against Nuclear Iran

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.

USA Next

Last Updated: February 21, 2005

Overview. USA Next (United Seniors Association) considers itself to be the conservative alternative to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) which it regards as too liberal. USA Next is...

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Last Updated: September 10, 2009

Weekly Standard

Last Updated: August 12, 2009