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American Center for Democracy
Last Updated: June 03, 2013
The American Center for Democracy is a neoconservative-linked nonprofit that claims to be “exposing and monitoring threats to the national security of the U.S. and Western democracies.”
American Committee for Peace in Chechnya
Last Updated: April 26, 2013
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, primarily with an eye to weakening Russia for U.S. strategic benefit.
American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus
Last Updated: April 25, 2013
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, primarily with an eye to weakening Russia for U.S. strategic benefit.
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: November 09, 2012
The Washington-based American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) has been a leading member of the neoconservative advocacy community for several decades, hosting a bevy of Iraq War architects and former Bush administration officials.
American Foreign Policy Council
Last Updated: October 30, 2012
From its support for Salvadoran death squads to its enthusiasm for sanctions on Iran and an aggressive “war on terror,” the American Foreign Policy Council has pushed a hawkish agenda on foreign affairs since its founding in 1982.
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Last Updated: November 09, 2012
“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.
American Security Council
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.
American-Turkish Council
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.
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: 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.”
Ariel Center for Policy Research
Last Updated: May 01, 2013
The Israel-based Ariel Center for Policy Research is a right-wing advocacy and research institute founded in 1997 that espouses a militant ideology and is associated with conservative “pro-Israel” advocacy groups in the United States.
Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs
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.
Benador Associates
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.
Benador Public Relations
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.
Bipartisan Policy Center
Last Updated: April 26, 2013
The ostensibly centrist Bipartisan Policy Center has played an important role in shifting Beltway rhetoric on Iran to the hawkish right.
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: May 22, 2013
A go-to security policy think tank for the Obama administration, the Center for a New American Security is staffed with a host counterinsurgency enthusiasts, some of whom have supported neoconservative-led policy campaigns.
Center for American Freedom
Last Updated: March 18, 2013
The Center for American Freedom, a neoconservative advocacy group, publishes the Washington Free Beacon, a “combat journalism” outlet designed to counter the supposedly liberal media elite.
Center for Security Policy
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.”
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: December 05, 2010
A bastion of conservative scholarship and advocacy, the Claremont Institute hosts a number of programs that push hawkish foreign policies.
Clarion Project
Last Updated: May 02, 2013
A controversial activist group closely connected to anti-Islamic political factions, the Clarion Project has released films and publications that attack “Radical Islam” and call into question the trustworthiness of all Muslims.
Coalition for Democracy in Iran
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.
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 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.
Council for National Policy
Last Updated: March 06, 2012
Members of the Reagan-era Council for National Policy continue to help shape the U.S. political landscape even as the right-wing group maintains a cloak of secrecy over its activities and membership rolls.
Defense of Democracies
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.
Democratic Leadership Council
Last Updated: February 15, 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.
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...
Emergency Committee for Israel
Last Updated: January 11, 2013
The Emergency Committee for Israel is a U.S.-based pressure group aligned with the Israeli right wing that has pushed the United States to attack Iran and smeared critics of hawkish Israeli policies.
Empower America
Last Updated: August 27, 2012
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.
Endowment for Middle East Truth
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.
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Last Updated: January 20, 2012
The post-Senate perch of Rick Santorum, EPPC sits at the crossroads of faith-based politics and hawkish neoconservativism.
European Foundation for Democracy
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.
Family Security Matters
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.
Federalist Society
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.
Foreign Policy Initiative
Last Updated: January 23, 2013
The Foreign Policy Initiative, founded in 2009 by a host of neoconservative figures, helps lead beltway advocacy of militaristic and Israel-centric U.S. foreign policies.
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: November 16, 2012
A “non-partisan” policy institute that claims 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.
Foundation for Democracy in Iran
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.
Freedom House
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.
Freedom Watch
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.”
Freedom’s Watch
Last Updated: June 06, 2013
Freedom’s Watch was a pro-Iraq War advocacy group supported by prominent Republican Party donors that worked to counter flagging public support for the “war on terror.”
FreedomWorks
Last Updated: February 20, 2013
FreedomWorks is one of several establishment Republican Party groups that have endeavored to claim the mantle of the Tea Party.
Gatestone Institute
Last Updated: March 05, 2013
The brainchild of Sears-Roebuck heiress Nina Rosenwald, the Gatestone Institute is a New York-based advocacy organization that is tied to neoconservative and other right-wing networks in the United States and Europe.
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...
Grace Creek Media
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.
Henry Jackson Society
Last Updated: April 11, 2013
A bastion of trans-Atlantic neoconservatism and Islamophobia, the UK-based Henry Jackson Society promotes “regime change” in Iran and hardline "pro-Israel" policies in the Middle East.
Heritage Foundation
Last Updated: August 18, 2012
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.
High Frontier
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.
Hoover Institution
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.
Hudson Institute
Last Updated: April 02, 2013
The Hudson Institute is part of a closely-knit group of neoconservative policy institutes that champion aggressive and Israel-centric U.S. foreign policies.
Ideas in Action
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.
Independent Women’s Forum
Last Updated: January 31, 2013
The right-wing Independent Women’s Forum has a history of opposing virtually every “women’s rights” initiative since its founding in the early 1990s.
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
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.
Institute for the Study of War
Last Updated: March 08, 2013
The Institute for the Study of War is a D.C.-based counterinsurgency think tank that has supported long-term U.S. military intervention in the Greater Middle East, especially Iraq and Afghanistan.
Institute of World Politics
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.
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: August 10, 2011
The International Intelligence Summit is a forum for intelligence and military experts who advocate new tactics in the “war on terror.”
International Republican Institute
Last Updated: February 27, 2012
Along with its Democratic-aligned counterpart, the taxpayer-funded International Republican Institute has often been accused of subverting democracy abroad while claiming to foster it.
Iran Policy Committee
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.
Iran Strategy Task Force
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.
Jamestown Foundation
Last Updated: May 28, 2013
The Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that monitors security trends from Eurasia to Africa, has been dogged by allegations that it secretly works with the CIA and allied governments.
Jerusalem Summit
Last Updated: May 01, 2013
The Jerusalem Summit is an Israel-based advocacy outfit that has brought together Evangelical Christians, neoconservatives, and hardline pro-Israel figures from across the globe in an effort to shape the debate over the status of Palestine.
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Last Updated: April 23, 2013
A prominent member of the rightwing “pro-Israel” establishment, JINSA claims to be "the most influential group on the issue of U.S.-Israel military relations."
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...
Keep America Safe
Last Updated: April 12, 2013
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.
Keep Israel Safe
Last Updated: April 15, 2013
One of a string of astrotruf groups launched by neoconservatives and Christian Right figures, Keep Israel Safe produced several webvideos that mischaracterize the Obama administration’s policies on Israel and Iran.
Lexington Institute
Last Updated: July 02, 2012
The Lexington Institute, which has been called “the defense industry's pay-to-play ad agency,” is notorious for accepting large donations from military contractors to publish studies advocating military spending programs.
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: 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.
Middle East Media Research Institute
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.
Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies
Last Updated: March 31, 2011
Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies is a stronghold of rightist foreign policy scholars.
Move America Forward
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.
National Endowment for Democracy
Last Updated: March 02, 2012
The taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy has often been accused of profoundly anti-democratic behavior.
National Institute for Public Policy
Last Updated: March 03, 2012
This Cold War era think tank has found new reasons for promoting extravagant U.S. defenses, including to defend against “terrorist-supporting” states like Iran.
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: 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.”
New Atlantic Initiative
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.
NGO Monitor
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.
NORPAC
Last Updated: May 21, 2013
NORPAC is a New Jersey-based political action committee that supports legislators who favor hardline "pro-Israel" policies.
One Jerusalem
Last Updated: May 02, 2013
One Jerusalem is a right-wing advocacy group that opposes any Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement that cedes part of Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)
Last Updated: October 08, 2012
The People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or MEK, is a militant organization that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Philanthropy Roundtable
Last Updated: March 20, 2013
The Philanthropy Roundtable is a research and advocacy group that helps right-wing donors funnel money to a number of different philanthropic and political causes.
Progressive Policy Institute
Last Updated: January 31, 2013
The Progressive Policy Institute, the think tank of the now-defunct Democratic Leadership Council, promotes a hawkish line on foreign policy, including getting tough with Iran.
Project for the New American Century
Last Updated: March 21, 2013
The defunct Project for the New American Century, a key promoter of the decision to invade Iraq, was at one time regarded as the foremost purveyor of neoconservative thinking on foreign affairs.
Project on Transitional Democracies
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.
Réalité-EU
Last Updated: September 24, 2012
Réalité-EU is a hawkish policy outfit that promotes aggressive European policies toward Iran and other “threats” in the Middle East.
Republican Jewish Coalition
Last Updated: October 25, 2012
A neoconservative Jewish lobbying group, the Republican Jewish Coalition is a central component of the Republican Party’s outreach to Jewish voters.
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...
Secure America Now
Last Updated: August 19, 2012
An allegedly bipartisan advocacy group, Secure America Now has been heavily criticized for releasing misleading ads and opinion polls pushing a hawkish agenda on Iran and a “pro-Israel” line in Washington.
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...
Society of Americans for National Existence
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.
Tech Central Station
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.
The Israel Project
Last Updated: September 04, 2012
The Israel Project is a “pro-Israel,” neoconservative-leaning lobby group that boasts a lengthy bipartisan cast of congressional “advisers.”
Transatlantic Institute
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.
U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon
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.”
U.S. Committee on NATO
Last Updated: May 10, 2012
Founded to push for the expansion of NATO after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. Committee on NATO was a neoconservative-led initiative closely tied to key Republican Party figures.
UN Watch
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.
United Against Nuclear Iran
Last Updated: April 19, 2013
United against Nuclear Iran is a pressure group that attacks companies doing business in Iran and disseminates alarmist reports about the country's nuclear program.
Washington Free Beacon
Last Updated: March 15, 2013
The Washington Free Beacon is a news site published by the right-wing Center for American Freedom.
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Last Updated: October 15, 2012
An offshoot of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the influential Washington Institute for Near East Policy has been a hawkish centerpiece of the “Israel Lobby” for decades.
Weekly Standard
Last Updated: April 22, 2013
The Weekly Standard is the flagship journal of neoconservative opinion and activism.
Zionist Organization of America
Last Updated: November 01, 2012
Established in Baltimore in 1897, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is the oldest Zionist organization in the United States—and also among the most aggressively anti-Arab.
New Profiles
Hayden, Michael
Former CIA director Michael Hayden has been a stalwart advocate of the Bush record on torture and warrantless wiretapping.
Wieseltier, Leon
Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of the New Republic and a harsh critic of Obama administration’s Middle East policy, has frequently pushed for U.S. military intervention in the Middle East.
Abrams, Rachel (1951-2013)
Rachel Abrams was a member of a well-established neoconservative family who blogged for the Weekly Standard and served as a board member of the Emergency Committee for Israel.
Rubin, Jennifer
Jennifer Rubin is a blogger at the Washington Post who is notorious for her anti-liberal invective and “pro-Israel” advocacy.
Freedom’s Watch
Freedom’s Watch was a pro-Iraq War advocacy group supported by prominent Republican Party donors that worked to counter flagging public support for the “war on terror.”