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Adelson, Sheldon

Last Updated: November 09, 2012

Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is an important financial backer of right-wing “pro-Israel” groups in the United States and elsewhere in the world, as well as a prominent supporter of key Israeli Likud Party figures.

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...

Broxmeyer, Mark

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.

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,...

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...

Hascoe, Norman (1929-2007)

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...

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...

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...

Joyce, Michael (1942-2006)

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...

Kadish, Lawrence

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.

Lehrman, Lewis

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.

Loeb, Daniel

Last Updated: December 04, 2012

An erstwhile Obama supporter, hedge-fund multimillionaire Daniel Loeb has donated vast sums to the neoconservative Emergency Committee for Israel and threw high-dollar fundraisers in the Hamptons for the 2012 Romney campaign.

Mellon Scaife, Richard

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...

Moskowitz, Irving

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.

Nina Rosenwald

Last Updated: March 05, 2013

An heir to the Sears Roebuck fortune, Nina Rosenwald has been dubbed “the sugar mama of anti-Muslim hate” for her philanthropy supporting right-wing and anti-Islamic groups in the United States.

NORPAC

Last Updated: May 21, 2013

NORPAC is a New Jersey-based political action committee that supports legislators who favor hardline "pro-Israel" policies.

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.

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...

Sembler, Melvin

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.

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...

Steinmann, David

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.

New Profiles
Ahmari, Sohrab

An Iranian-American writer who vocally supports a U.S. attack on Iran, Sohrab Ahmari has been described as “the neocons’ favorite Iranian” and likened to Iraq’s Ahmed Chalabi.

Center for a New American Security

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.

NORPAC

NORPAC is a New Jersey-based political action committee that supports legislators who favor hardline "pro-Israel" policies.

Levitt, Matthew

Matthew Levitt is the director of WINEP’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

Pipes, Daniel

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.

From the Wires
Nuclear Iran Unlikely to Tilt Regional Power Balance – Report

May, 18 2013

A new report by the Rand Corporation argues that while a nuclear-armed Iran might raise tensions among the country’s Sunni neighbors, it would be extremely unlikely to use the weapons offensively or transfer them to proxies.

Framing Iran: Media Coverage Echoes Some Iraq Problems

May, 16 2013

An examination of media coverage of Iran's nuclear enrichment program reveals a tendency by mainstream outlets to frame the issue according to the statements of government officials to the exclusion of alternative voices—a trend also observed during the run-up to the Iraq war.

Despite Horrific Repression, the U.S. Should Stay Out of Syria

May, 15 2013

Syria's simmering sectarian tensions and increasingly extreme rebel movement make even a large-scale U.S. intervention unlikely to restore stability to the country.

Benghazi, Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy: America’s Broken System

May, 14 2013

The much-publicized hearings over the Benghazi fiasco have neglected to examine the proper balance of security and flexibility for America's diplomats—or the limitations of military intervention as a tool for improving security environments.

Nuclear Iran Can Be Contained and Deterred: Report

May, 14 2013

A report by the Center for a New American Security, a national security think tank close to the Obama administration, argues that the United States has a plethora of viable strategies—including deterrence—to manage the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.

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