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Anschutz, Philip

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.

Black, Conrad

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.

Glassman, James

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.

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.

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.

Merrill, Philip (1934-2006)

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...

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...

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.

Walworth, Andrew

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.

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.

Weekly Standard

Last Updated: April 22, 2013

The Weekly Standard is the flagship journal of neoconservative opinion and activism.

New Profiles
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.

O’Hanlon, Michael

Michael O’Hanlon, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, is a well-known “liberal interventionist” who often teams up with rightwing hawks to advocate U.S. military action abroad.

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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