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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: 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.

American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus

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.

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 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...

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: 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.

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 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: 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.

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 American Freedom

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.

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 Fund

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.

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 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.

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: March 18, 2012

ECI 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: 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.

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 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.

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, 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.

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: 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.”

FreedomWorks

Last Updated: May 14, 2012

FreedomWorks, one of several establishment Republican Party groups that have endeavored to claim the mantle of the Tea Party, has emerged as an influential force in U.S. electoral politics working to oust moderate Republicans.

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...

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: 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.

Heritage Foundation

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.

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: 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.

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: 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: 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: December 09, 2011

Chaired by Liz Cheney and led by Kimberly Kagan, the ISW promotes hawkish stances on U.S counterinsurgency operations.

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: 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: 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.

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: 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.

Keep Israel Safe

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.

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: 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.

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...

Peoples Muhajedin of Iran (MEK)

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.

Philanthropy Roundtable

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.

Progressive Policy Institute

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.

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: 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: 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...

Secure America Now

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.

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: July 07, 2011

The Israel Project is dedicated to providing a “more positive public face” for hardline Israeli policy.

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: 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.

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Last Updated: September 10, 2009

Weekly Standard

Last Updated: August 13, 2009

The Weekly Standard is the flagship publication of contemporary neoconservatism.