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Last Updated: March 12, 2008
The 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), crafted by then-Defense Department staffers I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and Zalmay Khalilzad, is widely regarded as an early formulation of the...
Last Updated: May 11, 2010
A Lebanese-American investment banker closely tied to many neoconservative figures, Abdelnour wants the United States or Israel to “annihilate” Hezbollah.
Last Updated: February 05, 2013
Despite his checkered track record— which includes a criminal conviction for lying to Congress during the Reagan-era Iran-Contra affair—neoconservative Elliott Abrams retains a post at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Last Updated: November 14, 2012
Neoconservative blogger Rachel Abrams, a member of a well-established neoconservative family, is notorious for her vindictive, hyperbolic rhetoric.
Last Updated: March 24, 2013
Academi LLC is a controversial private military contractor that was formerly called Blackwater Worldwide and later Xe Services LLC.
Last Updated: May 16, 2011
Addington, an author of the infamous “torture memos” who is now VP at the Heritage Foundation, has remained conspicuously silent as the debate over torture has heated up since the slaying of Osama bin Laden.
Last Updated: May 01, 2012
Although favorably inclined toward philanthropy, Carol Adelman has offered misleading assessments about the magnitude of U.S. charitable giving and foreign aid.
Last Updated: October 29, 2008
A longtime Washington insider closely aligned with neoconservatives, Ken Adelman has served several Republican administrations since the mid-1970s and was a vocal proponent of the invasion of Iraq.
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.
Last Updated: July 12, 2006
Harold Agnew is a nuclear physicist who worked on both the creation of the first atomic weapons and on the project to build the hydrogen bomb. As a young member of the Manhattan Project, Agnew flew...
Last Updated: April 03, 2012
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.
Last Updated: May 04, 2011
Akins, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and advisor to the hawkish Iran Policy Committee, helped play a role forging elite Middle East consensus over Israel during the 1970s and foresaw the popular backlash in the region over U.S. policies.
Last Updated: June 23, 2009
Ensconced at the conservative Hoover Institution, this former member of Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board now seems to spend much of his time distressing over President Obama and venerating the memory of Ronald Reagan...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.”
Last Updated: February 06, 2012
Amitay has been a key “pro-Israel” lobbyist for decades, serving as head of American Israeli Public Affairs Committee and chair of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
Last Updated: July 08, 2010
Anderson is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and a veteran foreign policy hawk whose career has included serving four Republican presidents.
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.
Last Updated: July 20, 2012
Applebaum, a program director at the London-based Legatum Institute and a former American Enterprise Institute fellow, writes a column for the Washington Post in which she has revealed an on-again-off-again affinity for U.S. military interventions, including pushing the idea that President Obama must be prepared to go to war with Iran.
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.
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.
Last Updated: December 20, 2007
John David Ashcroft, a former Republican governor and senator from Missouri and high-profile member of the conservative judicial group Federalist Society, served as U.S. attorney general during...
Last Updated: March 13, 2013
Ashton Carter is an academic and longtime Pentagon bureaucrat who served as deputy secretary of defense in the Barack Obama administration.
Last Updated: October 18, 2007
A self-styled member of the Iranian student dissident movement, Akbar Atri has, since fleeing Iran in 2005, become a favorite of the neoconservative faction in the United States, where he has...
Last Updated: July 12, 2012
Former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine embodies the connections among the defense industry, hardline pressure groups, and hawkish think tanks.
Last Updated: July 31, 2012
Tea Party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann has become a willing mouthpiece on Capitol Hill for Islamophobic-driven conspiracy theories, including the suggestion that a close aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Last Updated: June 05, 2009
Last Updated: October 05, 2010
Attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, William Barr has been a prominent conservative activist for decades.
Last Updated: September 04, 2012
Christian Zionist leader and former GOP presidential candidate Gary Bauer is among several right-wing leaders who have called for investigations into whether the U.S. government has been infiltrated by Islamic extremists.
Last Updated: March 29, 2012
Human rights specialist Anne Bayefsky has carved out a niche lambasting the UN Human Rights Council for not meshing with her “pro-Israel” politics.
Last Updated: October 17, 2007
Gary Becker, the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics, is a conservative writer and economist based at the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. A well known...
Last Updated: October 05, 2010
A longtime right-wing activist, Bell sees the Tea Party and social conservatism as being at heart a single movement based on what he terms “America’s founding values.”
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.
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.
Last Updated: March 22, 2012
A publicist who helped promote a plank of neoconservative writers after 9/11, Benador argues that the United States is being invaded by Muslims, that President Obama “and his people” committed “high treason” in his response to the killing of Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier, and that Americans are suffering from an “endless deteriorating reality.”
Last Updated: December 03, 2010
Gabriel Benador is the associate director of Benador Public Relations, the successor firm to Benador Associates, a public relations company that served as a key promoter of neoconservative ideologues after the 9/11 attacks and during the run up to the invasion of Iraq.
Last Updated: April 17, 2012
Former Reagan official and longtime conservative pundit Bill Bennett has used his radio program to hype the views of his former colleagues at the Project for a New American Century.
Last Updated: October 05, 2010
Jeffrey Bergner is a corporate lobbyist and longtime supporter of neoconservative groups like the Hudson Institute and the Project for the New American Century.
Last Updated: October 02, 2012
Ilan Berman is vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, a think tank that promotes hawkish security polices and appears to be closely associated with the U.S. “Israel Lobby.”
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.
Last Updated: November 29, 2012
Cofer Black is a former CIA officer and Blackwater executive who worked on Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, earning the moniker as the former governor’s “trusted envoy to the dark side.”
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.
Last Updated: September 05, 2012
Josh Block, a self-described progressive Democrat who gained notoriety for accusing Democratic critics of Israel of “borderline anti-Semitism,” now helms The Israel Project, a neoconservative-leaning lobby group that pushes a hard line on the Middle East.
Last Updated: March 18, 2013
John Bolton, the notorious hardliner who served as President Bush’s UN ambassador, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Last Updated: October 25, 2011
Bonazzi is the executive director of the neoconservative-aligned European Foundation for Democracy, based in Brussels.
Last Updated: December 10, 2012
Max Boot is a vocal proponent of U.S. military intervention abroad based at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Last Updated: January 17, 2011
Bork, a project director at the Foreign Policy Initiative and the daughter of former Supreme Court justice nominee Robert Bork, has used her perch at FPI to continue the time-honored neoconservative tactic of organizing elite public sign-on letters to pressure public figures.
Last Updated: January 04, 2013
Robert Bork, a one-time Supreme Court nominee and right-wing icon, passed away in December 2012.
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...
Last Updated: September 09, 2009
Last Updated: May 07, 2012
Best known for his role as head of occupation authorities after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Bremer is a former career diplomat who has promoted hawkish U.S. military agendas as well as security contractors.
Last Updated: August 23, 2007
Linton Brooks, an experienced arms control negotiator and proponent of controversial strategic weapons programs, served as director of the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security...
Last Updated: August 15, 2012
A right-wing Christian and governor of Kansas, Brownback previously served in the U.S. Senate, where he gained a reputation as a leading social conservative as well as an outspoken “pro-Israel” hawk on U.S. Middle East policy.
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.
Last Updated: February 08, 2012
Following her acrimonious departure from JINSA, “pro-Israel” hawk Shoshana Bryen will carry on her advocacy efforts at the conservative Jewish Policy Center.
Last Updated: February 03, 2012
Stephen Bryen has played an important role forging connections between right-wing advocacy groups, conservative policy elites, weapons contractors, and the U.S. “pro-Israel” lobby.
Last Updated: November 29, 2012
Christopher Burnham is a former State Department official who worked as an adviser to former Gov. Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.
Last Updated: March 27, 2013
Jeb Bush is the former Republican governor of Florida and a founding signatory of the Project for the New American Century.
Last Updated: December 10, 2011
Herman Cain, a former GOP presidential nomination, has expressed a number of hawkish foreign policy positions, even if he tends to be rather hazy on the details.
Last Updated: February 18, 2013
The Pentagon’s first-ever undersecretary of defense for intelligence—the “defense intelligence czar”—Stephen Cambone was closely involved in Pentagon efforts to loosen interrogation guidelines for “war on terror” detainees.
Last Updated: July 30, 2012
One blogger coined the term “going the full Cantor” to denote one-sided and disproportional support for Israel in honor of Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
Last Updated: May 17, 2012
President Reagan’s Pentagon chief and an alleged conspirator in the assassination of former DRC Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, Frank Carlucci now serves as an attack dog for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.
Last Updated: October 05, 2011
The conservative Democrat from Pennsylvania who served two terms in Congress now works for the same defense contractor—BAE Systems—that he assisted in gaining Pentagon contracts while in office.
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,...
Last Updated: January 15, 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.
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.
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.”
Last Updated: April 28, 2010
A favorite of the neocon crowd, Chalabi has recently been accused of unjustly marginalizing political opponents in Iraq while at the same time courting Iran.
Last Updated: June 09, 2009
The former secretary of labor has returned to the Heritage Foundation, where she worked before being tapped by George W. Bush in 2001...
Last Updated: December 20, 2012
Although perhaps best known for her anti-labor views, conservative activist (and former Labor Secretary nominee) Linda Chavez has a long track record of backing neoconservative causes.
Last Updated: April 08, 2010
A standard-bearer for her father’s militarist agenda, Liz Cheney and her group Keep America Safe have resorted to McCarthy-esque tactics in attacking the Obama administration.
Last Updated: April 16, 2009
Lynne Cheney, the wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has been a high-profile supporter of rightist causes for decades, including from her current perch as senior fellow at the American...
Last Updated: February 18, 2013
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been among the most stringent advocates of waging war overseas and loosening controls on the conduct of the executive branch.
Last Updated: June 20, 2012
Romney adviser Michael Chertoff, a former secretary of homeland security, has aggressively defended the Bush administration’s prosecution of the “war on terror,” including its controversial detention of Arab and Muslim immigrants who were never charged with any crimes.
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...
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.
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.
Last Updated: October 02, 2012
Patrick Clawson is director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a spin-off of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that is known for promoting hawkish U.S. policies in the Middle East.
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.
Last Updated: December 10, 2012
A neoconservative academic based at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Cohen served as an adviser to President George W. Bush as well as to the 2012 Mitt Romney presidential campaign.
Last Updated: December 04, 2012
Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), a board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition, has advocated bypassing the United Nations and arming the Syrian opposition.
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...
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...
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...
Last Updated: August 04, 2010
The former director of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative and a key right-wing opponent of Obama administration arms control initiatives, Cooper was recently given the “Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Award” by the Department of Defense’s Strategic Defense Initiative.
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.
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.
Last Updated: May 05, 2011
Cowan, a Fox News contributor and former military intelligence officer, is a member of the military committee of the Iran Policy Committee.
Last Updated: January 12, 2009
Christopher Cox served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the second term of the George W. Bush administration; prior to that, he represented California in the House of...
Last Updated: April 25, 2012
Cropsey is a fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, where he writes screeds accusing President Obama of “appeasing” America’s enemies and attacking his efforts at rapprochement with the Muslim world.
Last Updated: May 08, 2007
J.D. Crouch II is a former deputy national security adviser and assistant to President George W. Bush who resigned in early May 2007. Regarded as one of the administration's staunchest foreign...
Last Updated: March 08, 2013
Although better known for his domestic platform promoting “limited” government, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has expressed strong sympathies for projecting U.S. military power abroad.
Last Updated: October 26, 2012
Dinesh D’Souza, a high-profile conservative writer and academic, is notorious for his right-wing “culture warrior” writings, as well as for his xenophobic insinuations about President Barack Obama.
Last Updated: December 03, 2012
John Danilovich, a retired diplomat and corporate executive, has worked to use U.S. foreign aid to push countries to make reforms that reflect “American values.”
Last Updated: March 12, 2011
The former Costa Rican ambassador to the United States, Jaime Daremblum now works as a rightwing pundit at the Hudson Institute, where he pushes the notion that Iran is using countries like Venezuela to threaten the United States.
Last Updated: September 19, 2007
Midge Decter is best known as a member of a leading neoconservative family, the Podhoretz clan. Her second husband, Norman Podhoretz, was editor of the neoconservative flagship magazine Commentary...
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.
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.
Last Updated: March 17, 2009
Christopher DeMuth served as president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a key intellectual recruiting ground for the George W. Bush presidency and a preeminent think tank of...
Last Updated: October 25, 2011
A neoconservative media consultant and former AIPAC spokesperson, Toby Dershowitz is vice president of the Likud-linked Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Last Updated: November 21, 2003
About . The Deterrence Concepts Advisory Panel (DCAP) was established by the Bush administration to oversee production of the president's Nuclear Posture Review, which is a classified study...
Last Updated: April 09, 2013
Since Jackson Diehl took over as the Washington Post’s deputy editorial page editor in 2001, the newspaper’s editorial slant has become increasingly hawkish and conservative.
Last Updated: November 23, 2010
Thomas Dine, former director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, has supported both moderate and hawkish Mideast policy campaigns.
Last Updated: November 29, 2012
Dobriansky, a Bush administration undersecretary of state and supporter of the Project for a New American Century’s militarist advocacy campaigns, is a fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center and adviser to the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Last Updated: November 22, 2010
A major figure in U.S. organized labor, Donahue was an ardent anti-communist during the Cold War.
Last Updated: November 14, 2012
AEI fellow Thomas Donnelly has been a long-time proponent of a robust U.S. military equipped to reshape the Middle East and roll back what he calls “revolutionary Islam.”
Last Updated: October 05, 2012
A former Bush administration foreign policy adviser, Michael Doran is a fellow at the Brookings Institution who has promoted U.S. “regime change” strategies directed at a host of countries in the Middle East.
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...
Last Updated: December 30, 2007
Nicholas Eberstadt, a long-standing participant in hawkish U.S. advocacy groups dating back to the early 1980s, is an Asia scholar and demographer associated with the American Enterprise Institute...
Last Updated: December 03, 2010
A longtime defense industry executive, Stanley Ebner has also supported the hawkish Center for Security Policy.
Last Updated: December 11, 2012
Eric Edelman, undersecretary for defense in the George W. Bush administration and a board member of the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative, has long been associated with hawkish factions in U.S. politics, advising the likes of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Mitt Romney.
Last Updated: December 18, 2012
Edward “Pete” Aldridge, a former defense industry executive and government adviser on arms control issues, embodied the “revolving door” between the Pentagon and the defense industry during the Bush administration, approving and counseling Pentagon acquisitions that benefited the corporations he worked for.
Last Updated: April 30, 2007
Rachel Ehrenfeld, a prominent voice in the rightist discourse connecting terrorism and transnational crime, is the founder of the American Center for Democracy (ACD), a Manhattan-based policy center...
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.
Last Updated: September 23, 2011
Despite his history of making questionable claims, self-proclaimed terrorism “expert” Steve Emerson has made a lucrative career warning about terrorist threats and condemning Islamists.
Last Updated: October 19, 2009
Despite many challenges to its credibility, the work of this Congressional commission continues be cited by hardliners to revive Cold War-era fears of nuclear annihilation and justify aggressive policies toward Iran and North Korea.
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.
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.
Last Updated: May 09, 2012
Former weapons contractor executive Gordon England, Paul Wolfowitz’s replacement at the Pentagon in the second George W. Bush administration, has spent his years out of government stumping for costly weapons systems.
Last Updated: January 20, 2012
The post-Senate perch of Rick Santorum, EPPC sits at the crossroads of faith-based politics and hawkish neoconservativism.
Last Updated: August 04, 2010
The idiosyncratic social theorist and founder of the Communitarian Network thinks the United States should bomb Iran and “unshackle” the troops in Afghanistan.
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.
Last Updated: September 08, 2008
Michael D. Evans is a prominent Christian evangelical author whose works promote a hardline Christian Zionist1 view of Middle East peace issues in which defending Israel is seen as a Christian duty...
Last Updated: March 02, 2012
Mark Falcoff, long an avid backer of U.S. intervention in Latin America, thinks Venezuela is headed for civil war if President Hugo Chavez dies.
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.
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.
Last Updated: November 14, 2012
A former Pentagon official whose office generated faulty information that was used to push the United States toward war with Iraq, Feith is now at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, where he advocates hawkish strategic weapons policies.
Last Updated: May 16, 2011
The Heritage Foundation president thinks that the Obama administration is losing it s way in what he terms “the long war against extremists.”
Last Updated: September 30, 2008
Described by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), where she served on the board, as “a prominent Republican Party activist,” Finley worked for many years as a Washington,...
Last Updated: August 06, 2012
A former CIA officer who now works as an editor for a right-wing news group, Fleitz argues that diplomacy on Iran is no longer an option, worries that Syria might transfer nuclear weapons-related material to terrorists, and appears none too happy about Right Web’s efforts to publicize his advocacy of militarist foreign policies or his alleged role in the “PlameGate” affair.
Last Updated: March 13, 2013
Michele Flournoy is a former undersecretary of defense for policy in the Obama administration who co-founded the “liberal hawk” Center for a New American Security.
Last Updated: January 23, 2013
Jamie Fly, a former adviser to the George W. Bush administration, was the executive director of the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative before being tapped by Sen. Marco Rubio to “counselor for foreign and national security affairs.”
Last Updated: December 03, 2012
A retired U.S. Air Force general and defense industry executive, Fogleman has been a long time government adviser on defense and security policy.
Last Updated: May 12, 2008
Malcolm Stevenson “Steve” Forbes Jr., head of the Forbes magazine empire, is an active supporter of a number of militarist policy organizations that have pushed for an expansive...
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.
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.”...
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...
Last Updated: August 04, 2010
Forstmann, a high-powered business executive who is considered a pioneer of modern corporate buyouts, has supported the work of various neoconservative groups.
Last Updated: January 19, 2009
Randall Fort, a former corporate officer with Goldman Sachs and program director at TRW's space and defense groups, served as assistant secretary for intelligence and research in the State...
Last Updated: November 21, 2003
About The so-called Foster Panel--after its head, John S. Foster, Jr.--was established at the urging of Sen. Jon Kyl by the fiscal year 1999 Defense Authorization Act to report on the safety and...
Last Updated: September 12, 2007
John Foster Jr. is a distinguished scientist whose career working in the U.S. weapons complex dates back to the early years of the atomic era. Closely affiliated with a long line of hardline policy...
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.
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.
Last Updated: July 10, 2007
Hillel Fradkin is a specialist in Islamic studies and a noted Straussian scholar with a long track record of working for or supporting major neoconservative and hardline pro-Israel outfits, including...
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
Last Updated: April 16, 2011
Following a brief stint as Dick Cheney’s deputy national security advisor, Friedberg returned to Princeton, where he specializes in East Asian security issues.
Last Updated: November 16, 2012
Frum, who once argued that failure in the “war on terror” could lead to a new holocaust, was ousted from the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute after criticizing the Republican Party’s approach to healthcare reform. He is now a blogger for The Daily Beast and a contributing editor for Newsweek.
Last Updated: March 13, 2007
One of the most well-known U.S. academics due in large measure to his famous "end of history" thesis, Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist based at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced...
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Brigitte Gabriel has made a post-9/11 career out of roundly denouncing Islam, decrying "political correctness," and promoting the concept of an existential clash of cultures. She founded...
Last Updated: October 17, 2011
Devon Gaffney Cross, a longstanding neoconservative activist, has reemerged as a supporter of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s presidential campaign and member of the heavily criticized advocacy group Secure America Now.
Last Updated: November 14, 2012
Frank Gaffney is a leading anti-Islam pundit in the United States who has helped foster a discriminatory discourse in the country aimed at marginalizing Muslims and outlawing the practice of their faith.
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Garner, the erstwhile “mayor of Baghdad,” has capitalized on his experiences in Iraq to pursue oil deals in Kurdish areas of the country.
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.
Last Updated: July 17, 2012
Jeffrey Gedmin, an early supporter of the Bush administration’s neoconservative agenda, has focused in recent years on soft-power tactics, including “surrogate broadcasting” and free-trade agreements.
Last Updated: August 28, 2012
The acerbic anti-Islamic activist Pamela Geller thinks that President Obama is attempting to restore “the universal caliphate” and shares VP candidate Paul Ryan’s attraction to the novelist Ayn Rand, who once argued that “Arabs are one of the least developed cultures.”
Last Updated: September 08, 2011
Unlike some of his neoconservative brethren, Gerecht remains a fervent champion of imposing democracy in the Middle East, even if it requires U.S. covert action to do so.
Last Updated: June 19, 2007
Carl Gershman is the longtime head of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and a former leading figure in U.S. sectarian politics, dating back to the mid-1970s when he was head of the Social...
Last Updated: October 11, 2007
Mark Gerson, author of the 1996 book The Neoconservative Vision, an oft-cited sycophantic book about the roots and trajectory of the political faction, is CEO of Gerson Lehrman Group, a consulting firm of global experts.
Last Updated: June 01, 2011
A conservative syndicated columnist who writes regularly for the Washington Post, Gerson’s track record includes coining the phrase “axis of evil” and developing the Bush administration’s messaging on the Iraq War.
Last Updated: December 03, 2012
Farid Ghadry, founder of the pro-regime change Reform Party of Syria, has been likened to a Syrian Ahmed Chalabi, in part because of his close relations with U.S. neoconservatives.
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The former GOP presidential candidate and Speaker of the House has been a vociferous proponent of the idea that the America faces an existential threat from “Islamofascists.”
Last Updated: March 07, 2012
Lauded as “America’s Mayor” for his perceived public leadership in the aftermath of 9/11, Rudy Giuliani has used the terrorist attacks as a basis for his hawkish foreign policy views, like threatening to “bomb the hell out of” Iran.
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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.
Last Updated: July 06, 2010
An editor for the right-wing Jerusalem Post and fellow at the neocon Center for Security Policy, Glick has recently gotten into the parody business, producing a video that makes light of the people killed during the Israeli raid on the Palestinian peace flotilla.
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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...
Last Updated: March 08, 2012
A writer for The Atlantic who served in the Israeli military, Goldberg’s publications have often appeared to bolster hawkish U.S. policies in the Middle East, particularly with respect to Iran and Iraq.
Last Updated: March 13, 2013
Michael Goldfarb is a neoconservative pundit, activist, and consultant who has proven adept at funneling anonymous Republican donations into high-profile advocacy efforts.
Last Updated: June 28, 2011
Gompert, a former vice president of the RAND Corporation known for his hawkish views on defense, served briefly as President Barack Obama’s acting director of national intelligence before becoming a director at Pentagon contractor Global Integrated Security.
Last Updated: December 10, 2011
J.D. Gordon, a former Navy spokesperson and Pentagon PR officer, is a right-wing beltway lobbyist who served as foreign policy adviser to the Herman Cain campaign.
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Daniel Gouré, a close associate of a number of George W. Bush administration hardline foreign policy figures and frequent commentator on defense issues, is vice president of the Lexington...
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.
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William R. Graham, a former science adviser to Ronald Reagan and an executive at a number of high-tech defense contractors, has been a key member of the missile defense lobby during the past two...
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Chris Griffin, the executive director the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative, has also worked as a legislative director for Sen. Joe Lieberman and as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute research.
Last Updated: May 08, 2012
Stephen Hadley, a former Bush administration official notorious for his role in peddling faulty intelligence about Iraq, is an adviser at the U.S. Institute for Peace.
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John Hagee is a controversial Christian Right leader who is the pastor of an evangelical “megachurch” in San Antonio, Texas. Hagee is also the founder of Christians United for Israel...
Last Updated: March 27, 2012
John Hannah, an Iraq War booster who worked as an aide to VP Cheney, has become a leading neoconservative voice for regime change in Syria.
Last Updated: February 13, 2012
A controversial opponent of legal representation for “war on terror” detainees, Aaron Harison is now the president of the neoconservative Center for American Freedom.
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...
Last Updated: December 04, 2012
Former CIA director Michael Hayden has been a stalwart advocate of the Bush record on torture and warrantless wiretapping.
Last Updated: December 04, 2012
Kerry Healey helped recruit Mitt Romney into Massachusetts politics and was a trusted foreign policy adviser to his presidential campaigns.
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.
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.
Last Updated: May 30, 2011
Hiatt, the Washington Post’s “liberal hawk” editorial page editor, says that he is opposed to the efforts of some of his contributors—like neoconservative pundit Jennifer Rubin—to demonize opponents by referring to their “mental health,” but he apparently sees no reason to “censor” them.
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High Frontier, a pressure group pushing for “Star Wars” missile defense systems, has deep connections to defense contractors, government officials, and prominent neoconservatives.
Last Updated: January 03, 2012
Charles Hill is a former diplomat who has used his Foreign Service experience to craft a worldview friendly to neoconservatives.
Last Updated: December 20, 2012
Gertrude Himmelfarb, widow of the late neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol and mother of Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, is a conservative historian who has prescribed Victorian notions of morality as an antidote to a host of social ills.
Last Updated: June 20, 2011
Hirsi Ali, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who has a made a career denouncing Islam, argues that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood may be more dangerous than Al Qaeda precisely because it has given up armed struggle.
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. Amoretta Hoeber, an advisor to the Frank Gaffney-run Center for Security Policy, runs a small Maryland-based defense consultancy firm. Hoeber is a former Reagan-era defense official who has been...
Last Updated: December 04, 2012
Kim Holmes, a longtime foreign policy director at the right-wing Heritage Foundation, promotes increased defense budgets and “American exceptionalism.”
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.
Last Updated: May 17, 2012
China scholar Charles Horner, a fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, see a looming conflict between China and the Islamic world.
Last Updated: September 16, 2011
Horowitz, an ex-lefty known for making vitriolic attacks on his former comrades, has turned the demonization of Muslims into a lucrative enterprise
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Rachelle Horowitz, the wife of longtime AFL-CIO principal Thomas Donahue, was a leader of the hawkish wing of the Socialist Party USA that splintered off from the party in 1972 to become Social...
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The Hudson Institute is part of a closely-knit group of neoconservative policy institutes that champion aggressive and Israel-centric U.S. foreign policies.
Last Updated: January 19, 2012
Huntsman, the millionaire scion of the Huntsman chemical empire, is a former Utah governor who served as President Obama’s first ambassador to China and was a candidate for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
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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.
Last Updated: September 24, 2012
Fred Iklé, a distinguished scholar at the Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a former defense undersecretary, is an erstwhile Cold Warrior who has...
Last Updated: January 29, 2013
The Immigration Reform Caucus is a mostly Republican coalition of House members that has sought to crack down on undocumented immigrants and stem the flow of even legal immigration.
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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.
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.
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.
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The Institute of World Politics is a Washington, D.C.-based graduate school closely tied to right-wing networks in the United States.
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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...
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...
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Last Updated: January 11, 2011
A former military intelligence officer and defense industry executive with a track record of advancing hawkish U.S. defense policies and supporting neoconservative campaigns, Jackson now advocates reevaluating the former Soviet republics’ integration into NATO and Europe.
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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...
Last Updated: June 09, 2009
Zuhdi Jasser ,a physician and devout Muslim connected to various neoconservative groups, is the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, which touts itself as "a leading voice for liberty-minded Muslims in America in the war on terror"...
Last Updated: July 09, 2012
Retired Admiral David Jeremiah, an adviser to the neoconservative Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, worked as a consultant for Boeing even as he was advising the U.S. military to lease expensive refueling tankers from the aerospace giant.
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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.
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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."
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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...
Last Updated: December 03, 2012
Romney adviser Robert Joseph, John Bolton’s successor in the Bush State Department, has staked out a hard line in support of costly missile defense programs and against arms control agreements.
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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...
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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.
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Donald Kagan, the father of neoconservative writers Robert and Frederick Kagan, is a historian and classics scholar at Yale University. Kagan, along with Victor Davis Hanson, serves as a sort of...
Last Updated: March 06, 2013
A foreign policy hawk known for his work shaping the 2007 Iraq “surge,” AEI fellow Frederick Kagan has authored numerous books and reports promoting long-term U.S. military intervention in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Last Updated: March 04, 2013
A military historian, Kimberly Kagan heads the Institute for the Study of War, where she has promoted the continuation of U.S. war in Afghanistan.
Last Updated: December 11, 2012
Robert Kagan is a leading neoconservative policy pundit, a cofounder of numerous militarist pressure groups, and an important backer of U.S. overseas military interventions like the Iraq War.
Last Updated: April 05, 2012
Phyllis Kaminsky is long-standing Republican Party insider who has been associated with several rightist “pro-Israel” groups in the United States.
Last Updated: April 02, 2013
Max Kampelman was a Cold War-era arms control negotiator who supported numerous neoconservative policy campaigns.
Last Updated: April 25, 2011
Kansteiner is a long-standing Republican Party operative active in international business and policy initiatives.
Last Updated: November 08, 2010
Tom Karako is a visiting professor at Kenyon College, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a senior adviser for Americans for Victory over Terrorism.
Last Updated: September 11, 2012
A decorated retired general credited with helping conceive the Iraq “surge,” Jack Keane has used his military experience to turn a profit in the private sector—most recently as a senior adviser to Academi LLC, the latest incarnation of the notorious Blackwater Worldwide.
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.
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.
Last Updated: July 12, 2006
Penn Kemble, an influential organizer of an array of neoconservative-led causes for more than three decades who refused to join his ideological ilk in their move from the Democratic Party to the...
Last Updated: August 15, 2012
A former congressman and standout NFL quarterback who passed away in May 2009, Kemp has been credited with helping shape the modern Republican Party, pushing it to adopt a plank of rightist social policies as well as an interventionist overseas military agenda.
Last Updated: November 08, 2010
Brian Kennedy is the president of the Claremont Institute and senior adviser to the Bill Bennett-founded Americans for Victory over Terrorism.
Last Updated: February 10, 2011
A fellow at the Hudson Institute, Keyworth’s record includes working as an executive for defense contractors and serving as President Reagan’s science advisor, during which time he advocated for “Star Wars” missile defense.
Last Updated: July 01, 2011
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the Bush presidency, Khalilzad is president of the international consulting firm Khalilzad Associates and an outspoken supporter of aggressive U.S. support for toppling Mideast regimes caught up in the “Arab Spring” as part of an effort to contain Iran.
Last Updated: February 27, 2012
Kirchick argues that a “leftist McCathyism” has emerged in the United States targeting the loyalty of American Jews, thereby adding his voice to that ofjoining other neoconservative writers who have used reckless claims of anti-semitism to sideline legitimate criticism of one-sided U.S. support for Israel.
Last Updated: December 18, 2012
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), one of Congress’s staunchest foreign policy hawks and a proponent of hardline Israeli security policies, has been a leading agitator behind anti-Iran legislation.
Last Updated: December 11, 2006
The first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and an important intellectual leader of the neoconservative political faction, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick passed away on December 7, 2006....
Last Updated: April 03, 2012
An Iranian-American activist and former intern at the American Enterprise Institute, Peter Kohanloo has harshly criticized fellow Iranian Americans who are opposed to regime change in Iran.
Last Updated: April 26, 2012
Neoconservative philanthropist and hedge fund entrepreneur Bruce Kovner is sometimes referred to as Geroge Soros’s right-wing twin.
Last Updated: September 09, 2011
Kramer is a Russia hawk who has served as the executive director of Freedom House, a U.S. government-funded democracy advocacy group that has been closely associated with neoconservative advocacy for decades.
Last Updated: March 06, 2013
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer is a trailblazing neoconservative ideologue and an unapologetic advocate for U.S. overseas adventures.
Last Updated: September 28, 2009
The “godfather” of neoconservatism passed away in mid-September.
Last Updated: January 11, 2013
A longtime neoconservative activist and Washington operative, Bill Kristol has tried to shape national discourse on everything from the Iraq War to the choice of Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan as GOP vice presidential running mates.
Last Updated: May 06, 2008
Charles M. Kupperman, a longtime defense contracting executive, has been associated with a number of influential militarist think tanks and institutions including the Center for Security Policy...
Last Updated: March 13, 2013
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), an advocate of extravagant weapons systems and militarist U.S. foreign policies, retired from the Senate in 2013.
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A State Department official during the Bush administration with a history of working for neoconservative groups, Lagon recently became a visiting professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Last Updated: November 16, 2012
Michael Ledeen, a “Freedom Scholar” at the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has long been obsessed with getting the U.S. to force regime change in Tehran.
Last Updated: December 04, 2012
John F. Lehman heads a private equity firm whose investment interests dovetail with his hawkish political advocacy, which has included supporting several GOP presidential campaigns and the work of numerous neoconservative pressure groups.
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.
Last Updated: June 25, 2009
The former head of AmeriCorps and a long-time philanthropic supporter of neoconservatism, Lenkowksy accuses Obama of pushing policies that will hurt charitable giving...
Last Updated: May 14, 2013
Matthew Levitt is the director of WINEP’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
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Bernard Lewis, the renowned historian of the Middle East who celebrated his 90th birthday in 2006, has provided much of the ideological ammunition for the Bush administration policy of Middle East...
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.
Last Updated: September 08, 2010
Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff who was convicted in connection to the PlameGate affair is now senior vice president of the Hudson Institute.
Last Updated: November 30, 2008
A professor at Georgetown University and member of the Committee on the Present Danger, Lieber is a leading academic apologist for the Bush Doctrine of preemption.
Last Updated: March 12, 2013
Joe Lieberman, the neoconservative Democrat from Connecticut who retired from the Senate in 2013, co-chairs a foreign policy project at the American Enterprise Institute.
Last Updated: November 09, 2010
Seth Leibsohn is a fellow at the Claremont Institute, executive director of Americans for Victory over Terrorism, and producer of Bill Bennett's Morning In America.
Last Updated: March 01, 2011
A research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Lindberg has supported a number of advocacy campaigns spearheaded by neoconservative groups, including the Project for the New American Century and the Foreign Policy Initiative.
Last Updated: June 27, 2011
Robert Livingston is a former congressman from Louisiana who heads the lobbying firm the Livingston Group, and has served as a advisor to the neoconservative Center for Security Policy.
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.
Last Updated: August 22, 2011
Robert J. Loewenberg heads the quixotic Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, the Jerusalem-based right-wing think tank notorious for its more-hawkish-than-Likud take on Middle East peace.
Last Updated: May 09, 2013
Clare Lopez is a former CIA officer and rightwing activist who has argued that the Muslim Brotherhood and a shadowy “Iran Lobby” are working to shape Obama administration policy.
Last Updated: May 08, 2007
A former consultant to the Donald Rumsfeld-led Pentagon, Mario Loyola is a visiting fellow at the neoconservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), an advocacy outlet created in the...
Last Updated: June 09, 2009
A former Bush administration foreign policy operative and veteran of the Pentagon’s controversial Office of Special Plans, Luti is now a VP at defense contractor Northrop Grumman...
Last Updated: April 06, 2010
A fellow at the “pro-Israel” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Makovsky has authored a number of books on Mideast policy, including the 2009 book cowritten with Dennis Ross, Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction in the Middle East.
Last Updated: April 22, 2013
A dual U.S.-Israeli citizen who advocates a "credible" U.S. military threat against Iran, Michael Makovsky is the CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a “pro-Israel” policy group that specializes in encouraging military-to-military ties between the United States and Israel.
Last Updated: April 20, 2012
A contributor to the right-wing WorldNetDaily who touts his off-road driving abilities, F. Michael Maloof is perhaps best known for his alleged role in helping produce faulty intelligence while working at the Pentagon’s notorious Office of Special Plans.
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...
Last Updated: February 14, 2013
Will Marshall, cofounder of the Democratic Leadership Council (and head of the Progressive Policy Institute, has been a leading advocate for a more hawkish and “market-friendly” Democratic Party for decades.
Last Updated: April 11, 2012
President of the neoconservative advocacy group Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former New York Times correspondent, Cliff May has been a persistent advocate of hawkish U.S. policies toward Iran and an Israel-centric view of the Middle East.
Last Updated: May 22, 2008
Barry McCaffrey, a retired general and the top anti-drug official during the Bill Clinton administration, is a prominent military commentator for MSNBC and NBC’s Nightly News whose initial...
Last Updated: May 09, 2013
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is one of the Senate’s leading hawks on foreign policy, having promoted U.S. military intervention throughout the Great Middle East for many years.
Last Updated: April 15, 2012
A neoconservative pundit and former federal prosecutor, McCarthy argues that Islam is inherently radical and thus a threat to the United States.
Last Updated: February 16, 2012
An erstwhile socialist activist who became part of the burgeoning neoconservative community in the 1970s, Bruce McColm is today a leading anti-Iran activist and supporter of the terrorist-designated People’s Muhajedin of Iran (MEK).
Last Updated: December 04, 2012
Thomas McInerney is a retired air force general who complements his military contractor work with hawkish foreign policy advocacy.
Last Updated: December 30, 2007
Daniel McKivergan, former deputy director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), is a policy analyst and writer closely associated with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), for whom he has served as...
Last Updated: June 02, 2010
The Reagan-era Cold Warrior recently re-emerged on the national scene when he cowrote an op-ed for the right-wing Washington Times that called for a return to the principles of “peace through strength” and warned that America’s very existence was in jeopardy because of a dizzying array of purported threats, including insecure borders, Shariah law, and unlawful combatants.
Last Updated: February 23, 2011
Meleagrou-Hitchens, a terrorism scholar based at London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, thinks that even “soft” Islamism can lead to terrorism.
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...
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...
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.
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.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011
Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies is a stronghold of rightist foreign policy scholars.
Last Updated: February 11, 2011
Retired General Thomas Moorman has represented defense industry interests at the same time as he served on government boards promoting weapons programs.
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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.
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.
Last Updated: January 17, 2012
Muravchik, a neoconserviative ideologue based at the School of Advanced International Studies, has longed pushed for a U.S. attack on Iran, including back in 2006, when he argued in Foreign Policy that Bush would have to bomb the country “before leaving office.”
Last Updated: April 04, 2013
Laurent Murawiec was a French-American geostrategist and hawkish pundit who was notorious for his efforts to promote U.S. military action against Saudi Arabia.
Last Updated: August 03, 2011
Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp and a long-time supporter of neoconservative campaigns, has been embroiled in scandal as former executives of his company are alleged to have hacked the voicemail of hundreds of politicians and celebrities, bribed British police, and attempted to illegally obtain the phone records of deceased 9/11 victims.
Last Updated: January 22, 2013
An important proponent of counterinsurgency, John Nagl was president of the Center for a New American Security, an influential inside-the-beltway think tank with close ties to the Obama administration and neoconservatives.
Last Updated: March 31, 2011
Nash is a Fox News analyst, executive for military contractors, and advisor to several rightwing advocacy organizations, including the Center for Security Policy.
Last Updated: March 02, 2012
The taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy has often been accused of profoundly anti-democratic behavior.
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.
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...
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.”
Last Updated: December 04, 2012
Andrew Natsios, a fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, opposed the distribution of AIDS drugs in Africa as the Bush administration’s USAID director.
Last Updated: May 11, 2009
A controversial Reagan-era official who was involved in implementing counter-insurgency policies in Central America, Negroponte served as the first national intelligence director during the George W. Bush administration. Yale announced in January that Negroponte would teach grand strategy at the university...
Last Updated: December 01, 2011
Hillel Neuer has guided UN Watch’s evolution from a “pro-Israel” critic of the United Nations to an outfit closely aligned with U.S. neoconservatives.
Last Updated: January 19, 2009
"Father Richard," as he was called by President George W. Bush and others, was a Catholic priest and the president of the neoconservative-aligned Institute on Religion and Public Life...
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.
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.
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.
Last Updated: March 07, 2011
Noriega, a former Bush administration policymaker now at the American Enterprise Institute, continues to push hardline U.S. security polices and a free market agenda for Latin America.
Last Updated: February 22, 2007
In a February 20, 2007 article for the right-wing National Review Online, Michael Novak, a prominent writer at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and longtime player in the...
Last Updated: May 09, 2013
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.
Last Updated: December 04, 2012
Previously a special assistant to President George W. Bush, Meghan O’Sullivan is a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government who argues that sanctions aren’t aggressive enough to achieve change in the Middle East.
Last Updated: July 25, 2007
The Office of Iranian Affairs (OIA) was created in early 2006 within the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Near East Affairs, apparently as part of an effort to channel funds to groups that could...
Last Updated: April 04, 2011
The Office of Special Plans was a controversial Pentagon policy outfit that was widely accused of providing the George W. Bush administration with inaccurate, skewed intelligence linking Iraq and al-Qaeda in an effort to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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.
Last Updated: April 18, 2012
A Brussels-based neoconservative writer and senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Ottolenghi thinks that the United States must force “regime change” in Iran.
Last Updated: November 10, 2010
A former diplomat and longstanding democracy promoter who has supported the work of several neoconservative advocacy groups, Palmer has been a vociferous critic of the Obama administration’s track record in supporting internet freedom in China and Iran.
Last Updated: March 03, 2012
The head of the National Institute for Public Policy, Keith Payne is an outspoken advocate of militarist U.S. strategic weapons policies.
Last Updated: May 29, 2012
A former Air Force pilot and Vietnam veteran, Rep. Steve Pearce has been a reliable vote for war funding and increased defense spending.
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.
Last Updated: May 06, 2013
Dubbed the “Prince of Darkness” because of his advocacy of extremely militaristic foreign policies while working in the Reagan Pentagon, Richard Perle is widely considered a core representative of the neoconservative political faction.
Last Updated: January 20, 2012
Rick Perry, George W. Bush’s successor as Texas governor who unsuccessfully campaigned for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has argued that his support for Israel is based on his Christian faith and pushed for U.S. military intervention in Mexico.
Last Updated: December 11, 2012
A self-styled terrorism “expert” who claims that the killing of Osama bin Laden strengthened Al Qaeda, former right-wing Lebanese militia member Walid Phares wildly claims that the Obama administration gave the Muslim Brotherhood “the green light” to sideline secular Egyptians.
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.
Last Updated: May 09, 2013
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.
Last Updated: September 04, 2007
Richard Pipes, a historian of Russia and Communism at Harvard University, was a key anti-Soviet crusader in the 1970s and 1980s. He served as a consultant to Washington State Democratic Sen. Henry...
Last Updated: January 14, 2013
The track record of Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, includes pressing the Iraq “surge,” arguing against U.S. engagement with Iran, and charging former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) with “anti-Semitism” for criticizing the influence of the Israel lobby.
Last Updated: October 29, 2007
John Podhoretz, the son of Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter, is a second-generation neoconservative. Like his father and mother, "JPod," as he is sometimes called, has been a vociferous...
Last Updated: February 27, 2008
Norman Podhoretz has been a leading writer and ideologue of the neoconservative political faction since the group began to emerge in the late 1960s. Along with Irving Kristol, Podhoretz is widely...
Last Updated: March 15, 2012
An apparent rising star In the neoconservative firmament, Emergency Committee for Israel spokesman Noah Pollak wants “a pro-Israel group representing every pro-Israel person on earth.”
Last Updated: June 20, 2007
Dennis Prager is a conservative radio talk show host, a syndicated columnist with the Creators Syndicate, and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the Weekly Standard, among...
Last Updated: March 25, 2013
Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince is notorious for his efforts to expand the use of private military contractors in conflict zones.
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.
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.
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.
Last Updated: December 05, 2012
Los Angeles-based lawyer Pierre Prosper, a foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential bid, served as Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes in the U.S. State Department during the early years of the “war on terror,” where he proved to be feckless in pursuing investigations into alleged war crimes of U.S. allies.
Last Updated: August 06, 2012
Was Mitt Romney’s overseas misadventure his “potatoe” moment? Former VP Quayle’s most enduring legacy, besides having had William Kristol as his “brain,” is his record of verbal gaffes, against which numerous successive political figures have been compared.
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.
Last Updated: July 20, 2008
Touting itself as the “the nation’s leading conservative publisher,” 1 Regnery Publishing was founded by Henry Regnery in 1947 in Chicago. Initially affiliated with the University...
Last Updated: June 17, 2009
The controversial Iran-Contra veteran who served as an assistant secretary of state under George W. Bush remains a divisive figure in U.S.-Latin American relations...
Last Updated: December 04, 2012
Former diplomat Mitchell Reiss has been an advocate for both negotiating with the Taliban and delisting the MEK.
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.
Last Updated: April 03, 2013
Harold Rhode is a retired Defense Department adviser based at the Gatestone Institute in New York, an advocacy group known for its promotion of anti-Islamic rhetoric and ideas.
Last Updated: February 19, 2013
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, thinks that Mitt Romney will be a better hawk than President Obama.
Last Updated: August 01, 2009
James Roche, a Navy veteran and former secretary of the Air Force, is a defense industry executive and long time supporter of a number of hardline Israel-centric policy groups, including the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Center for Security Policy.
Last Updated: August 24, 2008
Peter Rodman, who passed away August 2, 2008, was an assistant secretary of defense for international security under Donald Rumsfeld in the George W. Bush administration; he joined the Brookings...
Last Updated: November 08, 2012
Although sometimes characterized as a moderate, business-oriented political figure, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney embraced a hawkish foreign policy during his 2012 presidential campaign.
Last Updated: March 12, 2011
Supported in part by rightwing donors from the “Israel Lobby,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) has used her perch as chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to push hawkish policies in the Middle East and Latin America.
Last Updated: January 06, 2012
Now based at the right-wing Middle East Forum, Rosen is a former pioneering AIPAC lobbyist who was indicted for passing Pentagon secrets to the Israeli government.
Last Updated: January 26, 2012
Since stepping down from his NSC post and returning to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Ross has written on a number of issues close to his heart, like getting tough on Iran.
Last Updated: January 15, 2013
GOP strategist and super-PAC head Karl Rove is renowned for being ruthless in trying to win elections.
Last Updated: March 11, 2011
George Bush Senior’s assistant secretary of defense, Rowen is a fellow emeritus at the Hoover Institution, where he focuses on U.S and Asian security and development issues.
Last Updated: November 12, 2012
Jennifer Rubin is a blogger at the Washington Post who is notorious for her anti-liberal invective and “pro-Israel” advocacy.
Last Updated: December 31, 2012
Michael Rubin, a veteran of the Bush-era Office of Special Plans, has relentlessly criticized the Obama administration for attempting to engage Iran and condemned the rise of democratically elected Islamist parties in the Middle East.
Last Updated: November 01, 2007
The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, commonly called the Rumsfeld Commission or the Rumsfeld Missile Commission after its chair Donald Rumsfeld, operated from...
Last Updated: November 01, 2007
The Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, frequently called the Rumsfeld Space Commission or simply the Space Commission, was established in 1999 by...
Last Updated: March 09, 2012
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has kept a low profile since leaving office in the midst of the unpopular Iraq War, but he has periodically reemerged to champion torture, defense appropriations, and an expansive war on terror.
Last Updated: November 08, 2012
Although better known for his austere budget proposals and extreme anti-abortion views, Rep. Paul Ryan, the 2012 Republican VP candidate, also thinks that America is under attack by “Islamic fascists” and advocates aggressive U.S. military intervention abroad.
Last Updated: April 16, 2012
Rick Santorum, a former GOP presidential candidate and senator from Pennsylvania, has championed starkly right-wing social programs as well as a militarist overseas agenda.
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...
Last Updated: January 15, 2013
A well-connected lobbyist and political insider who advised the McCain-Palin campaign, Scheunemann’s clients have also included Tea Party politicos, defense contractors, and George Soros’ Open Society Institute.
Last Updated: February 05, 2011
The former defense secretary thinks that the United States should consider extending its “nuclear umbrella” to the Middle East in order to keep other countries in the region from going nuclear in the event Iran develops the bomb.
Last Updated: January 18, 2007
A resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and author of numerous texts on intelligence reform and national security, Gary Schmitt helped found and direct the Project for the New...
Last Updated: September 19, 2007
Bill Schneider is a well-known media personality based at CNN; he has been described as "one of the country's leading political commentators" (by his employer, CNN), "the...
Last Updated: March 07, 2007
William Schneider Jr., a longtime proponent of controversial weapons programs and hardline advocacy groups like the Center for Security Policy (CSP), has worked as a defense adviser to the George W....
Last Updated: May 06, 2011
Nick Schulz is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute, where he serves as editor of AEI’s in-house magazine The American.
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.
Last Updated: November 13, 2009
Criticized for offering trainings to law enforcement agencies that promote prejudicial profiling of Muslims, SSI hypes the threat of “radical Islam” to market its anti-terror products in the United States and Israel.
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.
Last Updated: December 13, 2012
Dan Senor is an investment banker, neoconservative pundit, and GOP foreign policy adviser who cofounded the Foreign Policy Initiative and served as spokesperson for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
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Ilan Sharon, executive director of Minnesotans Against Terrorism and a member of the advisory board of the Clarion Fund, frequently lectures on the rise of radical Islam.
Last Updated: March 07, 2007
Nina Shea, a longtime supporter of interventionist U.S. policies dating back to the Contra wars in Nicaragua, is vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF). CIRF is a...
Last Updated: January 06, 2011
A well regarded expert on military history who is not typically associated with rightist political causes, Dennis Showalter has advised the neoconservative-led Institute for the Study of War and Center for Security Policy.
Last Updated: July 01, 2010
A former Pentagon advisor and well known Leo Strauss scholar, Shulsky uses his perch at the neocon Hudson Institute to criticize Obama's arms control efforts.
Last Updated: April 18, 2007
Laurence Silberman is a senior U.S. circuit court judge in the District of Columbia, regarded as one of the most important courts in the country, second only to the Supreme Court. He is also a...
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...
Last Updated: April 25, 2012
Lee Smith, a writer at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is perhaps best known for accusing critics of hardline Israeli policies—and U.S. support for them—of being “Jew-baiters.”
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.
Last Updated: October 09, 2009
This longtime foreign policy hardliner is one of a chorus of rightist voices criticizing the recent agreement between Iran and the U.N. Security Council’s five permanent members (plus Germany) regarding its nuclear program...
Last Updated: April 26, 2012
One of the leading purveyors of anti-Islamic rhetoric in the United States, Robert Spencer has been at the forefront of theatrical efforts to ban sharia law from U.S. courtrooms.
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.
Last Updated: April 30, 2012
American economist and Rupert Murdoch confidant Irwin Stelzer has a history of neoconservative activism on both sides of the pond.
Last Updated: January 25, 2013
Wall Street Journal “Global View” columnist Bret Stephens has long trumpeted a right-wing line on the Middle East and Israel.
Last Updated: February 20, 2011
Sarah Stern is the founder and president Endowment for Middle East Truth and an adviser to the Clarion Fund.
Last Updated: September 04, 2012
Iranian-born writer Amir Taheri has a history of making suspicious claims about Iran that have been used by neoconservatives to bolster the case for attacking that country.
Last Updated: December 03, 2012
Former Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO), a stalwart advocate of Pentagon spending now based at the right-wing Heritage Foundation, says he would have voted for the Iraq War even if he had known the Bush administration’s claims about WMDs were false.
Last Updated: October 05, 2011
Tom Tancredo, the former House Republican notorious for his anti-immigrant activism, has become a leading promoter of Islamophobic rhetoric in the United States.
Last Updated: May 27, 2010
Tanter, founder of the hawkish Iran Policy Committee, recently revived his arguments for why the U.S. should support the People's Mujahedin Organization (MEK), an Iranian opposition group classified as a terrorist organization by the State Department.
Last Updated: November 01, 2007
Arguably the most notorious attempt by right-wing figures to challenge the authority of the CIA ("Team A") over intelligence—similar to the effort by the Pentagon's Office of...
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.
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.”
Last Updated: September 27, 2012
Marc Thiessen, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, is a Washington Post columnist and American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow known for his defense of hawkish U.S. security policies, including “enhanced interrogation techniques."
Last Updated: January 25, 2012
Failed 2008 presidential candidate and Iraq war booster Fred Thompson has become one of the latest GOP notables to endorse Newt Gingrich for president in 2012.
Last Updated: November 13, 2012
Tommy Thompson, a former governor of Wisconsin who served as secretary of Health and Human Services during the George W. Bush administration, was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate during the 2012 elections.
Last Updated: January 26, 2012
Conservative author and sometime congressional candidate Kenneth Timmerman has a long history of pushing regime change in Iran and, more recently, a “clash of civilizations” narrative between Christendom and the Muslim Middle East.
Last Updated: January 08, 2013
John Tkacik is a former State Department China officer who has partnered with leading neoconservatives to advocate robust U.S. support for Taiwan.
Last Updated: February 12, 2013
Israeli settlement advocate Alex Traiman is best known as the director of Iranium, an anti-Iran film widely ridiculed for its hearsay and Islamophobia.
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.
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.”
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.
Last Updated: November 29, 2006
Congress established the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, or U.S.-China Commission as it is commonly known, in October 2000, as part of the 2001 Defense Authorization...
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.
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.
Last Updated: May 12, 2008
Retired Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely is a former military analyst for Fox News and is the host of the conservative radio show, “Stand Up America.”1 Vallely, who serves on the boards of a...
Last Updated: March 31, 2011
Van Cleave is a former Pentagon official who has been closely associated with hawkish advocacy campaigns for decades, including efforts to derail the Obama administration’s passage of a new START Treaty with Russia.
Last Updated: August 03, 2010
A long-time China hawk, Arthur Waldron claims that the United States must be willing to rollback Chinese influence in Asia or be prepared to sacrifice allies and its reputation.
Last Updated: October 25, 2010
Waller, a neoconservative academic at the Institute of World Politics, uses his blogs to hype purported threats about sharia law and to promote the argument that the United States should “snatch” the founder of WikiLeaks and pursue espionage charges against him.
Last Updated: April 16, 2011
Retired Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-WY) is an old-school Cold Warrior who continues to promote rightwing defense and foreign policy initiatives as chair of Frontiers of Freedom.
Last Updated: February 07, 2011
The former U.S. “Drug Czar,” John Walters continues to worry about “narcoterrorism” from his perch as an executive at the Hudson Institute.
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.
Last Updated: March 15, 2013
The Washington Free Beacon is a news site published by the right-wing Center for American Freedom.
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.
Last Updated: August 01, 2007
Ben Wattenberg, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and moderator of PBS's Think Tank, was a member of a core group of Democratic Party hawks who, in the 1970s, shifted to the...
Last Updated: December 05, 2012
Former Rep. Vin Weber (R-MN), a policy adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, has supported a number of pro-war advocacy campaigns over the years, including those spearheaded by the Project for the New American Century.
Last Updated: July 25, 2007
Ruth Wedgwood is an international law expert specializing in human rights who is based at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is a former member of ex-Pentagon...
Last Updated: April 22, 2013
The Weekly Standard is the flagship journal of neoconservative opinion and activism.
Last Updated: September 27, 2011
A former adviser to President George W. Bush, Wehner has used his perch at the neoconservative Ethics and Public Policy Center to promote militarist U.S. foreign policies and a conservative Christian domestic agenda.
Last Updated: February 27, 2008
Called by some critics a “Catholic neocon” or a “theocon,” George Weigel is a Catholic theologian based at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and a...
Last Updated: October 11, 2011
Since losing his bid for reelection while under investigation for his ties to an arms contractor, former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) has been able to lobby more openly for defense industry interests, including in Libya.
Last Updated: January 12, 2009
Paul Weyrich, a key strategist of the New Right, passed away on December 18, 2008. He was 66 years old. Sometimes referred to as a “pillar of the modern conservative movement,”...
Last Updated: January 08, 2013
Thomas White is a former Enron executive whose tenure as Secretary of the Army was marked by investigations into his corporate ties and high-profile clashes with Donald Rumsfeld over Iraq planning.
Last Updated: March 22, 2012
Leon Wieseltier, the hawkish literary editor of the New Republic and a harsh critic of Obama administration’s Middle East policy, has pushed for U.S. military intervention in Syria.
Last Updated: August 27, 2012
Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders’ fierce anti-Islamic activism has made him a favorite of the American right.
Last Updated: August 29, 2007
Described as Donald Rumsfeld's "right-hand man" in the early years of the George W. Bush administration by the Weekly Standard's William Kristol and Robert Kagan (Weekly Standard,...
Last Updated: December 05, 2012
Richard Williamson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was one of the Romney campaign’s more aggressive surrogates on foreign policy, claiming that Romney would put military force on “on the table” to prevent an Iranian “nuclear breakout.”
Last Updated: January 08, 2013
Heather Wilson is a former congresswoman from New Mexico who backed the Bush administration’s efforts in Iraq, helped influence U.S. nuclear weapons policy, and enjoyed the support of defense contractors.
Last Updated: April 14, 2008
Pete Wilson, the former governor of California and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, has been an important Republican Party figure for more than three decades, having also served as a U.S....
Last Updated: January 14, 2013
Marshall Wittmann, spokesperson for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is a political operative in Washington, D.C. who has long been associated with militarist and “pro-Israel” factions connected to both the Republican and Democratic Parties.
Last Updated: March 19, 2013
Having landed at the American Enterprise Institute after a tumultuous tenure as the head of the World Bank, Iraq war architect Paul Wolfowitz has criticized the Obama administration’s record on Iran, urged more active U.S. involvement in Syria’s civil war, and praised the U.S. intervention in Libya.
Last Updated: November 14, 2012
Woolsey, a former CIA director who has characterized the “war on terror” as the “Long War,” is chairman of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and chair of Woolsey Partners LLC.
Last Updated: March 23, 2012
A “pro-Israel” hawk and former Dick Cheney adviser who once championed taking the “war on terror” to Latin America, David Wurmser now promotes Israeli natural gas interests and supports a strike on Iran.
Last Updated: March 21, 2012
Longtime neoconservative activist Meyrav Wurmser has spoken out against a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East and worked with organizations that have contributed to the spread of Islamophobia in the United States and abroad.
Last Updated: August 23, 2011
David Yerushalmi, a hardline anti-Muslim activist and the founder of the Society of Americans for National Existence, has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “Jewish fascist.”
Last Updated: March 20, 2013
John Yoo is a former deputy assistant attorney general known for his extreme views on executive wartime powers and for helping author the George W. Bush administration's infamous “torture memos.”
Last Updated: December 05, 2012
Dov Zakheim is a retired defense contractor executive and Pentagon official whose views on foreign policy appear to veer between hardnosed realism and neoconservatism.
Last Updated: March 20, 2013
Karl Zinsmeister, head of President George W. Bush's Domestic Policy Council, has worked at the American Enterprise Institute and the Philanthropy Roundtable.
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.
Last Updated: September 13, 2012
A former World Bank president, George W. Bush administration trade representative, and supporter of the Project for the New American Century, Zoellick is now a senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center.
Matthew Levitt is the director of WINEP’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
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.
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.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is one of the Senate’s leading hawks on foreign policy, having promoted U.S. military intervention throughout the Great Middle East for many years.
Clare Lopez is a former CIA officer and rightwing activist who has argued that the Muslim Brotherhood and a shadowy “Iran Lobby” are working to shape Obama administration policy.
May 20 2013
May, 08 2013
Ten years after right-wing and liberal hawks came together to push the U.S. into invading Iraq, key members of the two groups appear to be reuniting behind stronger U.S. military intervention in Syria.
May, 07 2013
A group of former European leaders is urging the EU to sidestep the stalled U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace process and take a strong stance against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.
May, 04 2013
The Assad regime's alleged use of chemical weapons has led to calls for increased U.S. assistance to rebels, but lingering doubts in Washington about intervention means assistance will likely remain limited.
May, 01 2013
Although Israel has thus far appeared reluctant to intervene in Syria's civil war, some analysts believe that increased Hezbollah activity in the Syrian conflict could eventually draw the Israelis in.
April, 30 2013
John Kerry and the Obama administration have placed renewed attention on the Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but some analysts think their efforts are too little and too late .
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