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No Go for NGOs

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

The American Enterprise Institute has launched a new web site, NGOWatch.org, as part of its campaign against nongovernmental organizations, which it says "are unregulated, spared any requirement to account for expenditures, to disclose activities or sources of funding or even to declare their officers." Rather ironic isn't it, that a these sorts of complaints would come from a libertarian think tank that is itself a nongovernmental organization and that does not publicly disclose its own i

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Main Source: 
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=NGOWatch.org
Topics: 
Activism
Right Wing
Think Tanks

Bill Kristol Is Going To Get His War

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Five years ago ... The
Weekly Standard made the broad, seemingly preposterous
assertion that America was entitled and even compelled to
engineer regime change in Iraq. But under the current
administration, driven by 9/11, that contention has become
conventional wisdom. ... 'I am impressed by their success,' said Senator John

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Main Source: 
New York Times, March 11, 2003
Topics: 
Iraq
Think Tanks

His Own Best Student

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

For three years, John R. Lott Jr., the controversial American Enterprise Institute scholar and author of "More Guns, Less Crime," has used the pseudonym of "Mary Rosh" to post defenses of himself on the Internet. "Rosh" described Lott as a meticulous, non-ideological researcher, and even claimed to be one of his former students. "I have to say that he was the best professor I ever had," Rosh gushed in one Internet posting.

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Main Source: 
Washington Post, February 1, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Ethics
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Corporate-Friendly Researchers Fabricated Data

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

A series of influential studies purporting to show that federal regulation is broadly irrational are based on data that is highly misleading and frequently manufactured to fit a preconceived point of view, according to an investigation by Richard Parker, a law professor at the University of Connecticut.

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Main Source: 
OMB Watcher, October 28, 2002
Topics: 
Corporations
Ethics
Think Tanks

Right-Wing Washington PR Team Retires

Submitted by Laura Miller on

"This month marks the end of one of the most successful and respected conservative PR teams in Washington, as Herb Berkowitz and Hugh Newton retire from the Heritage Foundation," PR Week writes. "Heritage, a conservative think tank founded 25 years ago, became one of the foremost purveyors of right-wing public policy in Washington with Berkowitz and Newton at the PR helm. The two are credited with helping win credibility for conservative ideals among often-hostile liberal journalists in Washington."

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Main Source: 
PR Week, October 21, 2002
Topics: 
Right Wing
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Bashing The Traitorous, Peacenik News Media

Submitted by John Stauber on

Does it seem that the corporate news media is filled with traitorous peaceniks who are coddling Saddam, bashing Bush, and opposing a first-strike attack on Iraq? No? Well, maybe you just aren't paying attention like target="_blank"> Brent Bozell III and his Media Research Center. The Center sends

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Main Source: 
http://www.mediaresearch.org/
Topics: 
Right Wing
Media
Think Tanks
War / Peace

Privatization, Before and After

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

Thanks to the internet archives, we can see what the Cato Institute's "Project on Social Security Privatization" looked like last year and compare that with its new look, now that the stock market crash has reminded the public about the reality of privatization. In the Orwellian new version, all references to "privatization" have been airbrushed out of history and replaced with the word "choice."

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Topics: 
Right Wing
Issue Management
Rhetoric
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Bush's "Blueprint for US Global Domination"

Submitted by John Stauber on

"A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001. The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff).

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Main Source: 
Sunday Herald (UK), September 15, 2002
Topics: 
Think Tanks
U.S. Government
War / Peace

US Think Tanks Make Foreign Policy

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

Brian Whitaker profiles the "cosy and cleverly-constructed network of Middle East 'experts'" who "pop up as talking heads on US television, in newspapers, books, testimonies to congressional committees, and at lunchtime gatherings in Washington." Players include the American Enterprise Institute, the Washington Institute and the Middle East Forum.

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Main Source: 
The Guardian (UK), August 19, 2002
Topics: 
Think Tanks
U.S. Government
War / Peace

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