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ORIGINAL RESEARCH | pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Bill Berkowitz
July 30, 2004 FreedomWorks Challenges Progressive OrganizationsCitizens for a Sound Economy merges with Empower America to form new organizationWill the newly established conservative organization, stocked with old-line right wing warriors, impact Election 2004? Will it be just another right wing group with fancy Washington, D.C. digs and handsomely designed stationary or will it challenge MoveOn.org and other liberal grassroots organizations that have mobilized progressive activists over the past two years? Will it recruit conservative activists in the battleground states or is it another high-profile venture for tired right wind culture warriors?
Jerry Landay
June 22, 2004 Simon SaidThe Neocon Hothouse that William Simon Built
Jerry Landay
March 17, 2004 The ApparatGeorge W. Bush's back-door political machine
On a Tuesday evening in mid-January, a right-wing Washington writer-for-hire named Clark Judge appeared on public radio's Marketplace. In a commentary heard by an estimated five million people, Judge complained that the philanthropist George Soros was engaged in an "unethical" effort to outwit legal restrictions on campaign contributions.
Bill Berkowitz
February 26, 2004 Venezuela at the CrossroadsThe National Endowment for Democracy channeling money to outfit organizing recall campaign against Venezuela's president
Now, on the cusp of a possible recall election, President Chavez says he has evidence proving that U.S. officials "met with rebel military officers [and] U.S. military officers acted in the coup." Chavez also pointed out that "the U.S. ambassador was at the Presidential Palace after the coup to applaud the dictator [Pedro Carmona]. The government of the United States must answer before the world about the deaths that occurred here in April of 2002."
Bill Berkowitz
December 14, 2003 Corporate captivesThe Acton Institute attacks Health Care Without Harm and environmentally conscious religious activistsHealth Care Without Harm is a Washington, DC-based environmental group that has taken more than its share of heat from the chemical industry over its campaigns against the use of mercury in medical equipment, the incineration of highly toxic medical waste and the use of pesticides, cleaners and disinfectants.
Dave Johnson
November 18, 2003 Lowering the BarThe conservative movement's well-funded attacks on trial lawyers
Bill Berkowitz
July 24, 2003 Faith-based drug warsBush recruits religious youth groups as ground troops for the 'drug wars'What does advocating "religious hiring rights," a $4 billion workplace retraining bill, and the war on drugs have in common? The short answer: Bring on the faith-based organizations! Although 30 months have passed since President Bush announced the centerpiece of his domestic agenda - his faith-based initiative - and no significant broader efforts to fund his initiative has emerged from Congress, the administration continues to move ahead on a number of fronts.
Rob Levine
June 23, 2003 The PBS Home Team
Today, a place called a Think tank is more likely to be an advocacy organization, many times closely aligned with one political party or another, or even a faction of a political party. Such is also the case with the PBS television series named Think Tank, hosted by Ben Wattenberg, the avuncular Washington insider who calls himself the show's "immoderator" for his proclivity to takes sides in each episode's debate. Think Tank, like its namesakes, appears to be aligned with a political party, and with promoting its own funders, as well.
Jerry Landay
August 19, 2002 The Powell ManifestoHow A Prominent Lawyer's Attack Memo Changed America
Jerry Landay
June 25, 2002 A Brass-Balled Warrior's Flight From the RightConservatives who run the Republican Party often pay perverse honor to detested liberal adversaries by copying Blinded by the Right them, a certain sign of intellectual impoverishment. GOP presidential aspirants love to quote Democratic Presidents at the drop of a panegyric – Truman, Kennedy, FDR (why not Calvin Coolidge?). They distort liberal words and meanings to strangle the social gains of Roosevelt’s New Deal and the “deals” that followed.
Bryan G. Pfeifer
January 12, 2002 Wisconsin FailsWisconsin Works doesn't workReport confirms failure of Wisconsin welfare reform known as W-2 MILWAUKEE, WI -- A report issued Dec. 23,2001 has confirmed what many critics of Wisconsin's welfare reform program known as Wisconsin Works (W-2) have long charged: that although carefully concealed by politicians, big business and the corporate media, W-2 has led to a catastrophic social crisis not seen in Milwaukee in decades. On a daily basis the poor in Milwaukee, including thousands of children, face packed emergency shelters in the midst of a Wisconsin winter, bare food pantry shelves, and emergency rooms for lack of health insurance as a direct result of the failure of W-2, concludes the report Passing the Buck: W-2 and Emergency Services in Milwaukee County.
Jerry Landay
May 31, 2001 Failing the "Perception Test"PBS routinely ignores its own rules in allowing conservative/Republican propagandists surreptitious, unacknowledged access to its networkTHERE'S A SYSTEM FAILURE AT PBS. The network routinely ignores its own underwriting guidelines, distributing programs marked by singularly close ties among conservative funders, producers, interview participants and political content. In the deal, conservative foundations gain access to the public air to showcase their own beneficiaries, push narrow ideological agendas, influence public opinion and move public policy to the right. They get help from CPB and PBS, which have co-funded partisan conservative offerings. Corporately funded fare is welcome, but bids for public-affairs airtime by independent producers and advocates perceived as too "liberal" are not. The NPR political commentary roster also has reflected substantial editorial influence by the organized right.
Rob Levine
March 11, 2001 How The Conservative Philanthropies, C. Boyden Gray, and the Law and Economics Movement Nearly Sank the Federal Regulatory State(Using tax-exempt funds)"E.P.A.'s Authority on Air Rules Wins Supreme Court's Backing" announced the headline in the New York Times on February 28, 2001, a day after the court unanimously overturned a 1999 appeals court ruling that had thrown out Environmental Protection Agency air quality rules on the grounds that Congress had unconstitutionally delegated regulatory authority to its environment agency. Although very few people had heard of the case of American Trucking, it had nonetheless been a legal tsunami waiting to crash against federal agencies regulating everything from worker safety, to broadcasting, to food and drug safety.
Phil Wilayto
March 10, 2001 Milwaukee GenesisWhere George W. Bush's "Faith-Based" initiative really comes fromJust nine days after being sworn in as president, George W. Bush announced the establishment of a new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which opened for business on February 20, 2001. The stated goal of the new office is to help religious groups receive government funds and contracts to deliver social services, especially to the very poor.
Dennis Redovich
January 20, 2001 Nobel Prizes Show U.S. Science Education Is World’s BestDisputes conservatives' contention about the quality of US Public EducationAccording to an analysis of Nobel prizes awarded in science over the past century, the United States leads the world in technology and in the quality of its scientists. Paradoxically, the general news media, and the experts it chooses to quote, frequently state the following two seemingly mutually exclusive ideas about the US educational system.
December 31, 2000
The Conservative Movement Moves InTracking the migration of sponsored conservatives into the George W. Bush administration.Since the selection of Republican George W. Bush as president by the US Supreme Court, the people of the sponsored conservative movement, holed up in think tanks, universities, and sponsored media institutions across the country have appeared like Jackals at a fresh kill to pounce on our bloodied democracy and are now populating the new administration. Media Transparency is seeking to document this transition from privately sponsored, tax-exempt, government-in-waiting to actual government.
Phil Wilayto
December 31, 2000 Anti-Woman, Pro-Confederacy Racist Nominated for Attorney GeneralIt would be hard to find a more reactionary nominee for the position of U.S. Attorney General than John AshcroftThe 58-year old Republican senator from Missouri and former two-term governor of that state is well known for his extremist views on abortion and the death penalty. He is also an outspoken defender of the Confederacy who has used his political power to block appointments of Black judges and defeat civil rights legislation.
Phil Wilayto
December 31, 2000 Tommy Thompson Prepares to Bring "Wisconsin Model" to WashingtonWhile John Ashcroft may be the most outrageously right-wing of Bush's Cabinet nominations, his choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services may well have a larger impact on the lives of poor and working people, especially in the areas of welfare, reproductive rights and health care in general. "More than any other state, Thompson's Wisconsin fundamentally changed the way government aids its poorest citizens - writing and strictly enforcing rules that make it tough to qualify for and keep welfare...," according to a Dec. 20 Associated Press article. "If confirmed, he would lead one of the biggest government bureaucracies, a department that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies that see to the needs of the old, the sick and the poor."
Phil Wilayto
October 3, 2000 Wisconsin's Exploding Prison Population: The Bradley ConnectionMILWAUKEE Wisconsin, which has emerged as a national leader in the areas of reactionary welfare and education "reform," can now claim a new area for innovative social policy: incarceration.In the last five years, the number of people being held in the Wisconsin state prison system has doubled, from 10,551 to 20,555. 1 Last year, the increase was the highest of any state in the country. These figures came out before "Truth in Sentencing" laws (elimination of parole) were enacted, and don't include the thousands of prisoners in local jails.
Rob Levine
August 8, 2000 Is the Center of the American Experiment for Republicans Only?What some call a tax-exempt think tank others call a partisan research armWhen Kenneth Starr took the podium at Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis on November 11, 1999, he was the perfect symbol of his sponsor, the conservative Center of the American Experiment (CAE), a 10-year-old, tax-exempt think tank run by longtime Republican Mitch Pearlstein.
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