Your Infoshop.org guide to the American right wing, including some of the nuttier segments of that tendency. The American Right has a tendency to overestimate their numbers and support. The great majority of Americans do not support right wing views or their agenda, yet why does this dwindling tendency continue to be such loudmouths?
Hitchens
as Model Apostate
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
I'm occasionally asked whether I still consider myself a Marxist. Even if my "faith" had lapsed, I wouldn't advertise it, not from shame at having been wrong (although admittedly this would be a factor) but rather from fear of arousing even a faint suspicion of opportunism. To borrow from the lingo of a former academic fad, if, in public life, the "signifier" is "I'm no longer a Marxist," then the "signified" usually is, "I'm selling out." No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions. One might also decide that youthful ideals, especially when the responsibilities of family kick in and the prospects for radical change dim while the certainty of one's finitude sharpens, are too heavy a burden to bear; although it might be hoped that this accommodation, however understandable (if disappointing), were accomplished with candor and an appropriate degree of humility rather than, what's usually the case, scorn for those who keep plugging away. It is when the phenomenon of political apostasy is accompanied by fanfare and fireworks that it becomes truly repellent.
Neo-Cons
Have Hijacked US Foreign Policy
Robert Kuttner
THE COUNCIL on Foreign Relations is the epicenter of the American Establishment. Its top three officers are Republicans -- Peter G. Peterson (chair), the former commerce secretary under Nixon, leading investment banker, and opponent of social outlay who must chair half the boards in America; Carla Hills (vice-chair), a corporate power-lawyer who was US trade ambassador for Bush I; and Richard Haass (president), who recently stepped down as one of President Bush's sub-Cabinet appointees at the State Department. The council is best known for its journal, Foreign Affairs, ordinarily a fairly cautious and moderate publication. So it was startling to pick up the September-October issue and read article after article expressing well-documented alarm at the hijacking of American foreign policy. This is not how the council ordinarily speaks.
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Right Wing Think Tanks
- American Enterprise Institute
- The Brookings Institution
- Cato Institute
- The Center for Strategic & International Studies
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- The Manhattan Institute
Did you know?
The Washington Times, a small circulation daily newspaper
in Washington, DC, is run by the Unification Church.
Right Wing Journals
- American Spectator
- Commentary
- National Review
- Weekly Standard
Right Wing News Sites
- CNSnews.com
- Opinion Editorials
The Pro-Israel Lobby
- Anti-Defamation League
- AIPAC - America Israel Public Affairs Committee
- Hillel
- Honestreporting.com
- IsraelActivism.com
- Israel on Campus Coalition
- JCPA - Jewish Council for Public Affairs
- Stand With Us
- Stop Inciting Children to Kill
Whacked Out Nuts
- Accuracy in Media
- Free Republic
- FrontPage Magazine
- Overthrow.com
Astroturf Groups
Astroturf groups are fake grassroots groups set up by corporations and the conservative movement. Most of them exist to generate press for conservative ideas in the media. Others are set up to sway public opinion to the set of "facts" presented by the organization. For example, an astroturf science organization might promote the idea that global warming isn't happening (The scientific community has consensed that global warming is a reality), thus serving the agenda of capitalist companies which seek to avoid any controls on their environmentally hostile products.
- The American Council on Science & Health
- The Center for Free Market Environmentalism
- Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow
- ConsumerFreedom.com
- Heartland Institute
- The Science & Environmental Policy Project
Campus Groups
- Campus Watch
- Students for Academic Freedom
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