#think-tanks

[warlikeparakeet2]

Marine Corps ‘strong,’ but rest of military has weakened, report finds

The Heritage Foundation's study said the Marine Corps was strong, while the Air Force has weakened.

[antiwaradvocates]

Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China

Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks staffed with many of the same experts and funded by money from Taiwan is working hard to convince Americans that there is a new existential threat: China.

Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks staffed with many of the same experts and funded by Taiwanese money is working hard to convince Americans that there is a new existential threat: China.

[sataniccapitalist]

Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China

Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks staffed with many of the same experts and funded by money from Taiwan is working hard to convince Americans that there is a new existential threat: China.

[brasilsa]

“Think Tanks” formam novos e velhos políticos e ditam políticas públicas no Brasil | Revista Fórum

“O capital cria parcerias formais e informais fora das estruturas partidárias para depois ocupá-las junto com o Estado a partir de seus candidatos eleitos, seja qualquer o espectro de atuação política”, diz o jornalista André Lobão

[jongeorgiev]

Selective transparency

Institute for Market Economics (IME), a Sofia-based think-tank, prides itself on being a champion of transparency in public finance but apparently deems it unnecessary to publish detailed financial information on the project-specific funding that accounts for the majority of its revenue.

[homelessly]

Think-Tanks, Businessmen, and Politics

Policy think tanks are basically the intellectual interface between the business elite and politicians. They do the analysis, draft the strategies, and come up with the rationales for government policies that serve the interests of their sponsors. 

Obviously politicians have a lot of more pressing things to do.

So, when you see a policy being implemented, try to find out which think tank(s) articulated it. Then see who funds that think tank, and you'll be able to identify pretty accurately who is benefiting, or who is intended to benefit from that policy. Funding will generally be split between foundations, corporations and individuals.

Take Syria. The US policy of destabilizing the country by playing both sides against the middle, creating a humanitarian crisis, "bleeding" Syria, etc, is pretty much following the policy proposals of the Brookings Institution (among others). 

Well, the main foundational funding for Brookings comes from the Brown Foundation...that's Brown, as in Brown and Kellogg, as in Haliburton. (read: infrastructure reconstruction).

The main individual contributor to Brookings is Haim Saban, an Israeli, extreme Zionist billionaire. (read: Israeli expansion through the balkanization of its neighbors)

The biggest corporations funding Brookings include all the major oil and gas multinationals; weapons, construction, and big pharma companies. (read: complete take over of every single sector of the obliterated economy).