Corporate and Government Front Groups

A front group is a group that attempts to appear benevolent and fair when in fact it is funded by wealthy interests who want to further some nefarious agenda. Front groups are necessary in order to conceal conflicts of interest, undefensible lines of argument, or disturbing ideologies.

United Seniors Association = sham organization run by Republicans and big drug companies
National Taxpayers Union/Foundation = NeoCon front group
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill = front group intended to appear to be a grass root movement while actually it is run by pharmaceutical companies. Link
TeenScreen = front group to promote psycho-pharmaceuticals link
Center for Global Food Safety = shill group funded in part by Monsanto
U.S. Coalition for Nutritional Ingredients = food industry group
Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy
Alliance to Keep Americans Working
American Council on Science and Health They also deny that foods can be addictive.
Global Climate Coalition = oil industry front group that "gives financial and moral support to a small handful of scientists who vocally dispute the reality of global warming and the necessity of taking action to combat it" (see Stanford page under Links below).
Association of Oregon Industries
Family Security Matters = a front group for the Center for Security Policy thinktank, which espouses and end to democracy in America, fascist dictatorship, and depopulating Iraq of Arabs. Link.
Citizens for a Sound Economy
National Wetlands Council
Coalition for Vehicle Choice
Compete America = group created to import more cheaper foreign skilled workers to make Americans unemployed.
Council for Energy Awareness
Citizens for Sensible Control of Acid Rain
Safe Buildings Alliance
Workplace Health and Safety Council
Council for Solid Waste Solutions
National Center for Policy Analysis = 100% Republican, not a scientist among them, but beloved by the US media.
Oregon Lands Coalition
Society of the Plastic Industry
USA Engage
Renewable Fuels Association = trade assocation for the ethanol industry
FreedomWorks: formed out of the merger of Citizens for a Sound Economy and Empower America.
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) = "civil rights" group founded with Saudi Wahhabi money. Wahhabis are medieval-mindset types, and Saudis are rather inventive enemies of civil rights.
World Vision = CIA front, fake Christian organization

Front websites

www.junkscience.com: run by a Cato Institute flunkie, i.e. someone who represents the interests of business, which usually means being against the interests of citizens, consumers, and voters, and against rational thought.

Think tanks: professional propagandists, front groups for corporate interests

Competitive Enterprise Institute: whores paid $200k-$400k per annum by ExxonMobil to perform acts of misinformation.
Cato: "bad" libertarian: i.e. representing only big business thus they are Classic Liberal.
- Started by the Koch brothers.
Center for Security Policy = neofascist, anti-democracy.
American Enterprise Institute: the "headquarters" of the Neo-Cons
- Dick Cheney & wife have been involved with AEI.
- Richard Perle is a hawk from AEI.
- Many of AEI's board members come from Hoover.
- Eugenics theories from AEI?
PNAC: another major Neo-Con thinktank
Heritage: rightwing and often featured on NPR (National Public Radio)
- Elaine Chao (labor secretary) is from Heritage.
Manhattan Institute: rightwing
Hoover Institution (for the insane?): rightwing, California
- Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice are from Hoover.
Brookings: rightwing(?) and often featured on NPR