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• Burson-Marsteller
  ===Front groups=== ...ing criticism of its role in establishing and de facto running three front groups: The [[Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis]] (on behalf of [[Aventis]
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• The Clandestine Caucus
  ...ttempt to understand the significance of a nexus of intelligence connected groups which covertly influenced the political landscape of the post-war UK includ ...Bolshevik 'threat',(2) we know that much of the early effort was put into groups aimed at the exploitation of so-called 'patriotic labour', such as the Brit
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• General Electric
  ===Pro-nuke lobbying: vital for climate and security of supply in the UK=== ...s; fraud; false and misleading advertising; sponsorship of corporate front groups; lobbying; a personal attack on a radiologist for exposing the risks of nep
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• Fraser Institute
  ...f.ca/cms/file/pdf/nfraser.pdf The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?], Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-Feb ...ual statements that it contributed $60,000 to the organisation to work on "Climate Change", the Fraser Institute does not explicitly disclose the contribution
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• Global Climate Coalition
  {{Template:Climate badge}} ...e business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue'. Members included corporate giants such as [[Exxon]], [[D
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• Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
  ==Spending on Propaganda front groups and cut outs== ...,14 November 2007, Number10.gov.uk - accessed 19/11/09</ref> On a domestic front, Counter-terrorism funding is being used “to counter extremists' false ch
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• Taxpayers' Alliance
  :Sixty per cent of the donations come from individuals or groups giving more than £5,000. The [[Midlands Industrial Council]], which has do ...11/prescott-says-tax-group-tory John Prescott says tax lobby group is Tory front], ''the Guardian'', 11-October-2009, Accessed 18-April-2011</ref> However t
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• CIA Media Operations in Chile, Jamaica, and Nicaragua
  ...y of the staff, modernizing the physical plant, changing the format of the front page, using subliminal propaganda, assassinating the character of governmen ...upon in taking over a newspaper, combined with the drastic changes of the front page, are so specific that it is possible to identify the Agency's hand in
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• Stockholm Network
  ...oration" with six other institutes, these institutes include the four main groups from the SN website but add the [[Edmund Burke Foundation]] (Netherlands) a ...edge economy. But new problems have also arisen including energy security, climate change, the tension between intellectual property and competition and, inde
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• National Center for Public Policy Research
  ...n the DC-based think tank element of the backlash movement, including such groups as the [[Cato Institute]], the [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] and [[C ...having served as director of media programs for the wise use / right wing groups [[Defenders of Property Rights]], [[Putting People First]] and [[Accuracy i
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• George C. Marshall Institute
  ...purely scientific appraisals are often politicized and misused by interest groups. The Marshall Institute seeks to counter this trend by providing policymake ...g on defence issues has broadened out to be a leading think-tank debunking climate change.
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• The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition
  ...ns and scientists have signed an open letter to world leaders opposing the climate change treaty now being negotiated in Kyoto, Japan …TASSC and ESEF are no [[Category:Front Groups]][[Category:Tobacco|Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, The]]
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• Multinational Chairman's Group
  ...ister addressed the CBI's annual dinner, the ''Financial Times'' carried a front-page story headlined "Blair to warn business on its influence". The paper p ...loca-tion for HSBC to be based. It takes into account the overall business climate, the fiscal regime, regulatory standards and a number of other consideratio
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• Burson-Marsteller: Corporate Crimes
  ==Climate Change== ...that works toward voluntary codes of conduct and market based solutions to climate change and against mandatory emissions limits. The allegation, which has be
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• Hill and Knowlton: Corporate Crimes
  ...ton,<ref>See Wexler Group [www.wexlergroup.com website.]</ref> to set up a front group, [[USA Engage]], to do the dirty work for it. USA Engage, which was l ...ted “help in altering the debate and creating a more conducive political climate for their anti-abortion position” in response to the increasingly success
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• European Policy Centre
  ...and to achieve this it "encourages a debate among all significant interest groups and channels the results to policy-makers". It makes no secret of placing " ...rm warned BAT that they would need to tread carefully, lobbying through a 'front' organisation and enlisting other 'big industry names'<ref> Katherine E. Sm
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• Robert Durward
  ...all this environmental stuff... much of which is unjustified, such as the climate change levy. We also have the aggregates tax, which will put the UK quarry ...n of an aggregates tax, which has been demanded by "environmental pressure groups who have little sympathy with the quarry industry and have chosen to ignore
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• Patrick Michaels
  {{Template:Climate badge}} ...name="Michaels"/> Michaels also criticises legislative efforts to control climate change, stating, ‘Science no longer provides justification for any rush t
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• Dupont: Corporate crimes
  ...nies that provided funding for the [[Formaldehyde Institute]], a corporate front group set up to defend the chemical. {{ref|49}} (See [[Dupont: Influence#In ...ng chemicals. In 1999 DuPont was listed by the US Public Interest Research Groups as one of the 'Dirty Five' – the five biggest polluters in the US – tha
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 6: The Economic League goes to War
  ...League's leaflets claimed that the NUWM was nothing more than a communist front and although its leader, [[Wal Hannington]], was a member of the [[Communis ...in all this? Surely this was another "big lie" - to throw a smokescreen in front of a particularly disreputable piece of what would be today called "damage
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 8: The Wilson Years
  ...administrations, the [[Economic League]] had been operating in a political climate which was sympathetic to its own rabid anti-communism and anti-socialism bu ...d, there was no chance of portraying Wilson as the willing partner of, and front man for, militant trade unionism. The coup of '68 was postponed.
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• Procter & Gamble: Corporate Crimes
  ...vice president of R&D in the global fabric and home-care group, got up in front of his colleagues and declared that they had borrowed their approach to the ...or what their stomach craved. While the company has made the use of focus groups and test markets into an art form, it has kept such interaction with custom
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• Tesco Plc
  ...ce turning our town centres into boarded-up ghost towns; co-operating with climate criminals, Esso; as well as numerous other corporate crimes. :'No matter how fast we grew Sainsbury's were always in front of us. But slowly but surely we managed to grind them down and grind them o
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• Tesco Plc: Corporate Crimes
  ...hout actually having to do anything. As mentioned in the section on 'Lobby Groups', Tesco is represented in UNICE, which lobbies against binding targets for ...ng money to George W Bush's election campaign and influencing US denial of climate change.9
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• UN Global Compact
  ...is compact would be better placed to deal with "pressure from single-issue groups". Again, they would be allowed to use the UN's logo. But there would be no ...ral international environmental standards, including the Kyoto protocol on climate change, the Basel convention on toxic waste and the convention on biologica
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• Altria Group
  ...he furthering of opinions critical of the impact of [[global warming]] and climate change, through the funding of astroturf organization such as The [[Advance :"Isn't it true that Philip Morris created TASSC to act as a front group for it?
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• Ford Motor Company
  ===Think tanks and front groups=== *[[European Sound Climate Policy Coalition]]
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• James Panton
  ...sive society...The real problem that pro-vivisectionists face is not small groups of extremists, but the ongoing silence of those in authority. Until scienti '''Climate Change'''
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• Brendan O'Neill
  ...her losers hate the Irish or blacks or women. But the idea that there is a climate of Islamaphobia, a culture of hot-headed, violent-minded hatred for Muslims ...spiked-online.com/site/article/11748/ 'When foot-and-mouth didn't make the front page'], ''Spiked'', 2 April 2001.
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• Alcohol:Portal
  ...//www.powerbase.info/index.php/Category:Alcohol_Front_Groups Alcohol Front Groups]. Lastly we look at the science of alcohol and the role played by [http://w ...institute?newsfeed=true Diageo to end funding of Heartland Institute after climate change outburst]
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• Water Portal
  ...& Maj Fiil-Flynn, Will the World Bank Back Down? Water Privatization in a Climate of Global Protest 2004, [http://www.citizen.org/documents/worldbank2004.pdf [[How to research front groups]] | [[Resources for studying propaganda]] | [[Research using the web]]
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• Suez
  ...dvocates for the WBCSD’s policy positions, and they co-chair our working groups' <ref> World Business Council for Sustainable Development [http://www.wbcsd ...]] <ref> CEO [http://www.corporateeurope.org/water/aquafed.html Aquafed: a front group for Suez and Veolia?] Accessed 31 October 2008, </ref> to lobby on th
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• Special Demonstration Squad
  ...aph.com.au/climate-protester-unmasked-as-cop/story-fn6e1m7z-1225973641064 Climate protester unmasked as cop]''The Daily Telegraph'', 20/12/10, accessed 31/12 ...ref name="Thompson"/> He spent "years working undercover among anti-racist groups in Britain, during which he routinely engaged in violence against members o
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• John Mann
  ...being merged into a wider county-wide primary care trust. In this current climate he continues to speak out on local health provision and the impact of the c ...ism: Taking a Stand], 2 September 2017.</ref> Mann accosted Livingstone in front of Crick's camera crew, calling him a 'fucking disgrace' and a 'nazi apolog
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• Michael Forsyth Associates
  ==Contracting out and front groups== ...reviously unreported example of Mr Ashcroft's ability to use the political climate to help his business interests. "Nothing unlawful nor improper took place,
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• Ed Husain
  ...says he was 'Formerly an activist of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) and Jamat-e-Islam front organizations in the UK': [http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/ed-husain.html ...ver, by this time YMO influence was itself being overtaken by more radical groups, including Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT).<ref>Husain, Ed, The Islamist, Penguin Book
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• Jerusalem Foundation
  ...p://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/01/2011122115026642898.html The front line of ethnic cleansing], Al Jazeera English, 10 Sept 2012</ref>. The JF b ...uccessor [[Mark Sofer]] has expressed worries over '[t]he trend of certain groups and young people leaving' Jerusalem and described the city as having 'demog
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• GMWatch: Portal
  ...dex.php/Category:GM an A-Z list] of articles on some of the key people and groups behind the push for GM crops and food.''' ...s and government policies are smelted and forged by corporations and their front organisations."
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• Israel Lobby Portal
  ...n ways that its members believe will benefit the Jewish state. The various groups that make up the lobby do not agree on every issue, although they share the ...bby, steel and textile workers, and a host of ethnic lobbies, although the groups and individuals who comprise the Israel lobby are in an unusually favourabl
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• How to research front groups
  ...If you find questionable statements or practices, try going in through the front door, asking some probing questions, and trying to trace the statement up t ==Profiles on anti-environmental groups and Greenwash ==
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• The Security Industry extract from The "Terrorism" Industry
  ...e Red scare years of 1918-22, the FBI regularly supplied private vigilante groups with "documents" seized in Red raids, just as [[J. Edgar Hoover]]'s FBI lea ...non, and for South Africa's aggressions against its black majority and the front-line states. From the standpoint of Western firms and officials, any such n
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• Field to Market
  ...to define and control sustainability in food production. Critics see such groups as exercises in greenwashing. Another example is the Round Table on Respons :The report evaluated land use, water use, energy use, soil loss and climate impact in US corn, cotton, soy and wheat production over the past two decad
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• John Ashton
  ...ve-for-climate-change/ John Ashton appointed UK Special Representative for Climate Change], press release, 8 June 2006] (accessed 14 September, 2010). </ref> ...v.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=News&id=22413951 Foreign Secretary appoints climate change Special Representative], press release, 22 June 2010,(accessed 14 Se
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• UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy
  {{Template:Climate badge}} ...nd the succeeding [[Energy White Paper]] as well as the Review of the [[UK Climate Change Programme]] and a range of other cross cutting issues.
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• Adrian Radford
  ...e police. Using the name '''''Ian Farmer''''', he was active in gay rights groups, the Equality Alliance and OutRage! before moving on to the animal rights c ...f> many of them having put aside political differences to present a united front on outstanding issues relating to gay rights.<ref>[http://outrage.org.uk/19
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• Cool nrg
  {{Template:Climate badge}} ...rgy efficiency) is a core principal.<ref>cool nrg [http://www.coolnrg.com/ Front page], Accessed 29/11/09</ref>
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• Flying Matters
  ...contribute to a balanced and informed debate on aviation's contribution to climate change".<ref>[http://www.flyingmatters.co.uk/site/uk/about About Us], Flyin ...travel were not being given the same prominence as those of environmental groups, which were warning of the dangers of growing carbon emissions.<ref name="U
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• Lynda Chalker
  ...d links with one murderous armed group, the Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI), helping them to access the gold-rich mining site around the town of ...and anti-globalisation activists, doctors, local newspapers and opposition groups: The main points of criticism were:
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• Sense About Science
  ...evidence and by urging scientists to engage actively with a wide range of groups, particularly when debates are controversial or difficult.<ref>"[http://www ...> Brown and Raphael are also key players in another of the network's front groups, [[Global Futures]]. The phone number for [[Global Futures]] was the same
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• Evan Kohlmann
  ...cution in the US Military Commissions system – condemned by human rights groups. ...on]]. There he says he was responsible for tracking North African militant groups, and monitoring Islamist websites.
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