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Welcome to Spinprofiles—your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR. Spinprofiles documents the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and the public relations industry] engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. Spinprofiles also includes profiles on think tanks, Front Groups funded by industry and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of Transnational Corporations or other special interests. Spinprofiles focuses on transparency issues by profiling and cataloging the activities of lobbyists, lobbying firms and other Corporate lobby groups Propaganda in war and peace and the activities of states in deceptive communications and special interest lobbying is also a focus with major collections of articles on British Propaganda, the theory and practice of Counterinsurgency, the Neoconservatives, the Israel Lobby and the Terror experts and the associated terrorism industry, which do so much to distort public policy in the 'war on terror'. Spinprofiles also documents the propaganda, disinformation, and covert action activities of states, intelligence agencies, and their associated networks. Spinprofiles has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by an editor and several Associate Portal editors. Tag and Category Cloud <tagcloud style="background: #FFFFDF;"> min_count=100 exclude=browse </tagcloud>

Propaganda, conflict and war Propaganda | Terror Experts and institutions | Neoconservative networks | Counterinsurgency Regional conflicts Israel Lobby | The Conflict in the North of Ireland | Iraq War 2003 | Private Military Contractors: A database of mercenary firms operating in Iraq | Targetting Iran | Middle East Watch | Focus on Latin America Elite Networks and Corporate Power Corporations Transnational Corporations The organisations pushing corporate globalisation. Scotland: think tanks and lobbyists pushing corporate interests in Scotland. New Labour nexus: New labour and other market friendly think tanks in Britain. Corporate Power in Britain: the main corporate lobby groups in Britain. Who Rules America? A guide to the power networks of the USA. Industry Sectors Alcohol | Foodspin | Nuclear Spin | Big Pharma | Water Industry Lobbying: How corporations and special interests pull strings | Corporate Memberships Database the lobby groups funded by the largest corporations | PR and lobbying consultancies client database: Check up on who PR and lobbying firms work for. Recent Articles on SpinWatch <rss>http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php?format=feed&type=rss</rss>

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Getting Started Looking for somewhere to start? To learn how you can edit any article right now, visit Spinprofiles:About, Welcome, newcomers, our Help page, Frequently Asked Questions, A quick guide to editing or experiment in the sandbox. Research and Writing Tips Article guidelines | How to research front groups | Resources for studying propaganda | Research using the web Can you help? Spinprofiles can be made more effective if more people join the project. If you have research or writing skills or just spare time, you can help. If you are unsure where to start, you could expand some of the recently created but currently very brief articles. (If you look at the recent changes page you will see some noted as being 'stubs' - articles that may just be a line or two and needing to be fleshed out). So if you would like to add to some of those you would be most welcome. There is an automatically updated page which includes the pages which have been signalled by Spinprofiles users as most wanted. In addition there is a page which includes a list of Things you can do to help. Or if you would like some other suggestions closer to your interests you could drop Spinprofiles editor, David Miller an email. His address is editor AT spinprofiles.org Start Here View The Latest Articles View Articles By Category View The Most Popular Articles Create An Account Or Log In Change Your Preferences Write a new Article

Spinprofiles history Spinprofiles is a collaborative venture initiated by Spinwatch in collaboration with Lobbywatch, GM Watch Red Star Research and Corporate Watch, but put into effect by a wide variety of volunteers and independent researchers. Contributors are now working on 19,414 articles. Disclaimer: Spinprofiles is an encyclopedia of people, issues and groups shaping the public agenda. It is a project of the Spinwatch—email editor AT spinprofiles.org. Antispam note: To avoid attracting spam email robots, email addresses on Spinprofiles are written with AT in place of the usual symbol, and we have removed "mail to" links. Replace AT with the correct symbol to get a valid address. We regret the inconvenience this entails. Campaign for more effective antispam regulations. Read the full disclaimer