Hudson Institute

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The Hudson Institute was founded in 1961. It is a right wing think tank "dedicated to thinking about the future from a contrarian point of view", according to its literature.[1]

The Hudson Institute has been funded by, amongst others: AgrEvo, Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto, Novartis Crop Protection, Zeneca, DuPont, Dow Elanco, ConAgra, Cargill, Procter & Gamble.[2]

The Hudson Institute has published books and reports on everything from military strategy and national security, to agriculture and the environment, to trade, labor, and economic development, to health care, welfare, and education, but the primary focus is on 'free trade' and competitive enterprise and a strong military. (Founder Herman Kahn was a physicist and military strategist who suggested that nuclear war was winnable.)

"Hudson Scholars" listed as specializing in "biotechnology" on the Hudson Institute website in 2002 include Michael Fumento, a Senior Fellow, Dennis Avery, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute; and Alex Avery, director of research and education at the Center for Global Food Issues.[3] All have published numerous articles.

Funding

Between 1987 and 2006, the Institute received 273 grants totaling $17,722,643 (unadjusted for inflation) from a range of foundations including:[4]

According to its 2001 Annual Report, the last available on its website, Hudson received some $7,108,000 in income. The following are members of the Hudson Trustees’ Circle having donated more than $25,000 – it is not the full list:[5]

HUDSON CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE — ($10,000.00+)

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Links to the Bush Administration

  • Paula Dobriansky - the Under-secretary of State for Global Affairs –was an adjunct fellow
  • Mitchell E. Daniels Jr- the Director of the Office of Management and Budget was on the Hudson Board as well as the Board of the Capital Research Center.
  • Wade Horn - the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families was an adjunct fellow
  • John Weicher - the Assistant Secretary Commissioner, Federal Housing Authority in the Department of Housing and Urban Development was director of urban policy studies at the Institute.
  • Elliott Abrams - the Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations at the National Security Council was a Senior Fellow from 1989 to 1996.
  • Brunno V. Manno - the Chair of the Commission on Presidential Scholars, was a senior fellow[5].

Staff

  • Herbert I. London – President. In 1990, he was the Conservative Party candidate for Governor of New York, In 1994, he was Republican Party candidate for New York State Comptroller.
  • Kenneth R. Weinstein - Vice President and Chief Operating Officer - was managing director of the Shalem Center, with offices in Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.
  • Alan W. Dowd - Director, Indianapolis Office

Board of Trustees

  • Jeffrey T. Bergner – President of the PR firm Bergner, Bockorny, Castagnetti, Hawkins & Brain, Inc. Senate lobbying records show that their clients include Monsanto for which the firm was paid $100,000 in the first half of 2003. Issues the company worked on for Monsanto included “biotechnology acceptance” and the controversial growth hormone BST[6]. Other clients included Biogen, Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Glaxo Smith Kline, Petroleum Marketers Assn of America, Phrma and NewsCorp.[7]
  • Conrad Black - ex-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hollinger International Inc, ex-owner of the Daily Telegraph
  • Linden S. Blue - vice chairman of General Atomics, a diversified international high technology company with world leadership positions in fusion, fission, and training research and isotope nuclear reactors.
  • Rudy Boschwitz - Ex republican Senator and President Bush Senior emissary to Ethiopia in the spring of 1991.
  • Charles H. Brunie – Chairman Emeritus of Oppenheimer Capital
  • Joseph Epstein - lecturer at Northwestern University
  • Joseph M. Giglio - Chairman of President Reagan’s National Council on Public Works Improvement
  • Roy Innis - Roy Innis is national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) On the board of the National Rifle Association. In January 2004 CORE held a “Teach-In, Demand End to "Eco-Imperialism” along with Roger Bate under the guise of Africa Fighting Malaria (see AEI and IPN); Cyril Boynes, and Niger Innis from CORE, USA; Paul Driessen, from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation / CFACT/ CDFE / and ex-Greenpeace founder and industry hack Patrick Moore, as well as CS Prakash the biotech proponent (see CEI), amongst others. Niger Innes said: “We intend to stop this callous eco-manslaughter. The green movement imposes the views of mostly wealthy, comfortable Americans and Europeans on mostly poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans. It violates their most basic human rights. CORE will lay down the gauntlet. Eco-imperialism may not be a household word yet, but it will be after this conference, the first one to address these issues” [8].

The next month in early February, the CDFE and CORE set up the Economic Human Rights Project, with Paul Driessen as its Director(See more on CORE with CDFE)[9]

Trustees emeriti also include:

  • Thomas J. Donohue - president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  • James H. Dowling – from PR firm Burson-Marsteller
  • Alan Hubbard - From 1990 to 1992, he served as deputy chief of staff to the Vice President of the United States and executive director of the President’s Council on Competitiveness
  • Dan Quayle (honorary)– Republican Vice President under Bush Senior.

Research /Adjunct Fellows / Scholars of Interest

  • Dennis Avery - Center for Global Food Issues Senior Fellow – works on agriculture and biotechnology. Avery is also on the Advisory board of ACSH (see below)[10]
  • Alex Avery – Director of research and education with the Center for Global Food Issues at Hudson (see below).
  • Michael Fumento – Senior Fellow – Has done the rounds of the right. Ex- American Enterprise Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Consumer Alert, and Reason magazine[11]. On the Science Advisory Board of the Wise Use Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow along with known climate sceptics and industry apologists Sallie Baliunas C. Balling, Bruce Ames, Roger Bate, Hugh Ellsaesser, Michael Fumento, Sherwood B. Idso, Patrick J. Michaels, A. Alan Moghissi, Frederic Seitz, Gerd-Rainer Weber, and Elizabeth Whelan.[12].

Projects

The institute also runs a number of projects with specific focuses:

Principals and Board members

Affiliations

External Resources

Contact

References

Notes

  1. ↑ As of 2009 this description has disappeared from the Hudson Institute's website, but it can still be found on the WorthwhileLink.com website, at "Literature and Culture/U.S. Culture", WorthwhileLink.com website, accessed March 23 2009
  2. ↑ Hudson Institute 2002 Annual Report, cited by Sourcewatch
  3. ↑ "Hudson scholars", Hudson Institute website, version archived 17 September 2002, accessed in web archive March 23 2009
  4. ↑ "Hudson Institute, Inc.", Media Transparency website, accessed March 23 2009
  5. ↑ 2001 Hudson Institute Annual Report
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