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Dear Friend of the Quincy Institute,
I am glad to introduce you to a project I’ve been working on with my colleague Nick Cleveland-Stout that exposes the ways that foreign governments and arms corporations help to manufacture consent for war in the United States.
We launched the first-of-its-kind Think Tank Funding Tracker ([link removed]) , which enables journalists, policy makers, politicians, and the public at-large to understand who’s bankrolling the information they receive related to war funding. Our tracker is based on a year of work spent gathering data on the sources of support for 50 of the largest think tanks in the country that shape U.S. foreign policy.
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This work is important because many of the experts you hear on TV, see quoted in the press or giving testimony to Congress work for institutions that accept money from foreign governments, the U.S. government, or weapons contractors – all of which might have a self interest in more war and militarism. Taking funding from these sources is not necessarily bad, but the public deserves to know that cheerleaders for U.S. arms sales or interventions might be influenced by money received from sources that benefit directly from that decision.
Other think tanks, which do so much to shape a consensus for permanent war in Washington, DC, are completely opaque about the sources of their funding. Our Tracker ([link removed]) and accompanying brief ([link removed]) are intended to make think tank funding transparency the norm by ranking each organization on its level of disclosure about where its money comes from.
In case you’re wondering, we hold ourselves to an equal account. Give the Tracker ([link removed]) a try yourself to find out how we scored and why.
Former members of Congress and editors of major news outlets have praised our project, which has also received prominent coverage in Politico ([link removed]) , C-Span’s Washington Journal, The Hill, and Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast – among many other outlets.
But this is just the beginning. We plan to expand the Tracker and work with allies in the media and Congress to ensure that conflicts of interest are revealed before hawkish think tanks bring us into another Iraq-war fiasco.
While we can’t match the resources weapons contractors and foreign governments pump into Washington think tanks, your donations help us expose their influence and hold them accountable.
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Thank you for your generosity and commitment to our mission. We’re deeply grateful for your partnership and look forward to achieving even greater impact together in the year ahead.
Best wishes for 2025,
Ben Freeman
Director, Democratizing Foreign Policy Program
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
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