InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
Israel
InfluenceWatch Podcast #250: Abraham’s Missing Child with the Philos Project
The Near East is the place of origin of the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Unfortunately, political developments in that region have led to declines in inter-religious pluralism…
National Lawyers Guild: Origins and Early Years
The National Lawyers Guild is a radical-left association of attorneys, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers. Since its founding in 1936 or 1937, the Guild has consistently been identified…
National Lawyers Guild: The Second Red Scare
The willingness of Guild members to represent communists in several high-profile investigations and prosecutions during the late 1940s and early 1950s, combined with strong anti-communist sentiments in Congress and among…
National Lawyers Guild: The Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
The National Lawyers Guild was the first racially integrated national bar association in the United States, and actively opposed military segregation during World War II. A number of notable civil rights…
National Lawyers Guild: Consolidation and Internationalism
The year 1973 proved to be pivotal for the National Lawyers Guild and for the consolidation of its radical political ideology. That year’s convention has been described as “the cataclysmic…
National Lawyers Guild: Activities and Positions
The NLG generally espouses a radical-left ideology. Its objective is “to function as an effective force in the service of the people by valuing human rights and ecosystems over property…
National Lawyers Guild: Leadership, Structure, and Financials
The NLG operates as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. It lists more than 50 local chapters on its website, some of which also have their own nonprofit tax-exempt statuses. The NLG…
The Bullying of Ben & Jerry
Ben & Jerry of ice cream fame are going to court to make sure their product is not sold in the West Bank in keeping with, they say, their ideological beliefs. A…
The ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Doctrine
(Organization Trends, January 2013 - PDF here) The Left’s long love affair with global government continues, as does its hostility to the interests of America and America’s…