Hudson Institute
The Hudson Institute is a group "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.)[3]
One of the Hudson Institute's fundraising pages carries quotes from "our Family of Generous Supporters and Friends". One quote is from Henry Kissinger, former US national security advisor and secretary of state in the Nixon administration, who says:
- Hudson Institute is today one of America's foremost policy research centers, in the forefront of study and debate on important domestic and international policy issues, known and respected around the globe, a leader in innovative thinking and creative solutions to the challenges of the present and the future. [4]
Contents
Biotechnology specialists
"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.[5] All have published numerous articles.
Avery's organic scares
Dennis Avery has published many articles attacking organic farming. In American Outlook magazine, which is published by the Hudson Institute, Avery claimed that "Organic foods have clearly become the deadliest food choice" on the basis that organic farms use animal manure, which Avery said can carry dangerous E. coli bacteria.[6]
New York Times journalist Marian Burros replied to Avery in an article, "Eating well: Anti-organic, and flawed", detailing what she called the "untrue" claims of Avery about organic farming and food. Burros writes that:
- conventional farms also use animal manure as fertilizer, but organic farms, unlike conventional farms, have rules to ensure its safety
- contrary to Avery's claim, the Center for Food Safety and Nutrition had never warned against "higher levels of natural toxins" in organic foods
- the foods that caused E. coli-related food poisoning were not, as Avery claimed, organic.
Burros concluded:
- The attack on organic food by a well-financed research organization suggests that, though organic food accounts for only 1 percent of food sales in the United States, the conventional food industry is worried. [7]
Funding
Between 1987 and 2006, the Institute received 273 grants totaling $17,722,643 from a range of foundations including: [8]
- Castle Rock Foundation
- Earhart Foundation
- F.M. Kirby Foundation
- John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
- JM Foundation
- Koch Family Foundations (David H. Koch Foundation)
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
- Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
- Scaife Foundation (Scaife Family, Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)
- Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation
- Smith Richardson Foundation
- Walton Family Foundation
- William H. Donner Foundation
Hudson Trustees' Circle - $25,000+
According to its 2002 Annual Report, the following are members of the Hudson Trustees’ Circle which donated more than $25,000 – it is not the full list: [9]
- Lord Black of Crossharbour
- Capital Group Companies, Inc.
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Fannie Mae Corporation
- General Atomics
- German Marshall Fund of the United States
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Lilly Endowment, Inc.
- Monsanto Company
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Pfizer, Inc.
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
- Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation
- Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
- Walton Family Foundation, Inc.
Hudson Chairman's Circle — $10,000.00+
According to its 2002 Annual Report, funders in this group include: [10]
- American Farm Bureau Federation
- Dow AgroSciences
- DuPont
- Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
- Merck & Co., Inc.
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International
Hudson Benefactors' Circle
According to its 2002 Annual Report, funders in this group include: [11]
Links to the Bush Administration
- Paula Dobriansky - the former Under-secretary of State for Global Affairs –was an adjunct fellow[12]
- Mitchell E. Daniels Jr - former Director of the Office of Management and Budget[13] - was in 1987 appointed chief executive officer of the Hudson Institute [14]. He is a former president of Eli Lilly. He was elected 49th Governor of the State of Indiana in 2004.[15]
- Wade Horn - the former Assistant Secretary for Children and Families was an adjunct fellow[16]
- John Weicher - the former Assistant Secretary Commissioner, Federal Housing Authority in the Department of Housing and Urban Development is Director of Hudson Institute's Center for Housing and Financial Markets.[17]
- 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.[18]
- Bruno V. Manno - the former US Assistant Secretary of Education Policy and Planning and Chair of the Commission on Presidential Scholars, was a senior fellow.[19][20]
Affiliations
External Resources
- Yacoub Kahlen, Hudson Institute and 'Eye on the UN' join the ranks of gutter journalists, electronicIntifada, 22 June 2006.
Employees on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Russell Mead | Professor of Strategy and Statecraft | 2014 | Attended Bilderberg/2018 | |
| Constantin Menges | Senior fellow | 2000 | 2004 | Also worked there before. Proposed action to stop Brazilian presidential candidate Lula da Silva. |
| Jonathan Ward | Academic | February 2024 |
Known members
10 of the 40 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Elliott Abrams | A deep politician heavily involved in the Iran-Contra affair, given a pardon by George H. W. Bush |
| Conrad Black | Fraudulent Bilderberg steering committee member |
| Paula Dobriansky | Spookily connected US politician |
| Thomas J. Donohue | President and CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce 1997 - 2021 |
| Ben Judah | Deep state functionary rotating between working think tanks like the Atlantic Council, and media outlets, where he gets access to high-profile interview objects. |
| Marie-Josée Kravis | Like her husband, Henry Kravis, a billionaire multi-Bilderberger |
| Richard Perle | "widely considered a core representative of the neoconservative political faction" |
| Dan Quayle | One time Bilderberger and former US Vice President |
| Kenneth Weinstein | President and CEO of the deep state think tank Hudson Institute until 2020. Also member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which manages the CIA's open media channels. |
| Bing West | US officer and author specializing in rosy depictions of successful counterinsurgency. Bilderberg/2010 |
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Archer Daniels-Midland | American multinational food processing and commodities trading corporation |
| AstraZeneca | London-based British-Swedish multinational Big Pharma company that produced a COVID-19 jab |
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Private foundation, began in 1926 |
| DuPont | Big chemical company. Supplied large amounts of explosives to many US wars. Lots of chemical products and artificial fibers. Since the 1990s, focusing heavily on genetic manipulation. |
| Earhart Foundation | Sponsor of a number of European organisations in order to support free-market academics. Closed in 2016. |
| Eli Lilly | Psychiatric drugs,Prozac, MKUltra... |
| General Atomics | Part of the military-industrial complex, much more than nuclear. |
| Hewlett Foundation | Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects. |
| Koch family foundations | Controlled by the billionaire Koch brothers, who finance the 'right' in US politics when they say the right things. |
| Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation | "A private, independent grantmaking organization based in Milwaukee" |
| MacArthur Foundation | Finances non-profit organizations and select people in approximately 50 countries around the world, buying immense cultural and political influence. It often coordinates its priorities with other deep state foundations, creating a mesh of grants, cross-grants and sub-grants that is very hard to analyze. |
| Merck & Co. | Big pharma with a long rap sheet of unethical practices |
| Monsanto | Chemical weapon and GMO corporation |
| Novartis | |
| Open Society Foundations | A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered. |
| Pfizer | A multinational big pharma company. Made a killing during COVID |
| Procter & Gamble | Huge multi-billion dollar multinational corporation; specialising in consumer goods. |
| Smith Richardson Foundation | CIA front organization that funds select projects with $$$ |
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Hudson Institute 2002 Annual Report, cited by Sourcewatch
- ↑ Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War, Greenwood Press, 1978
- ↑ "Meet our Family of Generous Supporters and Friends", Hudson Institute website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "Hudson scholars", Hudson Institute website, version archived 17 September 2002, accessed in web archive March 23 2009
- ↑ Avery, Dennis T. 1998c. The Hidden Dangers in Organic Food. American Outlook Magazine 1(3):19-22, Fall.
- ↑ Marian Burros, "Eating well: Anti-organic, and flawed", New York Times, 17 February 1999, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "Hudson Institute, Inc.", Media Transparency website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "2002 Hudson Institute Annual Report", Hudson Institute website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "2002 Hudson Institute Annual Report", Hudson Institute website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "2002 Hudson Institute Annual Report", Hudson Institute website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "Paula Dobriansky", Rightweb, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.", Institute for Health Technology Studies website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "Daniels Will Head Hudson Institute", Futurist, Sep/Oct87, Vol. 21 Issue 5, p50-50, archived on EBSCO Host Connection website (subscription required for full article), accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.", Institute for Health Technology Studies website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ Joe Fahy, "Hudson Institute proposes that two-parent families should have preference in receiving public aid", Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, 9 September 1996, archived on AccessMyLibrary.com website (subscription required for full article), accessed March 23 2009.
- ↑ "John C. Weicher", Hudson Institute website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "Hudson Bookstore", Hudson Institute website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "The Conservative Movement Moves In", Media Transparency website, accessed March 23 2009
- ↑ "Dr. Bruno V. Manno", Mackinac Center for Public Policy website, accessed March 23 2009
