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Ploughshares: Iran Deal Propaganda $$$ Made Its Way All Around D.C.
[Daily Caller] A Washington, D.C., non-profit that allegedly acted as a key proxy for the Obama administration to help push the Iran nuclear deal reportedly spent millions on various media outlets in order to promote reporting and analysis of the resulting nuclear agreement.Ploughshares Fund provided over 90 grants to various organizations in 2015 in order to engage in reporting, research and analysis on Iranian nuclear issues. The over 90 grants given out in 2015 nearly doubles those the organization provided in 2014, and triples the amount given in 2013. Ploughshares increases in grant funding directly coincides with the time period during which the Iran nuclear deal was being finalized and presented to Congress. The non-profit was named directly by Ben Rhodes, President Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communication, in a piece for New York Times Magazine as one of the groups that he and his team utilized to spin the Iran nuclear deal to the American public. In the piece, Rhodes claimed he and his team created an "echo chamber" which involved various friendly journalists and organizations. The organizations and individuals which received the grants spanned from National Public Radio (NPR), which received $100,000 for " reporting that emphasizes the themes of US nuclear weapons policy and budgets, Iran's nuclear program, international nuclear security topics and US policy toward nuclear security," to think tanks such as the RAND Institute which was given $40,000 to write "a series of articles that analyze specific elements of the diplomatic agreement with Iran on its nuclear program." For additional reading on 'non-profits' and national policy making helps, I recommend this enchanting site. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-23 |
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