Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is an American lobby for progressive or leftist causes based in Washington, DC. A lobby can be: An entryway or waiting area, such as a foyer, from the Latin word lobium, or vestibule. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...

The organization was founded in 1963 with a stated mandate to provide "an independent center of research and education on public policy problems in Washington." From the very start, the organization associated itself with "progressive" and revolutionary causes.

Although primarily a public relations lobby, the IPS describes itself as a scholarly think tank and uses pseudo-academic titles to describe its employees, e.g. fellow and associate fellow, but it produces little peer-reviewed resesarch. The IPS's most famous fellow was Chilean exile Orlando Letelier, a former member of Salvadore Allende's cabinet. Letelier was assassinated in 1976 by agents of the Pinochet regime while carrying a pay receipt from Cuban DGI station chief Luis Fernandez Ona. This article is about the institution. ... Orlando Letelier (1932 April 13 - 1976 September 21) was a member of the Salvador Allende’s government who was assassinated in Washington, D.C., by Chilean DINA agents in 1976. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte1 (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... The Cuban General Intelligence Directorate (Dirección General de Inteligencia), or DGI, was established under the Cuban Ministry of the Interior in late 1961 shortly after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. ...

IPS's current director is John Cavanagh. John Cavanagh has been the Director of the Institute of Policy Studies [1] in Washington DC since 1998 and is a founding fellow of the Transnational Institute (TNI) [2] in Amsterdam. ...

The institute was founded in 1963 by two former aides to Kennedy administration advisers: Marcus Raskin, aide to McGeorge Bundy, and Richard Barnet, aide to John J. McCloy. Start-up funding was secured from the Sears heir, Philip Stern, and banker, James Warburg. 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... JFK redirects here. ... McGeorge Mac Bundy (March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996) was Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson from 1961-1966, and then headed the Ford Foundation from 1966–1979. ... Richard Jackson Barnet (May 7, 1929—December 23, 2004) was an American scholar-activist who co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies. ... John J. McCloy John Jay McCloy (March 31, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – March 11, 1989, Stamford, Connecticut) was lawyer and banker who later became a United States presidential advisor. ... Sears Holdings Corporation NASDAQ: SHLD is the third largest retailer in the United States, behind Wal-Mart and The Home Depot. ... James Paul Warburg (August 18, 1896 - June 3, 1969) was an American banker and financial adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt. ...

IPS claims to have "played key roles in the civil rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s, the women's and environmental movements in the 1970s, the anti-apartheid and anti-intervention movements in the 1980s, and the fair trade and environmental justice movements of the 1990s and 2000s." In its attention to the role of multinational corporations, it was also an early critic of what has come to be called globalization. Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... A multinational corporation (MNC) or multinational enterprise (MNE) or transnational corporation (TNC) or multinational organization (MNO) is a corporation/enterprise that manages production establishments or delivers services in at least two countries. ... Globalization (or globalisation[1]), is an umbrella term for a complex series of economic, social, technological, and political changes seen as increasing interdependence and interaction between people and companies in disparate locations. ...

The right takes IPS seriously, as can be seen both in some of the remarks that contributors have inserted in this article, and in an indictment calling it "America's premier radical left-wing think tank, funded by the heirs of the Fabergé cosmetics fortune and . . . [e]ntirely dedicated to opposing American policies -- if it's American policy, IPS is against it. . . . the IPS goal is to create a society in which IPS restrains your personal freedom, IPS limits your wealth, and IPS tell you what you may buy and sell."[1] Sidney Blumenthal once noted that "Ironically, as IPS has declined in Washington influence, its stature has grown in conservative demonology." In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply The Right, are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum often associated with any of several strains of conservatism, the religious right, and areas of classical liberalism, or simply the opposite of left-wing politics. ... Sidney Blumenthal was born in Chicago in 1948 and educated at Brandeis University(BA in Sociology in 1969). ...

Current list of fellows, associate fellows, and research fellows

• Noam Chomsky
• Sarah Anderson
• Phyllis Bennis
• Steve Cobble
• Karen Dolan
• Stacie Jonas
• Saul Landau
• Eric Leaver
• Nadia Martinez
• Miriam Pemberton
• Marcus Raskin
• Sanho Tree
• Daphne Wysham

Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (b. ... The New Democratic Party elected thirteen candidates in the 2000 federal election, emerging as the fourth-largest party in the Canadian House of Commons. ... Saul Landau is Director of Digital Media Programs and Hugh O. Bounty Chair of Applied Interdisciplinary Knowledge at Cal Poly Pomona. ...

References

• The Left-Leaning Think Tank by Peter Kovler, from Change magazine
• Richard Barnet, IPS, and early critiques of globalization by Abe DeJamminen, United for Peace of Pierce County

External links

• Institute for Policy Studies website
• Extended critical history of the IPS at the Heritage Foundation