Project for the New American Century

The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington, DC, USA based think tank. The group was established in spring 1997 as a non-profit organization with the goal of promoting "American global leadership". The chairman is William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and FOX News regular. The group is an initiative of the New Citizenship Project, a non-profit 501c3 organization that is funded by the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation and the Bradley Foundation. http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=1

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Washington, DC - Think tank - 1997 - Non-profit - William Kristol - Weekly Standard - FOX News - New Citizenship Project - 501c3 - Bradley Foundation

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Present and former members include several prominent members of the Republican Party and Bush Administration, including Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Richard Perle, Richard Armitage, Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, William J. Bennett, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Ellen Bork, the wife of Robert Bork. A large number of its ideas and its members are associated with the neoconservative movement. PNAC has seven full-time staff members, in addition to its board of directors.

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Republican Party - Bush Administration - Donald Rumsfeld - Paul Wolfowitz - Jeb Bush - Richard Perle - Richard Armitage - Dick Cheney - Lewis Libby - William J. Bennett - Zalmay Khalilzad - Ellen Bork - Robert Bork - Neoconservative

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The PNAC is a controversial organization. Some have raised concerns that the project has been proposing military and economic domination of land, space, and cyberspace by the United States, so as to establish American dominance in world affairs (Pax Americana) for the future—hence the term "the New American Century", based on the idea that the 20th century was the American Century. Some analysts argue that the U.S. war against Iraq, commenced in March of 2003 under the code name Operation Iraqi Freedom, is the first major step toward implementing these objectives.

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Space - Cyberspace - Pax Americana - American Century - Operation Iraqi Freedom

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