Documents show for the first time that local anti-wind groups are co-ordinating and working with national fossil-fuel funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry.
David or Charles Koch don't write big checks to superPACs. That's because the brothers prefer using nonprofit organizations to hide their donations -- and their political spending.
To the corporate media, the machinations of the 1 percent's most infamous poster boys might look like old news. But for regular Americans, it's a fight for their lives.
Though National School Choice Week has some liberal support, its primary backers are deeply conservative activists whose goal is to dissolve public education in the US.
Robert Greenwald, Huffington Post. January 15, 2012.
Americans for Prosperity released its rankings this week of senators and congressman who toe the Koch line most, and it gave a total of 44 A+s for the 112th Congress.
Christine Shearer, Conducive Chronicle. January 2, 2012.
It is one thing to do your own research, but it is another to deliberately deceive people, contributing to widespread harm primarily to retain profits.
Energy companies continue to rake in massive profits. They use this wealth to leverage elections, write legislation, scale back regulations and escape accountability.
It wasn't just Libya policy that left Cain tongue-tied before the Journal Sentinel ed board: He didn't want to talk about the Koch-linked Prosperity 101 program.
As the GOP's A-list sat down for an evening of dinner and a screening of "Atlas Shrugged," protesters gathered outside the convention center for a counter-event.
Private interests silently support the legislation through corporate cash that promotes an agenda focused on weakening public-sector unions and privatizing state services.
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones Online. October 25, 2011.
The report is purely an estimate of planetary warming, and it makes no estimate of how much this warming is due to human activity, which is another issue for deniers.
The brothers control nearly 25% of the tar sands crude that is imported into the US and own mining companies, oil terminals, and refineries all along the Keystone XL route.
Stealing oil from Indian reservations, cheating dying workers out of compensation for asbestos-exposure claims, voter-roll purging -- just some of the work of these kingmakers.
Team Tea Party, led by the Kochs and other wealthy right-wingers, want an America for the wealthy, dominated by conservative religion and the extremist Ayn Rand fanatics.
The fallout has led the Democratic Speaker of the NJ Assembly to call the governor "disgraceful," and that she is "beginning to wonder if Gov. Christie is mentally deranged."
Mr. Koch seems preferential to the conservative/libertarian theory that he, rather than government, should decide which members of society are worth saving.
