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Wealth Defense Industry: The Real Reason America's Oligarchs Can Squeeze the Rest of Us

Jeffrey A. Winters, In These Times. April 9, 2012.

How the richest of the rich stay on top.

6 Reasons the Koch Brothers Had a Very Bad Week

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. April 2, 2012.

An FBI investigation, a new documentary, and a negative court ruling: here's a look inside the Kochs' worst week in a while.

Is Your Senator Representing Charles and David Koch?

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.

How the Kochs' Shady Oil Speculation May Be Driving Up Gas Prices

Lee Fang, ThinkProgress. June 13, 2011.

Out-of-control speculation has doubled the current price of crude oil. The Kochs pioneered the risky speculation industry that dominates the world’s oil markets today.

Sec. Clinton Has A Choice: Protect Americans or Profit The Kochs

Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films. May 22, 2011.

There is a raging battle going on in this country over whether we use our resources to benefit the haves or to protect those who don’t have as much as the most wealthy among us.

The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education

Rachel Tabachnick, AlterNet. May 6, 2011.

By now you've surely heard of the Kochs. Meanwhile, the powerful, wealthy DeVos family has remained largely under the radar, while leading a stealth assault on America's schools.

How the Koch Brothers Indoctrinate Their Employees with Right-Wing Anti-Worker Propaganda

Mark Ames, Mike Elk, The Nation. April 23, 2011.

Before the landmark Citizens' United ruling, the kind of corporate propaganda Koch Industries is using wouldn't have been legal.

Kochs Profit from Canadian Eco-Nightmare

Geoff Dembicki, The Tyee. March 22, 2011.

Koch Industries processes one in four barrels of U.S.-bound Alberta tar sand, while pumping millions of dollars into highly conservative, anti-green causes.

Koch Brothers and US Chamber: Polluting Our Earth and Our Democracies

Bill McKibben, GreenBiz.com. March 13, 2011.

The Kochs are right up there now with the great plutocrats of American history, a 21st century version of the robber barons.

How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Government

Lee Fang, ThinkProgress. March 2, 2011.

The Koch's Tea Party libertarianism is actually a thin veneer for the company's long-running history of manipulating the market to pad Koch profits.

The Kochs Vs. Mainstreet: the Right-Wing Billionaires' Open War on Everyday Americans

ThinkProgressFebruary 28, 2011.

The Kochs have directed many millions into a vast propaganda machine that's corrupting American politics in order to reward their pollution-based enterprise.

Twenty-Five Arrested, Thousands Converge on Koch Brothers Billionaire's Caucus in the California Desert

David Dayen, Firedoglake. January 31, 2011.

Sunday's protest against the Koch brothers' right-wing gathering in Rancho Mirage demonstrated a growing boldness by progressive causes and activists.

Koch Brothers Feel the Heat In DC, as Broad Coalition Readies Creative Action to Quarantine the Billionaires Gathering in California Desert

Don Hazen, AlterNet. January 27, 2011.

The news that justices Scalia and Thomas have attended Koch strategy sessions is adding to the growing buzz over a planned demonstration against the billionaires.

Glenn Beck May Be a Clown -- But the Shady Right-Wingers Who Pull His Strings Are Dangerous

Laurence Lewis, Daily Kos. September 5, 2010.

Beck is being used to enforce the very political and economic structures that subjugate the people who worship him.

Indiana Democrats Within Striking Distance of Stopping Right-Wing Union-Busting Bill

Chris Bowers, December 31, 1969.


No Turnout For Kochs\' Americans For Prosperity Tour, Ironically Called \"Running on Empty\"

Kristen Gwynne, December 31, 1969.


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