Tag: Koch Industries
Koch brothers float possibility of backing congressional Democrats in 2020 primaries
Over the last two decades, the Koch network’s major groups – AFP and Freedom Partners – have cumulatively spent about $120 million in independent expenditures supporting Republican candidates or opposing Democratic candidates.
Of course this ‘highly biased poll’ by oil-funded Koch groups claims...
Consider the sources and the methodology.
Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University is Koch funded, Koch...
University should shut down the center or take steps to restore its integrity and increase its transparency.
The Koch brothers’ new look
Their rebranded network now says they will support community groups trying to cure the miseries of eons – everything from poverty to addiction.
Who bankrolls Tucker Carlson’s hateful propaganda? Why the Kochs of course.
Carlson’s moonlighting as an extremist at The Daily Caller is heavily bankrolled by – you guessed it – the Koch brothers.
Guns, climate denial and conspiracies: Al Jazeera captures Australian far right...
The exchange with the petrochemical giants, from September 2018, is part of a blockbuster hidden-camera investigative series released by Al Jazeera.
How Scott Walker made Wisconsin the national poster child for dark...
"Citizens can't exercise their right to self-governance if we don't know who is funding our representatives."
Senators demand Trump admin reveal Marathon Petroleum, Koch influence on clean...
Senators demand information about a “covert lobbying campaign with oil industry groups to support Trump Administration efforts to weaken fuel economy standards and increase demand for oil consumption.”
Kochs fund study to kill electric vehicle tax credit via same...
The aggressive deployment of this NERA study suggests an escalation in the Koch-funded attack on the EV tax credit in the last few weeks of Republican control of both chambers of Congress.
2017 financials of the Koch’s dark money network
The Koch network may be changing its face and money flow, but it appears to be still just as powerful as ever.
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.