Tag: Koch Industries
How Betsy DeVos does the Koch brothers’ bidding
What’s largely been overlooked behind all the lurid headlines and endless insults are all the ways in which officials like DeVos are quietly at work continuing to use our tax money to advance a deeply troubling agenda.
How Tammy Baldwin, target of $14 million in outside spending, sent...
Her campaign made few stumbles, concentrated on the concerns of working families, defined the candidate and her opponent early, and spoke to voters in rural and urban Wisconsin, providing a blueprint for 2020 candidates.
An introduction to the Koch digital media network
Digital advertising is a great place to start, but to really get to know the network one has to follow the money.
Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity group launches campaign to crush fuel economy...
Through social media feeds of the many AFP state chapters, the group is promoting a petition to “Repeal Costly Obama-era Fuel Standards.”
Koch-funded groups – yet again – speak out against electric vehicle tax...
A coalition of thirty conservative free-market advocacy organizations – the majority of which have clear ties to Charles and David Koch through their funding or leadership – are behind it.
New investigation pins Koch brothers to ‘anti-transit canvassing campaigns’
While the development of public transit is seen by many as "positive for both impoverished communities and the environment," it hurts the Koch brothers' bottom line.
ALEC’s deadly asbestos agenda benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide
Instead, Koch and its allies are working hard to pass laws that run out the clock.
Patience and secrecy in the Kochs’ complex conspiracy
The Kochs have taken the long view with their ideological power grab.
Examining the Kochtopus
The Koch brothers have used their enormous assets to mount a far-ranging, ultrasophisticated assault on American democracy.
California is fighting Trump’s offshore drilling plan, but Exxon, Koch already...
Drilling agreements on the books before 1982 have been allowed to continue, and that's where ExxonMobil, Koch, and other companies come into play.
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UN rights chief says Trump’s boat strikes are illegal as death toll reaches 61
UN human rights officials, independent experts, and rights groups say U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific violate international human rights law, amount to extrajudicial killings, and may constitute a crime against humanity.
Terms of surrender: The conspiracy to obstruct justice in Palestine
Normalization of the Israeli regime and its crimes must end. Genocide must be a red line. And Palestine must be free.
States scramble to feed 42 million as Trump blocks SNAP during shutdown
With 42 million people set to lose $8 billion in food assistance on November 1 because the Trump administration refuses to release existing federal funds, governors of both parties are declaring emergencies, shifting state reserves, and suing the federal government to prevent mass hunger.
Socialism or barbarism
A better country and world is possible.
Trump orders US nuclear weapons testing to resume for the first time in 33...
The president’s directive to restart nuclear weapons testing, announced just before his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, has sparked alarm among arms control experts and lawmakers who warn it could trigger global escalation and radioactive fallout.