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August 26, 2010Janet Ritz: Koch Brothers Called Out For Waging War Against ObamaPosted by Hellen Popovich23 Aug 2010 [...] This is not the first time questions have been raised about Koch Industries' involvement with and funding of the extreme right wing and [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010How Influential Are The Koch Brothers? New Yorker Investigates ...Send by Susanne RustYou can read more about the Koch brothers here and here. Also, check out this video posted last week that shows Americans for Prosperity's Margaret Turney telling David Koch that her grassroots group will help take over California. [...] Rating:  4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010No More Mister Nice BlogSend by Steve M.And I haven't even mentioned organizations like the Koch brothers-funded, lobbyist-headed FreedomWorks, which, as today's New York Times notes, is training volunteers for the fall campaign: The goal is to turn local Tea Party groups [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010The New Yorker's Shameful Attack On Conservative Philanthropists ...Send by Mark HemingwayI can honestly say that I wouldn't do this if I didn't believe in the program, and as for the Koch brothers' supposedly covert war, I will note that if I had any doubt about who I was working for, the program is called the Charles G. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010Where The ?Tea Party? *REALLY* Comes From Dewayne-Net Technology ...Send by dewayneThe company has grown spectacularly since their father, Fred, died, in 1967, and the brothers took charge. The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles of pipeline. Koch [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010CNN Money Wants You To Be Scared About The Deficit | The SeminalSend by Dean Bakerfwiw, Rachel Maddow uncovered some of the Koch brothers' funding of the Tea Partiers last summer via their American Progress think tank. The Kochs have always insisted that they're not involved in politics, but they always have been. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010Free Democracy: Right-wing Media Rush To Defend KochsPosted by Hellen PopovichKoch brothers founded Cato, Citizens for a Sound Economy. [...] Media Matters Action Network has further noted that the Koch foundations -- which include [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010The Official Koch Industries Reply To The New Yorker Hit Piece ...Send by Nick GillespieExactly how are the Koch brothers under the radar or underground? They show up every year in the Forbes super-rich lists. Charles Koch wrote a best-selling business book a year or two ago and makes no secret of his belief in free [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010Careful What You Think At Some Think Tanks - The Washington MonthlySend by Steve BenenYou do understand that the Koch Brothers give money to Heritage, AEI and CATO, right? Posted by: Joe Klein's conscience on August 23, 2010 at 4:20 PM | PERMALINK. "Intellectually, modern conservatism is facing a painfully sad state of [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010The Billionaire Koch Brothers? War Against Obama : The New YorkerPosted by Hellen PopovichA REPORTER AT LARGE about billionaire libertarians Charles and David Koch and their funding of think tanks, grassroots groups, and other organizations that oppose the Obama [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010Not Coke -- KochPosted by Hellen PopovichI?m pretty sure I?ve told you about the Koch brothers before. Yep. I have. They supply the ?wing? in the ? vast, right-wing conspiracy?. It?s really no different than it ever has been throughout history. Rich people use their money to influence government. The brothers made it onto The Rachel Maddow [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010Balloon Juice Blog Archive Cato And The Liberaltarian DiasporaSend by ED KainCATO (majorly funded by the infamous Koch Brothers) and ?conservative? libertarianism is really about establishing neo-feudalism. These heirs to fortunes (the Koch fortune was built by providing Stalin oil extraction technology and [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010Balloon Juice Blog Archive Billionaire Boys ClubSend by DougJI finally finished Jane Mayer's piece on the Koch brothers. I think it goes too far, makes them too scary, and makes it sound like stirring up teahadism is a smart political idea rather than a short-sighted tactic that will ultimately [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010Brown Man Thinking Hard: Today At Big Think: David Koch Is Tea ...Send by Brown Man"Covert Operations", an extensively researched article in this week's magazine about the infamous Koch brothers and the hundreds of millions they have shoveled into political organizations, including big bucks to prop up the Tea Party [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
August 26, 2010The New Yorker, The Kochs, And Me (mostly Not Me) - A Pagan's BlogPosted by Hellen PopovichMayer's account of the Koch brothers, an account where I play a rather small background part, raises four issues that I have often discussed on this blog, only one of which is narrowly political. They are [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |