It’s Time For Charles Koch To Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campai
Kochs Building their Version of America
As suggested by Jane Mayer in Dark Money, never have two members of one American family spent so much time and money to control our democracy, and in their
Fred Thompson’s Legacy Includes Giving the Kochs a Free Pass
(Excerpt from PRWatch) Reverse mortgage pitchman and former Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) passed away on November 1, 2015, at the age of 73, but his legacy
Exxon Knew About The Scientific Reality Of Climate Change In 1981
"... As recently as February 2015, a New York Times exposé revealed that a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who routinely cas
This Bloomberg Contributor Attacking Renewable Energy Is Paid For By Big Oil
Bloomberg Turns To Manhattan Institute's Robert Bryce To Attack Renewable Energy And Promote Oil And Nuclear Bloomberg Has Published Several Op-Eds By Robe
Koch Funding of Universities Shrouded in Secrecy
In a recent column entitled “The Campus Climate Crusade,” The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel spent over 800 words arguing the basic conceit
Koch-Backed Group with Ties to Liberal Causes? Critics Call it a Charade (LA Times)
From Sourcewatch: Cause of Action, formerly known as Freedom Through Justice Foundation, according to its website, is a non-profit organization claiming t
Who Controls the Kochs’ Political Network?
By Kim Barker and Theodoric Meyer This post first appeared in ProPublica. Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch were among the first to grasp the p
Reid, Dems Attack Conservative Koch Brothers As ‘Un-American,’ ‘Immoral’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Senate candidates, facing withering criticism on the national health care law, are gambling they can turn voters against tw
CALIFORNIA ISSUES LARGEST FINE AGAINST TWO GOP PACS LINKED TO KOCH BROS.
$15 million hit for campaign reporting violations Sacramento — In a case seeking to unmask the murky multimillion-dollar trail of money pouring into st
U.S. News Media Help Koch Brothers & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation, UCS Investigation Finds
Top News Outlets Failed to Cite Think Tank Funding in Two-Thirds of Climate and Energy Stories in 2011 and 2012 WASHINGTON (May 13, 2013)—The U.S. news m
The Koch Brothers’ PAC Rats Reboot
Koch World reboots By Kenneth P. Vogel Politico, February 20, 2013 The Koch brothers’ political network spent hundreds of millions to win the White Hou
Source of Campaign Donations Hidden in Elaborate Shell Game
By Dan Morain The Sacramento Bee, November 11, 2012 A California Common Cause leader convened a press conference and demanded answers: "Why are they tryin
Independent and Principled? Behind the Cato Myth
" ... The more you get to know the real Cato Institute, the more you see a rank, powerful rightwing corporate front group deeply woven into the Republican
Koch, Exxon, Scaife, Pfizer, etal. The Heartland Institute's Heart of Darkness
Subterfuge vs. Propaganda in Gobal Warming Debate By Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times, February 29, 2012 Peter Gleick is about the last person you'd expec
When "Educating" is the Same as Propaganda
Nonprofit social welfare organizations are becoming political vehicles for the rich and powerful By Steve Klingaman Salon | May 19, 2011 Charles and Da
Kochtopus Right-Wing Network of Money, Power and Influence
" ... The Koch brothers come from a family of Nazis and fascists. Fred Koch, the brother’s father, came to the U.S. from Germany and went to MIT, where h
The Koch Brothers’ Web Continues to Spread
By Rob Schofield The Progressive Pulse | March 25, 2011 It’s been increasingly well-documented in recent months how a handful of extreme right-wing gazil
Americans for Prosperity – a Koch Front Group – Advocated Destroying Unions at CPAC
Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884 Koch front group advocated taking down unions By Stephen C. Webster Raw Replay | February
Paul Krassner The Coke Brothers Conspiracy
THE COKE BROTHERS CONSPIRACY By Paul Krassner I was fortunate enough to accompany Ken Kesey and his psychedelic Band of Merry Pranksters when the Grateful