DeSmogBlog: Koch Brothers "Secret Sins" Exposed In Bloomberg News Investigation
Bloomberg Koch Industries.png Bloomberg has released a whopping 21-page investigative and historical essay on the many crimes of the infamous Koch Brothers, their company Koch Industries and its ... ....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Greenpeace Calls On Congress To Investigate Koch’s Illegal Practices
Kochtopus money bags.png Greenpeace USA today called for a full Congressional investigation of Koch Industries and the illegal practices detailed in the Bloomberg Markets Magazine piece, &qu... ....
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Herman Cain at AFP: ‘I am the Koch Brothers’ Brother From Another...
Wow. The GOP's Koch-Cain problem elevates to new heights today. At the Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity event today, Republican presidential contender Herman Cain told it like it is. “I am the Koch...
View ArticleRed Tory v.3.0.3: Brotherly Love
Speaking to a friendly audience at a Washington area rally organized by the Koch Brothers funded astroturf political organization “Americans for Prosperity,” Herman Cain gets his shuck n’ jive on to...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: The Year In Dirty Energy: The Koch Brothers
Kochtopus money bags.jpg Over the last 12 months, DeSmogBlog contributors have helped spread the word about some of the most dastardly deeds of Charles and David Koch. Here are some of the biggest...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Citizens United Protesters Rename Supreme Court the "U.S. Supreme...
Supreme Koch 1.jpg Protesters marked the second anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling by unfurling a banner reading “U.S. Supreme Koch” in front of the court house steps. The...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Heartland Institute: A Manifestation of the Kochtopus Empire
Kochtopus-3.png It is nearly impossible to discuss the vast climate change denial echo chamber and not mention the Koch Brothers, Koch Industries, and what some have called the Koch Empire. Perhaps...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Kochtopus Cato Institute Power Grab: A Historical Perspective
Kochtopus-3_0.png A new chapter is being added to the ongoing Kochtopus saga. On March 1 the Washington Post, in a story sure to fill the airwaves for the weeks and months to come, revealed the...
View ArticleDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Opportunistic Conservative attack on green...
Charity: Right-wing think tanks and Ducks Unlimited are most certainly not exactly as illustrated. Below: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and National Revenue Minister Gail Shea. Supporters of the...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Was Scott Walker Chosen to Headline Heartland Institute Gala Due...
800px-ScottWalker.jpeg Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker will keynote the Heartland Institute's 28th Anniversary Benefit Dinner this evening at Navy Pier in Chicago, IL. Walker recently won...
View ArticleEclectic Lip: When billionaires brawl… (some US election thoughts)
So, the US elects its next President (or re-elects its current one) today. One hopes that our southern cousins avoid the fiascos of 2000 and 2004. As all but the young recall, the 2000 Gore vs. Bush US...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: In 2011, Fraser Institute continued to take Koch Brothers...
Michael Walker, right, President of the Fraser Institute Foundation and former director of the Fraser Institute, looks at a copy of the Edmonton Sun with a well-known columnist from that newspaper. The...
View ArticleAutonomy For All: The 0.01% Oppose Renewable Energy Because You Can’t Suck...
It doesn’t get much more naked than this (AP): A political group founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch wants Georgia’s utility regulators to reject a plan requiring Southern Co. to buy...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Donner Canadian Foundation, prominent funder of right-wing...
A new “think tank” with close connections to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation received $50,000 last year from the Donner Canadian Foundation, a prominent funder of right-wing ideological organizations...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The Koch Legacy
Following the death last week of David Koch, media coverage, I found, left much to be desired. MSNBC filled its two-minute report with fulsome praise of the man’s philanthropy, with nary a word about...
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