Scott Walker: The "Divide and Conquer" Governor
A video recently went viral of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker telling a billionaire donor in January 2011 that he planned to employ a "divide and conquer" strategy to take away working peoples' rights.
A video recently went viral of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker telling a billionaire donor in January 2011 that he planned to employ a "divide and conquer" strategy to take away working peoples' rights.
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.03.2012
WASHINGTON — An energy businessman is donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinos...
Ari Rabin-Havt | Posted 04.19.2012
For heirs whose fortunes are rooted in their father's work building refineries for Stalin during his first five-year plan, David and Charles Koch just...
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 04.17.2012
Charles and David Koch appear to be pushing their right-wing ideology to the bitter end. And it's time for Americans to stop helping them. The Koch b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.13.2012
WASHINGTON -- A split is opening up between two forces that helped to launch the Tea Party in 2009. FreedomWorks, a free market/limited government adv...
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 04.10.2012
Everyone seems to be investigating Charles and David Koch lately, with exposés of their corrupt political behavior popping up in places like the New ...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 04.03.2012
In response to my offer to a debate or public discussion, the Koch brothers, hiding behind their attorney, wrote, "We are confused about what there is to debate." Well, I'll tell you.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 03.31.2012
This week as I premiered my new film, Koch Brothers Exposed -- the result of a year-long investigation on how two billionaires are using their wealth ...
Politico | Posted 03.29.2012
The group launching a $3.6 million ad campaign hitting President Barack Obama on gasoline prices has deep ties to the billionaire libertarian industri...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.26.2012
WASHINGTON -- Over the past two years, Charles and David Koch have commanded a great deal of attention and been held up as an example of how corporate...
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 05.26.2012
Given this set of facts, the sheer reach of the Koch brothers in the movement to overturn health care reform is staggering. They have seeded and cultivated the very network of organizations that's now threatening to undo the most significant progressive reform in a generation.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.22.2012
WASHINGTON -- Anyone wondering why the ultra-conservative billionaire industrialist Koch brothers are trying to seize control of the libertarian Cato ...
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 05.13.2012
The drumbeat for war in Iran is getting louder, but opposition is coming from a seemingly unlikely source: the Cato Institute. This libertarian think ...
Posted 03.07.2012
Forbes has created a massive database of the world's billionaires, and one nifty feature allows you to search by state to see just how rich some of yo...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.06.2012
We challenge the Koch brothers to engage in an honest debate. We challenge them to see the film and show one false claim. Generalizing about bias and false claims is easy; actually rebutting what we've documented is another matter.
Slate | David Weigel | Posted 03.05.2012
On Friday afternoon, as the Washington offices of the Cato Institute were emptying out for the weekend, the libertarian think tank's president sent an...
AP | JOHN HANNA | Posted 05.01.2012
TOPEKA, Kan. — Billionaire brothers and political donors Charles and David Koch are pursuing a lawsuit in their native Kansas over the ownership...
Mary Bottari | Posted 04.24.2012
Given the impact of his policies, to many observers Walker's recall election will be a bellwether on whether or not Americans will allow policymakers to force them to bear the blame and the brunt of the Wall Street financial crisis or if another view of Wisconsin's future will prevail.
palmbeachpost.com | Posted 04.21.2012
David Koch has become the face of conservative America's obsession with weakening organized labor, and for that, he believes, there have been death th...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.16.2012
Fox News talkers who bemoan the Koch brothers having to endure any scrutiny while trying to bankroll Obama's defeat remind us of that conservative media truism: Bullies can't take a punch.
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.08.2012
Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a conservative group chaired by David Koch, is pumping at least $700,000 in ads defending Wisconsin Gov. Scott Wa...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 04.08.2012
Why will Charles and David Koch produce a video about their position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and not testify before Congress about it?
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.04.2012
WASHINGTON -- At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other i...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 03.31.2012
The Koch brothers are doing whatever they can to avoid testifying in Congress, despite the fact that the Kochs informed the Canadian government of their "direct and substantial" interest in the Keystone XL pipeline.
Mark Green | Posted 02.13.2012
Nothing could enhance American democracy more than if Occupy Wall Street helped enact the 28th Constitutional Amendment to end the pretense that corporations are people who speak with money. The 99% can stop the privatization of government.
Jon Richards | Posted 05.22.2012