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David Koch, one of the richest men in America and owner of the largest private energy company in the United States took to the stage over the Christmas holiday to receive praise for his $2.5 million sponsorship of the American Ballet Theatre's production of the Nutcracker... and a strange thing happened.
David Koch Booed at NY Christmas Ballet Performance | Greenpeace
Microsoft Funds Koch’s Climate-Denying Tea Party Conference | Microsoft Corporation, which argues that climate pollution requires a “ comprehensive and global response ,” is sponsoring the Koch brothers’ Tea Party convention taking place in Washington, DC. Microsoft is a “gold sponsor” of the Americans For Prosperity Foundation’s fifth annual Defending The American Dream Summit, cheek and jowl with top climate denial front groups like the Heartland Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Microsoft Funds Koch's Climate-Denying Tea Party Conference
This week on the AlterNet Radio Hour, RJ Eskow -- a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and host of The Breakdown -- and Joshua Holland untangle the ugly fiction that half the country are indolent "takers," while half are tax-paying "makers."
Koch Group Gathering Disrupted by Occupy DC Protesters; Things Get Tense as Activists Surround Building
New evidence could clear 14-year-old executed by South Carolina
By David Edwards Monday, October 3, 2011 9:00 EDT Over 67 years after 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. was put to death by the state of South Carolina, he may soon be cleared of the crime that people familiar with the case say he never could have committed.
Supreme Court Preview: The Words of Summer - Andrew Cohen - National
This is the second in a three-part series this week previewing the upcoming October term.
In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France.
Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales
Michael Moore on Book TV's In Depth
Michael Moore is our guest on Book TV's In Depth today. The award-winning documentary filmmaker and former editor of Mother Jones magazine will spend three hours taking viewers’ calls, emails and tweets on topics like the economy, voter apathy, globalization, and the fight against terrorism. The Flint, Michigan native is the author of several books, including the bestsellers, “Downsize This,” “Dude, Where’s My Country?”
Koch brothers’ firm hid subsidiary’s violations of criminal law
By Muriel Kane Sunday, October 2, 2011 20:06 EDT
Pizza Magnate Herman Cain Has Extensive Ties To Powerful Koch Group
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital.
By David Edwards Tuesday, October 11, 2011 13:40 EDT
Film exposes cancer epidemic downstream from Koch Industries plant
A just-published bombshell article in the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine implicates Koch Industries , the company controlled by Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch , in dozens of criminal acts around the globe over the past three decades.
What money can buy in the politcal system of the US by kathologist Nov 6