"Nonprofits" Tied to Karl Rove, Koch Brothers Spend Millions on Elections and...
AMY GOODMAN: With the presidential election less than three months away, Republicans and Democrats are blanketing the airwaves with campaign ads. Much has been written about the super PACs behind...
View ArticleAmy Goodman Questions Top GOP Donor David Koch: Does Concentration of Wealth...
AMY GOODMAN: The issue of money, money in politics. Our job as journalists is to go to where the silence is, and that’s often following the money trail. We try to get into the corporate suites of the...
View ArticleThe Romney-Koch Handshake: Network TV Misses Revealing Moment Between Nominee...
AMY GOODMAN: I want to go back to that moment when Mitt Romney made his entrance on Thursday night. He walked down the aisle of the Republican convention, and as he was passing the New York...
View ArticleKoch Brothers Among U.S. Billionaires Pressuring Thousands of Employees to...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re continuing our 100-city tour, back in New York. We’ll be covering the presidential debate tomorrow night at Hofstra and expanding the debate Wednesday morning on Democracy Now!,...
View ArticleFrom Fossil Fuels to Global Warming Denial, Koch Brothers May Be Biggest...
AMY GOODMAN: Singfortheclimate.com. Yes, 5 percent of the Belgian population came out into the streets and sang this song. Today at the Doha summit, we went to a news conference where major climate...
View ArticleThousands Protest Michigan's Anti-Union Law, But Deep Pockets of Right-Wing...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s show in Michigan, where Republican Governor Rick Snyder has signed into law two highly controversial anti-union bills, officially making the historic union stronghold...
View ArticleVIDEO: New "Kochtopus" Graphic Maps the Influence of Billionaire Koch...
The author of a new report on U.S. carbon billionaires gives Democracy Now! a tour of the Kochtopus — a map of the empire of Charles and David Koch. The Kochs run oil refineries and control thousands...
View ArticleMunicipal Broadband Networks Bridge the Digital Divide as Telecom Industry...
AMY GOODMAN: We don’t usually broadcast live from movie theaters, but that’s what we’re doing right here in Silver Spring at the AFI Silver, which is a well-known movie theater here. But today and...
View ArticleDonors Trust: Little-Known Group Helps Wealthy Backers Fund Right-Wing Agenda...
AARON MATÉ: When it comes to the wealthy funders of right-wing causes, the big names are well known: billionaires like the industrialist Koch Brothers and the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, super PACs...
View ArticleAt National Conference for Media Reform, Activists Hope to Stop Murdoch,...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. We are broadcasting from the National Conference for Media Reform here in Denver, Colorado, from Denver Open Media,...
View ArticleDid Public Television Commit Self-Censorship to Appease Billionaire Funder...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Rallies were held in 12 cities Wednesday to protest the possible sale of the Tribune newspaper chain to the Koch brothers, the billionaire backers of the tea party and other right-wing...
View ArticleFrom Funding Climate Deniers to Shadowy Groups, Koch Brothers Network Spent...
AMY GOODMAN: We end today’s show with an in-depth look at one of the biggest political operations in the country: a vast network of politically active nonprofit groups funded by the billionaire...
View ArticleBehind the Koch Brothers: New Book Spills the Secrets of Nation's Most...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: To talk more about the Koch brothers, we turn now to Daniel Schulman. He’s a senior editor at Mother Jones magazine, and his new book, just out this week, is Sons of Wichita: How the...
View ArticleKoch Brothers Exposed: The Chilling New Documentary Republicans Don't Want...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: There’s a chilling new documentary about the billionaire Koch brothers that some Republicans don’t want you to see. On Monday, Republican Representative Candice Miller of Michigan tried...
View ArticleThe Kochs' Anti-Civil Rights Roots: New Docs Expose Charles Koch's Ties to...
AARON MATÉ: We turn now to "The Koch Cartel: Their Reach, Their Reactionary Agenda, and Their Record," a scathing new look at the Koch family’s role in the ultraconservative John Birch Society. The...
View ArticleOn 5th Anniversary of Citizens United, GOP Taps Koch Brothers-Backed Senator...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: It was five years ago today that the Supreme Court issued its landmark Citizens United decision, allowing unlimited political spending by corporations and unions. Some of the biggest...
View ArticleWhy Is Climate Denier David Koch on the Board of Top Science Museums? Letter...
AMY GOODMAN: We end today’s show with a look at how the nation’s top museums are facing calls to cut ties with billionaire funders who profit from global warming. In an open letter, a coalition of...
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