Archiv: Koch brothers


20.02.2023 - 07:41 [ theIntercept.com ]

GOP Megadonor Is Funding a Far-Right Israeli Think Tank — and Establishment Democrats

Pulling from the playbook of the American Legislative Exchange Council — a Koch-backed group that writes model legislation for conservative lawmakers across the U.S. — Kohelet’s founder helped draft the law that became Israel’s Basic Law on the Nation-State in 2018. The controversial policy established Jewish people as having the sole right to self-determination, downgraded Arabic from its status as an official language, and declared the development of Jewish settlement a “national value.” Kohelet also drafted a new law that gives Israel’s Parliament the power to override Supreme Court decisions, grants the government complete control over judicial appointments, and abolishes the courts’ reasonableness doctrine, which was most recently used to disqualify a thrice-convicted criminal and Netanyahu ally from serving as health and interior minister.

06.05.2020 - 14:31 [ Saagar Enjeti, Host of Rising w/ Krystal and Saagar / Twitter ]

You can‘t make this stuff up. Chinese State media citing CATO institute reports on free trade

24.08.2019 - 09:29 [ New York Times ]

How David Koch and His Brother Shaped American Politics

The billionaire, who died Friday, understood the power of changing ‘hearts and minds.’ He spent almost unlimited money on behalf of limited government.

24.08.2019 - 08:58 [ New York Times ]

David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79

Since the 1970s, the Kochs have spent at least $100 million — some estimates put it at much more — to transform a fringe movement into a formidable political force aimed at moving America to the far right by influencing the outcome of elections, undoing limits on campaign contributions and promoting conservative candidacies, think tanks and policies.

11.06.2019 - 19:57 [ Bernie Sanders, candidate for President / Twitter ]

The Koch Brothers are preparing to try to buy the Democratic Party and buy the 2020 election. We cannot let them. The only way we will stop them is to build a grassroots progressive campaign that rejects their right-wing ideology.

11.06.2019 - 19:54 [ CNBC.com ]

Koch network opens its doors to Democrats as it expands political engagement

The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity is opening its doors to backing Democrats running for office in 2019 and 2020.
Historically the political network has only backed Republicans.

15.07.2018 - 10:38 [ CNBC ]

Billionaire Koch brothers network unveils phase one of multimillion-dollar ad campaign against Trump‘s tariffs

(20.6.2018) Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are unveiling a multimillion-dollar ad campaign against President Trump‘s tariffs.
The first phase of the ad campaign, which is funded by the Koch network‘s Freedom Partners organization, will air on TV and radio starting Monday.
The campaign will call on Congress to support free trade policies and abandon Trump‘s protectionist goals.

15.07.2018 - 10:35 [ USA Today ]

Exclusive: Secret money funds more than 40 percent of outside congressional ads

(12.7.2018) Secret donors financed more than four out of every 10 television ads that outside groups broadcast this year to influence November’s high-stakes congressional elections, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Kantar Media data.

Leading the way: organizations affiliated with billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, whose conservative donor network plows hundreds of millions of dollars into politics and policy debates each election cycle.