Koch's Americans for Prosperity Recycles Debunked Public Health Care...
Americans for Prosperity, the free-market group backed by millions from the Koch brothers, are recycling an anti-public health care ad they ran in 2009 thatwas thoroughly trashed at the timefor its...
View ArticleThe faces of the modern day tobacco lobby
There is still today a massive amount of money spent on lobbyists by the tobacco industry to ensure that their interests are taken care of in Washington, DC. Everyday people working on behalf of...
View Article'Pivotal' Obama Campaigner Lobbied White House on Keystone XL Pipeline Project
In 2010, Jeff Berman, a prominent member of the 2008 Obama election team and the Democratic National Committee, was listed in the US lobbyist registry as working on behalf of the Transcanada Pipeline,...
View ArticleDemocrat Candidates Taking Koch Industry Donations
A Democrat taking money from Koch Industries seems to me akin to an anti-war protester taking money from an bomb maker.
View ArticleRomney Campaign Gets Cozy with DC Lobby Firm Patton Boggs
Politico is reporting that this coming Tuesday the DC lobby firm Patton Bogg's will hold a fundraiser for presidential candidate Mitt Romney. This comes as a bit of surprise given the historical roots...
View ArticleLet's blow up Climate Heroes Campaign Coffers
When people do the right thing for the right reason they should be rewarded.That's especially true when it comes to politicians because if they aren't rewarded by voters for good behaviour they'll...
View ArticleWill media fall for fake Cato climate report?
Cato Institute, the right wing think tank co-founded by the Koch brothers, plans to release a document this week that has all the appearances of being a government report on the impacts of climate...
View ArticleDoes John Boehner still despise non-smokers?
A 1994 memo contained in the tobacco archives, shows a campaign donation from the tobacco industry going to now Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) because Boehner, "a smoker himself, has nothing...
View ArticleNew report shows Koch money scrubbed before funding the right wing attack...
A new report released today exclusively on DeSmogBlog unravels a scheme that funnels money from the notorious Koch Brothers through a third party organization and which in turn makes anonymous...
View ArticleWill Romney PR Flack Andrea Saul Spin Hurricane Sandy like she did Katrina?
Andrea Saul currently serves as Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's press secretary, but in 2006 she was heavily involved in the attack against the scientific evidence showing that climate change was...
View ArticleClimate Refugees in America
This is a chilling video of a voicemail from a Hurricane Sandy victim in the Long Island neighbourhood of Rockaway Peninsula. With scientists telling us that climate change is raising sea levels, storm...
View ArticleProposed Aviation Law Will Test President Obama's Climate Change Commitment
In his acceptance speech last Tuesday, President Obama stated that: "We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by...
View ArticleOne week & Obama Already Waffling on Climate Change Commitment
In his first press conference after being re-elected, President Obama told reporters that climate change could take a backseat to efforts to boost the economy in the near term.It sure didn't take the...
View ArticleShell's Containment Dome for Arctic Drilling "Crushed Like a Beer Can"
According to government reports, when oil giant Shell (LON:RDSA) tested the containment dome they would use in the event of a spill at an offshore drilling operation in the Northern Arctic seas, the...
View ArticleRep. Markey Questions Interior Dept. After Shell's Containment Dome Fail
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass), has penned a letter to Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, looking for answers about a Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) containment dome that "crushed like a beer can" in...
View ArticleFox News Coal "Expert" is Former Pro-Tobacco Scientist
Tom Borelli, a former science director at Philip Morris who fought claims that secondhand tobacco causes lung cancer and respiratory illness in children, is now touted on Fox News as an expert on the...
View ArticleIdle No More Battling the Right in the Great White North
So here I thought moving back to Canada from Washington, DC, I would get a little break from politics. That isn't happening and it's thanks to an amazing citizens movement that is taking the country by...
View ArticleKerry's first Bilateral Today With Canada's Head Keystone XL Cheerleader
Newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet on Friday with his Canadian counterpart, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. In any such bilateral meeting, it is paramount that each...
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Koch Planning Tea Party Since 2002, New Research Paper Reveals
Shattering the public perception that the Tea Party is a spontaneous popular citizens movement, a new academic paper provides evidence that an organization founded by David and Charles Koch, attempted...
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