Misinform the Majority
Great, necessary read for #resistance . Misinforming the Majority: A Deliberate Strategy of Right-Wing Libertarians https://t.co/GEwgSRySGj — Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) July 9, 2017
Continue ReadingPlease read Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
Great, necessary read for #resistance . Misinforming the Majority: A Deliberate Strategy of Right-Wing Libertarians https://t.co/GEwgSRySGj — Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) July 9, 2017
Continue ReadingNancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan for America, 2017, Penguin, 239 pages plus 95 more of notes & index, 17 May 2019. A Reader’s Guide Rod Kessler _ _ _ _ _ This book tells “the utterly chilling story of the ideological origins of the single most […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this month, activists from UnKoch My Campus ran a webinar about free speech on university campuses and what the Kochs are doing to suppress it. “Campus Free Speech bills,” they warn, “are popping up across the country demanding that college students be punished for disrupting speakers on campus. This corporate-backed movement is propagating White […]
Continue ReadingIn her March 14 “Letters from an American,” Political blogger and Boston College American historian Heather Cox Richardson unsparingly draws the links between Donald Trump’s and the present administration’s inadequate response to the growing pandemic and the four-decades-long assault by big-monied reactionary forces—think “Koch network”—on FDR’s New Deal and the American social safety net it […]
Continue ReadingA Koch inspired Trump strategy of gutting the CDC and ignoring science and medical experts, or a strategy based upon medical science and good government. Which do we prefer? We are betting our lives on it. Heather Cox Richardson March 11 “…If we can slow (Covid19) down, we can help to make sure that hospitals […]
Continue ReadingFrom Yahoo News – The Kochs’ nonprofit empire is building a network of libertarian hackers, coders and designers SAN FRANCISCO — It was nearing 2 a.m., the AC had been shut off and the air in the century-old downtown office of Brigade Media, a tech startup that hosted a hackathon in conjunction with a libertarian […]
Continue Reading“Why The Koch Brothers Have So Much Influence On Trump: It Starts With Pence👉 Kellyanne Conway &White House Chief of Staff Reince among 16 senior WH officials with ties to the fundraising empire of billionaire Charles Koch” h/t Seeshell. https://t.co/XuPLYGvArc — Helen’s left ✍️ 5calls.org (@Cruellaisdevine) March 2, 2020
Continue ReadingLetter to the Marblehead Reporter by Jack Weltner We hope that someone will save us from the Corona virus. Maybe our government? There was an office overseeing the US response to possible global pandemics, until last year when John Bolton fired the global health security team. This is only one example of the hollowing […]
Continue ReadingFrom Sheila Kennedy, March 1 Oh, Indiana! Ours is a state so gerrymandered that control of our legislature remains firmly in the hands of a Republican super-majority. To say that the lack of competition has given us state lawmakers who reflect the party’s ideological extremes would be an understatement. So what is the “World’s Worst […]
Continue ReadingFrom Robert Reich on Inequality Media – 3/1 excerpt Koch Network – Trump follows their strategy Trump has taken several other steps, all of them backward. He has eliminated a National Security Council position that coordinates responses to pandemics. He has ignored an expert panel’s warning that the US is badly unprepared for global health […]
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