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Revealed: Extensive Koch Links to New Right-Wing $250 Million Mega Fund
Shadowy group Freedom Partners has extensive hidden connections to Koch Industries and to charities connected to Charles Koch.
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Lawsuit Challenges IRS to Crack Down on Dark Money Groups Like Rove’s Crossroads GPS
The lawsuit would force the IRS to tighten its standards.
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Cash and Congress: The Tie That Binds
Their fat wallets and deep pockets bring together Democrats and Republicans like no one else in a collegial spirit of kumbaya as they dive for dollars in exchange for …
John Nichols and Robert McChesney: Progressives Ask for Too Little, Not Too Much in Age of Plutocratic Rule
Truthout speaks with John Nichols and Robert McChesney about their new book, “Dollarocracy.”
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Investigation: What the JPMorgan Chase Energy Scandal Reveals About Fossil Fuel Financing
Chase took advantage of a loophole in the energy markets, scamming taxpayers and inflating energy costs.
New Monetary Systems for a Sustainable Democracy and “The Great Turning“
Our money system is ill-equipped to help us solve the socio-economic and ecological challenges we face.
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Global Power Project, Part 7: Banking on Influence With Citigroup
This big bank has a sordid history of predatory profiteering and criminal activity, not unlike all the other large banks.
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Koch Industries PAC Spending Significantly More Compared to Recent Election Cycles
KOCHPAC donated $559,000 to federal-level political candidates and committees during the first five months of the year.
Global Power Project, Part 1: Exposing the Transnational Capitalist Class
The global elite are not defined by their wealth alone, but through the networks in which they wield influence.
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Consumer Groups, Shareholders Call for Google to Leave US Chamber of Commerce, Disclose Political Spending
Outside spending in elections quadrupled between 2010 and 2012 after the Citizens United ruling cleared the way for corporations to privately donate unlimited sums to political candidates.