Truthdigger of the Week: Robert Reich

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2011 He's a product of the most influential institutions of our country and has served in three administrations But despite being entrenched within the system for the majority of his career, Robert Reich uses his powers for good, and that's why he's our Truthdigger of the Week Update: TranscriptDespite being entrenched within the system for the majority of his career, Robert Reich uses his powers for good. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Koch Industries Is Awash in Money and Misdeeds

Staff / Truthdig Oct 4, 2011 Contracts won with bribes, falsified safety and emissions reports, price fixing, illegal dealings with Iran and stolen oil. Bloomberg has compiled a detailed litany of loosely related bad behaviors by the managers of Koch Industries and its subsidiary companies. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Koch Brothers’ Gallery of Million-Dollar Buddies

Staff / Truthdig Sep 9, 2011 Twice yearly, the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch assemble a crowd of wealthy economic libertarian sympathizers to raise funds for their efforts to influence government and the American public. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Koch Brothers and Public School Segregation

Staff / Truthdig Aug 17, 2011 In its latest attack on the billionaire Koch brothers, Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films shows how the fearsome libertarian duo used their wealth and power to elect four segregationists to North Carolina's Wake County school board in 2009. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Waving the ‘Anarcho-Capitalism’ Flag

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2011 It's a theory that seeks the removal of government oversight from any and all economic and social activity, which has been steadily adopted by legislators and policymakers on the right, and some on the left, for the past three decades, and tea partiers may actually be opposed to it. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

IRS to Tax the Purchase of Political Power Through Nonprofits

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2011 Clandestine political financiers such as David H. Koch, who along with his brother Charles has bankrolled the tea party movement, may soon be hit with “gift taxes” for each donation to nonprofit political advocacy groups. The Internal Revenue Service has been able to tax such contributions since 1982, but it has rarely happened, The New York Times reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Koch Buys Right to Pick FSU Faculty

Staff / Truthdig May 10, 2011 Billionaire Charles Koch pledged $1.5 million to Florida State University's economics department three years ago with the stipulation that his staff would screen the faculty hired for a program on "political economy and free enterprise." (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

It’s Good to Be a Koch

Staff / Truthdig May 6, 2011 Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films wonders why the Koch brothers, with $42 billion and seven homes, are attacking the most vulnerable Americans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tea Party Benefactor David Koch Plays a Game of ‘Ask the Right-Wing Billionaire’

Staff / Truthdig May 5, 2011 Oil tycoon David Koch offered his seemingly unsolicited opinion to a New York Magazine reporter, saying he didn’t think President Obama deserved any credit for taking down Osama bin Laden (more) . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gov. Walker Does ‘Something Big’

Stanley Kutler / Truthdig Mar 5, 2011 The tea-party-enabled Wisconsin Legislature is working overtime to protect its governor. The tea-party-enabled Wisconsin Legislature is working overtime to protect its governor. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Anonymous Returns

Staff / Truthdig Mar 5, 2011 Hacker group Anonymous takes down a Koch-backed website, two GOP groups plan to spend $120 million on the 2012 campaign, and sex in a Northwestern University classroom. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Yes, America Still Needs Unions

Joe Conason / Truthdig Feb 24, 2011 Even in its terribly weakened condition, the labor movement remains a bulwark against the kind of corporate tyranny that would swiftly make serfs of the rest of us. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )