Jane Mayer, New Koch: Rebranding the Koch Brothers. The New Yorker, 25 January 2016. “The billionaire brothers are championing criminal-justice reform. Has their formula changed?… On the night of November 2nd [2015], well-dressed Wichita residents formed a line that snaked through the lobby of the city’s convention center. They all held tickets to the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce’s annual gala, which had drawn thirty-five hundred people. The evening’s featured speaker, Charles Koch, had lived in town almost all of his eighty years, but few locals—even prominent ones—had ever laid eyes on him. Charles, along with his brother David, owns virtually all of the energy-and-chemical conglomerate Koch Industries, which is based in Wichita and has annual revenues of a hundred and fifteen billion dollars. Charles’s secretive manner, right-wing views, and concerted campaign to exert political influence by spending his fortune have made him an object of fascination, especially in his home town. “You never see him,” one local newsman whispered.”
January 25, 2016
New Koch: Rebranding the Koch Brothers
January 25, 2016 Filed Under: Campaign Finance, Corporations, Criminal Justice, Politics, The One Percent Tagged With: alexander hertel-fernandez, american civil liberties union, Americans for Prosperity, arthur brooks (president of the american enterprise institute), center for american progress, charles koch, criminal justice reform, david axelrod, david koch, david uhlmann, environmental protection agency (e.p.a.), fraser seitel (president of public-relations firm emerald partners), jane mayer, joe scarborough, koch industries, lauren windsor, libertarian, libre initiative, mark holden, mika brzezinski, msnbc, oligarchs, rebranding image of koch brothers, republican national committee, richard fink (kochs' closest political adviser), steve lombardo, theda skocpol, united negro college fund, valerie jarrett, van jones, wichita kansas chamber of commerce
November 1, 2013
NSA Files: Decoded: What the Edward Snowden revelations mean for you
Ewen MacAskill and Gabriel Dance, NSA Files: Decoded. The Guardian. 1 November 2013. “The story in a nutshell: The Snowden files reveal a number of mass-surveillance programs undertaken by the NSA and GCHQ. The agencies are able to access information stored by major US technology companies, often without individual warrants, as well as mass-intercepting data from the fibre-optic cables which make up the backbone of global phone and internet networks. The agencies have also worked to undermine the security standards upon which the internet, commerce and banking rely.”
November 1, 2013 Filed Under: NSA/GCHQ and the Snowden Revelations Tagged With: american civil liberties union, electronic frontier foundation, foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978-fisa, general keith alexander-director of the nsa, glenn greenwald, government communications headquarters-gchq, jameel jaffer, james clapper-u.s. director of national intelligence, jeremy scahill, metadata, ron wyden