Cato Institute

Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill

| Importance: 9/10

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (cap-and-trade climate bill) on June 26, 2009, the Koch brothers’ network immediately launched a massive campaign to kill the legislation in the Senate. Americans for Prosperity, whose top …

Koch brothers Charles Koch David Koch Americans for Prosperity Heritage Foundation +4 more climate-denial regulatory-capture lobbying environmental corporate-corruption +1 more
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Powell Memorandum Institutional Network Establishes Systematic Crisis Coordination with WHIG Operations

| Importance: 8/10

The complete Powell Memorandum institutional network—including American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, Hoover Institution, Federalist Society, and coordinated corporate media—establishes systematic coordination with WHIG operations for crisis-accelerated implementation of institutional …

American Enterprise Institute Cato Institute Hoover Institution Federalist Society White House Iraq Group +5 more powell-memorandum-acceleration institutional-network-coordination whig-think-tank-merger crisis-exploitation-infrastructure systematic-capture-acceleration +4 more
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Cato Institute Organizational Profile: 'Libertarian' Cover for Corporate Deregulation Agenda

| Importance: 8/10

Comprehensive organizational analysis reveals Cato Institute as mechanism for laundering corporate deregulation agenda as ’libertarian principle.’ Founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch with $500,000 initial funding from Koch Industries, Cato packages opposition …

Cato Institute Charles Koch Ed Crane Murray Rothbard Peter Ferrara +3 more organizational-profile libertarian-cover corporate-deregulation koch-network social-security-privatization +3 more
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