The New Yorker has published a must-read article exposing the long reach of the "Kochtopus" [1] network set up by Koch Industries [2] to fuel the Tea Party and fund the climate denial machine.
Written by investigative journalist Jane Mayer, the piece titled "Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging war against Obama" [1] explores the decades-long efforts of brothers David and Charles Koch to manipulate and deceive the public on issues ranging from climate change to cancer-causing chemicals.
Koch Industries has done far more than even ExxonMobil to fund the climate denial machine in recent years, and media coverage about numerous Tea Party and GOP candidates [3] who deny the science of climate change [4] confirm that the Kochs' reach has infected national politics in unprecedented ways.
The lengthy New Yorker article [1] covers many interesting new angles about the Kochs' influence-peddling empire, and adds to a growing body of research about Koch Industries' anti-science, anti-democratic activities.
Building upon the research from Greenpeace's excellent Koch report [2] earlier this year, Jane Mayer expands on Koch's role in funding climate deniers and anti-science think tanks, not to mention the Tea Party.
Head over to The New Yorker [1] to read the slimy details.