Krugman: Trading With The Enemy

[ProSense]

Trading With The Enemy

Suppose you were going to write a political-thriller potboiler. You might invent something like this: a family of billionaires who support right-wing causes and pose as super-patriots, while actually using their political influence to cover for wrongdoing on multiple fronts — not just endangering workers and the environment, but even making deals with foreign regimes that are actively anti-United States and sponsor terrorists.

Reviewers would, of course, turn up their noses — this is patently unrealistic, super-villains like that don’t exist in real life.

Oh, wait. Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales.

This isn’t a story on Daily Kos, not that there’s anything wrong with that; it’s a heavily reported piece from Bloomberg that is utterly damning.

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[nilram]

1. K+R

Thank-you Krugman!

[bvar22]

2. WOW.

K&R


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity with the 99!
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[Telly Savalas]

3. Even those of you who have a beef with Krugman for whatever reason

would do well to read the Bloomberg article.

It's a pretty damning indictment of Koch coming from a source that's pretty hard for anybody to dismiss as having a left-leaning bias.

[Supersedeas]

4. left leaning and hard hitting