{"id":35414,"date":"2018-06-23T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35414"},"modified":"2018-06-23T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T19:30:48","slug":"big-oils-man-in-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35414","title":{"rendered":"Big Oil\u2019s Man in Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Oil\u2019s Man in Foreign Policy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Koch brothers\u2019 extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns has always been inextricably entwined with the profiteering agenda of their wholly-owned, $100-billion-a-year industrial conglomerate.<\/p>\n

The brothers\u2019 plutocratic view of business-as-government even has a name: Pompeo. As in Mike Pompeo, the Trump regime\u2019s latest secretary of state.<\/p>\n

Years ago, while living in the billionaire brothers\u2019 hometown of Wichita, Kansas, Mike got lucky when they pumped a load of Koch capital into a business he\u2019d started, turning him into a millionaire. Then, they partnered with him in another business that essentially made him a Koch Industries subsidiary: politics.<\/p>\n

In 2010, they turned this business asset they\u2019d created into a political asset, providing the money from KOCHPAC and the backing of their right-wing front group to elect Pompeo to serve as \u201cthe Congressman from Koch.\u201d The brothers even installed a Koch Industries lobbyist to run his congressional office.<\/p>\n

So, Mike\u2019s been a loyal Koch-head, conferring with them and backing bills to advance their corporate and political fortunes. Their investment in Mike became a bonanza last year when he became Trump\u2019s yes-man as the head of the CIA. And now, they\u2019ve hit the political jackpot, with Pompeo becoming head of the State Department.<\/p>\n

On everything from international oil deals that profit multinational giants like Koch Industries to relentless opposition to all global efforts that would restrict fossil fuel profiteers from causing more climate change, the Koch\u2019s personal political insider is now their global corporate asset.<\/p>\n

To keep up with how Pompeo converts Koch-headed corporatism into U.S. foreign policy, go to PR Watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Oil\u2019s Man in Foreign Policy The Koch brothers\u2019 extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns has always been inextricably entwined with the profiteering agenda of their wholly-owned, $100-billion-a-year industrial conglomerate. The brothers\u2019 plutocratic view of business-as-government even has a name: Pompeo. As in Mike Pompeo, the Trump regime\u2019s latest secretary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[2688,5493,7844,20630,1515,15128,1174],"class_list":["post-35414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-big-oil","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-jim-hightower","tag-koch-brothers","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-us-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35415,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414\/revisions\/35415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}