Agents of Influence: The Pitiful Presidential Pollsters
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. —George Carlin Every four years,…
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Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Free Money Versus Free Enterprise
At the end of 1976, Henry Ford II, resigned from the Ford Foundation board of directors. In his resignation letter, he advised the foundation's board, “I'm just suggesting to the…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Revolutions and Bullhorns
For nonprofits that really want the Ford funding spigot wide open, it is difficult to understate the importance of portraying supporters shouting through bullhorns, engaging in street demonstrations, and preaching…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Crime and Democracy
Claiming that their preferred flavor of multi-whatever democracy has never existed and pledging to put it in place is clearly a winning message for aspiring grantees. Perversely, Ford’s philanthropoids also…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Shaping the News
Ford grants are also showered upon those who help inject left-wing messages into media and culture. Since the beginning of 2023, those in charge of Henry’s money have shipped out…
Kill the New York Times Editorial Board, Urges Major Anti-Israel Anarchist Group
The Escalate Network, an influential anti-Israel and pro-Hamas group associated with anarchism, told its 6,000 followers that “the NYT [New York Times] editorial board is going to hell and it…
Capital Research, March/April 2023
In the March/April 2023 issue of Capital Research, teachers unions push lower standards in public schools. Corporate media degenerates into a de facto Ministry of Truth. Labor builds ever-stronger ties…
Pushback to Social Justice Unionism at the New York Times
The shock troops of social justice unionism have been the writers’ unions at major media outlets, which are typically affiliated with the NewsGuild. But in a recent controversy at the…
The Murdoch Mission to Save Democracy: The Rest of the Story
On March 14 the New York Times ran a profile of wealthy lefty activist Kathryn Murdoch, daughter-in-law of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, under the cloying headline “How a Murdoch Hopes…
Russiagate Had a Prequel Hoax
Almost exactly a century after the Sisson Hoax—documents claiming that Lenin and Trotsky were German agents—came the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax. Once again, top-level American politicians credulously swallowed and investigated a…