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These are the guys that own Trump. They also own Vance, so they've got choice. And if a Dem gets in next time, well, their money will just flow that way instead.
Everyone that matters is happy. Business as usual:
When this all started, 1971, with the Powell memo, David Rockefeller & the Trilateral Commission:
#USPol #EUPol #trump #vance #thiel #USImperialism #oligarchy #PowellMemo #trilateralCommission #Rockefeller .
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These are the guys that own Trump. They also own Vance, so they've got choice. And if a Dem gets in next time, well, their money will just flow that way instead.
Everyone that matters is happy. Business as usual:
When this all started, 1971, with the Powell memo, David Rockefeller & the Trilateral Commission:
#USPol #EUPol #trump #vance #thiel #USImperialism #oligarchy #PowellMemo #trilateralCommission #Rockefeller .
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These are the guys that own Trump. They also own Vance, so they've got choice. And if a Dem gets in next time, well, their money will just flow that way instead.
Everyone that matters is happy. Business as usual:
When this all started, 1971, with the Powell memo, David Rockefeller & the Trilateral Commission:
#USPol #EUPol #trump #vance #thiel #USImperialism #oligarchy #PowellMemo #trilateralCommission #Rockefeller .
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These are the guys that own Trump. They also own Vance, so they've got choice. And if a Dem gets in next time, well, their money will just flow that way instead.
Everyone that matters is happy. Business as usual:
When this all started, 1971, with the Powell memo, David Rockefeller & the Trilateral Commission:
#USPol #EUPol #trump #vance #thiel #USImperialism #oligarchy #PowellMemo #trilateralCommission #Rockefeller .
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Knowledge is power. Feel free to help yourself to some:
https://youtu.be/bbbgfnpJN9w?si=9MD_0d5zXb6ouDsx
#uschamberofcommerce #lewispowell #powellmemo #useconomics #consumer #labor #environmental #socialcontract #workers #shareholder #politicalcombat #uspol #jointorganizing #jointfundingn #tradeorganization #bigbusiness #businesscrusade #corporatepolitics #lobbyists #ftc #federaltradecommission #consumeradvocate #congress #advertising #reaganadministration #corporatemisbehavior #corporateamerica #scotus #citizensunited -
Knowledge is power. Feel free to help yourself to some:
https://youtu.be/bbbgfnpJN9w?si=9MD_0d5zXb6ouDsx
#uschamberofcommerce #lewispowell #powellmemo #useconomics #consumer #labor #environmental #socialcontract #workers #shareholder #politicalcombat #uspol #jointorganizing #jointfundingn #tradeorganization #bigbusiness #businesscrusade #corporatepolitics #lobbyists #ftc #federaltradecommission #consumeradvocate #congress #advertising #reaganadministration #corporatemisbehavior #corporateamerica #scotus #citizensunited -
"Then, back lit, filling the saloon doors, amid swirling dust, staring down the debauch...comes Lina Khan."
https://3m.fyi/posts/the-redemption-of-lawyers/
#LinaKhan #CoryDoctorrow #Monopolies #lawyers #PowellMemo #PowellMemorandum #Bork #Nixon #Reagan #AntiTrust #Oligarchs #Oligarchy #Plutocrats #Plutocracy #Trump #Law #BreakEmUp #Litigate #democracy #FTC #Mamdani #Zoran #NYC
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"Then, back lit, filling the saloon doors, amid swirling dust, staring down the debauch...comes Lina Khan."
https://3m.fyi/posts/the-redemption-of-lawyers/
#LinaKhan #CoryDoctorrow #Monopolies #lawyers #PowellMemo #PowellMemorandum #Bork #Nixon #Reagan #AntiTrust #Oligarchs #Oligarchy #Plutocrats #Plutocracy #Trump #Law #BreakEmUp #Litigate #democracy #FTC #Mamdani #Zoran #NYC
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"Then, back lit, filling the saloon doors, amid swirling dust, staring down the debauch...comes Lina Khan."
https://3m.fyi/posts/the-redemption-of-lawyers/
#LinaKhan #CoryDoctorrow #Monopolies #lawyers #PowellMemo #PowellMemorandum #Bork #Nixon #Reagan #AntiTrust #Oligarchs #Oligarchy #Plutocrats #Plutocracy #Trump #Law #BreakEmUp #Litigate #democracy #FTC #Mamdani #Zoran #NYC
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"Then, back lit, filling the saloon doors, amid swirling dust, staring down the debauch...comes Lina Khan."
https://3m.fyi/posts/the-redemption-of-lawyers/
#LinaKhan #CoryDoctorrow #Monopolies #lawyers #PowellMemo #PowellMemorandum #Bork #Nixon #Reagan #AntiTrust #Oligarchs #Oligarchy #Plutocrats #Plutocracy #Trump #Law #BreakEmUp #Litigate #democracy #FTC #Mamdani #Zoran #NYC
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"Then, back lit, filling the saloon doors, amid swirling dust, staring down the debauch...comes Lina Khan."
https://3m.fyi/posts/the-redemption-of-lawyers/
#LinaKhan #CoryDoctorrow #Monopolies #lawyers #PowellMemo #PowellMemorandum #Bork #Nixon #Reagan #AntiTrust #Oligarchs #Oligarchy #Plutocrats #Plutocracy #Trump #Law #BreakEmUp #Litigate #democracy #FTC #Mamdani #Zoran #NYC
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#Cruelty #trump #Morality #alt #democracy #Oligarchs #Resist #Resistance #Medicare #Elders #Ideology #FOX #Project2025 #PowellMemo #Culture #Ideology
Thom Hartman 7/3/2025
Trump’s Tax Cuts Come with a Body Count — Starting with GrandmaTrump’s “Big Ugly Bill” isn’t just cruel: it’s the latest salvo in the war against democracy and the “We” society…
WE vs ME THIS ISN’T JUST A POLICY DEBATE. THIS IS AN IDEALOGICAL WAR
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trumps-tax-cuts-come-with-a-body?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios
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#Cruelty #trump #Morality #alt #democracy #Oligarchs #Resist #Resistance #Medicare #Elders #Ideology #FOX #Project2025 #PowellMemo #Culture #Ideology
Thom Hartman 7/3/2025
Trump’s Tax Cuts Come with a Body Count — Starting with GrandmaTrump’s “Big Ugly Bill” isn’t just cruel: it’s the latest salvo in the war against democracy and the “We” society…
WE vs ME THIS ISN’T JUST A POLICY DEBATE. THIS IS AN IDEALOGICAL WAR
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trumps-tax-cuts-come-with-a-body?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios
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#Cruelty #trump #Morality #alt #democracy #Oligarchs #Resist #Resistance #Medicare #Elders #Ideology #FOX #Project2025 #PowellMemo #Culture #Ideology
Thom Hartman 7/3/2025
Trump’s Tax Cuts Come with a Body Count — Starting with GrandmaTrump’s “Big Ugly Bill” isn’t just cruel: it’s the latest salvo in the war against democracy and the “We” society…
WE vs ME THIS ISN’T JUST A POLICY DEBATE. THIS IS AN IDEALOGICAL WAR
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trumps-tax-cuts-come-with-a-body?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios
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#Cruelty #trump #Morality #alt #democracy #Oligarchs #Resist #Resistance #Medicare #Elders #Ideology #FOX #Project2025 #PowellMemo #Culture #Ideology
Thom Hartman 7/3/2025
Trump’s Tax Cuts Come with a Body Count — Starting with GrandmaTrump’s “Big Ugly Bill” isn’t just cruel: it’s the latest salvo in the war against democracy and the “We” society…
WE vs ME THIS ISN’T JUST A POLICY DEBATE. THIS IS AN IDEALOGICAL WAR
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trumps-tax-cuts-come-with-a-body?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios
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#Cruelty #trump #Morality #alt #democracy #Oligarchs #Resist #Resistance #Medicare #Elders #Ideology #FOX #Project2025 #PowellMemo #Culture #Ideology
Thom Hartman 7/3/2025
Trump’s Tax Cuts Come with a Body Count — Starting with GrandmaTrump’s “Big Ugly Bill” isn’t just cruel: it’s the latest salvo in the war against democracy and the “We” society…
WE vs ME THIS ISN’T JUST A POLICY DEBATE. THIS IS AN IDEALOGICAL WAR
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trumps-tax-cuts-come-with-a-body?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios
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#USpol #History
👉The *Real* Story Of What's Been Happening To The #AmericanDream👈*A Wrapup Of The Background Story*
Succinct!
https://youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0
#PowellMemo (0) #MandateForLeadership (3) #MAGA #Trumpism #FederalistSociety #Reaganism #DavidKoch (1) #MasterPlan (2)
#Project2025(0)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/powell-memo-project-2025-plutocracy/(1)
https://keithfrohreich.substack.com/p/progressive-blogthe-precursor-to -
#USpol #History
👉The *Real* Story Of What's Been Happening To The #AmericanDream👈*A Wrapup Of The Background Story*
Succinct!
https://youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0
#PowellMemo (0) #MandateForLeadership (3) #MAGA #Trumpism #FederalistSociety #Reaganism #DavidKoch (1) #MasterPlan (2)
#Project2025(0)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/powell-memo-project-2025-plutocracy/(1)
https://keithfrohreich.substack.com/p/progressive-blogthe-precursor-to -
#USpol #History
👉The *Real* Story Of What's Been Happening To The #AmericanDream👈*A Wrapup Of The Background Story*
Succinct!
https://youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0
#PowellMemo (0) #MandateForLeadership (3) #MAGA #Trumpism #FederalistSociety #Reaganism #DavidKoch (1) #MasterPlan (2)
#Project2025(0)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/powell-memo-project-2025-plutocracy/(1)
https://keithfrohreich.substack.com/p/progressive-blogthe-precursor-to -
#USpol #History
👉The *Real* Story Of What's Been Happening To The #AmericanDream👈*A Wrapup Of The Background Story*
Succinct!
https://youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0
#PowellMemo (0) #MandateForLeadership (3) #MAGA #Trumpism #FederalistSociety #Reaganism #DavidKoch (1) #MasterPlan (2)
#Project2025(0)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/powell-memo-project-2025-plutocracy/(1)
https://keithfrohreich.substack.com/p/progressive-blogthe-precursor-to -
#USpol #History
👉The *Real* Story Of What's Been Happening To The #AmericanDream👈*A Wrapup Of The Background Story*
Succinct!
https://youtube.com/shorts/IX1vw0V2MY0
#PowellMemo (0) #MandateForLeadership (3) #MAGA #Trumpism #FederalistSociety #Reaganism #DavidKoch (1) #MasterPlan (2)
#Project2025(0)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/powell-memo-project-2025-plutocracy/(1)
https://keithfrohreich.substack.com/p/progressive-blogthe-precursor-to -
"Those of us privileged to hold a public office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life today. And we are the defenders of a campaign finance system that is nothing less, than an elaborate influence peddling scheme, in which both parties conspire to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder."
Senator #JohnMcCain
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
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"Those of us privileged to hold a public office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life today. And we are the defenders of a campaign finance system that is nothing less, than an elaborate influence peddling scheme, in which both parties conspire to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder."
Senator #JohnMcCain
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
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"Those of us privileged to hold a public office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life today. And we are the defenders of a campaign finance system that is nothing less, than an elaborate influence peddling scheme, in which both parties conspire to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder."
Senator #JohnMcCain
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
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"Those of us privileged to hold a public office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life today. And we are the defenders of a campaign finance system that is nothing less, than an elaborate influence peddling scheme, in which both parties conspire to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder."
Senator #JohnMcCain
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
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"One of the things they need to do the implement Powell's memo, is destroy the laws that prevent them and their financial backers, from spending unlimited amounts of money to buy elections, politicians, and political power."
#DavidSirota, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
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"One of the things they need to do the implement Powell's memo, is destroy the laws that prevent them and their financial backers, from spending unlimited amounts of money to buy elections, politicians, and political power."
#DavidSirota, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
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"One of the things they need to do the implement Powell's memo, is destroy the laws that prevent them and their financial backers, from spending unlimited amounts of money to buy elections, politicians, and political power."
#DavidSirota, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
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"One of the things they need to do the implement Powell's memo, is destroy the laws that prevent them and their financial backers, from spending unlimited amounts of money to buy elections, politicians, and political power."
#DavidSirota, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
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You mean this here, I guess:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111870518503630692
Would need to read it again, but I think #Powell hadn't foreseen higher education as a threat to corporate power yet.
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You mean this here, I guess:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111870518503630692
Would need to read it again, but I think #Powell hadn't foreseen higher education as a threat to corporate power yet.
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You mean this here, I guess:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111870518503630692
Would need to read it again, but I think #Powell hadn't foreseen higher education as a threat to corporate power yet.
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You mean this here, I guess:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111870518503630692
Would need to read it again, but I think #Powell hadn't foreseen higher education as a threat to corporate power yet.
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You mean this here, I guess:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111870518503630692
Would need to read it again, but I think #Powell hadn't foreseen higher education as a threat to corporate power yet.
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The American Legislative Exchange Council, a major force behind harmful legislation enacted at the state level, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an Oct. 4 gala in Washington, D.C.
ALEC, founded in 1973 by right-wing political operative Paul “We Don’t Want Everyone to Vote” Weyrich, is a key part of the massive political infrastructure that corporations and right-wing foundations began building after the distribution of what is known as the “Powell Memo” – a warning from future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell that leftist ideology hostile to the free market was infesting America’s colleges and other institutions and a call for corporate America to fight back by creating its own institutions.
People For the American Way documented these political investments in “Buying a Movement: Right Wing Foundations and American Politics,” published in 1996, which noted that ALEC’s executive director had declared, “This is the infrastructure that will reclaim the states for our movement.”
Many of the organizations created in answer to Powell’s call, including ALEC and the Heritage Foundation, are now preparing to flex their political muscles in an all-out war on the federal agencies that protect American workers, consumers, communities, and the environment to be carried out by the next Republican president.
#powellmemo #wayrich #alec #heritagefoundation #rightwing
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-american-legislative-exchange-council-50-years-of-making-america-less-fair-less-safe-less-democratic/ -
The American Legislative Exchange Council, a major force behind harmful legislation enacted at the state level, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an Oct. 4 gala in Washington, D.C.
ALEC, founded in 1973 by right-wing political operative Paul “We Don’t Want Everyone to Vote” Weyrich, is a key part of the massive political infrastructure that corporations and right-wing foundations began building after the distribution of what is known as the “Powell Memo” – a warning from future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell that leftist ideology hostile to the free market was infesting America’s colleges and other institutions and a call for corporate America to fight back by creating its own institutions.
People For the American Way documented these political investments in “Buying a Movement: Right Wing Foundations and American Politics,” published in 1996, which noted that ALEC’s executive director had declared, “This is the infrastructure that will reclaim the states for our movement.”
Many of the organizations created in answer to Powell’s call, including ALEC and the Heritage Foundation, are now preparing to flex their political muscles in an all-out war on the federal agencies that protect American workers, consumers, communities, and the environment to be carried out by the next Republican president.
#powellmemo #wayrich #alec #heritagefoundation #rightwing
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-american-legislative-exchange-council-50-years-of-making-america-less-fair-less-safe-less-democratic/ -
The American Legislative Exchange Council, a major force behind harmful legislation enacted at the state level, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an Oct. 4 gala in Washington, D.C.
ALEC, founded in 1973 by right-wing political operative Paul “We Don’t Want Everyone to Vote” Weyrich, is a key part of the massive political infrastructure that corporations and right-wing foundations began building after the distribution of what is known as the “Powell Memo” – a warning from future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell that leftist ideology hostile to the free market was infesting America’s colleges and other institutions and a call for corporate America to fight back by creating its own institutions.
People For the American Way documented these political investments in “Buying a Movement: Right Wing Foundations and American Politics,” published in 1996, which noted that ALEC’s executive director had declared, “This is the infrastructure that will reclaim the states for our movement.”
Many of the organizations created in answer to Powell’s call, including ALEC and the Heritage Foundation, are now preparing to flex their political muscles in an all-out war on the federal agencies that protect American workers, consumers, communities, and the environment to be carried out by the next Republican president.
#powellmemo #wayrich #alec #heritagefoundation #rightwing
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-american-legislative-exchange-council-50-years-of-making-america-less-fair-less-safe-less-democratic/ -
The American Legislative Exchange Council, a major force behind harmful legislation enacted at the state level, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an Oct. 4 gala in Washington, D.C.
ALEC, founded in 1973 by right-wing political operative Paul “We Don’t Want Everyone to Vote” Weyrich, is a key part of the massive political infrastructure that corporations and right-wing foundations began building after the distribution of what is known as the “Powell Memo” – a warning from future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell that leftist ideology hostile to the free market was infesting America’s colleges and other institutions and a call for corporate America to fight back by creating its own institutions.
People For the American Way documented these political investments in “Buying a Movement: Right Wing Foundations and American Politics,” published in 1996, which noted that ALEC’s executive director had declared, “This is the infrastructure that will reclaim the states for our movement.”
Many of the organizations created in answer to Powell’s call, including ALEC and the Heritage Foundation, are now preparing to flex their political muscles in an all-out war on the federal agencies that protect American workers, consumers, communities, and the environment to be carried out by the next Republican president.
#powellmemo #wayrich #alec #heritagefoundation #rightwing
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-american-legislative-exchange-council-50-years-of-making-america-less-fair-less-safe-less-democratic/ -
The American Legislative Exchange Council, a major force behind harmful legislation enacted at the state level, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an Oct. 4 gala in Washington, D.C.
ALEC, founded in 1973 by right-wing political operative Paul “We Don’t Want Everyone to Vote” Weyrich, is a key part of the massive political infrastructure that corporations and right-wing foundations began building after the distribution of what is known as the “Powell Memo” – a warning from future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell that leftist ideology hostile to the free market was infesting America’s colleges and other institutions and a call for corporate America to fight back by creating its own institutions.
People For the American Way documented these political investments in “Buying a Movement: Right Wing Foundations and American Politics,” published in 1996, which noted that ALEC’s executive director had declared, “This is the infrastructure that will reclaim the states for our movement.”
Many of the organizations created in answer to Powell’s call, including ALEC and the Heritage Foundation, are now preparing to flex their political muscles in an all-out war on the federal agencies that protect American workers, consumers, communities, and the environment to be carried out by the next Republican president.
#powellmemo #wayrich #alec #heritagefoundation #rightwing
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-american-legislative-exchange-council-50-years-of-making-america-less-fair-less-safe-less-democratic/ -
In the 1960s masses of anti-Vietnam war, civil rights, women's liberation and gay rights activists took to the streets across the Global North.
On August 23, 1971, in the midst of this so-called "crisis of democracy", jurist Lewis F Powell Jr wrote to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce urging a full-scale counterattack on the enemy - namely, radical elements in higher education.
Who or what was driving the "massive assault" on American free enterprise?
Higher education was to blame, said Powell, and he urged the Chamber of Commerce to establish a special staff 'to address the campus origin of this hostility'
David Rockefeller, CEO and Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and billionaire grandson of John D Rockefeller, agreed with Powell.
A thorough study was needed.
But who were the right people to carry it out?(2/n)
Next: The Trilateral Commission of 'private citizens'#chamberofcommerce #rockefeller
#powellmemo #trilateralcommission -
In the 1960s masses of anti-Vietnam war, civil rights, women's liberation and gay rights activists took to the streets across the Global North.
On August 23, 1971, in the midst of this so-called "crisis of democracy", jurist Lewis F Powell Jr wrote to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce urging a full-scale counterattack on the enemy - namely, radical elements in higher education.
Who or what was driving the "massive assault" on American free enterprise?
Higher education was to blame, said Powell, and he urged the Chamber of Commerce to establish a special staff 'to address the campus origin of this hostility'
David Rockefeller, CEO and Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and billionaire grandson of John D Rockefeller, agreed with Powell.
A thorough study was needed.
But who were the right people to carry it out?(2/n)
Next: The Trilateral Commission of 'private citizens'#chamberofcommerce #rockefeller
#powellmemo #trilateralcommission -
In the 1960s masses of anti-Vietnam war, civil rights, women's liberation and gay rights activists took to the streets across the Global North.
On August 23, 1971, in the midst of this so-called "crisis of democracy", jurist Lewis F Powell Jr wrote to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce urging a full-scale counterattack on the enemy - namely, radical elements in higher education.
Who or what was driving the "massive assault" on American free enterprise?
Higher education was to blame, said Powell, and he urged the Chamber of Commerce to establish a special staff 'to address the campus origin of this hostility'
David Rockefeller, CEO and Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and billionaire grandson of John D Rockefeller, agreed with Powell.
A thorough study was needed.
But who were the right people to carry it out?(2/n)
Next: The Trilateral Commission of 'private citizens'#chamberofcommerce #rockefeller
#powellmemo #trilateralcommission -
In the 1960s masses of anti-Vietnam war, civil rights, women's liberation and gay rights activists took to the streets across the Global North.
On August 23, 1971, in the midst of this so-called "crisis of democracy", jurist Lewis F Powell Jr wrote to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce urging a full-scale counterattack on the enemy - namely, radical elements in higher education.
Who or what was driving the "massive assault" on American free enterprise?
Higher education was to blame, said Powell, and he urged the Chamber of Commerce to establish a special staff 'to address the campus origin of this hostility'
David Rockefeller, CEO and Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and billionaire grandson of John D Rockefeller, agreed with Powell.
A thorough study was needed.
But who were the right people to carry it out?(2/n)
Next: The Trilateral Commission of 'private citizens'#chamberofcommerce #rockefeller
#powellmemo #trilateralcommission -
In the 1960s masses of anti-Vietnam war, civil rights, women's liberation and gay rights activists took to the streets across the Global North.
On August 23, 1971, in the midst of this so-called "crisis of democracy", jurist Lewis F Powell Jr wrote to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce urging a full-scale counterattack on the enemy - namely, radical elements in higher education.
Who or what was driving the "massive assault" on American free enterprise?
Higher education was to blame, said Powell, and he urged the Chamber of Commerce to establish a special staff 'to address the campus origin of this hostility'
David Rockefeller, CEO and Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and billionaire grandson of John D Rockefeller, agreed with Powell.
A thorough study was needed.
But who were the right people to carry it out?(2/n)
Next: The Trilateral Commission of 'private citizens'#chamberofcommerce #rockefeller
#powellmemo #trilateralcommission -
Introduction:
The 1971 Memorandum by Lewis F. Powell became the blueprint for the rise of the American conservative movement and the formation of a network of influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organizations, such as The Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council.
(1/n):
#powellmemo #trilaterlalcommission #heritagefoundation #alec #darkmoney #peopleascommodity
https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/1/
