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Lucy Hamilton
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Doctoral student at UTS. Researching transnational Right’s infiltration of Australian politics and society, esp religio-ethnonationalism. Writer of explanatory journalism. Living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. She/her

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Good question. Good chance both. Nigeria and Venezuela are oil targets.

Saw an interesting piece from an influencer whose wife’s family are still in Venezuela, and how much they reject the capitalist world’s spin on the place on balance. 🤷‍♀️
Common Dreams HOME > NEWS > VENEZUELA 口 US Rep. María Salazar (R-Fla) speaks during a roundtable discussion at the Capitol on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) 'Venezuela, for the American Oil Companies, Will Be a Field Day, Says US Lawmaker Pushing Invasion "They're not even hiding it anymore. A US-led regime change war abroad to line the pockets of Big Oil-where have we
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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No surprise here. Dan Ryan’s run of radical Right of #Auspol and Atlas Network partner figures unite in the person of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. She’s with the CIS. An Atlas link to Advance.

Will he be back to much more ethnonationalist next time? Watch this space.

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Dan Ryan • Latest Episode 3d ago: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price - Pop Culture, Aboriginal Culture, Multiculturalism + A Modern United Australia: My guest today is Northern
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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New fascistic jargon alert. Another copy of Australian policy of dumping people in a foreign country without hope of a future. EU is using concept of “return hubs” as a prison/human warehousing concept for trapping people who don’t meet narrow def of refugees. 😡 Worse than 🇦🇺 Cambodia/Nauru/PNG
K Rescue.org/EU Donate Explainer What are 'return hubs', and why are they so concerning? 26 November 2025 = f The European Commission has proposed & creating so-called 'return hubs', detention facilities located outside of the EU's borders, designed to hold people whose asylum applications have been refused or who have been deemed unauthorised to remain in the EU for any other reason. K Rescue.org/EU Donate EU Home Affairs Commissioner, Magnus Brunner, has described & these hubs as one of the EU's "innovative solutions" to address returns. However, many civil society organisations, including the IRC, have warned that these facilities may well result in people being uprooted from their communities, families being torn apart, people being held in prison-like conditions, and a grave risk of increased human rights violations. く Why is the EU proposing this approach?
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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From 2010 in the UK
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Support our work Become a Member News EDL step up their Jewish recruitment Extreme-right English Defence League sets up 'Jewish division' to lead the fight 'against jihad' June 3, 2010 14:04 By Marcus Dysch, Marcus Dysch O 1 min read
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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This man was featured on an Atlas Network partner’s side project podcast. Why are Atlas Network “policy” people, academics, including Mont Pelerin Society members appearing on a platform with him & more? Why does NSW register them as a hunting organisation? #Auspol
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theshot.net.au Ryan interviewed Matthew Grant of the re-founded Australian Natives Association (ANA), which markets itself deploying militarised language. In 2015, Grant posted on the violent extremist Iron March chat forum that he was not a fascist because he was a supporter of laissez faire market economies. He expanded on his support for free enterprise with this caveat: "So long as you have a homogenous - hence why I'm a Nationalist - nation, the market can't be usurped by Jew-like profiteers". The ANA in NSW is a registered hunting organisation.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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From Jonathon Cook. If you think the UK isn’t a hollowing-out democratic project, you’re fooling yourself. One judge was ready to give Palestine Action a fair hearing. So he got switched out for 3 Tory Israel allies.

Did you see the DDN video about the UK Israel lobby scuppering Corbyn?
Through class affiliation, upbringing, education and selection for temperament, senior judges invariably have a bias towards the interests of the British establishment. But some have a stronger bias than others. It is not hard to understand why Chamberlain has been removed. His earlier rulings on Palestine Action's proscription indicated that it might be difficult for him to rule in favour of the government. It is also clear why he is being replaced by three new judges. Backing the government's redefinition of terrorism - leading almost certainly to the jailing of former senior military personnel, barristers, doctors, priests, Holocaust survivors, and a former adviser to King Charles, all of whom who have publicly supported Palestine Action - risks looking like precisely what it is: a political decision in favour of lawlessness by the British state. Having a ruling from a panel of three judges is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of an outlaw government. It won't work. This already looks like a self-evident stitch-up to extricate Sir Keir Starmer and his ministers from the mess they have made of British terrorism laws - all so they can continue conspiring in Israel's genocide. Dame Victoria Sharp is a from a family with extensive and close ties to the Conservative party. She is the twin sister of Richard Sharp, who was appointed chair of the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, after Sharp had helped secured the Tory prime minister a £800,000 loan. Sharp was later forced to resign. Victoria Sharp is best known for jailing climate activists involved in peaceful protest and for forcing journalist Carole Cadwalladr to pay Brexit donor Aaron Banks £1 million in legal fees after he sued for libel. Dame Karen Steyn was one of two judges who replaced Justice Chamberlain in the F-35 hearing. She and Justice Males ruled in Israel's favour, even while accepting that Israel could use F-35s in Gaza in violation of international law. Sir Jonathan Swift, meanwhile, has a long history of siding with the British state - for eight years he was the government's top lawyer. In 2023 Swift rejected the appeal of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against the British government's approval of his extradition to the US for exposing US and UK war crimes. The US wanted to lock him up indefinitely in a super-max prison.
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Just a reminder from 2016: Pauline Hanson is playing the same old stale game with her burqa stunt. This is her cliched grift.

Ask if you want to read about this event I happened to attend by chance.
I refused to abide by Chatham House rule because fash must not be allowed to hide.
##auspol
BY LUCY HAMILTON OCTOBER 13, 2016 A recent 'Conversazione on Culture and Society' event staged in Melbourne has given Lucy Hamilton pause for thought... not all of it charitable. On September 14, as Pauline Hanson reminded us that Australia is being swamped by Asians.... Sorry. Let me start again. As Pauline Hanson reminded us that Australia is being swamped by Muslims, a forum was taking place in some of Melbourne's most elite surroundings, where a society of the country's top businessmen, journalists and ex-politicians discussed the same message: the decline of the West is upon us and it is the result of Muslim migration.
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Tycoons’ tools: media, PR, Atlas Network & co. They all ramp up when it looks like the populace is gaining strength. The combined mild resurgence of workers’ campaigning for a better go after 50 years of functionally fixed wages while bosses’ pay 🚀 (plus climate protests pre covid) set them off.
E The Economist v • Follow 1d • The minimum wage is a crude and wasteful tool for redistribution. After a decade of aggressive increases, the responsible option is not to go higher still. We explain why https://econ.st/4rfO8e4 Illustration: • • . Time for a pause Governments should stop raising the minimum wage There are better ways to help low earners
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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• • Then again, from below, in the great heavy stack, Came a groan from that plain little turtle named Mack. "Your Majesty, please... I don't like to complain, But down here below, we are feeling great pain. I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, But down at the bottom we, too, should have rights. We turtles can't stand it. Our shells will all crack! Besides, we need food. We are starving!" groaned Mack. 曲
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Reading Yertle the Turtle to my littles tonight. Way past time the billionaires got plonked deep in the mud by our burps.
And Yertle the Turtle, the king of the trees, The king of the air and the birds and the bees, The king of a house and a cow and a mule... Well, that was the end of the Turtle King's rule! For Yertle, the King of all Sala-ma-Sond, Fell off his high throne and fell Plunk! in the pond!
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Same guy.
+ Follow illustrious-drip.bsky.social @illustrious-drip.bsky.social 6 followers 3 following 1 post Passionate about climate change, gender equality and ending the MURDOCH REGIME Posts Replies Media Videos 5:31 •ll 5G O JOHN MACGOWAN BACK IN BEACK Follow back John Macgowan @john_macgowan ( Follows you Failed political candidate, raconteur, man of leisure, Esoteric Lathamist, shaman of Australia's Radical Right, threat to national security. • TASMANIA @ macgowan146.substack.com # Joined May 2010 2.3K Following 9.3K Followers
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Ugh first of the subjects to find me.

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5:31 •ll 5G O JOHN MACGOWAN BACK IN BEACK Follow back John Macgowan @john_macgowan ( Follows you Failed political candidate, raconteur, man of leisure, Esoteric Lathamist, shaman of Australia's Radical Right, threat to national security. • TASMANIA @ macgowan146.substack.com # Joined May 2010 2.3K Following 9.3K Followers
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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One of the people who links CIS/Murdoch/Spectator/Quadrant/Orbán’s Budapest tanks is Rebecca Weisser. Check out her Twitter (sic) feed if you are feeling brave.
THE CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES 川 Rebecca Weisser Home » People » Rebecca Weisser Expertise: media, superannuation, productivity, Australian foreign policy, economic development. Rebecca is an experienced researcher, journalist, editor and recently author of papers on superannuation, classical liberalism and the media and fairness. She has also drafted policy DANUBE INSTITUTE Rebecca Weisser Visiting Fellow (2024) Ms. Weisser is the Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer of Quadrant Magazine and Quadrant Books and is a regular contributor to The Spectator Australia. Previously, she was Commentary editor at The Australian and comments on Australian politics and international relations on ABC and Sky News. She was a Research Associate at the Centre for Independent Studies, served as an Australian diplomat for a decade, worked at Qantas Airways, and Australian Catholic University. She is the author of Strangling the Goose with the Golden Egg - Why we need to cut Superannuation taxes on Middle Australia, Institute of Public Affairs, 2016, 'Classical liberalism, the Australian media, and the ghost of Governor Darling' in Making Australia Right: Where to from here?, editor James Allan, Connor Court, 2016, and 'The Perils of Benevolence' in On Fairness, editor Nick Cater, Menzies Research Centre, 2015. Ms. Weisser has a First class Honours degree in Arts from Australian National University and a Graduate Diploma in Foreign Affairs and Trade.
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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It was bought out by one 1/2 the founders of Alliance for Responsible Citizenship which is an Atlas partner-spawned Christian Nationalist operation.

I think it has long been part of the media outreach of the think tanks: Murdoch, Quadrant, Spectator. Query AFR since boss there just went to CIS?
FINKELL AFR https://www.afr.com Michael Stutchbury appointed to lead Centre for Independent Studies 2 June 2025 - Michael Stutchbury, the former editor-in-chief of The Australian Financial Review, has been appointed the next executive director of The Centre for Independent ... FROM JUN 2025 FINANCIAL The Centre for Independent Studies https://www.cis.org.au The Incoming Executive Director of CIS: Michael Stutchbury 3 June 2025 - The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Stutchbury as its new Executive Director.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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These details were revealed when Gregg received this Bradley Foundation prize, as well as Templeton. Both big dark money donors to Atlas sphere.

He probably doesn’t know the Bradleys are big donors to nativist projects too:

www.bradleyfdn.org/prizes/recip...
splcenter.org Piggy bank for hate: 2021 donor-advised funds 990 roundup Numerous hate and extremist groups are structured as tax-exempt charitable or nonprofit organizations. Some of these groups also receive payments from other umbrella charity distribution organizations called "donor-advised funds." The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project and other media organizations have reported for years that donor-advised funds can act as a consistent and significant source of income for groups peddling a variety of hateful and extremist beliefs. Intelligence Project researchers and the Data Lab reviewed the recently released 2021 annual reports (called Form 990s) from six popular donor-advised funds to determine which hate- and extremism-related nonprofits were receiving funding: • Bradley Impact Fund • Donors Trust • Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund • National Philanthropic Trust • Paypal Charitable Giving Fund • Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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He is in the Mont Pelerin Society (functional steering committee of Atlas Network).

He’s also a Knight of Malta.

Note the links to other thinktanks in Latin America. All with a primary focus on nexus of where faith & the free market meet.

Also Campion College, recently exposed by SMH.
The Sydney Morning Gerald Exclusive Politics NSW Education These academics defend white nationalism. Their college says that's 'freedom of speech' Patrick Begley and Sherryn Groch Updated October 17, 2025 - 1.03pm, first published October 16,2025 - 1.36pm I Save → Share A A A An Australian college has defended the "freedom of speech" of two of its senior academics, who promote white nationalism online and in speeches, even as the institution "unequivocally rejects" many of the pair's public statements. Campion, a small but influential Catholic higher education college in Sydney, boasts donors such as The Sudney Morning Gerald The Campion College library named after Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart. CAMPION COLLEGE Board directors include former Liberal federal minister Zed Seselja and former union powerbroker Joe de Bruyn. Several News Corp commentators and senior journalists have been appointed as honorary fellows. Former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott has attended several events at the Toongabbie campus, which has a library named after Australia's richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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🧵One of the economists agreeing to be platformed on a podcast by a body where 1/3 directors = ethnonationalist influencer, is Samuel Gregg. Started at Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney (Atlas Network) then off to America where he has worked at the Atlas big dog partners. Acton & AIER
#Auspol
bradleyfdn.org Samuel Gregg Written by Benjamin Hannemann | May 24, 2024 11:37:08 AM Acclaimed Scholar, Political Economist, and Author 13:00 2024 Bradley Prize Acceptance Speech View Press ReleaseRead Acceptance Speech Biography Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. bradleyfdn.org Before joining AlER, Gregg served as Research Director at the Acton Institute (where he remains an Affiliate Scholar) and as Research Scholar at the Center for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia. Gregg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2001, and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society in 2004. He became a Knight of Magisterial Grace in the Australian Association of the Order of Malta in 2004. He also served on the Michigan Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission. bradleyfdn.org also served on the Michigan Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission. Among other positions, Gregg served as President of the Philadelphia Society. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Markets and Morality, La Società, Revista Valores en la sociedad industrial, and Studia luridica Lublinensia, as well as the Academic Advisory Boards of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London), Campion College (Sydney), Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies (Hobart), Agraman Institute (Jerusalem), Instituto Fe y Libertad (Ciudad de Guatemala), FriedmanHayek Center for the Study of a Free Society, Universidad del CEMA (Buenos Aires), and La Fundación Burke (Madrid). He is also Contributing Editor at Law & Liberty. nationalconservatism.org.au Jordan Knight - Director Jordan is the founder of Migration Watch Australia www.migrationwatchaustralia.com.au and adviser to Independent NSW MP Rod Roberts. He previously worked in advertising and start-ups. He regularly writes for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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This is the second director of the org that hosts the podcast. He was with One Nation, and his org Migration Watch Aus was exposed on Media Watch as a solo influencer operation.

www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

#auspol
nationalconservatism.org.au Jordan Knight - Director Jordan is the founder of Migration Watch Australia www.migrationwatchaustralia.com.au and adviser to Independent NSW MP Rod Roberts. He previously worked in advertising and start-ups. He regularly writes for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph.
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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NSN. All the best people. 🥴
Sad that this one got arrested. /sarcasm
The Advertiser We're for yow = True Crime Australia Police & Courts SA 'I don't care what the law says': NSN figure Joel Davis advocates for child marriage A National Socialist Network figure has said 14-year-old girls should be allowed to
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Aussies 🚨🚨🚨
Joanna Howe and all the predictable suspects are gathering soon in Brisbane for Life Summit 2025. You can see from this image from last year that they want abortion to be *unthinkable.*
This is not about limits. It’s about abolition.
Women are dying in America for that.
#auspol
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Welcome to the world the Mont Pelerin Society made.

“The Road from Mont Pèlerin:
The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective”

“https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674088344

#auspol
The Guardian theguardian.com CBA boss says repaying 'excessive fees' to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder money
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Sorry. With Alt Text.
hrnicholls.com.au D The H.R. Nicholls Society's 2025 National Conference will confront Australia's spiralling productivity crisis with fearless clarity, tackling the elephant in the room everyone avoids: productivity gains hinge on bold industrial relations reform. Join thought leaders in government, employment law, industrial relations, and business as we draw critical connections between Al, industrial relations, and productivity-the ultimate triad shaping the future of work. We will explore how Al can boost efficiency, how IR form can unlock workplace flexibility, and how these rces must align to reverse Australia's fall from global ader to economic luddite. one of this can succeed, however, until we slay the big wad bogeyman: the overly litigious environment we've created. This out-of-control, money-making fest cripples businesses, stifles innovation, and blocks productivity gains. Our conference will forge practical solutions to dismantle this barrier, paving the way for Australia to thrive as a premier destination for living, working, and investing.
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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See the code in the conference blurb. We’ve lived through their “bold industrial relations reform” before. Means easier exploitation. AI = efficiency = layoffs. “Workplace flexibility” = workers comply or else. Zero hour contracts?
Killing litigation= esp climate? “premier destination for living,…
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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The HR Nicholls Society conference is back this week in Melbourne. It was founded to break workers’ conditions & strength in 1986. Official Atlas partner. Peter Costello, Ray Evans (MPS), John Stone (later MPS) & Barrie Purvis founders. IPA/Lib pol Louise Staley resuscitated in 2023. #auspol
THE H.R. NICHOLLS SOCIETY'S 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6:00 PM - Friday, November 21, 2025, 4:00 PM Le Meridien Hotel Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia (map) The H.R. Nicholls Society | 2025 National Conference Workplaces Recharged Al, Productivity, & Litigation Reform Donate Melbourne, November 20-2 WORKPLACES RECHARGED: Al, PRODUCTIVITY & LITIGATION REFORM hrnicholls.com.au 5th RAY EVANS MEMORIAL ORATION Donate le Society is proud to announce the 35th Treasurer of istralia, the Honourable Peter Costello AC, will deliver the 5th Ray Evans Memorial Oration at our 2025 National Conference on Friday, November 21. Mr Costello, Australia's longest-serving Treasurer (1996- 2007), is widely regarded as one of the nation's most successful economic reformers. As a co-founder of the Society alongside Ray Evans and others, Mr Costello is ideally suited to honour his enduring legacy Ray Evans (1935-2014), was a relentless champion of IR reform. In his foreword to the second edition of Arbitration in Contempt (1992), Evans stated: "Members hrnicholls.com.au INAUGURAL JOHN STONE MEMORIAL ORATION DINNER Donate le Society is proud to announce that the inaugural ›hn Stone AO Memorial Oration will be delivered by Ismanian Treasurer, The Hon Eric Abetz MP, at our 2025 National Conference's gala dinner on Thursday, November 20. Mr Abetz is one of Australia's most principled conservative leaders with decades of experience fighting for deregulation, productivity, and sensible industrial relations reform. As a former Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Employment in the Abbott Government, Mr Abetz spearheaded reforms to revive the Australian Buildina and Construction Commission. olaved a kev hrnicholls.com.au 2025 NATIONAL CONFERENCE SPEAKERS The Hon Tim Wilson MP Judith Sloan Donate Jess Wilson MP Michael Stutchbury Adam Creighton Richard Dalton KC
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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So many died unnecessarily for the tobacco delays by proto-Atlas operations. Estimated 20 million in the US alone. And the eg Koch-funded tobacco disinformation continues into the 21st century, with an estimated billion expected to die of tobacco-related causes, mostly in the Global South. Criminal.
= Le Monde Subscribe #BIGTOBACCO2 THE VAPOR TRAIL Under the guise of defending individual freedom, fake consumer organisations are promoting e-cigarettes. They are an illusion to the public and decision-makers, aiming to influence regulation of these new products and to hamper tobacco control. They are secretly funded by the tobacco lobby and the networks of American oil billionaires. The stakes are not just financial. This elusive nebula is working to disseminate a radical right-wing ideology, hostile to government intervention, in the heart of Europe: libertarianism. = Le Monde +3 Subscribe The richest brothers in the world A left fist brandishing an e-cigarette. The World Vapers' Alliance logo borrows from revolutionary imagery, but it is a radical right-wing revolution that the movement aspires to. Even hidden behind thick curtains of smoke, money always leaves a trace. KEEP READING BELOW THE AD In addition to cigarette manufacturers, some of the CCC's benefactors, mentioned only in a remote corner of its website, give a glimpse of an even more complex reality. They gravitate in a most obscure galaxy, developed during the last decades by a group of American billionaires still largely unknown in Europe. At their head: the Koch brothers. David, who died in 2019, left his 58-year-old widow, Julia, his twenty-seventh place on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people. He shared this rank with his brother Charles, 86 years old, alive and well, and now at the helm of a right-wing
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM