Robert Greenwald
- Location
- Culver City, California,
- Birthday
- August 28
- Company
- Brave New Foundation, Brave New Films
- Bio
- Robert Greenwald is a producer, director, political activist, and the Brave New Films + Brave New Foundation founder and president. He is currently focused on the WAR COSTS (WarCosts.com) investigative campaign to challenge runaway, wasteful war spending – particularly in relation to job creation; KOCH BROTHERS EXPOSED (KochBrothersExposed.com) to illustrate the Kochs’ effort to buy democracy and control public policy from every direction; and CUENTAME (MyCuentame.org), which is at the forefront of investigating corruption at private prisons. He has also produced and distributed short viral videos and campaigns like RETHINK AFHANISTAN (2009, RethinkAfghanistan.com), SICK FOR PROFIT (SickForProfit.com), FOX ATTACKS (FoxAttacks.com) and THE REAL MCCAIN (TheRealMcCain.com), which were seen by almost a million people in a matter of days.
Greenwald is also the director/producer of IRAQ FOR SALE: THE WAR PROFITEERS (2006), a documentary that exposes what happens when corporations go to war and WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE (2005), a documentary that uncovers the retail giant's assault on families and American values and OUTFOXED: RUPERT MURDOCH'S WAR ON JOURNALISM (2004).
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MY RECENT POSTS
- With needed defense cuts on
the horizon, industry forces
rev
July 17, 2012 07:02PM - The Kochs' Double Whammy
June 08, 2012 01:32PM - Charles Koch + Roger Ailes =
Ohio University?
May 21, 2012 01:49PM - You Can Be A Patriot or a
Profiteer...But You Can't Be
Both.
April 27, 2012 03:23PM - Time for Kochs to Resign from
ALEC
April 17, 2012 01:42PM
Robert Greenwald's Links
With needed defense cuts on the horizon, industry forces rev
Co-authored by John Amick
You know it’s a big moment for defenders of the United States’ bloated military budget when some of the all-time superstars of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex descend on Capitol Hill to fight for their perceived right to profit.
The U.S. Hous… Read full post »
The Kochs' Double Whammy
If any doubt was left about the power of big money in our politics, the Wisconsin election destroyed it. Charles and David Koch goosed Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign with $10 million through their front group Americans for Prosperity, $1 million through the Republican Governors Association, an
… Read full post »Why would the esteemed Ohio University host a talk by the likes of Roger Ailes? Maybe we should ask one of the talk's patrons, Charles Koch.
Ailes, of Fox News fame, is giving his talk today. The guy who invited him says the point was to get "perhaps… Read full post »
You Can Be A Patriot or a Profiteer...But You Can't Be Both.
Co-auhtored by Derrick Crowe
This week, the three military contractors that do the most business with the Pentagon announced their quarterly profits for 2012. Their profits continue to grow while they push Washington, D.C. to protect their budgets at the expense of the rest of us.
Here&rs… Read full post »
Co-authored by Jesse Lava
Charles and David Koch appear to be pushing their right-wing ideology to the bitter end. And it’s time for Americans to stop helping them.
The Koch brothers are major backers of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate front group that drafts… Read full post »
Co-authored by Jesse Lava
Everyone seems to be investigating Charles and David Koch lately, with exposés of their corrupt political behavior popping up in places like the New Yorker, AlterNet, ThinkProgress, and Brave New Foundation’s film Koch Brothers Exposed. Naturally, the billi
… Read full post »Don’t Koch Block the Debate
With my new film Koch Brothers Exposed set for release, the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch are doing everything they can do hide their behavior. First they got their lawyer to fire off a menacing letter that all but threatened news organizations that dare to cover… Read full post »
This week as I premiered my new film, Koch Brothers Exposed — the result of a year-long investigation on how two billionaires are using their wealth to corrupt democracy — Koch Industries has launched an attack on the film and me. The Kochs intimidate, they menace; the/… Read full post »
By Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava
Do all roads lead to Koch?
Conservative activists will rally at the Supreme Court tomorrow to encourage the overturn of the Affordable Care Act. The “Hands Off My Health Care” protest—which will feature the likes of Rep. Michelle Bachmann and Se… Read full post »
In Afghanistan, the Dam Breaks
Co-authored by Derrick Crowe
The news just keeps getting worse in Afghanistan for the United States. Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project has warned for years that the premises of a counterinsurgency there were unrealistic and unworkable, and the ability of a handful of… Read full post »
Would a Koch Takeover of Cato Make War with Iran More Likely
Co-Authored by Jesse Lava
The drumbeat for war in Iran is getting louder, but opposition is coming from a seemingly unlikely source: the Cato Institute. This libertarian think tank generally sides with the Right, but it has long shown an independent streak, sometimes bucking conservative orthodo
… Read full post »How to Honor Rush Limbaugh on International Women's Day (VID
Co-Authored by Jesse Lava
As of this writing, 49 sponsors have pulled out of the Rush Limbaugh show after his repeated demeaning remarks about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. But of course, this isn't the first time Rush has slandered women. Or the second. Or the fifth. Or the… Read full post »
Would the Kochs rather attack me than stop cancer? (VIDEO)
My filmmaking team and I recently told the story of the small town of Crossett, Arkansas, where residents are giving powerful testimony about the prevalence of cancer in their community and linking it to a nearby chemical plant owned by Charles and David Koch. This revelation came… Read full post »
Are the Koch Brothers Funding Rush Limbaugh?
By Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava
Just in time for the release of Brave New Foundation's new film, Koch Brothers Exposed, Rush Limbaugh has thrown in with Charles and David Koch in their letter war with Obama campaign manager Jim Messina. No surprise there; Rush has made his fortune… Read full post »
Sorry's Not Good Enough in Afghanistan. Here's Why.
This article was co-authored by Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
As violence continues following the burning of Korans by ISAF in Afghanistan, insiders in Washington, D.C. and in the media are wasting quite a bit of breath asking the rhetorical question, "Why aren't the apologies working?" Military… Read full post »
How Does the 1% Exploit America? Find Out in 1 Minute (VIDEO
Even in an Occupy world, most Americans don’t know exactly how the 1% does what it does. The mainstream media hasn’t explained it, and the 1% likes things that way.
That’s why we’ve created a new video series unmasking those in the 1% who are exploiting the 99%—name by… Read full post »
What the Koch brothers say online but won’t say under oath
Why will Charles and David Koch produce a video about their position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and not testify before Congress about it? The Koch brothers have refused to answer questions about how they stand to profit from the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700-mile long boondoggle… Read full post »
Hauling the Koch Brothers Into Congress
Imagine Charles and David Koch testifying, under oath, in Congress.
Even though the billionaire oil industry brothers continue trying to dodge accountability, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) invited the Koch brothers to testify and answer a few simple questions about how the Kochs are positioned to gai… Read full post »
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