The dark side of libertarianism: Pushing corporate poisons under the false banner of “consumer freedom”
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Most Americans have never heard of a Washington, D.C., lobbyist by the name of Richard Berman, but he is one of the people responsible for all that is wrong in the nation’s capital and our political system.
According to the web site Consumer Deception, Berman runs a couple of different Washington-based public relations and lobbying firms, one of which is called the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a firm that ostensibly has a reputation as being libertarian-leaning.
Formerly known as the Guest Choice Network, CCF was established by Berman in 1996 with seed money from tobacco giant Philip Morris.
Like thousands of other lobbyists who infest Capitol Hill, Berman “arranges for large sums of corporate money to find its way into nonprofit societies of which he is the executive director,” Consumer Deception notes. Then, he “hires his own company as a consultant to these nonprofit groups.” For example, of the millions of dollars donated by Philip Morris between 1995 and 1998, 49 percent to 79 percent of that money went directly to Berman or his other PR firm, Berman & Co.
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