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The low-down on think tanks

Research or propaganda??

Here’s a great primer on pro-privatization think tanks and their inter-connectedness by two of our west coast Parents Across America founders, Dora and Sue.

Here’s how it starts out:

“Think tanks are organizations that produce propaganda posing as legitimate research for the benefit of their funders – generally, corporations and billionaires. Some of them were founded decades ago by pro-corporate leaders in partnership with millionaires and corporations. They were created for a specific purpose, such as to