Liam Fox’s Atlantic Bridge Linked Top Tories and Tea Party Activists

It’s a nation’s worst nightmare – secret foreign meddling in national politics. A British investigation of the charity Atlantic Bridge has led to the resignation of the British defense secretary. Atlantic Bridge, a charity, was also a networking group for conservatives to defend common interests in a globalized economy, linking corporate interests with British cabinet members, US senators and others. From all appearances, the charity was a social club for neoconservatives. But such think tanks also accept hefty sums from casinos, defense, drug, energy and other firms to target government regulations and public health care, reports Jamie Doward for the Guardian. Atlantic Bridge had ties with the American Legislative Council, funded by Exxon Mobile and other multinational corporations, which have recommended and drafted model bills for conservative legislators. The council reports that about 20 percent of such bills became law. A long, complicated trail of shadowy connections and corporate influences, enriching a few and trampling democratic process, continues to be exposed. – YaleGlobal