Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) Background The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) is a 501(c)(3) organization that describes itself as “an independent, non-profit educational and research organization that actively advocates the principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, economic freedom, and limited government.” The group was […]

Free to Choose Network

Free to Choose Network Background The Free to Choose Network is a a non-profit foundation that arose from Milton Friedman‘s 1980s PBS series, “Free To Choose” and the resulting book. The group’s founder, Bob Chitester, was the PBS program’s executive producer and sought to “expose a world hindered by big government to Friedman’s concepts of limited […]

Australian Libertarian Society

Australian Libertarian Society (ALS) Background The Australian Libertarian Society (ALS) was founded by John Humphreys in 2000. It supports “free-markets, individual liberty and the promotion of peaceful, voluntary interaction between people.” Humphreys is also a board member of the Australian Taxpayers Alliance. ALS‘s aim is “to bring together the many different strands of libertarian thought spread through […]

Alternate Solutions Institute

Alternate Solutions Institute Background The Alternate Solutions Institute describes itself as the “first free market think tank of Pakistan,” and as a registered, non-profit, “non-political, non-governmental, educational and research organization.” It was established in April, 2003 in Lahore, Pakistan. The group states […]

Thomas Wysmuller

Thomas Wysmuller Credentials Background Thomas Wysmuller is the owner of Colderside.com which he describes as part of the “Public Policy industry.” He gives regular speeches on “The Colder Side of Global Warming.” Wysmuller has worked as a meteorologist for the Royal Dutch Weather Bureau in Amsterdam and was an intern at NASA.1 “The Colder Side […]

H. Leighton Steward

H. Leighton Steward Credentials Background H. Leighton Steward is the President and Chairman of Plants Need CO2, a group founded in 2009 with the mission “to educate the public on the positive effects of additional atmospheric CO2 and help prevent the inadvertent negative impact to human, plant and animal life if we reduce CO2.” Plants […]

Roger Helmer

Roger Helmer Credentials Background Roger Helmer is a former member of European Parliament for the East Midlands of Great Britain, representing the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a group pushing the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. Helmer resigned in June, 2017 during an investigation into alleged misuse of public funds.1“UK MEPs worst in […]

Laurence Gould

Laurence (Larry) I. Gould Credentials Background Laurence I. Gould is a professor of physics at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He is also former chairman of the New England Section of the American Physical Society. He was a Yale Visiting Fellow in 1988-89 in the Philosophy Department lecturing on the Foundations of Physics, working […]

Peter Ferrara

Peter J. Ferrara Credentials Background Peter Ferrara is a senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at the Heartland Institute, and senior fellow at the Social Security Institute. Ferrera was formerly the general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union and also a former member of the Policy Board for the Carleson Center for Public […]

Willis Eschenbach

Willis Eschenbach Credentials Background Willis Eschenbach is a regular speaker at the Heartland Institute‘s International Conference on Climate Change, where he is described as a “carpenter and house builder” as well as an “amateur scientist.”1 “Willis Eschenbach, ICCC7,” International Conferences on Climate Change. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tRc5I Eschenbach has previously […]