Chapadla vlivu - Jak američtí lobbisté a zákonodárci ohrožují demokracii na celém světě – Michel Casey (2025)

An astonishing insight into the issue of the American foreign lobbying "industry" and an indictment of that part which poses a threat to the end of democracy.

For years, a group of Americans has worked as pawns for the most authoritarian regimes on the planet. Not only did they help solidify the positions of various dictatorships and expand a kleptocratic network around the world, but they also secretly directed U.S. policy without the rest of America even noticing.

Now, some of them have begun to focus on the very essence of American democracy. These Americans are called foreign lobbyists. Many of them spent years allowing dictators into the corridors of the highest Washington politics while simultaneously whitewashing the reputations of the most despicable and repressive regimes in the world.

Among these foreign lobbyists were figures like Ivy Lee, the "inventor" of public relations and the man who polished Mussolini's image, opened doors to the democratic world for the Soviets, and advised the Nazis on how to influence the American public. They also include people like Paul Manafort, who invented lobbying as we know it today and offered his talent to autocrats from Ukraine to the Philippines and then…