Tag: corruption
Our ever-deadlier police state
“We need an effective system of crime prevention and control in our communities, but that is not what the current system is.”
Former legislator pleads guilty to bribery conspiracy and fraud
“Public corruption is among the most serious of criminal violations and a betrayal of the public’s sacred trust.”
Feeding the beast!
Those who really ran this country made sure that only elected officials who would keep feeding this beast could hold office.
Former NY Assembly Speaker’s corruption conviction overturned
Will Sheldon Silver be re-tried?
White House for sale: Emoluments, corruption and Donald Trump
Never in U.S. history has the prospect of a president's real and potential business dealings created such a marked array of conflicts.
Former congresswoman found guilty after stealing from charity organization
Brown faces decades in prison.
How the Koch machine quietly pushed for the Dakota Access Pipeline...
Dakota Access appears poised to line the pocketbooks of Koch Industries, which funnels millions of dollars to his own employer.
7 Baltimore cops arrested in federal racketeering conspiracy
If convicted, the seven officers face up to 20 years in federal prison.
Five faces of dystopia
Never before has a government been so completely fused with business.
The one thing Trump got right: The system is rigged
The entrenched two-party system is itself the consequence of this rigged system.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.