Tag: corruption
Police officer charged after shooting at unarmed couple
“Police accountability will not exist until every level of government works to prevent police violence and to hold police employees responsible each time they hurt or kill someone.”
MACA or making America crueler again
The White House targets refugees, green card applicants, and poor immigrants.
We found over 700 doctors who were paid more than a...
Back in 2013, ProPublica detailed what seemed a stunning development in the pharmaceutical industry’s drive to win the prescription pads of the...
Third correctional officer pleads guilty following assault of mentally ill inmate
A third former Tennessee correctional officer pleaded guilty to a federal offense and admitted concealing other correctional officers’ assault of an inmate by covering up a prison security camera with his hand. Three out of at least five correctional officers...
The official lies told about JFK’s death prove that the people...
Let us think back to the year 1960 and compare those times to our own. The previous eight years under Eisenhower were,...
Trump’s major crimes
Impeachment finally underway
The long-delayed impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump are finally starting, but at present, the focus...
Fighting corruption must be our focus in 2020
The future of the nation and the planet is at stake.
For Trump, regime change begins at home
A month after he won the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump gave a speech in North Carolina where he declared that “we will stop...
School resource officer fired after arresting two 6-year-olds
A Florida school resource officer was fired Monday after arresting two 6-year-old children without obtaining his supervisor’s approval before arresting them. According to the Orlando Police Department, one child briefly remained in custody before...
NY judge resigns after posting noose image on Facebook
After posting the image of a noose with the words “Make America Great Again” on his Facebook page, an upstate New York...
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.