“How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?” asked Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Money and Politics
How Facebook’s Algorithms Fueled Massive Foreign Propaganda Campaigns During the 2020 Election
An internal Facebook report found that the social media platform’s algorithms enabled disinformation campaigns based in Eastern Europe to reach nearly half of all Americans in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
Redistricting: Can New Technology Tools Make It Honest and Fair?
Mathematicians, social scientists, lawyers and programmers have led the development of a new generation of free tools to make and evaluate redistricting maps. Can they make the process more transparent?
Drug Money: Cartels Are Evil but the Legal Ones Are Worse
Drug money is big business in both legal and illegal forms. Oddly enough there are very few differences between the legal and illegal brands when you dig down below the surface.
Landslide: Trumpublicans Lose Bigly in the California Recall
Yesterday’s massive loss by California recall supporters should bring a huge sigh of relief from those who feared the worst. The prospects of Larry Elder being elected governor by a tiny minority of the California electorate were nothing short of grim.
For Joe Manchin, Corruption and Greed Are a Family Affair
Joe Manchin’s opposition to the environmental aspects of the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill has some connection to the fact that he is heavily invested in coal and a considerable portion of his personal wealth is based on it.
War Profiteers: The Real Winners of the “War on Terror”
A new analysis shows that a “large portion” of Pentagon “war on terror” contracts in recent years have gone to just five companies: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
Republicans Have Convinced Everyone that Only Billionaires and the Military Are Entitled to Our Tax Money
Long term propaganda campaigns have convinced the American public that “government money” is somehow not their money. Public funds are those funds that came from us, the public. So why are we not entitled to benefit from them?
What Afghanistan Withdrawal Critics Are Really Saying: I Want My War Profits Back!
In Dizzy City politics, what we are not supposed to have attention on is the $2 trillion that has already been burned in Afghanistan. Never forget that the vast majority of that money was spent here, with American companies.