The message from Charles Koch is clear. Fascism and authoritarian government are part of the Koch business model.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Big Oil might deny accountability for the consequences of their stake in Russia and the payments made to Putin's war chest, but they have always been more than happy to profit from their involvement.
With Joe Manchin responsible for blocking key climate provisions in Build Back Better as well as the final bill, people will find it enlightening to see just how deeply embedded he is with the coal industry.
Spending 12 times as much on our military budget as Russia didn’t prevent a war in Europe. It just deprived us of resources at home.
If the U.S. wants to clamp down on “ill-gotten gains” of Russian oligarchs, the first step is to get our own house in order.
Oil company investor presentations reveal a stark contrast between industry rhetoric about gas prices and reality on oil and gas production.
Historian Joanne Freeman tells us about the past history of violence in our Capitol and what brought it about.
Trump is counting on the Big Lie to divert uninformed voters from the truth. He's betting that the apathy of others will allow his organized minority to prevail.
Russian stocks on the U.K. market have fallen by 98 per cent, wiping out US$572 billion of wealth, while the Russian stock exchange remains suspended. The Russian currency has fallen to 155 rubles per dollar, less than a penny.
With only a tiny percentage of the new military spending package is earmarked for Ukraine, weapons profiteers are still being prioritized by Congress over care for the American people themselves.
The legislative agenda proposed by Florida Senator Rick Scott is designed to punish the poorest people in the country, protect the wealth of the richest and set the stage to destroy Social Security, Medicare and Civil Rights laws.
Who are Putin's oligarchs, and what is their relationship with him? And more importantly, will eroding their wealth do anything to end the war in Ukraine?
Tax havens in past times were sleepy Caribbean backwaters. But now the US, led by investor-friendly financial secrecy laws in states like South Dakota and Delaware, has emerged as a global center for hiding illicit wealth.
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman and former lawyer worked with, between them, a deposed authoritarian president, a bevy of oligarchs, Russia-oriented politicians and alleged Russian spies.
The “precinct strategy” widely promoted by Steve Bannon has already inspired thousands of Trump supporters to fill local GOP positions, intent on preventing a “stolen election.”
Like the Czars of the past who miscalculated how much idiocy and bloodshed the peasants and serfs would tolerate before they revolted, Putin's social calculus is deeply flawed.