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.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
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.
Don’t for a minute believe any notion that Ukraine will be a pushover for Putin. Soon he will have to answer to the parents and loved ones of Russian soldiers who have died for him but not for Russia.
More than 163 journalists from 48 media outlets in 39 countries across the world spent months analyzing bank account information leaked from Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-largest lender.
Barack Obama's two terms in the White House were notable for their complete lack of scandal. But not according to FOX News.
Prices are going up everywhere. Corporations say it is "inflation" and want smaller government and lower taxes as "solutions." The reality is very different.
World governments are spending $1.8 trillion annually on corporate welfare to support fossil fuel emissions, deforestation, water pollution and other harms to the planet.
Shallow reporting is something that Trump and his enablers have relied upon since 2015. It not only enables astroturfing of outrageous claims and false flag black propaganda operations, it amplifies them.
Medicare Privatization is one of the holy grails of Wall Street healthcare investors. The Trump administration tried to sneak in a covert privatization program under the radar. The problem is that it has not been killed yet.
The Trump accountants have not only fired him, but invalidated 10 years of his financials. Legal analysts also conclude that Mazars is fully cooperating with the New York AG in her investigation into the Trump Company.
The media has a responsibility to tell Americans that the GOP now openly endorses using violence to overturn elections.