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Is there anything Trump touches that isn't corrupt?
Every new question we ask reveals that this President and this presidency is even more rotten than we realised.
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The Pelosi Playbook
What do you get when you cross big-money politics and tepid progressive positions? A look back at the career of Nancy Pelosi, who’s now poised to retake [and has] the House Speaker post. By Branko Marcetic.
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How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime
Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary plea deal. By Emily Michot, Julie K. Brown.
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Newsweek-Employed Spy Explains To Us Why Assange Should Be Prosecuted
If Assange is successfully prosecuted for doing the same thing other mainstream publications do to hold power to account, there will be little stopping the US government from going after those types of outlets all around the world for publishing its secrets. By Caitlin Jonstone.
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This Thanksgiving, I’m Grateful for Donald Trump, America’s Most Honest President
There’s a case to be made that Donald Trump is simultaneously the biggest liar in U.S. political history and its greatest truth-teller. By Jon Schwarz.
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The IRS hired private debt collectors who are squeezing poor people and hurricane victims
The scheme is hitting the poorest Americans—and making less money than IRS in-house collectors. By Max de Haldevang, Justin Rohrlich.
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The ‘Pelosi Problem’ Runs Deep
Progressives should recognize the likely House speaker as a symptom of a calcified party hierarchy that is beginning to lose its grip. By Norman Solomon.
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Make No Mistake, We Liberals Will Squander Our Hard-Won Gains
This moment matters. It will be written into Wikipedia history by us, the liberals, because we write and edit socialist encyclopedias. By Marco Kaye. (Nov. 8, 2018)
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Rahm & Rauner help Amazon play New York City and Virginia like a bunch of saps
Bringing Amazon HQ2 to Chicago was the dream of only Mayor Rahm and his faithful sidekick Governor Rauner—both of whom will be leaving office shortly, thank you very much. By Ben Joravsky.
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Scum vs. Scum
The massacre in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh did not take place in a vacuum—it is part of a wave of hate crimes sweeping our country. By Chris Hedges. (Nov. 5, 2018)
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Voting Machines: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
United States elections are not evidence-based elections. Their potential vulnerability is critical because the entire system of our democracy depends on public trust—the belief that, however divided the country is, the result has integrity. Nothing is more insidious and corrosive than the idea that the tally of votes itself could be unreliable and exposed to fraud. By Jennifer Cohn.
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Private Equity Controls the Gatekeepers of American Democracy
Three companies dominate the U.S. voting-maching industry. By Anders Melin and Reade Pickert.
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Lockheed and Loaded
How the Maker of Junk Fighters Like the F-22 and F-35 Came to Have Full-Spectrum Dominance Over the Defense Industry. By Jeffrey St. Clair.
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How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers
Speaking truth to power has ruined Darin Jones, a former FBI contract specialist who reported evidence of serious procurement improprieties. He should be the last federal whistleblower victimized, writes John Kiriakou.
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Russian Murdered After Revealing $200 Billion Dirty Money Scam
A crusading Russian official traveled to Estonia in the summer of 2006 to warn the authorities that an unprecedented money-laundering scheme had been established in the tiny Baltic financial sector. The scam he had uncovered would go on to become the biggest dirty-money operation in history: the $200 billion Danske Bank scandal. Three months after Andrei Kozlov, the first deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank, tried to raise the alarm, he was dead.
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Mexican military disarm entire police force in resort city 'corrupted by drug gangs'
Mexican authorities have taken control of the entire police force in the southern Mexican city of Acapulco, claiming the department has been infiltrated by drug gangs. Two police commanders have been accused of murder, while the rest of the force officers have been stripped of their guns, radios and bulletproof vests and taken for background checks.
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FCC angers cities and towns with $2 billion giveaway to wireless carriers
The Federal Communications Commission's plan for spurring 5G wireless deployment will prevent city and town governments from charging carriers about $2 billion worth of fees. The FCC proposal, to be voted on at its meeting on September 26, limits the amount that local governments may charge carriers for placing 5G equipment such as small cells on poles, traffic lights, and other government property in public rights-of-way.
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With Supreme Court Decision on Dark Money “We’re About to Know a Lot More About Who Is Funding Our Elections”
“We are about to drive a lot of dark money donors into the light—it’s gonna look like the climax of a Harry Potter movie where the creatures shrivel in the sun.” By Jon Queally.
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Cuomo’s Win: It’s All About the Money
The New York governor’s victory over Cynthia Nixon furthers the myth of the ‘inevitable’ candidate. By Matt Taibbi.
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GOP Legislator Sentenced to 220 Months in Jail for Bible School Kickback Scheme
Former Arkansas State Senator Johnathan Woods has been sentenced to 220 months in prison for a fraud scheme that involved another Republican legislator and the president of a conservative Christian college. Beginning in January of 2013, Woods and State Rep. Micah Neal gave $600,000 in taxpayer money to two non-profits in the state in exchange for bribes. One of those groups was Ecclesia College in the northwest part of the state. The small Bible school received the bulk of that money… but only because they agreed to give the politicians a healthy kickback.
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