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Mexico's bloody drug war is killing more people than ever
2017 is on track to be Mexico's deadliest year since the government began releasing crime statistics in 1997.
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The Cesspit of Corruption at the [Spanish] Interior Ministry
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Rome corruption ring jailed after marathon trial
Dozens of members of a gang, whose tentacles stretched deep inside Rome's City Hall, have been convicted of corruption after a 20-month trial in a high-security jail. At the heart of the case dubbed "Mafia Capital" was one-eyed, right-wing extremist Massimo Carminati, who was given 20 years in jail. A total of 46 people were put on trial and most were convicted of corruption. However, the judge acquitted all 46 on the key charge of mafia association.
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A New Deal for Wall Street: Trump's Plans for Mass Privatization Are a Colossal Giveaway to the 1%
Trump wants to privatize our nation’s infrastructure—and Democrats helped pave the way. By Rebecca Burns.
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Police body cam footage 'shows officer planting drugs'
Video from Baltimore Police Department body cameras shows an officer tampering with evidence in a case that sent a man to jail for more than five months, reports have claimed. The Baltimore Sun’s Justin Fenton recently shared a 90-second video showing what appears to be three Baltimore Police officers standing on a street corner. The camera follows one officer as he walks into an alleyway and places what appears to be a bag of drugs in a trash heap.
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Former cop accused of stealing cash from dying man
A former Texas City police officer is accused of taking money from Jim Mabe while he was suffering from a heart attack in his car. Former officer Linnard Crouch, Jr. resigned from the force earlier this year. However, no criminal charges have yet been filed. Frustrated, the Mabe's family is suing the city and the officer. "There's more than enough anger to go around, to be honest with you," said son Michael Mabe. "I'm disappointed in a lot of people."
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Germany buys Panama Papers for $5.7m
Germany has stepped up its campaign against organized crime by spending 5 million euros (5.7 million dollars) to buy the so-called Panama Papers, which contain a list of those exploiting secret offshore tax havens.
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Trump’s alarming environmental rollback: what’s been scrapped so far
Since January, the White House, Congress and EPA have engineered a dizzying reversal of regulations designed to protect the environment and public health. By Oliver Milman.
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Kris Kobach wants every U.S. voter’s personal information for Trump’s commission
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has asked every state in the nation provide President Donald Trump’s new voter commission with the names, birth dates and Social Security information for that state’s voters going back to 2006. By Bryan Lowry. (June 29, 2017)
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How the Koch-Backed Effort to Privatize the Veterans Health Administration Jeopardizes Everyone's Health Care Future
The GOP plan to privatize veterans’ health care could jeopardize the larger fight for universal health care. By Candice Bernd.
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How power operates in modern Britain: with absolute contempt
This isn’t just about Grenfell. The way a Labour borough on the other side of London treats social housing tenants shows a similar disregard for human dignity. By Aditya Chakrabortty.
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Cory Booker Will “Pause” Fundraising from Big Pharma Because It “Arouses So Much Criticism”
Cory Booker was once a drug industry ally. Now he’s refusing money from what he calls “folks who are profiting off the backs of the sick.” By Zaid Jilani.
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Five Things That Democrats Do Constantly, Yet Accuse Others Of Doing
If there’s anything more hypocritical than the lying warmongers at the New York Times running a full-page list of the lies Trump has told since taking office, it’s the foam-brained establishment Democrats who still read that awful propaganda rag. By Caitlin Johnstone.
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More than 30 nuclear experts inhale uranium after radiation alarms at a weapons site are switched off
Most were not told about it until months later, and other mishaps at the Nevada nuclear test site followed. By Patrick Malone, Peter Cary, R. Jeffrey Smith. Part Four of a series.
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The EPA Quietly Approved Monsanto’s New Genetic-Engineering Technology
It’s the first time RNA interference will be used to kill insect pests. By Sarah Zhang.
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Swiss banker admits paying millions in bribes to Fifa executive Julio Grondona
A former Swiss banker has admitted paying millions of dollars in bribes to Julio Grondona, a former senior executive at Fifa, chairman of football’s world governing body’s finance committee and president of the Argentinian football association.
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Scott Walker, the John Doe files and how corporate cash influences American politics
Leaked court documents from ‘John Doe investigation’ in Wisconsin lay bare pervasive influence of corporate cash on modern US elections. By Ed Pilkington.
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What went wrong with the F-35, Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter?
The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades, but master of none. By Michael P. Hughes.
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The sad spectacle of Hillary Clinton’s slow-motion breakdown
Hillary Clinton seems to have launched yet another political campaign in 2017, one to convince Americans that they absolutely did the right thing by not electing her president in 2016. By Andrew Malcolm.
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Five politicians determined to give away America’s public lands
A small but vocal cohort is leading efforts to transfer federal land to the states. Is your congressional representative on the list? By Oliver Milman.
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