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Experts who quit Panama’s transparency commission produce their own report
Report’s authors say that the U.S. and EU have the power to force other nations to embrace transparency reforms. By Michael Hudson.
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The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Politically Unstoppable — Even Under President Trump
Lockheed is now lobbying his transition team. By Robert Beckhusen.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Irrelevance Is Her New Reality
Debbie Wasserman Schultz may be a Jewish girl from New York, but I’m guessing she’s discovered what it’s like to be Amish. Certainly she has a good idea of what a shunning is. By Nancy Smith.
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Mary Jo White to Step Down as S.E.C. Chief
Other financial regulators are expected to follow suit, giving the Trump administration an opening to shift the government’s approach to policing the industry. By Ben Protess and Alexandra Stevenson.
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TPP’s “Cardiac Arrest”: A Lesson for the Challenges of the Trump Years Ahead
‘Let the movement that stopped the TPP serve as a reminder to the powerful: we are many, and you are few.’ By Andrea Germanos.
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EFF: The Battle Against TPP Isn’t Over, But It Has Shifted
With President-elect Trump’s victory last night, the last hopes of the Obama administration passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the lame duck session of Congress have evaporated.... We’re calling it: today is the day the TPP died. Nevertheless, the battle against the deal is not over...
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How Bernie Sanders Supporters are Organizing to Stop the TPP
Bernie Sanders supporters are fired up for a new issue — preventing the TPP to enter the lame-duck session. By Kate Aronoff.
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TPP Is a Monopoly Protection Scheme, the Exact Opposite of a “Free Trade” Deal
Normally when we think of “free trade,” us lay people, we think of removing barriers to the exchange of goods and services. Removing barriers is the “free” part of “free trade.” Of course, there really is no such thing…. By Gaius Publius.
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The Democrats’ Fight Over Finance
Movement between Wall Street and Washington is as old as the republic, but this year a resurgent left is pushing back. By Alec MacGillis.
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Journalists too easily charmed by power, access, and creamy risotto
“In an election year that has been defined by the failure of elite political operatives and members of the media to anticipate the volcanic discontent that drove the insurgencies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, the idea of reporters and campaigns periodically shedding their oppositional roles to party together seems particularly odious.” By Ross Barkan.
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Donald Trump’s success reveals a frightening weakness in American democracy
Trump found a flaw in our political system, and we have no way to fix it.
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Abby Martin Exposes John Podesta
The Empire Files
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Chris Christie’s Bridgegate Noose Tightens
Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni have been found guilty on all counts and face up to 20 years in prison.
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What I learned from visualizing Hillary Clinton’s emails
It all started early last week. Kevin Hu, one of my senior grad students, told me that a friend of his asked if we could use Immersion — an email visualization tool we had released in 2013 — to visualize Clinton’s Wikileaks email dataset… By César A. Hidalgo.
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Lobbyist for Dakota Access Formerly Led Army’s “Restore Iraqi Oil” Program
Robert Crear, one of the lobbyists working for Dakota Access pipeline co-owners Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics, formerly served as a chief of staff and commanding general for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. By Steve Horn.
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Former Iranian prosecutor sentenced to 135 lashes for corruption
A former prosecutor general of Tehran described by activists as a serial human rights abuser has been sentenced to 135 lashes for financial corruption. Saeed Mortazavi, 49, was found guilty of “seizing and wasting public funds” while he ran Iran’s social welfare organisation under the then president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his close ally. On Wednesday, the state-run news website Irib quoted a lawyer as saying Mortazavi had been given 70 lashes for seizing public funds and another 65 lashes for showing negligence in his job and wasting public money. The sentencing has not yet been confirmed by judicial authorities.
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FBI releases docs from 2001 Rich probe days before election
The FBI on Tuesday -- one week from Election Day -- released heavily redacted files from its 2001 investigation of President Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich. By Tom LoBianco and Pamela Brown.
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Claims That Clinton Lied About Emails Dissolve Under Scrutiny
Clinton has made misstatements regarding the presence of classified information on her server. But did she lie? Not only is there no convincing evidence that she has lied, but there is also considerable reason to believe that Clinton thought she was telling the truth. I will use Glenn Kessler’s analyses to justify my point, but I could use claims by other fact checkers as well.
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Too Smug to Jail
'The Economist' issues a myopic defense of the white-collar criminal. By Matt Taibbi.
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Was it legal for the FBI to expand the Weiner email search to target Hillary Clinton’s emails?
Comey's announcement stunned the country, but it also raises some serious Fourth Amendment questions. By Orin Kerr.
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