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The Irrational Downfall of Park Geun-hye
[South Korean] President Park Geun-hye is deep trouble. The stories have been out for a few days now, and even the English-language papers have caught on...
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Electing Judges Continues to Be a Terrible Idea
And it's only gotten worse in the age of Citizens United. By Charles P. Pierce.
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Drug maker thwarted plan to limit OxyContin prescriptions
A STAT investigation shows that Purdue Pharma paid rebates to a pharmacy benefit manager to thwart a West Virginia plan to limit prescriptions of OxyContin. By David Armstrong.
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America can’t trust public water, so it’s turning to private companies
A perfect storm of aging infrastructure, stretched municipal budgets, and changing climate conditions are putting even more of the country’s water systems under pressure. By Renuka Rayasam.
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The Reason The Copyright Office Misrepresented Copyright Law To The FCC: Hollywood Told It To
From the so-now-we-know department. By Mike Masnick.
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How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system. By Matt Stoller.
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15 revelations from Wikileaks’ hacked Clinton emails
The revelations keep coming from Wikileaks’ batch of hacked emails from the account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign boss. Here are 11 things we’ve learned.
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Japan to face criticism at international summit for flouting whaling ruling
Japanese fleets have killed more than 300 minke whales in the Southern Ocean despite a court ruling and three-decade-old ban. By Adam Vaughan. (Oct. 20, 2016)
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Why Bernie Was Right
Wikileaks’ latest document dump vindicates Bernie Sanders' critique of Hillary Clinton and the Washington establishment. By Luke Savage.
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‘She Created This Mess and She Knows It’
Why the WikiLeaks revelation about a “pay-to-play” deal with Morocco is a quintessential Clinton controversy. By Russell Berman. (Oct. 22, 2016)
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UK must deliver as a global leader on anti-corruption
Corruption has a disproportionate effect on the poorest and tackling it requires a co-ordinated, long-term approach across Government, with strong leadership from the top. But the continuing lack of transparency in the UK's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies risks significantly hindering efforts to curb global corruption and damaging the UK's reputation as a leader on anti-corruption. In their report, Tackling corruption overseas, the International Development Committee addresses the approach of DFID and the wider UK Government to tackling corruption overseas.
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Project Veritas' Election 2016 'Rigging' Videos
James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released four 2016 election-related videos supposedly depicting rampant election fraud and misconduct on the part of Democrats.
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Hundreds of properties could be seized in UK corruption crackdown
Hundreds of British properties suspected of belonging to corrupt politicians, tax evaders and criminals could be seized by enforcement agencies under tough new laws designed to tackle London’s reputation as a haven for dirty money. Huge amounts of corrupt wealth is laundered through the capital’s banks. The National Crime Agency believes up to £100bn of tainted cash could be passing through the UK each year. Much of it ends up in real estate, and in other assets such as luxury cars, art and jewellery.
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5 Corporations Now Dominate Our [U.S.] Privatized Intelligence Industry
This unaccountable oligarchy of spies controls the information that guides our military and civilian leaders. By Tim Shorrock. (Sept. 8, 2016)
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Elizabeth Warren Asks Obama To Fire Top Wall Street Regulator For 'Brazen Conduct'
The progressive firebrand has long warred with SEC Chair Mary Jo White, a former corporate lawyer. By Alexander C. Kaufman, Zach Carter.
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Code of Silence
Two Chicago police officers uncovered a massive criminal enterprise within the department. Then they were hung out to dry. By Jamie Kalven.
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Massive Maryland prison corruption case highlights national issue
A massive federal racketeering and drug-trafficking case at Maryland's biggest prison offers a glimpse at the deep roots of corruption that criminal justice experts say grips the U.S. corrections system.
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Straight Talk About ‘Crooked Hillary’ Clinton
The far right has been trying to besmirch Hillary Clinton for more than two decades, and yet after some 20 official investigations, they still have little or nothing to show for it.
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Wells Fargo account scandal extends to small business - U.S. senator
The scandal over improper sales practices at Wells Fargo & Co extended to thousands of small-business owners, according to a U.S. lawmaker, raising questions about the scope the bank's issues with unauthorized accounts.
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The most dangerous conspiracy theory of 2016
In a presidential campaign consumed by conspiracy theories, the most dangerous one looming over these final six weeks isn’t about President Barack Obama’s birthplace or whether Hillary Clinton is sick with more than pneumonia. It’s the suggestion that the election itself won't be on the up and up. Donald Trump and his allies are directly fueling the fire. The Republican who launched his political career on the wings of the birther movement has been sounding the alarm since summer that the results in battleground states – from Ohio to Florida – will be fixed so he’ll lose.
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