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Picking Up James Comey’s Pieces
What He Did, What He Should Have Done and Why. By Gaius Publius.
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All the Nominee’s Enablers
** Submitter's note: browse this link in Privacy/Incogito mode. ** Here, in miniature, is the story of how America ended up with someone like Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee and possible next president. It’s all about the enablers, and the enablers of the enablers.
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The Supreme Court tells politicians how to take bribes without going to jail
AMONG the Supreme Court’s 38 unanimous decisions in the term that ended last month was a ruling overturning the corruption convictions of Bob McDonnell, the governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014. The outcome is a relief not only to Mr McDonnell and his wife but to untold politicians across the country who may have used their offices to pursue questionable deals and exchanges. Mr McDonnell was once a rising star in the GOP: he swept into office with a 17-point win over his Democratic rival in 2009...
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Marine’s defense for disseminating classified information will cite Hillary Clinton’s case
Jason Brezler has become a cause celebre among some veterans and members of Congress. By Dan Lamothe.
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CETA will be voted on by EU member states after all, perhaps thanks to Brexit
European post-Brexit discontent may be behind EC climbdown on Canada-EU trade deal. By Glyn Moody.
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The killing of albinos: Murder for profit
A horrific trade in body parts. (June 11, 2016)
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Meet the ‘rented white coats’ who defend toxic chemicals
How corporate-funded research is corrupting America’s courts and regulatory agencies.
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In Response to Trump, Another Dangerous Movement Appears
Fears of demagoguery are provoking a frightening swing in the other direction. By Matt Taibbi. [Disable adblocker]
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Supreme Court Eliminates Political Corruption! (By Defining It Out of Existence)
Unlike the rest of us, the Supreme Court thinks there are too many restrictions on money in politics, not too few. By Jon Schwarz.
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Who got rich off the student debt crisis
A generation ago, Congress privatized a student loan program intended to give more Americans access to higher education. In its place, lawmakers created another profit center for Wall Street and a system of college finance that has fed the nation’s cycle of inequality. Step by step, Congress has enacted one law after another to make student debt the worst kind of debt for Americans – and the best kind for banks and debt collectors. Today, just about everyone involved in the student loan industry makes money off students – the banks, private investors, even the federal government.
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Mr. Ryan’s Plan to Revert, Regress and Deregulate
House Speaker Paul Ryan presented his economic agenda last week, but it does not deal with the country’s problems with jobs, wages, investment, trade, inequality or other pressing economic issues. Rather, its 57 pages boil down to one idea: Roll back hundreds of federal regulations that protect consumers, investors, employees, borrowers, students and the environment.
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One Creepy Word Captures the NSA’s Culture of Secrecy
As the White House ponders FOIA reform, we take a look back at a culture of secrecy. By Brady Dale. (June 15 ’16)
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A Party Agrift
**Submitter's note: browse this site in Privacy/Incognito mode.** My question, as Democrats gleefully tear into the Trump business record, is why rival Republicans never did the same. How did someone who looks so much like a cheap con man bulldoze right through the G.O.P. nomination process?
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Whose Water Is It Anyway?
Once a natural resource, water is now big business. The time is coming when human beings will wage war over water. By Shekhar Kapur.
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James O’Keefe Accidentally Stings Himself
A failed attack on George Soros is part of a new era of secretly funded political hit jobs. By Jane Mayer. (May 21)
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The man who seduced the 7th fleet
For months, a small team of U.S. Navy investigators and federal prosecutors secretly devised options for a high-stakes international manhunt. Could the target be snatched from his home base in Asia and rendered to the United States? Or held captive aboard an American warship?Making the challenge even tougher was the fact that the man was a master of espionage. His moles had burrowed deep into the Navy hierarchy to leak him a stream of military secrets, thwarting previous efforts to bring him to justice.
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People Openly Sell Their Votes for $20 in the Dominican Republic
Jayson was a first-time voter in the Dominican Republic, or would have been, if he’d had any intention of voting. Instead he was figuring out how to turn his ballot card into cash. In the end, the 19-year-old said he got 1,000 pesos ($22) in return for surrendering the ID during Sunday’s presidential election. Jayson had a Plan B to solicit bids -- “I’ll go around with my card on my forehead” -- but didn’t need to use it. His friend, Luis, 21, did even better.
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Undeterred by Obama's Veto Threat, Senate Passes 9/11-Saudi Bill
Setting up a likely veto fight and opening a potential Pandora's Box, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that allows victims of 9/11 to sue Saudi Arabia for any role the government may have played in the attacks.
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'Screw the next generation': Anonymous Dem congressman writes tell-all
'My main job is to keep my job, to get reelected. It takes precedence over everything,' an anonymous member of Congress writes in a new book set for May 24 release by a Minnesota publisher.
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The Bailouts Were for the Banks: Study Confirms Rescue Loans Didn't Serve Greeks
A new study offers more confirmation that the so-called bailout packages the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delivered to Greece primarily served European banks rather than the Greek people.
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