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The U.S. Navy Wants to Spend Billions on Aircraft Carriers That Aren’t Ready
The U.S. Navy wants to go all in on the USS Ford-class aircraft carrier program. Less than a year after the first-in-class ship’s commissioning — before it ever launched or recovered an aircraft, a first in history — the sea service is exploring options to buy similar vessels in bulk.... By Dan Grazier.
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501 Days of Trump & Co. Stealing America Blind
A constant drip of corruption. And this is just what we know so far… By Joy Crane, Nick Tabor. Introduction by David Cay Johnston.
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Mexico: The electoral price of impunity
When the Mexican lower house of Congress blocked an investigation last month into corruption allegations involving the Brazilian group Odebrecht, opposition politicians opted for an exercise in political theatre... By Jude Webber.
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Mueller Witness Took UAE Cash, Bankrolled Anti-Qatar Laws
George Nader, the mysterious Lebanese-American businessman who attended Trump campaign meetings with foreign officials during the presidential transition—and who is now cooperating with the Mueller probe—took millions of dollars from the United Arab Emirates before he began handing out large political donations to U.S. lawmakers considering legislation targeting Qatar, the UAE’s main rival.
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The Ghost of Hillary
The Ghost of Hillary Clinton still haunts the minds of many Americans. She is paraded around America like a fallen angel. By Nick Pemberton.
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Gaddafi’s ghost haunts walking-dead King Sarko
The 'Liberator of Libya' turned on the Colonel in 2011, but it seems the former French president's ascendancy owed much to the late dictator's beneficence. By Pepe Escobar.
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John Bolton's super PAC paid more than $800,000 to Cambridge Analytica
President Trump's incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, ran a political action committee that paid Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the center of the Facebook controversy, $811,000 for data.
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Kochs and ALEC Behind Criminalization of Dissent Bills in Five [U.S.] States
Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma,Wyoming, Minnesota and Louisiana have introduced or passed legislation to criminalize environmental dissent. There is evidence that bill mill organizations such as ALEC and the bipartisan group Council of State Governments (CSG) had their hand in shaping these bills says investigative journalist Steve Horne. By Sharmini Peries.
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Cambridge Analytica Ain't Nuthin
Look Out For i360 And Data Trust. By Greg Palast.
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Trump Organization real estate partner in India accused of 'large-scale fraud'
The Trump Organization's real estate partner in India is being accused of at least $147 million in fraud. Two global investment companies last month filed a criminal complaint with New Delhi police against IREO, accusing the company of engaging in "large-scale fraud," The Washington Post reported. The complaint said the company was "illegally siphoning off" at least $147 million of investor money and allege the number could actually approach $200 million.
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Senator Wyden Asks NSA Director Nominee the Right Questions
Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, the new nominee to direct the NSA, faced questions Thursday from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about how he would lead the spy agency... By David Ruiz, EFF.
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Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House
A sheriff in Alabama took home as personal profit more than $750,000 that was budgeted to feed jail inmates — and then purchased a $740,000 beach house, a reporter at The Birmingham News found. And it's perfectly legal in Alabama, according to state law and local officials. Alabama has a Depression-era law that allows sheriffs to "keep and retain" unspent money from jail food-provision accounts.
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TPP-11 Countries Sign a Deal — While We Dodged a Bullet on ISDS Expansion Here, Our International Allies Face a Major Fight
Thanks to years of organizing, we in the United States saved ourselves from the corporate-dominated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by ensuring that the controversial deal was universally reviled across party lines and could never gain a majority in Congress. But... By Melinda St. Louis.
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Is Trump the New Clinton?
Foreign meddling, corruption, and sex scandals don’t always bring down a president. Just ask Bill Clinton. By Musa al-Gharbi
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Elizabeth Warren Refuses to Let Democrats Off the Hook for Their Latest Cave to Wall Street
"The fight over the Bank Lobbyist Act isn't over yet." By Jake Johnson.
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Revenge of the Stadium Banks
Instead of taking on gun control, Democrats are teaming with Republicans for a stealth attack on Wall Street reform. A bill that began as a well-intentioned effort to satisfy community bank grievances has instead sparked fears that Washington is paving the way for the next financial meltdown. By David Dayen.
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Slovakian journalist investigating claims of tax fraud linked to ruling party shot dead
A journalist investigating alleged tax fraud involving businessmen connected to Slovakia’s ruling party has been found murdered alongside his girlfriend. Ján Kuciak, 27, and his fiancee, Martina Kušnírová, were discovered shot dead in the home they shared after worried relatives alerted police, saying it had been a week since they had heard from the couple.
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It's been one year of amazing Scott Pruitt accomplishments, all of them horrible
Here's a list of his systematic attacks on environmental protections. By Amy Thomson, Rebecca Leber.
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For the EPA, ‘reform’ means giving industry what it wants
The EPA is granting specific private-sector wishes as it moves to roll back, alter or delay rules. By Rachel Leven.
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Africa is not poor, we are stealing its wealth
Africa is poor, but we can try to help its people. It's a simple statement, repeated through a thousand images, newspaper stories and charity appeals each year, so that it takes on the weight of truth. When we read it, we reinforce assumptions and stories about Africa that we've heard throughout our lives. We reconfirm our image of Africa.
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