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Clinton Foundation Charity Grade: D — Close All Branches Now
“The Foundation took its current activities and compiled them into a ‘mission.’ So our action words are ‘convene,’ ‘improve,’ ‘increase,’ ‘reduce,’ ‘create,’ and ‘help.’ In my estimation, the only part of that which is able to be documented is ‘convene.’ They do hold those gala meetings with regularity.” By Amy Sterling Casil.
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Bernie Sanders’ new group is already in turmoil
Key staffers quit amid lingering tensions from the Vermont senator’s campaign. By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gabriel Debenedetti.
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Putting the Clinton Foundation in Context: Corruption Plain on the Face of It
"There have been hundreds of thousands of words, perhaps millions, written about the lack of performance of the Clinton Foundation in Haiti — and evidence of the ugly picture is in the fact that the best “program” the Foundation can come up with to feature after the hundreds of $millions were given after the Haiti earthquake is what I just documented — acting as a pass-through for funds to buy land for a boutique coffee company to single-source exotic coffee from one of the poorest countries on earth." By Amy Sterling Casil.
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How We Killed the Tea Party
Greedy super PACs drained the movement with endless pleas for money to support “conservative” candidates—while instead using the money to enrich themselves. I should know. I worked for one of them. By Paul H. Jossey. (Aug. 14, 2016)
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EPA Succumbs to Pressure From Monsanto, Delays Glyphosate Cancer Review
The agency's advisory panel meetings were postponed following intense lobbying by Big Ag industry, including Monsanto. By Carey Gillam.
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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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Abby Martin Exposes John Podesta
The Empire Files
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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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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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Australia ceases multimillion-dollar donations to controversial Clinton family charities
Australia has finally ceased pouring millions of dollars into accounts linked to Hillary Clinton’s charities. By Rohan Smith. [Autoplay video]
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Elizabeth Warren blasts medical research bill as ‘extortion’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren delivered a ferocious attack Monday on congressional Republicans and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a medical research bill, and put fellow Democrats on the spot by pushing them to oppose a measure she said “is corrupt, and it is very, very dangerous.”
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Two Predictions, Maybe Rants, About Donald Trump’s Presidency
Predictions about the mercurial Donald Trump are risky. Nonetheless, I cannot hesitate from making two… By John Dean.
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Here are just some of the stunningly bad moments from Betsy DeVos’ confirmation hearing
“Do you not want to answer my question?” By Edwin Rios.
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A House rules change you didn’t hear much about – and prosecutors won’t like
The Office of Congressional Ethics was saved from the landfill, but few noticed a change that did make it into the new House rules passed Tuesday [January 3rd]. By Ashley Balcerzak. (Jan. 5, 2016)
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After meeting with pharma lobbyists, Trump drops promise to negotiate drug prices
The new plan is tax cuts and deregulation. By Matthew Yglesias.
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Trump the Outsider Outsources His Budget to Insider Think Tank
Many of its proposals are lifted straight from the recommendations of an elite ultra-conservative D.C. think tank: the Heritage Foundation. By Zaid Jilani.
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If Progressives Don’t Wake Up To How Awful Obama Was, Their Movement Will Fail
"We don’t get to keep him. We don’t get to keep the first black president. We don’t get to let that be ours; we have to reject it, in the same way we’d have to reject the first female president had Hillary won…" By Caitlin Johnstone.
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How Much Does a Politician Cost? A Groundbreaking Study Reveals the Influence of Money in Politics
Many academics claim, against all odds, that money doesn’t matter in politics. Now we can see exactly what it costs to buy a congressional vote. By Jon Schwarz. (May 4, 2017)
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Behind Kushner Companies, a Chinese agency skirts visa-for-investment rules
While Jared Kushner’s family company apologized this week for mentioning the White House adviser’s name when wooing Chinese investors to fund a New Jersey real estate project, one Chinese immigration agency was touting its role in the deal. By Alexandra Harney.
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Kushners tap China’s $24B ‘golden visa’ market
When the sister of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner promoted investment in her family’s new skyscraper from a Beijing hotel ballroom stage earlier this month, she was pitching a controversial American visa program that’s proven irresistible to tens of thousands of Chinese. By Nomaan Merchant.
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