DOJ Investigating Russian Dirty Money Flowing Into US
Reading Time: 2 minutes More movement on the investigation of billions in laundered funds that may have passed into the United States. Could suicides of bank officials be related?
Another Banker Suicide: Intriguing Parallels Between US and Estonian Deaths
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two months, two high-profile investigations, two dead bankers, two alleged suicides. Something just doesn’t seem right.
The People v Wall Street: California’s Public Banking Shake-up
Reading Time: 5 minutes How a grassroots coalition beat the banking lobby in California — and how other states could be affected.
Will ExxonMobil Fool Us Again?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Enlightening excerpt from Dick Russell’s ‘Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth’ — a cynical tale about how Big Oil deceived the public.
There Is Nothing ‘Organic’ About Animal Cruelty
Reading Time: 4 minutes An undercover investigation into an “organic” Texas dairy found horrific examples of livestock abuse. Now two nonprofits are demanding accountability and change.
How Corporations Prevent Workers From Getting Ahead
Reading Time: 3 minutes New research reveals the ways big businesses suppress wage growth, and thus the prospects of upward mobility for their workers
For-Profit and Online Colleges Spend the Least on Instruction, Report Finds
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you’re looking for the greatest bang for your tuition buck, you might want to look first at public colleges and universities.
Waging War on Wage Theft
Reading Time: 5 minutes As more states raise their minimum wage, some companies are saving money by finding other ways to stiff employees, such as forcing them to work off the clock.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Duped Middle Class — Will Voters Fight Back? Part 2
Reading Time: 8 minutes Eliminating tax subsidies that primarily benefit the plutocrats is urgently needed if we are to preserve the middle class and our economy.
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Duped Middle Class — Will Voters Fight Back? Part 1
Reading Time: 12 minutes TCJA gave massive tax cuts to the very rich, massively increased budget deficits, increased incentives to move jobs and profits offshore — and minimally increased investment in productivity.
NY Students Aren’t Buying Amazon’s Sweetheart Deal
Reading Time: 5 minutes Students are wondering how New York could afford to give billions of dollars to Amazon when their schools are literally falling apart.
Deutsche Bank, Trump, and Russia: A WhoWhatWhy Primer
Reading Time: 2 minutes The German banking colossus is back in the news, after German authorities raided its offices Thursday morning as part of a money laundering investigation. We’ve already been looking closely at this bank and its strange relations to Trump, Russia, oligarchs, and more — here’s what we’ve found.
In Case You Were Wondering About Our Omarosa Coverage…
Reading Time: 2 minutes While the rest of the media was busy providing wall-to-wall coverage of a spat between two former reality TV stars, WhoWhatWhy delivered solid news.
Farewell to a Hypocrite
Reading Time: 3 minutes Having failed to fully gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, House Speaker Paul Ryan is calling it quits. What’s next for one of Washington’s biggest hypocrites?