Group With Ties to Trump Opioid Chief Scores Big
Reading Time: 7 minutes A small group with ties to President Donald Trump’s opioid czar has just been awarded $24 million in federal grants.
Trump, Kushner, Russia — and the Blackstone Mystery
Reading Time: 8 minutes President Donald Trump’s close friend, billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, and his company, Blackstone, have interesting Russia connections. Thus far, though, they’ve flown beneath the radar.
CEO Behind Murder of Environmental Activist Arrested
Reading Time: 2 minutes The murder of Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres shows that corruption reaches right to the top in the hydropower industry.
Here’s Who Takes Big Money from the Gun Lobby
Reading Time: 2 minutes Single-issue voters could make the difference in the 2018 midterms. Will that issue be guns?
House GOP Leads Russia Probe … Away from Deutsche Bank
Reading Time: 2 minutes House Republicans who are supposed to be investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election say there is no need to look at Deutsche Bank. Here is why they are wrong.
Is Mulvaney Protecting Big Business and Not Consumers?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mick Mulvaney, the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is on record saying he wants to get rid of the agency he runs. So he is not a fox guarding the hen house, but rather a fox who wants to burn the hen house to the ground.
Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American & Russian, Part 3
Reading Time: 15 minutes Not only is President Donald Trump personally tied up with Deutsche Bank to the tune of $300 million, but his son-in-law Jared Kushner has his own history with the global banking colossus. Part 3 looks closely at these relationships, and asks just how far President Trump’s Justice Department will be willing to go in probing potential illegality on the part of Deutsche.
Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American & Russian, Part 2
Reading Time: 16 minutes What do President Donald Trump and a number of Russian oligarchs have in common? Answer: Deutsche Bank. We pick up where we left off by examining how Trump first became involved with the international colossus — a bank catering to clients who understood that sometimes the line between profit and illegality blurs.
The Usual Suspects: Americans Are About to Get Robbed
Reading Time: 3 minutes President Donald Trump and the GOP are about to pull off the biggest heist in world history — they just have to fool their supporters one last time.
Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American and Russian, Part 1
Reading Time: 19 minutes International banking colossus Deutsche Bank has a track record of deploying illegal financial trading, money laundering, and shady offshore tax shelters in the service of the global elite. Should anyone be surprised that Deutsche is on Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation radar?
A Visit from St. Donald
Reading Time: 2 minutes We wrote a special Christmas poem to celebrate the passage of the GOP’s tax reform legislation. Finally things are looking up for billionaires.
What Smart People Are Saying About the Tax Bill
Reading Time: 6 minutes The final version of the GOP tax bill is about to be voted on by Congress. But what’s in store for the American people? And does even Congress know? Here are some short takes from around the web that we found insightful.
Big Chicken Rules Roost in Trump White House
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ex-boss of USDA Food Safety “retires,” then reappears working for meat production company. Coincidence? Or fat cat in the hen house?
The Feds’ Secret Workforce
Reading Time: 7 minutes The federal workforce is at the same size as it was in the days of John F. Kennedy, while the use of federal contractors has surged. That trend may only get worse with expected federal budget cuts.
‘Big Decision’: Will the US Spend What It Takes to Save Puerto Rico?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Puerto Rico needs a “Marshall Plan” to recover from the double devastation of Hurricane Maria and the economic austerity imposed by Congress.
Wall Street and the Nazi Cartels
Reading Time: 19 minutes Excerpt from “All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System.”
Another Day, Another Country, Another Corporation Hurting Workers
Reading Time: 6 minutes Workers marshaled all their forces to save their bottling plant, only to face the same corporate power that bedevils American employees.
Misplaced American Healthcare Exceptionalism
Reading Time: 2 minutes Is US healthcare really the envy of the world? Statistics and the average American’s pocketbook tell a different story.
Despite the Naysaying of Employers and Pundits, Minimum Wage Must Rise
Reading Time: 4 minutes Highly paid pundits and “experts” warn against raising the minimum wage. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
Will Zeal for Profits Hinder High-tech Farming from Feeding People?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Vertical farmers are bringing agriculture inside — and launching baby greens into outer space. But will political and marketplace realities bring vertical farming back down to earth?