A Russian Word You Should Know
Fighting Washington’s Most Power Lobby ; How to Influence Trump: Pay Him! …and More Picks 2/26
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Plundering Iraq’s Oil Wealth
The extraordinary, yet somewhat predictable, story of how the Iraqi people lost out as their country’s oil wealth was squandered as a result of corruption, deceit, political infighting, Western meddling and tribal conflicts.
Trump’s Palm Beach Problem
Mattis: No Evidence Assad Used Sarin on His Own People ; The Next Bathroom Bill …and More Picks 2/12
More Medicaid Limits
ICE, the Intelligence Agency? ; Trump Appoints Kellyanne Conway in Charge of Opioid Crisis …and More Picks 2/8
Rapid DNA Collection
Trump’s Terrible Nuclear Options ; Real US Crime Figures …and More Picks 2/7
Rewarding Wall Street’s Filthy Rich
Trickle-Down Economics Fail ; Promise of War Pleases Corporate Media …and More Picks 2/6
Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American & Russian, Part 3
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.
What Five ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Cases Tell Us About FBI Tactics
The new Peter B. Collins podcast looks at the similarities involving surveillance and paid FBI informants in five San Francisco Bay Area “domestic terrorism” cases.
FISA Extension Puts Journalists at Risk
Pentagon’s Never-Ending War ; South Africa Labels Israel Apartheid State ..and More Picks 1/26
Big Win for Medicaid
Puerto Rico’s Power Problem ; US Revives Assad Gas Claims …and More Picks 1/25
Trump’s Drone War Is Worse Than We Thought
In November, WhoWhatWhy alerted its readers to the fact that President Donald Trump is continuing the Obama administration’s drone war while suppressing important information on the drone strikes conducted this year. While that is bad enough, things are actually much worse. The number of drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen has soared as […]
Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American & Russian, Part 2
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.