corruption

How the pharmaceutical industry deceives doctors and patients

by News Sources 01.28.2013

Ben Goldacre writes: In 2010, three researchers from Harvard and Toronto found all the trials looking at five major classes of drug — antidepressants, ulcer drugs and so on — and then measured two key features: were they positive, and were they funded by industry? They found over 500 trials in total: 85 percent of [...]

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Trapwire: It’s not the surveillance, it’s the sleaze

by News Sources 08.18.2012

Noah Shachtman reports: Ever since WikiLeaks began releasing a series of documents about the surveillance system Trapwire, there’s been a panicked outcry over this supposedly all-seeing, revolutionary spy network. In fact, there are any number of companies that say they comb through video feeds or suspicious activity reports in largely the same way that Trapwire [...]

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The war on terror is corrupting all it touches

by News Sources 04.12.2012

Simon Jenkins writes: On Monday the BBC Panorama programme substantiated an extraordinary allegation that suggested how far the war on terror has descended into legal abyss. The claim was that MI6 rolled the pitch for Tony Blair’s bizarre 2004 hug-in with Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi by apparently arranging for the CIA to kidnap Gaddafi’s opponent in [...]

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Blair Inc’s ‘baffling’ increase in earnings

by News Sources 01.08.2012

The Guardian reports: Unemployment is rising and companies are going to the wall as the economic turmoil continues to inflict damage across the globe. But one organisation is thriving. Records recently filed at Companies House show Tony Blair Inc is going from strength to strength. They reveal that income channelled through a complex network of [...]

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U.S. no longer able to disregard Pakistan’s sovereignty

by News Sources 12.25.2011

The New York Times reports: With the United States facing the reality that its broad security partnership with Pakistan is over, American officials are seeking to salvage a more limited counterterrorism alliance that they acknowledge will complicate their ability to launch attacks against extremists and move supplies into Afghanistan. The United States will be forced [...]

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The nationally coordinated crackdown on the Occupy movement

by News Sources 11.25.2011

Naomi Wolf writes: US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes [...]

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Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor

by News Sources 11.22.2011

George Monbiot writes: In the documentary series which finished on Friday evening, the heiress Tamara Ecclestone set out to prove that she isn’t “a pointless, quite spoilt, really stupid, vacuous, empty human being”. This endeavour was not wholly successful. Channel 5 showed her supervising the refurbishment of her £45m home in London, in which she [...]

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Lobbyists plan to defend Wall Street and attack the Occupy movement

by News Sources 11.21.2011

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy MSNBC reports: A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program “Up [...]

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Rep. Deutch introduces OCCUPIED constitutional amendment to ban corporate money in politics

by News Sources 11.19.2011

Zaid Jilani reports: In one of the greatest signs yet that the 99 Percenters are having an impact, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today introduced an amendment that would ban corporate money in politics and end corporate personhood once and for all. Deutch’s amendment, called the Outlawing Corporate Cash [...]

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Mother of two gets jail for food-stamp fraud; Wall Street fraudsters get bailouts

by News Sources 11.17.2011

Matt Taibbi writes: Last week, a federal judge in Mississippi sentenced a mother of two named Anita McLemore to three years in federal prison for lying on a government application in order to obtain food stamps. Apparently in this country you become ineligible to eat if you have a record of criminal drug offenses. States [...]

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“We can’t let the banks rewrite history”

by News Sources 11.15.2011

Michael Powell writes: The Bank of America lawyer laid down a patented rhetorical move heard in courts across America. Your Honor, this Orange County, N.Y., homeowner — a New York City police officer — didn’t make enough money to qualify for a mortgage modification. He didn’t send us the right documents. He didn’t, he didn’t, [...]

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The new progressive movement

by News Sources 11.14.2011

Jeffrey Sachs writes: Twice before in American history, powerful corporate interests dominated Washington and brought America to a state of unacceptable inequality, instability and corruption. Both times a social and political movement arose to restore democracy and shared prosperity. The first age of inequality was the Gilded Age at the end of the 19th century, [...]

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Finally, a judge stands up to Wall Street

by News Sources 11.14.2011

Matt Taibbi writes: Federal judge Jed Rakoff, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s office here in New York, is fast becoming a sort of legal hero of our time. He showed that again yesterday when he shat all over the SEC’s latest dirty settlement with serial fraud offender Citigroup, refusing to let the captured [...]

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Congress for sale

by News Sources 11.11.2011
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Bill Moyers: ‘They are occupying Wall Street because Wall Street is occupying America

by News Sources 11.04.2011

Bill Moyers says: The great American experience in creating a different future together — this “voluntary union for the common good” – has been flummoxed by a growing sense of political impotence — what the historian Lawrence Goodwyn has described as a mass resignation of people who believe “the dogma of democracy” on a superficial [...]

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Activate: How to mobilise a million

by News Sources 11.03.2011
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Obama’s gift to the Koch brothers and curse to the planet

by News Sources 10.20.2011

Jamie Henn, Co-founder and Communications Director of 350.org, writes: Here’s a unique political strategy for you: in the lead up to a crucial election, as anti-corporate sentiment is sweeping the nation, consider giving a huge handout to a major corporation that happens to be your biggest political enemy and is already spending hundreds of millions [...]

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Time for the U.S. to stop bankrolling Israel’s defense

by News Sources 10.18.2011

Walter Pincus, in a column for the Washington Post, writes: As the country reviews its spending on defense and foreign assistance, it is time to examine the funding the United States provides to Israel. Let me put it another way: Nine days ago, the Israeli cabinet reacted to months of demonstrations against the high cost [...]

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Stop snitchin: Fox News and Wall Street banks hustle to kill new whistleblower protections

by News Sources 10.06.2011

Lee Fang reports: A few years go, a media firestorm erupted over the urban “Stop Snitchin” campaign promoted by gangs and a few hip hop icons. Stop Snitchin refers to the effort to intimidate informants to prevent them from cooperating with police about gang violence or drug trafficking schemes. Rapper Cam’ron received heavy scrutiny for [...]

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Koch brothers flout law getting richer with secret Iran sales

by News Sources 10.05.2011

Bloomberg reports: In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes [...]

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Tony Blair’s nexus of Middle East conflicts of interest

by News Sources 10.03.2011

“It’s easy enough to see what Tony Blair has got out of the Middle East peace process: introductions to Arab rulers; a nice address in Jerusalem; a continued presence on the world stage. What’s more difficult to see is what the Middle East peace process has got out of Tony Blair.” The Associated Press reports: [...]

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Rebelling against the globalization of corruption

by News Sources 09.29.2011

The New York Times reports: Hundreds of thousands of disillusioned Indians cheer a rural activist on a hunger strike. Israel reels before the largest street demonstrations in its history. Enraged young people in Spain and Greece take over public squares across their countries. Their complaints range from corruption to lack of affordable housing and joblessness, [...]

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The terrorism industry that hijacked America

by News Sources 09.08.2011

John Tirman writes: The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has, predictably, loosed a torrent of sentimental accounts of that terrible day ten years ago. They recall the shock and horror at these unprecedented events, the courage of the firefighters, the sadness of the victims’ families, and the traumatic impact to the nation. All of this [...]

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Counter-terrorism Inc. — How the US government funds America’s booming security industry

by News Sources 08.30.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: On the edge of the Nebraska sand hills is Lake McConaughy, a 22-mile-long reservoir that in summer becomes a magnet for Winnebagos, fishermen and kite sailors. But officials here in Keith County, population 8,370, imagined this scene: an Al Qaeda sleeper cell hitching explosives onto a ski boat and plowing [...]

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