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Archives: Corruption
GOP Congress plans $100 bn. tax cut as Xmas Present for Corporations
By Jessica Schieder | (Otherwords.org) | - - This year-end tax package is a grab bag of gifts for corporations and a lump of coal for working families. Given the commitment House…
Top 10 Signs the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Revised Those ratings that castigate Afghanistan and some other poor countries as hopelessly "corrupt" always imply that the United States is not corrupt.…
Kabul on the Potomac: How America became the most Corrupt Society in the West
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - A top government official with energy industry holdings huddles in secret with oil company executives to work out the details of a potentially…
The 3000: Why have some Tunisians joined ISIL/Daesh in Syria?
by Youssef Cherif | (Middle East Center Blog, LSE Political Science) | - - Tunisia, regarded as the Arab ‘beacon of hope’ and the cliché of Arab secularism and liberalism, raises a…
President of Israel declares Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank a “Right”, key to Zionism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday declared Israeli squatting on the Palestinian West Bank a "right" and as an essential Zionist principle. Reuven,…
Youth Revolts are back– Lebanon, Iraq Shaken by demand for Services, end to Corruption
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The master narrative of much Western journalism is that the youth protests of 2011 have been replaced by civil war and terrorism. But…
The Long Knives Come out in Baghdad
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In principle, the idea of streamlining the Iraqi government and making it more efficient is a capital one. But the reforms being pursued…
How the Israel Lobbies hurt U of Illinois-UC & 1st Amendment (Salaita Case)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - There is no honor among thieves or ideologues, and it is sad to see a great university's leadership descend into petty squabbling and…
GOP Hopefuls Get $62M From Fossil Fuel Donors: Origins of Climate Denialism?
Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel | (TheLipTV Video Report) | - - "Eight out of the 17 Republican presidential candidates have received at least $62m in donations from a small number of…
Jimmy Carter: US “Now is just an Oligarchy . . . Subversion of our System”
Thom Hartmann | (Video Interview) | - - "Thom Hartmann talks with President Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (1977 to 1981) / Humanitarian / Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in…
Security Zones Being Used to Further Expand West Bank Settlements
By IMEMC | - - "Land confiscated from Palestinians for the purpose of security buffer zones around illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank is actually being utilized as "land reserves or…
Your Fourth of July and My Fourth of July
Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Revised for the 2010s: Your Fourth of July is invasions and wars. My Fourth of July is the pure sunbeam of peace. Yours is…
Iraq’s Displaced People are Selling Body Parts For Food
Niqash.org | Sulaymaniyah | - - "Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan suspect that displaced people are selling their kidneys to feed their families. Problem is, they don't know how to stop it because…
Democracy in retreat in Half the 193 UN Member States
By Thalif Deen | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Democracy is on the retreat and authoritarianism is on the rise in more than 96 of the U.N.’s 193 member states, according…
Wikileaks Docs Reveal Saudi intrigues against Bahrain’s Arab Spring
By Faten Bushehri | (Global Voices) | - - The Saudi Cables, released by WikiLeaks, includes a treasure trove of information in secret exchanges between Saudi diplomats on restive Bahrain Saudi Arabia's…
PM Netanyahu wants a Free Press, just not in Israel
By Ari Heistein | (Informed Comment) | - - Continuing his assault on transparency and independent voices in the media, Prime Minister Netanyahu denied investigative journalist Raviv Drucker’s Freedom of Information Law…
Climate Denial as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy
By Naomi Oreskes | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Recently, the Washington Post reported new data showing something most of us already sense: that increased polarization on Capitol Hill is due to the way the Republican…
Turkish Voters worried about Integrity of Elections, Deterioration of Democracy
By Deniz Erkmen | (Informed Comment) | -- As Turkey approaches a pivotal parliamentary election on June 7, there is growing doubt about just how “free and fair” this election is…