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Archives: Crime
What if that London attack wasn’t Even Terrorism?
By Steve Hewitt | (The Conversation) | - - A middle-aged man with a history of criminal activity and violence, a variety of aliases, multiple jobs and addresses, and several broken relationships…
White House, Inc.: Kellyanne Con Artist Pitches Ivanka Line
TeleSur | - - Ivanka Trump has said she would step away from her company when her father took office in the White House. A top aide to U.S. President Donald Trump…
Trump’s Larcenies to Come: The Looting of America
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - It started in June 2015 with that Trump Tower escalator ride into the presidential race to the tune of Neil Young’s “Rockin’…
For Russian hold on Trump, follow the Money, not the Sex tapes
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Buzzfeed has published the unverified allegations by a former MI6 analyst with good Russian contacts, contained in a two-page hitherto secret annex to…
Would Trump in White House defraud us into Crash worse than 2008?
By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Imagine for a moment that it’s January 2009. Bernie Madoff, America’s poster-child fraudster, has yet to be caught. The 2007-2008 financial crisis…
The Panama Papers and Middle East Leaders’ Secret Bank Accounts
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - An anonymous source has handed over to a German newspaper massive amounts of data from the Panama-based, German-run law firm Mossack Fonseca. The…
Do Drug Profits actually drive Terrorism in the Muslim World?
Robert Rotberg | (The Conversation) | - - Terrorists are in it as much for the loot as for the ideology. . . . ISIS, could hardly exist, whatever its Islamist fervor,…
German lawmakers rush to respond to Cologne attacks as Vigilante Attacks Break Out
by Dario Sarmadi (trans. by Samuel Morgan) | ( EurActiv.de) | - - After the attacks carried out on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve, the German government wants to act…
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…
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…
Armed Bikers Protest at Arizona Mosque
AJ+ | - "Anti-Islam activists have planned a “peaceful” protest at an Arizona mosque. Protesters are encouraged to bring American flags and “to utilize their second-amendment right” ... just in case." AJ+:…
Egypt: Mubarak, Sons, given 3-year Wrist Slap for Massive Corruption
Reuters | -- "Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are sentenced to three years in jail without parole in the retrial of a corruption case. Nathan Frandino reports." Reuters: "Egyptian court sentences…
Can Police Who Kill be held Accountable?
By Alba Morales | ( Human Rights Watch) The murder charge against Michael Slager, the South Carolina police officer who fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back on April 4, is…
US “War on Drugs” ruined Mexico even worse than it did Afghanistan
By Rebecca Gordon | (Tomdispatch.com) - They behead people by the hundreds. They heap headless, handless bodies along roadsides as warnings to those who would resist their power. They have penetrated the…
Iraqi Flees ISIL to Dallas, Shot Dead while taking Picture of First Snowfall
By RFE/RL | - Police in Dallas have released surveillance footage on March 7 of four suspects in the shooting and killing of an Iraqi man. Police are not ruling out that…
Surprise: Noted Climate Change Denialist Secretly Took Oil Co. Payouts
By Nadia Prupis | (Commondreams.org) A prominent climate change denier and researcher quietly took more than $1.2 million in payouts from the energy industry, including the Koch brothers and other oil lobbyists,…
NSA making all vulnerable online with Equation Viruses on your Computer
TheLipTV | - "Malware in hard drive firmware is the latest, and most sophisticated spying tool the NSA is suspected of using, with Kaspersky Labs of Russia suggesting that the "Equation Group"…
Artificial Billionaires: Regimes’ Crony Capitalism Stifling Middle East
World Bank Across the Middle East and North Africa, countries are being forced to face up to a harsh reality—that, left as they are now, their economies won’t create anything like enough…