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Archives: Crime
![Demand-Side Slavery, Libyan Instability and European Crime Networks](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/demand-side-slavery-libyan-insta-187x137.jpg)
![Do Illegal Flynn Russia-Turkey Payments Implicate Trump White House?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/do-illegal-flynn-russia-turkey-p-187x137.jpg)
Do Illegal Flynn Russia-Turkey Payments Implicate Trump White House?
Al Jazeera English | (Video News Clip) | - - "Michael Flynn, former national security adviser, may have broken the law by not disclosing payments he received from Russia when applying for…![Trump’s New Decree to ‘Wreak Havoc’ on Climate, Reward Big Oil](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/trumps-new-decree-to-wreak-havoc-187x137.jpg)
Trump’s New Decree to ‘Wreak Havoc’ on Climate, Reward Big Oil
TeleSur | - - The latest executive order is seen by critics as a reckless attempt to boost energy industry profits at the cost of the environment and public health. U.S. President…![What if that London attack wasn’t Even Terrorism?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/what-if-that-london-attack-wasnt-187x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/kacit-1-187x137.gif)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/splinterlandspbk-1-180x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/for-russian-hold-on-trump-follow-187x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/bankersprins-180x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/new_arabs-180x137.jpg)
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?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/02/do-drug-profits-actually-drive-t-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/01/german-lawmakers-rush-to-respond-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/07/security-zones-being-used-to-fur-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/06/climate-denial-as-a-corporate-cr1-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/05/armed-bikers-protest-at-arizona-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/05/egypt-mubarak-sons-given-3-year-187x137.jpg)
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?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/04/can-police-who-kill-be-held-acco-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/03/us-war-on-drugs-ruined-mexico-ev-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/03/iraqi-flees-isil-to-dallas-shot-187x137.jpg)
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 Took Undisclosed Big Oil Corporate Payouts](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/02/surprise-noted-climate-change-de-187x137.jpg)
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 everyone vulnerable online with Equation Viruses on your Computer Hard Drive](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701025451im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/02/nsa-making-everyone-vulnerable-o-187x137.jpg)