Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game
Climate activists are calling out Shell for partnering with popular video gamers and online youth influencers to promote fossil fuels...
Category: Corruption
Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars
Two billionaireTexas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped millions of dollars into rightwing media outfits...
Newly obtained documents shed light on a vast and corrupt right-wing influence network
Newly obtained documents show that the billion-dollar trust fund given to Leonard Leo — the right-wing attorney and longtime leader...
Revealed: Texas billionaire had at least one case before the Supreme Court — despite Thomas’ claim
Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire who showered U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with lavish gifts and even purchased the...
Clarence Thomas must be impeached over revelations of megadonor gifts, says AOC
New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas’s impeachment. AOC’s calls follow reports that...
Exxon in the classroom: how big oil money influences US universities
The lecturer looked, and sounded, the part. Sporting a pale blue shirt and Princeton University ID badge, he had his...
Kevin McCarthy Attempts To Blame Biden For Bank Failures McCarthy Helped Cause
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy plans to blame President Biden for the Silicon Valley Bank failure, even though he...
The Fossil Fuel Industry Is “Immorally Undermining Climate Action”
Can 2023 be “a year of reckoning,” so that “game-changing climate action” permeates every government and industry, every local community...
Watchdog Calls for Investigation Into IRS Over Repeated Failure to Audit Trump
A government watchdog group has filed a complaint calling for an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after the...
Trump’s Taxes Are the Best Case Yet for Putting Him in Prison
Don’t let the cynics who know little about our tax system trick you into thinking there was nothing all that...
Trump Got Stunningly Lax IRS Treatment While POTUS, House Finds
For years during Trump’s presidency, the losers and haters wondered: might there be a conflict of interest in having a...
Keystone Pipeline Dumps 14,000 Barrels Of Crude Oil Into Kansas Stream
Approximately 14,000 barrels of crude oil escaped from the Keystone pipeline in northeast Kansas not far from the Nebraska border...
Advocacy groups, lawmakers call out Big Oils’ clean energy lies
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform released findings from an investigation into Big Oil companies showing that giants like...
How Much Is Too Much To Pay A Pastor?
Franklin Graham’s annual compenstion of $880,000, revealed in a Charlotte Observer story, has some worrying that too many top Christian...
Former Twitter VP urges companies pull advertising from platform — citing Elon Musk’s ‘toxic takeover’
Twitter’s former Vice President of Global Media Katie Jacobs Stanton is urging advertisers to pull their money from the microblogging...
Watch Katie Porter Explain What’s Really Driving Inflation
During a House hearing this week, Katie Porter interviewed Mike Konczal, a director at the Roosevelt Institute, the progressive economic...
Eric Trump’s Huge Lie About What Trump Org Charged Secret Service
This story would be breaking news if one of the Trumps told the truth for a change. No, this is...
Analysis explains how Trump manages to pay fewer taxes than Americans with a household income of $20K
Former President Donald Trump manages to pay a substantially low amount in taxes each year despite his ultra-wealthy status. Now,...
Behind Starbucks union-busting stands CEO who got $940,000,000 richer during pandemic
An analysis released Wednesday shows that the multi-billionaire chief executive spearheading Starbucks’ aggressive and unlawful union-busting campaign has gotten $940...
Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
The CEO of the biggest power company in the US had a problem. A Democratic state senator was proposing a...
GOP Led States Attempting to Use Covid Relief Funds to Provide Tax Cuts for the Rich
Republican leaders in nearly two dozen U.S. states are attempting—potentially in violation of federal law—to use coronavirus relief funds approved...
GOP-appointed justices make combating climate crisis much harder
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, a variety of observers took note of the lengthy and methodical...
Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills
In a private meeting last month with big-money donors, the head of a top conservative group boasted that her outfit...
Progressives Rip Corporations for ‘Using Inflation as a Cover Story to Jack Up Prices’
In the wake of new federal data showing that U.S. inflation rose again in May after decelerating slightly the previous...
An Atlanta-based utility, Southern Company funded crisis denial ads
In 1980, a report circulated to a division of one of the biggest coal-burning utilities in the US warned that...
Progressives Slam ‘Phony’ Manchin for Pushing Lower Drug Prices After Killing BBB
Progressives within and beyond Congress took aim at Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday after the West Virginia Democrat infamous for...
Shell Consultant Quits, Citing “Disregard For Climate Change Risks”
Caroline Dennett has been a senior safety consultant for Shell for 11 years, but in an emotional farewell video, she...
Republicans Vote Against Gas Price Gouging Bill
In a fairly close House vote on Thursday, a Democratic bill cracking down on price gouging by the energy industry...
US Is Number One – In Billionaires Hiding Money
A global index published Tuesday ranks the United States as the world’s leading perpetrator of financial secrecy, citing the country’s...
Sanders blasts Senate’s ‘strange priorities’ as it advances corporate welfare
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont blasted the warped priorities of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as the Democratic-controlled chamber moved to...
How the oil and gas industry is trying to hold US public schools hostage
The oil and gas industry wants to play a word-and-picture association game with you. Think of four images: a brightly...
Revealed: top US corporations raising prices on Americans even as profits surge
As inflation shot to a new peak in March, cost increases exacted a deep toll on the economy, eating into...
Big Oil — PBS Frontline Series On An Industry That Lies To Get What It Wants
A new PBS Frontline 3-part series delves into exactly how Big Oil — led by ExxonMobil — has used its money and...
Robert Reich: Elon Musk wants to own Twitter to protect his ‘freedom’, not everyone else’s
Elon Musk has now put together a $46.5bn financing package to buy Twitter – two thirds of it from his...
Billionaire Peltz draws GOP megadonors to $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for “Democrat” Sen. Joe Manchin
Wall Street veteran Nelson Peltz hosted a $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for Sen. Joe Manchin at the billionaire’s sprawling Florida estate last...
Big Oil Execs to Face Charges of Price-Gouging at House Hearing
Top executives from some of the largest and most profitable oil and gas companies are expected to face tough questions...
It’s Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation...
Joe Manchin Coal Conflict Of Interest Is Dangerous For The Planet
He has been a one-person barrier against climate action, serving as a US Democrat while manipulating climate legislation alongside most...
How Joe Manchin got rich using his ‘political influence’ to benefit the coal industry: report
Donald Trump drew a great deal of criticism from environmentalists and Democrats when he displayed his “Trump digs coal” signs...
Corporate sedition is more damaging to America than the Capitol attack
Capitalism and democracy are compatible only if democracy is in the driver’s seat. That’s why I took some comfort just...
How Joe Manchin betrayed America’s working families
Ed Barnette long ago realized that affordable child care and paid sick leave, among other resources, would be essential to...
‘Acting Like Republicans’: Sanders Rips Manchin and Sinema for Betraying US Families
With Democrats’ Build Back Better package hanging in the balance, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Thursday called out fellow...
Elizabeth Warren To Elon Musk: The World’s Richest Freeloader Evidently Has Very Thin Skin
Senator Elizabeth Warren responds to Elon Musk calling her ‘Senator Karen’ on Twitter in response to her call for him...
How the media covers up for the Pentagon’s highway robbery
Intense debate over the Build Back Better (BBB) legislation has triggered stern lectures by fiscal conservatives about government spending. The...
These billionaires received taxpayer-funded stimulus checks during the pandemic
In March 2020, as the first wave of coronavirus infections all but shut down the U.S. economy, Congress responded with...
