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...
Category: Corruption
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...
Oil, Coal, & Gas Got $5.9 Trillion In Subsidies In 2020
Joe Manchin is perseverating about spending $3.5 trillion over 10 years for Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. “We can’t...
Manchin has received $1.5 million from corporate interests attacking Biden agenda
Sen. Joe Manchin, one of a handful of Democratic lawmakers threatening to tank President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, has received...
Big pharma and drug lobbyists are ‘courting’ Kyrsten Sinema as the ‘lead blocker’ on pricing reform
It is no coincidence that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is often mentioned in the same sentence as Sen. Joe...
Merck slammed for 4,000% markup of taxpayer-funded Covid drug
The New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant Merck is facing accusations of price gouging after it charged the U.S. over $700 per...
Big Pharma greed ‘literally killing Americans,’ Sanders says outside drug lobby HQ
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and progressive healthcare campaigners from across the U.S. rallied at the headquarters of Big Pharma’s...
New report exposes corporate scheme to derail Biden agenda and ‘upend democracy’
Corporations threatened by the prospect of paying a slightly higher tax rate and exercising a little less power over working people...
Lying, Cheating Oil & Gas Companies Stick Taxpayers With Cleanup Bill
In our minds, we envision an oil well faithfully pumping oil for decades after it is drilled. In reality, the...
Congressional Progressives Call Out Pentagon Waste And Fraud
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that a new congressional watchdog report showing the Pentagon failing in efforts to combat department-wide...
Manchin Pretends Exxon Does Not Lead Him Around By The Nose
Dana Bash proved surprisingly effective in making West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin sweat this morning, when throwing charges of being...
The shame of the Sacklers — “Drug dealers in nice suits and dresses”
Today a federal judge is expected to certify Purdue Pharmaceutical’s bankruptcy plan – a $4.5 billion settlement between the company...
Secret IRS files reveal how much the ultrawealthy gained by shaping Trump’s ‘big, beautiful tax cut’
In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen....
Republican Millionaires’ Caucus Wants To Keep Their Trump Tax Cuts
A new analysis by the government watchdog group Accountable.US finds that two-thirds of GOP senators—and more than 40% of House...
New report examines utilities’ efforts to fight solar in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CAPITOL NEWS SERVICE) – A new report by Environment Florida’s Research and Policy Center examined efforts to undermine...
Toyota Actively Lobbying To Slow Down EV Revolution
Toyota seems to be doing everything possible to become known as one of the most despicable corporations on the face...
How Big Pharma fueled the opioid crisis that killed 500,000
As the U.S. continues to deal with the fallout from the devastating opioid epidemic that has killed over 500,000 people...
Biden Fires Trump’s Social Security Saboteurs
President Biden on Friday fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, after Saul refused...
Top oil lobbyist caught on tape revealing 11 senators ‘crucial’ to ExxonMobil
Channel 4 in the U.K. published a startling expose on ExxonMobil’s lobbyists who revealed the top most important U.S. Senators...
Katie Porter Confronts Big Pharma CEO And Destroys The Lie Behind High Drug Costs
Rep. Porter broke down how much money Big Pharma companies spend to make money and said, “So, Mr. Gonzales, you’re...
The case for locking Trump up
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: The main reason to prosecute Donald Trump is that he’s a shameless...
Senate Hearing: At Long Last, Audit The Pentagon
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday presided over a Senate Budget Committee hearing convened to examine waste and fraud at the...
Here’s how rich mega-doners hacked US politics
Just 12 megadonors contributed roughly $1 in every 13 dollars spent on recent campaigns for federal office, as well as the...
Robert Reich: Zoom paying no taxes while getting rich is proof ‘the system is rigged’
“Zoom saw its profits increase 4,000% last year,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich noted. “But, wait for it, paid no...
