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...
Category: Corruption
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...
Big Oil’s Lies About Pollution Health Risks Contributed To Millions Of Deaths
Images of emaciated polar bears and warnings about the dangers of a warming planet are all well and good but...
Manhattan DA Cy Vance Has Trump’s Taxes
Donald Trump’s taxes were officially handed over to the Manhattan D.A.’s office on Monday, just hours after the Supreme Court...
Dallas billionaire natural gas producer watches profits soar as Texans freeze
Record cold temperatures combined with widespread power outages have brought considerable misery to millions of Texas residents. But one person...
Trump’s Sec. of State Mike Pompeo spent over $10,000 in taxpayer funds on engraved pens
Now that a Democratic president, Joe Biden, is in the White House, Republicans have suddenly rediscovered fiscal conservatism and concern...
Trump Back At Mar-A-Lago, Raising Taxpayer Golf Tab To $151.5 Million
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
Fascist Rupert Murdoch Gets COVID-19 Shot While Profiting Off Vaccine Misinformation
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul behind Fox News, received the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, even as hosts on his network...
Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue profiting off of the pandemic
GOP Sen. David Perdue has truly made a name for himself as the Senate’s ultimate pandemic profiteer. In yet another display...
As Trump’s Election Lies Continue, So Does His “Extremely Misleading” Fundraising Grift
As President Donald Trump tries to delegitimize the results of a presidential contest in which he “got his ass kicked” by making unsubstantiated claims of...
ExxonMobil Continues to Fund Climate Science Deniers
After decades of public denial, ExxonMobil now acknowledges that “the risk of climate change is real” and says it is “committed to...
Dark Money Behind Supreme Court Nominee Amy Barrett
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court are one part comedy,...
Rep. Katie Porter eviscerates pharma CEO with a math lesson about his $13 million salary
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO. On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene...
Our Tax Code Is Designed To Create Donald Trump
In 2011, The New York Times published what was, at the time, the most shocking expose on tax policy in...
Taxpayers looking at their monthly bills have a lot of thoughts about Trump’s $750 tax bill
The $750 in federal income taxes that Donald Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 is an attention-grabbing number—in large part...
Outrage as Pentagon Funnels Hundreds of Millions Meant for Covid Supplies to Private Defense Contractors
Instead of adhering to congressional intent by building up the nation’s inadequate supply of N95 masks and other equipment to combat the...
Dirty Louisiana Politicians Get Paid To Push Pipeline Through Black & Indigenous Communities
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
‘Delay, Distract, and Derail’: New Report Reveals How Plastic Polluters Avoid Regulation
Analysis released Thursday of the world’s top 10 biggest plastic polluters in 15 countries reveals how major corporations hide behind...
Another Sleazy Trump Crony Arrested
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors...
Filing by NY Prosecutors Indicates Broader Probe Into Alleged Trump Tax Fraud
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
Trump family business profits from reelection bid amid pandemic
While President Trump faces bruising poll numbers amid the coronavirus pandemic and financial crisis, his family business continues making money off his...
McConnell’s Corporate Immunity Plan Sparks Alarm
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
Republicans ramp up bid to rig election maps
A little-known Republican group is ramping up millions of dollars in funding from major US corporations such as CitiGroup and...
Shady US Department Trump official used his position to get his son-in-law an EPA job
An inspector general report published Friday found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech at the U.S. Department of the Interior used...
Big Oil Takes $1.9 Billion in Tax Breaks Intended for Small Businesses
Sen. Bernie Sanders was among critics outraged that the fossil fuel industry is using tax breaks in the CARES Act...
Trump’s new coronavirus vaccine czar owns $10 million in stock options in company developing vaccine
The former pharmaceutical executive named by President Donald Trump to lead a federal coronavirus vaccine development project owns more than $10 million...
Trump made the Secret Service ‘captive customers’ in transactions at his businesses
Last week in the Washington Post, journalists David A. Fahrenthold and Joshua Partlow reported that according to federal records the...
Trump Wanted Less Testing Because Jared Kushner Said It Would Spook Wall Street
On March 6, President Donald Trump issued out the now-infamous proclamation about coronavirus testing, in order to ease rising fears...
Facebook’s Double Standard on Political Ads
The Lincoln Project, a super PAC run by Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump, contacted Facebook to push the social...
Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others
President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through...
How the Republicans are stealing everything for the 1 percent
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
