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Robert Parry: Netanyahu – Israel’s Rascist-in-Chief
06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government
Exclusive: For years, U.S. politicians have rejected allegations of Israeli racism and excused mistreatment of the Palestinians as a temporary necessity that would be fixed by a two-state solution. But Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has destroyed those arguments in his panic to keep his job, reports Robert Parry.
Graphic: US “Strategy” Against Russia
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call
Buying Democracy = Bribe $1 Gets $760 Back
Commerce, Corruption, Government
For Every Dollar Spent Influencing US Politics, Corporations Get $760 Back
The first time we read the recent analysis by the Sunlight Foundation in which it combed through 14 million corporate records, including data on campaign contributions, lobbying expenditures, federal budget allocations and spending, in order to determine the “rate of return” on lobbying and spending to buy political goodwill, we were left speechless.
When it comes to the rate of return on lobbying, the rates are simply staggering, and range anywhere between 5,900% for oil subsidies, to 22,000% for multinational tax breaks and even higher for America's legal drug dealers.
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Mongoose: Change Presidential Debate Rules? Cosmetic Deception!
Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
This is theatrical — not a real reform at all.
New group calls for changes in presidential debate rules
Philip Rucker
Washington Post, 17 March 2015
A group of political elders, concerned that the American public is losing faith in the presidential election system, is pushing for changes to general-election debate rules to make it easier for independent candidates to gain traction.
The group, called Change the Rule, recently wrote a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, the nonpartisan organization that runs general-election debates, urging it to eliminate the rule requiring non-major-party candidates to average at least 15 percent in public polling to participate.
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Laurence Kotlikoff: US Senate Told US in Worse Fiscal Shape than Greece + David Walker & Balanced Budget
Corruption, Government
U.S. In Worse Financial Shape Than Greece, Congress Told
Boston University economist, Laurence Kotlikoff, has said that the U.S. is in worse fiscal shape than any developed country including Greece. Speaking to the Senate Budget Committee on February 25th, 2015 Kotlikoff warned, “The first point I want to get across is that our nation is broke … Our nation’s broke, and it’s not broke in 75 years or 50 years or 25 years or 10 years. It’s broke today.”
Robert Parry: CIA at 50 – Politicized & Lost
Corruption, Government, IneptitudeCIA at 50, Lost in the ‘Politicization’ Swamp
From the Archive: Almost 20 years ago – even before the Iraq WMD fiasco – as the CIA was celebrating its half-century anniversary, the impact of a Reagan-era “reorganization” was being felt in the “politicization” of intelligence, Robert Parry wrote in 1997. Now, a new reorganization could make matters worse.
By Robert Parry (Originally published in 1997)
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