Buying Democracy = Bribe $1 Gets $760 Back

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 …

Robert Parry: CIA at 50 – Politicized & Lost

CIA 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 …

Friends of Europe: Not Friendly, Not Thoughtful — Comment by Robert Steele

Friends of Europe (€2,281,515 a year budget) is delighted to send you the report of its last Security Jam, launched today at a debate with General Philip Breedlove, NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and Ambassador Alain Le Roy, incoming Secretary General of the European External Action Service. European Union and NATO leaders must act …