Dec 22, 2025
This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. Oligarchs make this all worse.
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This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. Oligarchs make this all worse.
See the problem here?
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Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
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Hang on, if I’ve understood correctly Liz, you crashed our economy and put people in real fear of losing their homes or young people not even being able to buy one to give the wealthy a tax cut. On top of this you reduced the value of peoples pensions and because it looked like it was going to cost you your job, you’ve cancelled the tax cut for the rich and we are all supposed to be grateful and…
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Luis Bárcenas has sent prosecutors a letter promising to cooperate and naming senior party officials who allegedly accepted regular payments of undeclared money
New revelations from the former treasurer of Spain’s Popular Party (PP), Luis Bárcenas, who is serving a 29-year sentence over a sweeping graft case known as Gürtel, could affect the outcome of a new trial probing an illegal funding system run by the conservative group.
In February 2013, EL PAÍS revealed the existence of secret handwritten ledgers that became known as the “Bárcenas papers.” These accounts showed cash donations and outgoing payments from 1990 to 2008 that suggested irregular payments and salaries within the PP. The parallel accounting appeared to reflect unlawful corporate donations as well as regular kickbacks to senior party officials. None of this money was declared to the tax authorities.
Now, with less than a week to go before the start of a trial over the PP’s alleged illegal funding – in which Bárcenas is the main accused party and faces a five-year sentence – the former treasurer has sent prosecutors a letter expressing his “desire to cooperate with the justice system.” José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, two former prime ministers who served at the time when the PP was allegedly running this parallel accounting system, will appear in court as witnesses.
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More conservative corruption. Quelle surprise, or should that be “Qué sorpresa”?
The SEC’s most important enforcement tool to fight securities fraud is at stake in a case before the Supreme Court.
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The US Is an "oligarchy with unlimited political bribery" says former president
The US Is an “oligarchy with unlimited political bribery” says former president
Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said,…
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