China’s government and businesses aren’t know for their ethical conduct and the world continues to take notice of this backward behavior, the most recent example being Italian prosecutors, who announced on Friday that are seeking […]
Tag: Corruption
Superpowers Still Clinging To Secrecy As Julian Assange Marks Third Year Inside Ecuadorian Embassy
This weekend marked three years since Julian Assange slipped into the Ecuadorian embassy in London, England, claiming political asylum. Already a strong supporter of rights and transparency, the president of the Ecuador has now said […]
Is Canadian Ban On Political Donations From Business and Unions A Way To Restore American Democracy?
While debate endlessly continues in the USA over political donations from powerful corporations, across the border in Canada, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has vowed to wipe out political donations from businesses and unions entirely, in […]
Six Global Mega-Banks Under Investigation. Yet Again.
It wouldn’t be a week without the world’s criminal banks coming under investigation illegal activity and this week didn’t disappoint as six of the world’s largest banks are under investigation for possible foreign-exchange market rigging, […]
FIFA Scandal Noose Tightens As Third Largest Swiss Bank Launches Internal Probe
As we’ve seen over the last eight years, global mega-banks rarely launch internal investigations on their own volition. Instead they come one step ahead of a legal inquiry into their criminal activities, whether that’s market […]
SEC Chief Found To Embody And Promote Wall Street-Regulator Revolving Door Policy
A new report has severely eroded the already thin credibility of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and its Chair Mary Jo White, finding the head of the securities regulator “both embodies and promotes the […]
Amazon Uses ‘We’re From The Internet So Laws Don’t Apply’ Strategy To Avoid Drone Regulation
As time has passed since the founding of America the federal government increasingly regulates nearly all activity within the nation. While originally states were able to decide what is best for them, based on what […]
Leaked Contract Shows Taser Gouging Police Forces For Body Cams
In the wake of the Baltimore riots, police forces are quickly deploying body cameras to record police activities, raising logistical questions about how to store all that video, and for how much. A leaked $2.7 […]
Australian PM Caught Paying Criminal Syndicates To Return Migrants Home
Prime Minister Tony Abbott dodged new questions on Sunday about whether Australian officials paid people smugglers thousands of dollars to return 65 asylum seekers to Indonesia, saying only that his government is “prepared to do […]
Senate Denies Obama Right To ‘Fast Track’ Trade Deals
Democrats voted overwhelmingly Friday to derail giving the President “fast-track” authority to conduct high-stakes Trans-Pacific trade talks, rejecting a personal plea from Barack Obama, The vote reduces the chances for a sweeping trade pact, though […]
Zimbabwe Throws In The Towel, Abandons Own Currency And Adopts The U.S. Dollar
Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe makes no secret of his xenophobic hatred of Americans, yet the president’s government will discard its virtually worthless national currency for U.S. dollars next week. The exchange rate? 35,000,000,000,000,000 to one […]
North Korea Caught Interrogating Children About Parent’s Drug Use
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at one point had the power to become the most humanitarian leader of the last 200 years, when at just 27 he was elected leader of the hermit kingdom […]
Obama’s Secret TPP Trade Deal Puts Profits Before Public Health
Despite very few details being made public, the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal is widely regarded as one of the biggest gifts to corporate America in history. The deal is Obama’s final parting gift to […]
Even Congress Didn’t Know That The FBI Was Running A Huge Surveillance Air Force
Last week Americans began to learn that the FBI was using fictitious companies to secretly operate a small air force. It operated scores of low-flying planes across the country conducting video and cell phone surveillance. […]
Embattled World Soccer Body FIFA Suspends Bidding On Future World Cups
FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, the defacto spokesperson now that disgraced president Sepp Blatter is under investigation, said on Wednesday that FIFA would “postpone” the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup. The announcement comes […]
World Governments Force Activist Group To Pay Japan’s Illegal Whale Hunting Industry
In what clearly shows the world is ruled by big money corporate interests, hard-line antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has bizarrely been forced to pay the illegal Japanese whaling industry $2.55 million for “damages”. […]
FIFA Official Says Russia, Qatar Will Lose World Cup If Bribery Found
In light of recent revelations of endemic bribery and corruption its difficult to trust anything that world soccer governing body FIFA says. That being as it may, a key FIFA official said on the weekend […]
Germany Bribed Saudi Arabia With Arms Shipment To Secure 2006 World Cup
The FIFA bribery scandal continues to worsen, as it became known on Sunday that Germany provided an arms shipment to Saudi Arabia in return for the kingdom’s vote for the 2006 World Cup, a German […]
Heads Of Criminal Banking Racket Deutsche Bank To Step Down
After an extraordinary meeting held over the weekend, the two current co-chief executives of criminal banking giant Deutsche Bank, Anshu Jain and Jürgen Fitschen, are stepping down, the bank announced Sunday. Yet, like their peer […]
450 Dead In Chinese Ferry Sinking Raises Numerous Questions
China’s break-neck economic growth comes at many prices. Its environment is fouled, it shows little regard for human rights and its government routinely harms it neighbors in the international community. Another cost is shoddy infrastructure. […]
Corrupt FIFA President, Fearing Arrest, Refuses To Attend Olympics Meeting In Switzerland
Formerly defiant FIFA ringleader Sepp Blatter, who is resigning as president of world football’s scandal-plagued governing body, has decided he’d rather not end up like six of his colleagues, who were arrested in Switzerland last […]
FBI Is Investigating Disgraced FIFA President Blatter For Bribery
The FIFA soccer scandal continues to widen as reports surfaced late Tuesday that the FBI and U.S. prosecutors are investigating Sepp Blatter, who announced his resignation on Tuesday, as part of a wide ranging probe […]
Former House Speaker Hastert Paid To Cover Up Underage Sex Crimes
The scandal surrounding former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert got deeper and uglier late Friday when reports surfaced that the $3.5 million he’s accused of mishandling was to pay a former student to keep […]
Indictment Of Former House Speaker Exposes Deep Rot In D.C.
Robert Menendez isn’t the only prominent politician engaged in corruption as word broke last night that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been indicted by Federal officials for lying to the FBI about a $3.5 […]
Putin Sees Nothing Wrong With Bribes, Calls FIFA Probe Plot To Take World Cup Away From Russia
It should come as no surprise, in light of the rampant corruption and bribery associated with the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, that Russian President Vladimir Putin sees nothing wrong with FIFA’s selection process. And why […]
Former Senator Who Advocated For Pipelines Loses Seat, Immediately Joins Pipeline Lobby Firm
The revolving door between Washington and lobbyists continues to resemble the criminal ‘expert networks’ used by large hedge funds like SAC Capital to get an edge in the stock market. Instead of getting an edge […]
World Soccer Body FIFA Raided, Execs Arrested In Massive Corruption Probe
FIFA, the powerful yet deeply troubled governing body for soccer, was indicted in two probes led by U.S. and Swiss authorities. Acting on a U.S. led indictment by the Justice Department, Swiss police arrested several […]
SEC Commissioner Appalled By Latest Wall Street Criminal Acts
While the bandits of Wall Street sidestepped yet another criminal prosecution and yet again got off without anyone going to jail yesterday, one member of the Securities and Exchange Commission has, like us, had enough. […]
University of Oklahoma Patron Harold Hamm Tried To Have Fracking Researchers Fired
University of Oklahoma benefactor Harold Hamm, the billionaire founder and CEO of Continental Resources, told a dean he wanted scientists fired who were researching links between fracking for oil and the state’s earthquake surge. “Mr. […]
Princeton University Study Shows Public Opinion Has “Near-Zero” Impact On U.S. Law
A troubling study has discovered what we’ve all thought for some time: congress, literally, does not care what you think. Professors at Princeton and Northwestern examined more than 20 years worth of data, looking to […]