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Elections 2018: Voting Rights Under Attack
“The American voting system is busted. It’s shattered. They’re trying to take away your vote by saying you’re not a citizen
Gregory Palast
Trump's Tax Cut Flunks the Napkin Test:
A "D" Student's Misreading of Economic Law
A napkin can be a dangerous thing in the hands of fools. Especially when the D students sit in the Oval Office. President Donald Trump’s mind-blowing $2 trillion tax cut, according to his
Rubio's Billionaire wins ransom from Argentina
Paul Singer, known as The Vulture, won a $4.65 billion payment from Argentina – nearly ONE HUNDRED TIMES his “investment” of $50 million in old Argentina bonds. It was, in finance speak, the most successful “vulture attack” ever
Greg Palast Offers Job to Tasered Journalism Student
Andrew Meyer Currently ‘On Ice’, According to Investigate Journalist
IMF's Four Steps to Damnation
How crises, failures, and suffering finally drove a Presidential adviser to the wrong side of the barricades It was like a scene out of Le Carré: the brilliant agent comes in from the cold and, in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed…
Bank Appoints Controversial TV Evangelist
The Bank of Scotland has appointed the controversial American TV evangelist Dr Pat Robertson as chairman of its US retail banking holding company. The fundamentalist minister is known in America as founder and president of the 1.2-million member far-right Christian Coalition and for his statements attacking feminists, homosexuals, Democrats and Hindus.
Scottish Power's US Bid 'is Dead'
Talks on Friday failed to boost Scottish Power’s $4.7 billion bid for the US electricity company PacifiCorp. Earlier in the week it was dealt a possibly fatal blow when analysts at the Oregon state utility commission urged regulators to reject it.
Monsanto saw Secret EU Documents
US Biotech Firm under Fire in Europe
Monsanto, the US biotech group fined in an English court last week for failing to control genetic modification trials, is under attack on two new fronts. First for obtaining an advance look at confidential European Commission documents during its campaign to win regulatory approval for its controversial bovine growth hormone (BST). Second, because of its legal actions against hundreds of North American farmers for failing to pay for its genetically modified seeds.
Soured Milk of Monsanto's 'Kindness'
Thirty seven per cent of Americans over the age of 15 find sexual intercourse painful, difficult to perform or just plain unenjoyable. Who says so? Doctors Edward Laumann and Raymond Rosen, that’s who. And because they said it in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, it popped up last week in every US newspaper.
Scottish Power Deal Rocked by US Attacks
Scottish Power’s troubled takeover of United States electricity company Pacificorp is under further pressure this weekend. Veteran consumer campaigner Ralph Nader is preparing legal action to block it, while tougher limits on profits threatened by US regulators could make the deal unviable.
Don't Hold Your Breath for Rebate
from The New York Times
GOV. George E. Pataki says he is mailing out checks of $100 to $232 to every home on Long Island, a bonus as part of Mr. Pataki’s plan to cut electric rates 23 percent.
If it were true, I would leave out a glass of milk and cookies for Governor Santa when he comes down my chimney. But alas, the rebate, like the rate reduction, is as real as reindeer on the roof.
