Corruption

Breaking: Iceland PM Resigns Over Panama Papers

April 5, 2016 Staff, www.france24.com Educate! Big Banks, Corruption, Finance and Economy, Government, Iceland

By France 24 Europe. "The prime minister told (his party's) parliamentary group meeting that he would step down as prime minister and I will take over," the deputy leader of Iceland's Progressive party and Agriculture Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson told a live broadcast. Gunnlaugsson, 41, had been under pressure to resign after the leaked documents revealed that he and his wife Anna Sigurlaug Palsdottir owned an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands and had placed millions of dollars there. Iceland’s opposition party filed a motion of no-confidence on Monday as thousands of protesters gathered in front of parliament, hurling yogurt, eggs and bananas and demanding the departure of the leader of the centre-right coalition government, in power since 2013.

‘Panama Papers’ Demonstrates Global Wealth Corruption

April 4, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Educate! Corruption, Panama, Ruling Class

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - An anonymous source, an enormous cache of leaked documents, and a year-long investigative effort by around 400 journalists from more than 100 media organizations in over 80 countries have yielded the Panama Papers, an unprecedented look at how the world's rich and powerful, from political leaders to celebrities to criminals, use tax havens to hide their wealth. The investigation went live on Sunday afternoon.

Brazil Engulfed By Ruling Class Corruption

March 19, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman, and David Miranda, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, Corruption, Ruling Class

By Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman, and David Miranda for The Intercept - THE MULTIPLE, REMARKABLE crises subsuming Brazil are now garnering substantial Western media attention. That’s understandable given that Brazil is the world’s fifth most populous country and eighth-largest economy; its second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro, is the host of this year’s Summer Olympics. But much of this Western media coverage mimics the propaganda coming from Brazil’s homogenized, oligarch-owned, anti-democracy media outlets and, as such, is misleading, inaccurate, and incomplete...

Bank Executives Must Be Prosecuted

February 11, 2016 Subir, www.dailykos.com Create! Banks, Corruption, Justice

By Subir for Daily Kos - Well, you can’t say Bernie’s candidacy has had no impact. Phil Angelides was state treasurer of California for a number of years*, and in 2006 he ran for governor against Arnold Schwarznegger. In 2009, he was named chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. The commission produced a report outlining the causes of the crisis. It has sometimes been compared to the Pecora Commission.

Martelly Leaves In Disgrace: A Great Day For People Power

February 10, 2016 Ezili Dantò, www.linkedin.com Resist! Corruption, Elections, Haiti, Revolution

By Ezili Dantò for HLLN/Free Haiti - The people celebrate today. Tomorrow they've vowed to address the illegitimately elected authorities the Internationals are forcing down Haiti's throat to make the disputed 2015 foreign-supported, corrupt elections count anyways. The alliance of eight top presidential candidates known as the G-8, disavowed the February 6, Trojan Horse Accord signed between the outgoing Martelly and the unconstitutionally formulated new Parliament.

Officials Outraged: Report NYPD Kicking People Out Of Homes

February 10, 2016 Sarah Ryley, www.propublica.org Educate! Corruption, judicial system, Law Enforcement, NYPD, Police abuse

By Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and the New York Daily News - A wide swath of public officials are calling for change in response to a Daily News and ProPublica investigation about the NYPD’s use of an obscure type of lawsuit to boot hundreds of people from homes. The cases are happening almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods. Several city council members said they were considering amendments and other reforms to safeguard abuses. Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson said the statistics included in the story are “shocking.”

Clinton, Petraeus, Snowden And Manning: Tale Of Two Americas

February 6, 2016 Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo, www.heraldextra.com Educate! Corruption, Democracy, Politics, United States

By Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo for Black Agenda Report - The U.S. government does not hesitate to imprison those who leak its secrets – unless they are Hillary Clinton or some other Big Shot. “What is remarkable about American democracy is the consistent and perpetual benevolence of the ruling class towards its loyal disciples.” The privilege extends to killer cops, crooked investment bankers, and other slime. But “federal employees complaining of racism are eviscerated while their managers receive promotions.”

10 Things They Won’t Tell You About Flint Water Tragedy

February 1, 2016 Michael Moore, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Corruption, Flint, Michigan, Water

By Michael Moore for Eco Watch - When the governor’s office discovered just how toxic the water was, they decided to keep quiet about it and covered up the extent of the damage being done to Flint’s residents, most notably the lead affecting the children, causing irreversible and permanent brain damage. Citizen activists uncovered these actions, and the governor now faces growing cries to resign or be arrested. Here are 10 things that you probably don’t know about this crisis because the media, having come to the story so late, can only process so much. But if you live in Flint or the State of Michigan as I do, you know all to well that what the greater public has been told only scratches the surface.

TTIP Allows Bureaucrats & Big Business Attack On Public Interest

January 31, 2016 Staff, corporateeurope.org Educate! Corporatism, Corruption, oligarchy, TTIP

By Staff of Corporate Europe Observatory. The ongoing EU-US trade negotiations, TTIP, seek to bring rules on both sides of the Atlantic together by means of so-called regulatory cooperation. This part of the talks involves dismantling existing “regulatory barriers” and preventing new ones from emerging with public interest regulations having to go through lengthy procedures, including vetting by business for possible impacts on trade. It has sparked concerns that the trade deal will lead to attacks on environmental protections, safety at work regulations, and laws to defend public health and food safety– to name but a few. Our latest report finds that regulatory cooperation procedures have already been used to delay, water down and prevent legislation in the public interest. It thus confirms this critique.

A Legal Precedent For A More Equitable Society

January 24, 2016 Edward Campbell, www.opednews.com Educate! Article of Confederation, Citizens United, Corruption, Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, wealth inequality

By Edward Campbell for Op-Ed News. Article One sections 9 and 10 of the Constitution forbids the grant of any "Titles of Nobility". In promoting the adoption of the Constitution of the United States of America, Alexander Hamilton named these Article One clauses the "Cornerstone of Republican Government". He went on to observe that as long as "titles of nobility" were excluded, there could never be a serious danger that the government will be any other than that of the people. "Titles of Nobility" were terms familiar in the language of the times indicating social and economic superiority and political power. The Nobility restrictions referred to equality. In the words of the early Constitutional Scholar, Joseph Story, born towards the end of the Revolution (1779) and a member of the Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845, that as perfect equality is the basis of all our institutions, state and national, the prohibition against the creation of any title of nobility seems proper, if not indispensable, to keep perpetually alive a just sense of this important truth.

Occupy Ghana ‘Red Friday’ Protest Against Government

January 24, 2016 Delali Adogla-Bessa, citifmonline.com Resist! Austerity, Corruption, Ghana, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Delali Adogla-Bessa foe Citifmonline.com/Ghana. On January 22, 2016, Occupy Ghana,marked Red Friday to protest what they describe as the government’s “destructive” economic policies. They also protested Government’s decision to accept what they call “two highly suspicious terrorists” in Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, “under the pretext of honouring international neighbourliness and compassion with America.” Ghanaians wore red to call to government attention concerns raised by the pressure group and the citizenry including the hikes in utility tariffs, the exorbitant taxes on petroleum products, the “shady” Ameri deal and corruption among other things.

A Vision For A Post Citizens United Future

January 22, 2016 Zephyr Teachout, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Campaign Finance, Corruption, Politics

Zephyr Teachout for MayDay.US - Six years ago today, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Citizens United vs. FEC. It is not a happy anniversary. I remember waiting for the ruling and opening it up on my computer: when I finally read it, I didn't want to believe that the Court had gone as far as it had and been so careless with our democracy. Citizens United was bad history, bad logic, bad law. It was a major overreach on the part of the Court (the issue hadn't even been raised initially). In his majority decision that day, Justice Kennedy allowed billionaires and big corporations to spend limitless amounts of money to influence politicians.

Reality Peeks Through In Ukraine

January 11, 2016 Robert Parry, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Austerity, Corruption, Neoliberalism, Regime Change, Ukraine, US Empire

By Robert Parry for Consortium News - Nearly two years since U.S. officials helped foment a coup in Ukraine – partly justified by corruption allegations – the country continues to wallow in graft and cronyism as the living standards for average Ukrainians plummet, according to economic data and polls of public attitudes. Even the neocon-oriented Wall Street Journal took note of the worsening corruption in a Jan. 1, 2016 article observing that “most Ukrainians say the revolution’s promise to replace rule by thieves with the rule of law has fallen short and the government acknowledges that there is still much to be done.”

Solar Chased Out Of Sunny Nevada

January 10, 2016 Michael Graham Richard, www.treehugger.com Educate! Climate Change, Corruption, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

By Michael Graham Richard for Tree Hugger. To drive out solar power companies out of sunny Nevada, you have to do something pretty bad. This is exactly what happened while most of us weren't paying attention, enjoying the holidays (or stressing out, depending...). The Nevada Public Utility Commission (PUC) changed its rules surrounding net metering and increased fees charged to the owners of solar systems (who said the sun was free?): "The base service charge is rising from $12.75 to $17.90 per month [a 40% increase] for southern Nevada solar customers and from $15.25 to $21.09 [a 38.2% increase] for northern Nevada customers. The changes also reduce the amount the utility pays to buy power back from rooftop solar panels, from 11 cents a kilowatt hour to 9 cents [an 18.2% decrease] in southern Nevada and from 12 cents to 10.5 cents [a 12.5% decrease] in the north.

GE Tree Company Guilty Of Defrauding Workers

January 9, 2016 Kip Doyle, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corruption, Criminal Justice, GE Trees, Worker Rights

By Kip Doyle of Global Justice Ecology Project. New York, NY - Biotech firm ArborGen, a leader in the research and development of genetically engineered trees (GE trees), has been fined $53.5 million in compensation and punitive damages after a court ruled that it acted to use "trickery and deceit" to "defraud" employees. Just before the holidays a judge issued the 180 page ruling (linked below) on the case in favor of ten ArborGen workers, and against the company, as well as its timber company founders, International Paper, MeadWestvaco (now WestRock) and New Zealand-based Rubicon, plus several of their Board members. “It is a shame that this story came out on 29 December, in the middle of a holiday week, and has gone almost completely unreported,” said Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project. “Only two articles have covered this important story in South Carolina papers.

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