corruption | corruption
Dec.12.2008
There's a full moon over Washington, and the lifeline to George W. Bush's legacy has been cut after the Senate's historical defeat of a measure that would have prevented the inconceivable bankruptcies of the big three automakers.
The Senate has been busier than usual lately. Along with rejection...
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Dec.09.2008
Two big holiday season cheers to floppy-haired Ilinois governor Rod Blagojevich for giving us faith again.
Just when we thought we couldn't squeeze out one more drop of righteous indignation. Just when continuing big executive financial sector bonuses and automaker private jet rides threatened...
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Dec.09.2008
The NYT reported this morning that Rod blah, blah, Blagojevich, governor of Illinois, was arrested, this morning, on corruption charges that stem from his alleged attempts to sell Obama's Senate seat "to the highest bidder."
It turns out that Governor Blagojevich had been under...
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Dec.08.2008
Make no mistake, this is not about questioning the integrity, judgment, or credentials of retired Army General Eric Shinseki. After all, it was Shinseki who told a congressional committee, back in 2003, that it would take "several hundred thousand soldiers" to attain victory in Iraq.
As...
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Dec.01.2008
A reader of Plunder sends me the following: "plunder explained by a contemporary example".
<http://assets.usw.org/News/GeneralNews/paulson-letter-final.pdf>
---------------------------------------------------------October 28, 2008Henry M. Paulson, Jr.Secretary of the...
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Nov.28.2008
A reader of Plunder sends me the following. I was unaware of this. I found Pilger's comment of the double standard in judging communist and capitalist atrocities particularly important . Before building a new world there is so much conventional truth in ned of being trashed!
The Corruption...
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Nov.23.2008
I always considered organizations such as "Transparency international" being part of the well known orientalist business of making the West feel superior in front of the rest. A critical economist and reader of Plunder sent me this "little subtext on Plunder" which I am eager...
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Nov.21.2008
Everybody balks at the "rescue" of the stock market, savings and loans, and the prospect of bailing out the big three automakers.
But, where is the grumbling when it comes to the Justice Department's approval of using taxpayer funds to rescue some of our highest elected officials from...
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Nov.05.2008
Today, a jet crashed in Mexico City (Reforma) with the Mexican Interior Minister inside of it. We are being told it could be an accident, but what I know is not an accident: is their constant struggle against corruption, and insecurity.
It was a sad day for the President, his Interior Minister...
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Nov.03.2008
It was as refreshing as a secret waterfall in the Sahara to see the FBI video of Democratic Massachusetts state Senator Denise Wilkerson stuffing part of a $23,000 payoff into her bra at Beacon Hill’s Fil- A- Buster restaurant under the shadow of Boston’s Capitol dome. Just for the sake of...
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