corruption
Lawrence Lessig on corruption
by Josh Witten on October 3, 2012
If you crave a discussion of political corruption that gets beyond “corporations aren’t people*” anger over Citizens United (and understands the legal issues surrounding it), you’ll want to listen to Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig get interviewed (promoting his book). He even has solutions. GASP!
*In a similar vein, labor unions may not be people either.…
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Fukushima–The Soft Coup D’etat
by Matthew Payne on May 30, 2012
Fukushima’s nuclear meltdown is back in the news again (not that it ever should have left the headlines) in some fairly astonishing ways. First, the stricken nuclear reactor has entered central stage in Japanese politics (not that anyone would know that since the news is being assiduously spiked–h/t Charles II at Daily Kos) with the former Prime Minster of Japan, Naota Kan, blasting Japan’s nuclear industry. In tones …
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The Small Matter Of The Missing Six Billion Dollars
by Nick Glossop on January 27, 2012
Report: $6B missing in Iraq may have been stolen
The man Congress put in charge of auditing the billions of dollars dumped on Iraq after Saddam Hussein was toppled has told the Los Angels Times he can’t rule out the possibility that $6.6 billion in cash sent from the U.S. was stolen.
Special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction Stuart Bowen told the Times the missing money may represent “the largest
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