Why Don’t We Call Corporate Handouts “Corruption”?

The Biden White House purports to be worried about corruption — just not the kind now dominating American politics, in which every new policy includes gigantic giveaways to corporations.

Critics Concerned Infrastructure Bill Money Will Go to Satellites, Harm Fiber Builds

The infrastructure bill's tech neutrality is concerning critics who say money will go to satellite, not enough to fiber.

As Build Back Better Is Gutted, Defense Act Is Deemed a “Must-Pass” Bill

Packed with $740 billion worth of militarism, the NDAA reads like a Christmas list from the most terrifying child ever.

Trump Organization Made $1.7 Billion While Trump Was President, Much of it From Taxpayers

Trump infamously refused to divest his financial interests when he entered office in 2017.

Tesla (TSLA) takes over HP's campus in California despite moving HQ out of state

While Tesla is moving its headquarters out of California, CEO Elon Musk made it clear that the automaker would still grow in the state. He wasn’t lying, since Tesla is now taking over a large part of HP’s campus in Palo Alto. Last week, Musk...

Disaster Capitalism 'Hits New Heights' as Wall Street Profiteers Cash In on Recovery Loans

"Seems a lot easier and cheaper to make an emergency fund permanent rather than pay private lender fees."

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”

Microsoft has come under repeated scrutiny for alleged breaches of the FCPA

Opinion | The Costs of War to the American Taxpayer

"The interest alone that this country will fork over for those wars would have undoubtedly been more than enough to fund both infrastructure bills in their original forms."

Imagine If Stopping Climate Change Was More Important Than Creating More Climate Change Billionaires – OpEd

We are still getting through a worldwide pandemic that has taken tens of millions of lives. While we did develop effective vaccines, they were not produced and distributed quickly enough to prevent…

Why Are Moderna’s Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture?

Moderna, the world’s hottest new Big Pharma giant, now has four of its top players sitting on the annual Forbes list of America’s 400 richest. In early 2020, Moderna had none. Moderna’s Forbes 400 billionaire quartet owes its current good fortune...

While the Poor Get Sick, Bill Gates Just Gets Richer

The billionaire’s pandemic investments, like much of his work, remain a secret.

Spamnil is Spamming Linux.com

Swapnil ‘Spamnil’ Bhartiya is turning the authoritative site Linux.com into a self-promotional ‘spam farm’. His YouTube channel is failing (see above), so now he’s just wiping the floor with Linux.com, a domain that hundreds of people poured their...

DIVOC is an easy to adopt digital public good that helps countries roll out national vaccination programs: Viraj Tyagi, CEO, eGov Foundation - Express Computer

eGov Foundation's health platform, DIVOC, is being used by the CoWIN platform to generate digital vaccine certificates. Recently, the software generated over 100 crore digital vaccine certificates. Viraj Tyagi, CEO, eGov Foundation shares that...

Opinion | Congress Needs to End This $20 Billion Year Giveaway to Big Oil

"Each year, Big Oil receives more than $20.5 billion a year in federal and state subsidies."

House approves $1 billion for the Iron Dome as Democrats feud over Israel.

Progressives balked at sending military aid to a country they accuse of human rights abuses, angering centrists and Jewish lawmakers who said the United States must support a crucial ally.