Influence peddling
Bolivia’s Evo Morales Faces Questions About a Lover, Their Child, and Her Chinese Employer
Key questions include whether Morales knew the child he said had died as a baby is actually still alive, and whether he was in contact with his former love when she got a job in a company with lucrative government contracts.
How Putin's American Fixers Keep Russian Sanctions Toothless
Amid carnage in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has kept his financial interests chugging along pretty much unscathed.
Net Neutrality Kabuki Theater: How Cable Companies Dominate the Debate
The comment period for the public to weigh in on an open internet ends today. But has the telecom industry already won?
Is NSA Surveillance Mastermind Keith Alexander Selling US Secrets to Wall Street?
Maybe some kind of twisted marriage between Wall Street megabanks and the US global surveillance regime was inevitable, but not even a total cynic could have expected former NSA boss Keith Alexander to cash in this hard, this fast.
Community Groups Were Duped Into Joining the Telecom Industry's Anti-Net-Neutrality Coalition
What do an environmental group in Ohio, a small military radio program, and a network of rural hospitals in Texas all have in common? They apparently got bamboozled into helping kill net neutrality.