corruption
The Only Way To Fight Government Corruption
This past week we have seen several serious Administration corruption scandals. Fox News host-turned-Trump Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, came to attention recently when she informed a Greek official, in what sounded like a threat, that Washington can...
The Bunker State: The Government Will Survive, but Will the Constitution?
What began publicly as Donald Trump’s lavish, taxpayer-funded vision of a gilded White House ballroom is now being justified by the administration—in and out of court—as a matter of national security. To President Trump, it seems, a ballroom by any other name is...
America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied
“I love the inflation.”—Donald Trump (June 2026) America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling...
We the Victims: Who Pays When the Government Weaponizes Its Power?
One way or another, the American taxpayers always get screwed by politicians eager to spend our hard-earned dollars on programs and projects that do little to improve our lives, safeguard our freedoms, or secure our future. Donald Trump—the billionaire trust-fund...
Trump’s Self-serving Business Deals Have Prostituted the Office of the President
As far as I can tell, Donald Trump is the first American president in my lifetime to be actively engaged in business while serving as President of the United States. I have no memory of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or...
The War as the Trade
WSJ: UAE preparing to formally enter the war, the first Gulf state to become a combatant lobbying for a UN Security Council resolution authorising force to open the Strait of Hormuz. Emirati diplomats racing across Washington, Brussels and Tokyo. Abu Dhabi wants US...
House Of Representatives Resoundingly Votes Against Releasing Files On Sexual Misconduct Of Members Of Congress
The continued fallout from the Epstein Files cover-up has apparently done little to imbue Congress with any sense of shame. The legislative branch continued to show how the upper echelon of the U.S. government is more concerned with protecting sexual predators than...
Fool’s Gold: The Art of the Steal and the Privatization of the Presidency
In his State of the Union address, President Trump declared that America is entering a “Golden Age.” Golden for whom? For a president who lives lavishly in a taxpayer-funded mansion, jets around to weekend golf getaways at taxpayer expense, and dismisses concerns...
The Price of Perfect Nihilism
When President Donald Trump first announced that he had ordered the Pentagon to attack fishing boats and speedboats on the high seas which he said carried dangerous drugs destined for willing buyers in the United States, many of us who monitor the government for its...
Surprise Surprise: $100 Million Dollar Corruption Scandal Rocks Ukraine
Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government
America has been backsliding into kleptocratic territory for years now, but this may finally be it. A kleptocracy is literally “rule by thieves.” It is a form of government in which a network of ruling elites “steal public funds for their own private gain using public...
It Didn’t Start with Trump
“What do you expect when you sue the president?” Hearing that comment, some people may guess the comment was made by someone addressing one of President Trump’s political opponents who has been targeted for federal prosecution. That quote, though, is much older. It is...
AIPAC leader boasts of special ‘access’ to top Trump natsec officials in leaked audio
The Grayzone has obtained audio of an off-the-record session from the 2025 Congressional Summit of AIPAC, the main US lobbying arm of the state of Israel. Recorded by an attendee of the panel discussion, the audio features AIPAC’s new CEO, Elliott Brandt, describing...
Oh, That Influence Peddling: Times Finds Evidence Suggesting Hunter Acted as Foreign Agent
For years, some of us have written about the Biden family’s multimillion-dollar influence-peddling operation and the Justice Department’s refusal to charge Hunter Biden with being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, years later, the New York Times has found...
Moderna’s Bird Flu Shots Bonanza
On July 2, I wrote about the United States government’s new version of Operation Warp Speed undertaken in the name of countering bird flu. An early component of the new program for expedited bird flu mRNA shots development, I noted, involved the US government...
Insurrection! Congress Working To ‘Trump Proof’ Ukraine Military Aid.
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