“The result,” said the author of a new Public Citizen analysis, “is a self-reinforcing loop where corporate cash buys policy, and policy pays cash back.” Eighty-eight corporations that paid no federal income tax last year spent roughly $852 million on US campaign contributions and lobbying during recent election cycles, a report published Thursday revealed. […]
“Destroying a drinking water facility is not an attack on a target of war, but a mafia-style operation designed to harm the Iranian people,” said one academic. As temperatures in the village of Bemani, Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, reached above 100°F this week, two water facilities were struck by bombs, cutting off the drinking […]
Senior officials have warned that an invasion of Iran’s Kharg Island could cause many American casualties. But Trump said the US would “make a fortune.” While promising more strikes against Iran on Thursday, President Donald Trump suggested that the US would soon be “taking” Kharg Island in an imperialist bid to seize “total control” of the […]
“There you have it: President Trump loves that you’re paying higher prices,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. US President Donald Trump’s remarks Wednesday expressing “love” for new inflation figures were seen as yet another callous dismissal of the economic pain facing the nation’s working class as price hikes driven by the Iran war erase wage gains and make it […]