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Bipartisan Senate and House Bills Tackle Abusive Shell Company Practices Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Corporate Transparency Act....
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2017 1:20pm PDT
Archbishop and Evangelical Leader Tell Congress to Reduce Puerto Rico Child Poverty Puerto Rico religious leaders are urging Congress to reduce child poverty on the island by granting equal access to US health care funding and child tax benefits....
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2017 9:44am PDT
The Hubris of Donald Trump The Greek term, hubris, meaning overwhelming pride, explains the fatal flaw in our president's eventual downfall....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2017 4:11pm PDT
Democrats Join Republicans to Give Trump $696 billion for War, More than Trump Requested On Bastille Day, July 14, 2017, 117 Democrats and 227 Republicans in the House of Representatives joined to give Republican Pres. Trump $696 billion for the military, more than the $603 billion he asked for. HR 2810, on Roll Call 378, now goes to the Senate as the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018. Yet, only 114 Congresspeople have endorsed HR 676, Medicare for All. San Francisco’s Rep. Democrat Nancy Pelosi voted for the military budget but has failed to endorse HR ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 15, 2017 10:05am PDT
Mozambique Audit Reveals Corruption and Short Falls in Financial System Ahead of President Trump's first G20 meeting in Germany this weekend, Mozambique released an audit exposing violations of the country's laws to secure now-defaulted loans....
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2017 2:20pm PDT
Puerto Rico Board Meets on Anniversary of Debt Legislation Puerto Rico's oversight board is holding its eighth public meeting in San Juan at the Sheraton Hotel Convention Center....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2017 10:03am PDT
Legislation Combats Shell Company Corruption Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Peter King (R-NY) heralded the House introduction of the Corporate Transparency Act at a press conference at the House Triangle....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2017 8:58am PDT
Sapar Isakov – a foreign agent, presiding over the Office of the Kyrgyz President As a person involved in the last year's scandal concerning real property, which was purchased using undocumented revenue, Sapar Isakov made a great leap in his career in the past six months. He rose from the rank of the Deputy Head of the Kyrgyz President's Office to the position of the Chief of the President's Administration....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2017 1:33am PDT
The Great Trump Show The bizarre billionaire becomes epic disaster when regulation is demonized, social necessities like food stamps and Medicaid are cut in the hundreds of billions and taxes for corporations may be cut in half. The failure of the media was manifest in unending stories about Hillary's emails and hardly one question about Trump's tax plans. The media underrated Trump in a fatal way and took a bad turn....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2017 3:52pm PDT
House Financial Choice Act Repeals Responsible Lending and Anti-Corruption Measures The House passed the Financial Choice Act repealing multiple measures enacted by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2017 9:43am PDT
Pence as president could be worse than Trump Pence might be the most dangerous extreme right threat yet....
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2017 12:20pm PDT
G7: Famine, Debt and Corruption As G7 leaders continue to meet in Taormina, Italy, relief groups like Oxfam International are intensifying calls for aid monies to address famine....
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2017 2:25pm PDT
UN Forum Focuses on Financing for Development Goals United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and the IMF's Christine Lagarde join world leaders for the Financing for Development (FfD) Forum at UN Headquarters....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2017 9:25am PDT
Section 8 Vouchers Help The Poor — But Only If Housing Is Available 
More than 2 million families now use vouchers to keep from becoming homeless. It's the government's largest program to help low-income families pay their rent....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2017 10:54am PDT
Puerto Rico Religious Leaders Write Judge as Bankruptcy Process Begins Puerto Rico religious leaders sent a letter to Judge Laura Taylor Swain as she presides over the first bankruptcy proceeding in San Juan to restructure more than $70 billion in debt....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2017 6:47am PDT
Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Process Begins Puerto Rico bankruptcy proceedings to restructure an over $70 billion debt begin on Wednesday in San Juan....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2017 3:26pm PDT
Nicole Humphrey, 'Not Racist or Bigot,' on Class and Section 8 Housing (audio/mpeg 764.0KB) "It's just not people who are of the same class as us. Which sounds bad, but I don't mean that in a bad way."
- Nicole Humphrey...
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2017 5:14pm PDT
Free Yeimi Galindo Madrid: Marching on May Day for Sanctuary for All (audio/mpeg 15.6MB) On Monday, May 1st, organizers for New Orleans' Center for Racial Justice's Congress of Day Laborers/Congreso del Jornaleros, STAND With Dignity, and other faith, labor, and community allies marched to call for freedom, jobs, justice, and sanctuary for all.
The March stopped in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building to submit an application for the release of Ms. Yeimi Galindo Madrid, who is currently held in Immigration Detention Facility away from her two young ...
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2017 11:41am PDT
Sen Sanders Joins 99 Senators for Israel; Supports Ann Coulter's Fascist Speech On April 27, 2017, all 100 US Senators, including Bernie Sanders, signed a letter initiated by Sen. Mark Rubio to the UN supporting Nazi Trump’s UN Ambassador Nikki Haley’s statement that “It is the UN’s anti-Israel bias that is long overdue for change.” This comes as 1500 Palestinians are on a hunger strike in Israeli prisons, protesting the horrifying conditions that are a clear violation of international law. This came a few days after Bernie Sanders condemned the protests of fascist Ann ...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2017 9:38pm PDT
Puerto Rico Oversight Board Meets as Bankruptcy Deadline Approaches Puerto Rico's oversight board meets on April 28th in New York and could authorize a bankruptcy process for the debt ridden island....
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2017 7:17am PDT
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