October 24, 2017

US Interests Intertwined with Guatemalan Mining Operation

Guatemala faces many challenges -- a 59 percent poverty rate, deadly drug trafficking, the lowest literacy rate in Central America, and topographic realities where only five percent of the soil can support permanent crops, yet agr...

July 29, 2017

Obama Looted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

President Obama never was shy about using his phone and pen to achieve what he could not get from Congress on regulatory matters. But documents revealed last week show the Obama administration may have been willing to get around congressional dec...

June 24, 2017

A Proposed Free Speech Tax from Republicans?

Congress is talking about an advertising tax again, and official Washington has returned to familiar battle stations. The anti-taxers oppose it because it is a tax, and we clearly have enough taxes.  The comprehensive-reform crowd sees it as ...

February 3, 2017

Let Survivors of 9/11 Victims Have Their Day in Court

Saudi Arabia may have just lost the American presidential election, but its lobbying interests are alive and well in the U.S. Congress. The Saudis, who are said to have financed as much as a fifth of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, ...