The Pentagon just flunked its fifth-ever audit. They will never have a legit audit. Because if they did, the American people would realize we’ve been saluting, celebrating, and glorifying the largest money-laundering operation in human history.
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In a cliffhanger of an election with a huge urban-rural and class divide, it appears that the rural teacher, farmer and union leader is about to make history by defeating--by less than one percent--powerful far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori.
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Opinion — Between 1998 and 2015 the Pentagon has failed to account for $21 trillion in taxpayer money. Michigan State Professor Mark Skidmore and a team of graduate students discovered this when poring over documents for the Department of Defense and Housing and Urban Development. The analysis was done using publicly available information from the respective government agencies — though, after the story broke, these documents were no longer freely available to the public.
French and Israeli media report that a group largely made up of Israelis scammed 3,000 French citizens out of approximately $20 million. Most of the stolen money is in Israel, but Israeli authorities are reportedly failing to cooperate with France in prosecuting the scammers and retrieving the money.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico appears to be on the cusp of massive change. Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador has a very good shot at winning the upcoming election but the threat of fraud looms over the vote. This election has already been witness to political assassinations, vote buying, and voter intimidation.
ATHENS, GREECE — The mainstream narrative regarding the cause of the severe economic crisis Greece has experienced is that the Greek people and Greek state were irresponsible with their finances, lived “beyond their means” at the expense of EU taxpayers, and provided overly generous social benefits and pensions to an underproductive, uncompetitive, and lazy populace.
“Yes, I am pro-truth, pro-democracy, and pro-earth, and will stand, march, and fight for these values,” Chen wrote. (Photo: Hui Chen/Twitter)
A top Justice Department official tasked with reining in corporate crime and upholding accountability standards has resigned, citing “conduct at the top”—a thinly veiled reference to President Donald Trump and his staff—that made her job impossible.
Yousef Al Otaiba, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America, left, and Susan Rice, National Security Adviser, talk in the State Dining Room of the White House, July 25, 2013. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
Stuart Bowen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Wartime Contracting Commission. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
Texas’ top health care fraud investigator resigned Wednesday night under pressure from the governor, the result of media inquiries that revealed Texas Health and Human Services Inspector General Stuart Bowen was moonlighting for a private firm that provided services to the government of Iraq.
Former IMF managing director Rodrigo Rato, center, arrives at the National Court in Madrid, Spain, to answer questions over his stewardship of Spanish bank, Bankia.
(REPORT) — Rodrigo Rato was charged for using credit cards for irregular and undeclared expenses.
