US House Representative John Yarmuth (D-KY) purchased tens of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical and defense stocks in 2021. According to an August 2021 Sludge article, Rep. Yarmuth disclosed via a Periodic Transaction Form in early November that he purchased stock in Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), a multinational pharmaceutical company,…
In August 2021, conservative politicians in several states began pushing for legislation that restricted what educators could teach their students, namely when it comes to lessons related to race and inherent bias. Editors of the Fall 2021 issue of Rethinking Schools reported that those who choose to continue teaching supposedly…
Thousands of US companies illegally underpay workers and are seldom subject to punishment for doing so, Alexia Fernández Campbell and Joe Yerardi reported for the Center for Public Integrity in May 2021. In 2019 alone, the US Department of Labor cited more than 8,500 employers for wage theft that took…
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In late 2017, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), then under the direction of Mike Pompeo, seriously considered plans to kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a Yahoo News investigative piece published in September 2021. The Yahoo News article featured interviews with more than thirty former US officials,…
More than twenty percent of workers employed by Kroger, America’s largest grocery chain, which employs some 460,000 workers and recorded profits of $4.1 billion in 2021, were receiving government assistance, More Perfect Union reported in January 2022. As Jordan Zakarin reported, More Perfect Union received an internal Kroger document, marked…
Between October and December, 2021, ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio published a series of reports on the jailing of 11 children, ranging from 8 to 12 years in age, who stood accused of not stopping a fight involving three other children in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The case of the 11…
A series of articles written by David Moore and published by Sludge in November and December of 2021 reported that at least 100 Representatives and 28 Senators have financial interests in the fossil fuel industry. Of these members of Congress, Moore reported, 74 are Republicans, 59 are Democrats, and one…
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In May 2021, CorpWatch reported on British American Tobacco’s (BAT) plan to open a cigarette factory in Mali that year. This, the result of a complicated partnership between the Malian government and BAT, was expected to manufacture three billion Dunhill cigarettes and create at least 200 permanent jobs. BAT is…
According to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) reviewed a surveillance treaty, drafted by the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Cybercrime Convention Committee, during a September 2021 virtual hearing. The treaty, known as the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest…
According to an August 2021 article by the Energy News Network, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Agency (BSEE) underreported offshore oil and gas worker fatalities from 2005 to 2019. BSEE’s narrow reporting criteria excluded nearly half of the offshore deaths that occurred between these years, grossly distorting the…
