Jessica Corbett

Viral Video of Koch Billionaire Son Shows Who Benefits From GOP Tax Scam

The young Koch—who counts among his favorite things « playing tennis at Mar-a-Lago »—according to Vanity Fair, « runs an eponymous Palm Beach-based clothing brand called Wyatt Ingraham, which sells button-up shirts in patterns you may find on a Goldman Sachs middle manager at a Southampton Fourth of July party when he wants to ‘let loose.' » One such shirt is « festooned with actual money bags. »

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After Congressional Republicans approved a tax plan on Wednesday that gives massive tax breaks to corporations and wealthy Americans while raising taxes on working families, the son of billionaire Bill Koch, emerged as the face of those who will benefit from the scheme while it turbocharges inequality and lays the groundwork for a massive assault

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While US Attacks Net Neutrality, UK Makes High-Speed Internet ‘Legal Right’

Rejecting major telecom company’s offer to voluntarily expand in rural regions, UK government says speedy broadband service now mandatory nationwide by 2020.

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Raul Jimenez Algobia

While last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rolled back net neutrality rules that allowed the internet to be regulated as a public utility, the United Kingdom announced Wednesday that by 2020, high-speed internet will be a legal right for all British households and businesses. Rejecting an offer from the British

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Investigating Jill Stein for Russian Collusion Decried as ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Absurd’

Stein, who is fully cooperating, warns, « we must guard against the potential for these investigations to be used to intimidate and silence principled opposition to the political establishment. »

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Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein delivers a stump speech to her supporters during a campaign stop at Humanist Hall in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

In what critics called a "dangerous precedent" and identified as an obvious move to deflect the still serious concerns about allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, multiple news outlets reported late Monday that the Senate Intelligence Committee is now investigating the

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Poll: US Concern Over ‘Pervasive’ High-Level Corruption Surging Under Trump

Under Trump, about seven of 10 people believe the U.S. government is doing a poor job of eradicating and preventing corruption, up from about half of Americans in 2016.

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President Donald Trump, second from right, with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, Vice President Mike Pence, and others, listen during a meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Sept. 12, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Since President Donald Trump entered office in January, the number of Americans concerned about rampant corruption in the White House has surged, according to public opinion polling conducted in October and November. The Berlin-based Transparency International—a global anti-corruption coalition that defines corruption as "the abuse of entrusted

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‘Say Goodbye to Local Media,’ Trump FCC Opens Corporate Merger Floodgates

« Today will go down in history as the day when the FCC abdicated its responsibility to uphold the core values of localism, competition, and diversity in broadcasting. »

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Mainstream Media

In "an awful new low" that elicited warnings about "a new wave of media consolidation," the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday rolled back media ownership regulations under the guise of trying "to modernize its broadcast ownership rules & to help promote ownership diversity." "Any pretense that this vote will help journalism

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After Hearing Accounts of Sexual Violence, UN Official to Bring Rohingya Case to ICC

Survivors who fled Myanmar told UN representative Pramila Patten about their experiences with « gang-rape by multiple soldiers, forced public nudity and humiliation, and sexual slavery in military captivity. »

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A Rohingya Muslim woman, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, lies unconscious on the shore of the Bay of Bangal after the boat she was traveling in capsized at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands were still flooding across the border Thursday in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

After hearing personal accounts of torture and sexual violence from survivors, a senior United Nations official on Sunday vowed to raise the issue of persecution of the Rohingya people in Myanmar with the International Criminal Court (ICC). "Sexual violence is being commanded, orchestrated, and perpetrated by the Armed Forces of Myanmar," said

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Millions on Brink of Death in Yemen, but Congress Can’t be Bothered with Questions

U.S. lawmakers brushed off questions from a reporter about military support for Saudi Arabia while the blockade continues to cut off starving Yemenis from necessary food aid.

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Udai Faisal, who is suffering from acute malnutrition, is hospitalized at Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Udai died not long after the photo was taken. Hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen’s conflict and has spiraled since Saudi Arabia and its allies, backed by the U.S., launched a campaign of airstrikes and a naval blockade a year ago. (AP Photo/Maad al-Zikry, File)

Despite warnings about the intensifying humanitarian crisis in war-ravaged Yemen, members of the U.S. Congress dodged questions from an Intercept reporter this week about why lawmakers haven't voted on U.S. support for the Saudi-led military coalition that is bombing the impoverished country while also imposing a blockade of urgently needed

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