When openly bribing a politician, financier or any other power figure is too - how should we put it - illegal, there is a well-known loophole that has been used for decades to circumvent the straight to jail hazard:
Nike, Coca-Cola and Apple, three corporations that vehemently supported the Black Lives Matter movement after the death of George Floyd, are lobbying against a US ban on imports of products produced by Chinese slave labor.
After Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey got smacked around (digitally speaking) during this week's Senate hearing, perhaps the CEOs feel that having dozens of tech industry stalwarts serving as their 'inside man' ...
That Facebook and Amazon continue to spend the most on lobbying versus any other company - even jet manufacturer Boeing or defense contractor Lockheed Martin - shows they understand their escalating regulatory headwinds
The sudden push by Wall Street's largest private equity firm to heavily lobby the Pentagon and State Department for largely unspecified reasons is part of an increasingly visible conflict within the U.S. establishment regarding how to handle the Ar
New memos obtained by Just the News and the Southern Foundation reveal that Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma conducted an aggressive lobbying campaign directed at the US State Department throughout the 2016 US election, with the goal of pressuring
• https://original.antiwar.com by Maj Danny Sjursen
The bullet holes were what stuck with me. I visited the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina during the summer of 2016, at the head of the West Point civil rights history staff ride – a two week trip across the A
Arms industry lobbyists are addressing this pandemic and preparing for the next by pushing weapons sales...
There's a battle brewing for the future of national security spending.
INTERIM BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT Jeanine Áñez, who came to power in November, has rejected claims that her predecessor, Evo Morales, was ousted in a coup -- while cracking down on dissent and calling for new elections to solidify the rule of conservativ
Over the last several months, Americans have witnessed an increase in media propaganda regarding the "dangers" of "anti-vaxxers," the "proven science of vaccines," and the "tragedies" that ensue from the failure to vaccinate.
The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more covert aspects of U.S.-Israeli cooperation and the implementation of policies that favor Israel.
House leaders on Monday unveiled a $1.4 trillion government-wide spending bill that's also carrying lots of unrelated provisions backed by denizens of Washington's swamp of lobbyists and interest groups. A House vote is slated for Tuesday.
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Karl Evers-Hillstrom
The pharmaceutical industry is holding on to its title as the top lobbying force in Washington amid pressure from lawmakers at all ends of the ideological spectrum.
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