Our Score Nuclear power may never recover its cachet as a clean energy source, irrespective of safety concerns, because of the ongoing saga of meltdown 3/11/11 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Over time, the story only grows more horrific,…
Our Score Last Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that Wells Fargo was paying $185 million in fines and penalties for allowing its employees to open “more than two million deposit and credit card accounts” that were not…
Our Score RT, the Russian government-funded English-language television channel, presents its country’s view of the world. So, it claims, does every other broadcaster. RT is just honest enough to admit it. “Media outlets do not exist in a vacuum. Can…
Our Score Exclusive: When Israel launched a covert scheme to steal material and secrets to build a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials looked the other way and obstructed investigations, as described in a book reviewed by James DiEugenio. By James DiEugenio…
Our Score In a few days it will be the 15th anniversary of 9/11, and this November 22 will be the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. These two state crimes against democracy…
Our Score The paradox of democracy is that it depends on the integrity of those who have the most to lose if an election goes the wrong way — you know, the people in power. That’s a particularly thorny dilemma…
Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker Congressional candidates that are running for office and being supported by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee appear onstage on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 27, 2016. © Mike…
Our Score Many public employees utilize a tool, known as “salary spiking,” to boost their annual pensions payment in retirement and we taxpayers get to foot the bill. So what is “salary spiking?” Typically, a public employee’s pension benefit in…
Our Score In the latest stunning development involving a documented failure of a bank to deliver physical gold when demanded, yesterday we reported that according to German website godmode-trader.de, a client of the Xetra-Gold Exchange-Traded Commodity was told the fund’s…
Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker It’s been roughly three months since Hillary Clinton promised, during her Feb. 4 debate with Bernie Sanders on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, to “look into” releasing the transcripts of her paid speeches…
