TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
‘After suffering at the hands of the Deutsche [Bank] executives I will not join them simply because I cannot beat them.’ A Deutsche Bank whistleblower rejected his portion of a $16.5 million award for exposing corporate crime because the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) let bank officials off the hook, he said Thursday. Former risk Read More…
Years after outbreak, U.N. still did not implement strict waste disposal rules at missions in Haiti, Africa, and the Middle East. A day after the United Nations admitted that it helped spread cholera in Haiti, the organization also found that poor sanitation persisted in its missions around the world—from the Caribbean nation to Africa and Read More…
‘After Ds and Rs announced that they formed a commission for maintaining their duopoly of power, one might expect a reaction from TV executives.’ The U.S. Commission on Presidential Debates on Monday released the polls it will use to determine which candidates will take to the stage in September for their first presidential debate—and shut Read More…
‘There is no war authorization for this,’ peace group notes. The Pentagon confirmed this week that U.S. forces are indeed on the ground in Libya as the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) continues. A “small number of U.S. forces have gone in and out of Libya to exchange information with these local forces in Read More…
Files released as Hillary Clinton reportedly courts Kissinger’s endorsement. Newly declassified papers on the U.S. government’s role in Argentina’s 1976-83 “Dirty War” have been released, detailing—among other things—how former secretary of state Henry Kissinger stymied attempts to end mass killings of dissidents. The files were published just after Politico reported that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Read More…
“We have data on that 21-year-old who’s living at home with mom and dad.” The fight for internet privacy has focused much of its attention on government surveillance, but mass data collection is done by private companies as well—and one such firm has “centralized and weaponized” all that information for its customers, Bloomberg reports on Friday. Read More…