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Making Finance Pay - ZNet 01.05.18
Jeffrey Sachs: Mick Mulvaney Delivers the Chilling Truth - Common Dreams 27.04.18
Robert Reich Takes American CEOs to Task for Their 'Shameful Silence' on Trump - Alternet 23.04.18
Words matter, but lobbying dollars get the job done - Oxfam America 12.04.18
Video: Empire Files: How Lobbyists Weaponized Transparency - Tele Sur 28.02.18
Koch Document Reveals Laundry List of Policy Victories Extracted from the Trump Administration - Common Dreams 26.02.18
GOP Law Enforcement Chiefs Invited Donors to Help Set Policy Via Secret Bulletin Board - Intercept 12.02.18
Woman Dragged Out of West Virginia House Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions to Members - Common Dreams 11.02.18
American Democracy Sold To The Highest Bidder - Social Europe 30.01.18
Amazon Short-List Proves Something "Deeply Wrong" With America's Race-to-the-Bottom Economy: Ellison - Common Dreams 18.01.18
Political donations by lobbyists rising - Open Secrets 11.01.18
Ralph Nader: How big corporations game our democracy into their plutocracy - Litchfield County Times 03.01.18
Cities Offer Amazon Dangerous Incentives - Real News 29.11.17
Jeffrey D Sachs: Big Data and Big Money Have Subverted Our Democracy - Common Dreams 03.11.17
Why Does Amazon Get Corporate Welfare? - Common Dreams 01.11.17
Republican lawmakers’ posh hideaway bankrolled by secret corporate cash - CPI 18.10.17
Many Cities Will Do Anything to Get Amazon's Attention in Their Desperation to Fix Their Economy - Alternet 15.10.17
After Massive Giveaways to Industry, Mining Executives Will Spend Big at Trump’s D.C. Hotel - The Intercept 14.09.17
Warnings of 'Race to the Bottom' as Amazon Holds Nationwide Tax Break Contest - Common Dreams 12.09.17
As Tech Giants Threaten Democracy, Calls Grow for New Anti-Monopoly Movement - Common Dreams 01.09.17
Jeffrey D Sachs: Lies and the Lying Lobbyists Who Tell Them - Common Dreams 20.07.17
'Extraordinary': Trump Administration Seeks to Shut Down Lobbyist Ethics Probe - Common Dreams 22.05.17
How Can the U.S. Shrink the Influence of Money in Politics? - The Atlantic 16.03.16
Trump makes America Goldman’s Again! #MAGA – The Intercept 09.12.16
D.C hivemind mulls how Clinton can pass huge corporate tax cut – The Intercept 15.10.16
Memo shows what major donors like Goldman Sachs want from Democratic Party – The Intercept 11.10.16
How ‘Citizens United’ is helping Hillary Clinton win the White House - CPI 4/16
Our corporate constitution - Occupy 12/15
Seeking War to the End of the World 7/15
A New Study Shows How Donors Distort Democracy - Demos 02/15
VIDEO: Mike Lofgren & Bill Moyers - The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight (02.14)
NASCAR Congress - Common Dreams 3/13
Citizens United Decision Profoundly Affects Political Landscape - Center for Responsive Politics 5/11
Newt Gingrich faces questions about consulting job and support for biofuels - iwatch 4/11
On Anniversary of Citizens United Ruling, Common Cause Calls on Justice Dept. to Investigate Scalia and Thomas over Conflicts of Interest - Democracy Now! 1/11
The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy -- How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections - AlterNet 10/10
‘Unethical’ Nixon Campaign Vet Fred Malek Still Dodging Campaign Finance Laws - ThinkProgress 10/10
The Real Story On Campaign Money - National Journal 10/10
Corporate Hijacking of Our Elections Is Well Under Way, with Foreign Companies Chipping in to Destroy Our Democracy - AlterNet 10/10
The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America - Robert Reich 10/10
Top Republicans meet with energy, telecom lobbyists - Politico 9/10
When Corporations Own Congress - Counterpunch 9/10
Wall Street's Connected Lobbyists - Jim Hightower 8/10
US banks send in the lobbyists to blunt reform - Independent 6/10
On Financial Reform Bill, 52% of Lobbyists Worked in Government - CPI 6/10
Top 10 Lobby Firms Take Financial Reform to the Bank - CPI 6/10
Lobbyists flock to Wall St. bill - Politico 6/10
Who Bankrolls Congress? The Big Money Behind Top Lawmakers - CPI 6/10
Wall Street's War - Rolling Stone 5/10
Banking lobbyists outnumber lawmakers five to one - US Toda 5/10
K Street cashes in on bill - Politico 5/10
Five Lobbyists for Each Member of Congress on Financial Reforms - CPI 5/10
Corporations Aren't Persons - Progressive 4/10
We're Living in a Kleptocracy: Fears of Socialism and Fascism Are a Distraction from the Naked Theft of Trillions - William Astore 4/10
A $600 Trillion Bubble? Lobbyists Swarm Derivatives - NY Times 4/10
Johann Hari: This corruption in Washington is smothering America's future - 1/10
If the Constitution Were Written Today (Cartoon) -Mike Luckovich 1/10
“Casino Jack and the United States of Money”–A Look at Corporate Money and Politics - Dem. Now! 1/10
10 Ways to Stop Corporate Dominance of Politics - Yes! 1/10
Free Speech for People Amendment Petition - 1/10
Time to Rein in Out-of-Control Corporate Influences on Our Democracy - Ralph Nader !/10
24 States’ Laws Open to Attack After Campaign Finance Ruling - NY Times 1/10
Campaign Finance Ruling Reflects Supreme Court's Growing Audacity - Wash. Post 1/10
Greg Palast: The Supreme Court Just Handed Anyone, Including bin Laden or the Chinese Govt., Control of Our Democracy - 1/10
The Bush-Packed Supreme Court Thinks Corporations Are People Too - AlterNet 1/10
Grayson: Fight Now or 'Kiss Your Country Goodbye' to Exxon, Wal-Mart - AlterNet 1/10
Shed a Tear for Our Democracy - Common Dreams 1/10
Supreme Court's 'Radical and Destructive' Decision Hands Over Democracy to the Corporations - AlterNet 1/10
What did the Supreme Court just do to our democracy? 1/10
In Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling, Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate Campaign Spending - Dem. Now! 1/10
Olbermann Special Comment: Freedom Of Speech Has Been Destroyed ! - Video 1/10
Bundled Contributions (Lobbyist) - FEC 8/09
Lobbying cash obscures US climate debate - Telegraph 11/09
Dick Gephardt, Corporate Lobbyist - TruthDig 10/09
Flush with Cash From Bank Lobbyists, Conservative Dems Are Killing the Consumer Protection We All Need - AlterNet 10/09
Bribe, Vote, Repeat - TruthDig 10/09
Dick Gephardt's Spectacular Sellout - Nation 9/09
Bailed-Out Banks’ PACs, Lobbyists Have Sponsored 70 Fundraisers for Congress, Donated $6 Million Since Election - CommonDreams 8/09
Why the Right's 'Astroturfing' Propaganda Is Textbook Psychopathic - AlterNet 8/09
Lobbyists on a Roll: Gutting Reform on Banking, Energy, and Health Care - Arianna Huffington 6/09
Lobbying boosted as health care debate heats up 6/09
Audits of Largest Corporations Slide to All Time Low 2008
Abramoff Gets Four Years 9/08
Representation Without Taxation: Study Says Most Corporations Avoid US Income Tax 8/08
Lobbyists Spend Record Sums to Influence Washington 4/08 - $ 17 MILLION DAILY !
The Perfect Lobby: How One Industry Captured Washington - The Nation 03.04.14