In good news for the planet and a major political setback for the USA Brazil has taken a turn to the left as former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election.
Corruption
ProPublica: Why Aren’t Hedge Funds Required to Fight Money Laundering?
A long-standing effort to make big investment funds abide by the same rules that banks and brokerages follow has bogged down. The fund industry says it supports the rules — it just has a few […]
EU politics
The Guardian: Belgian police fire water cannon at fuel price protesters
Is this possibly morphing into an anti-neoliberal, anti-austerity, or anti-EU movement? Whatever, a very interesting development. Also see ” Oliver Davis – Gilets jaunes: why the French working poor are demanding Emmanuel Macron’s resignation” Click here […]
Corruption
DeClassified UK: Israel lobby funded a quarter of British MPs
Some 180 of Britain’s 650 MPs in the last parliament accepted funding from pro-Israel lobby groups or individuals during their political career, Declassified can reveal. That includes 130 Conservative MPs, 41 Labour MPs and three […]
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