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KEN SILVERSTEIN-Silent Armey: Former House majority leader lobbies for defense contractor PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by Ken Silverstein   
Whenever the cry goes up in Washington for lobbying reform, lobbyists insist that there's really no need for any serious change. After all, they'll say, we are already required to report our activities under disclosure laws, so the public and the press already have ways to monitor our actions. . . .
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KEN SILVERSTEIN-Hard Times for the G.O.P.: Leaked letter reveals pathetic financial conditions... PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by Ken Silverstein   
Earlier this year I described my night at the Capitol Hill Club, the exclusive private watering hole for Republican elected officials and their supporters, primarily lobbyists. The club boasts a variety of restaurants and bars, like the "75 Room" which a brochure describes as a "superb venue for viewing House and Senate deliberations, small meetings, relaxing between appointments, or catching up on your messages." The club also sponsors annual golf tournaments with Congressional leaders, theater evenings, winemaker dinners, holiday brunches, and other events." . . .
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JOHN R. MACARTHUR-Money Over Morals: Obama's the candidate of the hedge-fund partners PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by John R. MacArthur   
Among the several unpleasant outgrowths of the Obama-Clinton death duel, perhaps the most disturbing was the widespread perception that the junior senator from New York was more attuned to the cares and hardships of the working class than her chic counterpart from Illinois. . . .
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WYATT MASON-Die A Painful Death PDF Print E-mail
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Enthusiasm is suspicious. Or so a critic sometimes feels. . . .
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KEN SILVERSTEIN-Will Bush Administration Let Oil Companies Skate on Money Paid to African... PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by Ken Silverstein   
Exxon Mobil is quietly commemorating the biggest operating profit in U.S. corporate history, announcing last week that it had earned $11.7 billion during the second quarter. Here's something else that Exxon, and a number of other major energy firms, are surely commemorating: the apparent failure of the Bush Administration to hold them accountable for possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Equatorial Guinea, even though congress issued a detailed report more than four years ago that an elementary school student could have used as a roadmap for prosecution. . . .
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