How Foreign Governments Bribe The Always Avaricious Trump Family— Today's Case: The Saudi Despots
When Saudi Arabia’s de facto dictator, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, overrode his country’s sovereign wealth fund analysts who had...
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Howie Klein
Sep 274 min read
If Eric Adams Resigns Or Something, Jumaane Williams Becomes Acting Mayor!
NYC’s Progressive Mayors Since the 1930s: La Guardia, Wagner, Lindsay, de Blasio Yesterday morning, I went down a philosophical rabbit...
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Howie Klein
Sep 266 min read
Will The Best Republican Ever Be Better Than The Worst Democrat? That Was Once A Common Occurrence
Not In These Hyper-Polarized Times When I was growing up, Republican senators like Jacob Javits (NY), Mark Hatfield (OR), Charlies...
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Howie Klein
Sep 266 min read
How Disappointed Do You Feel When Democratic Scumbags Show Themselves To Be Corrupt As Republicans?
NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption has been breathtaking— the worst of the New York City anti-reformist bad old days. And last night he was...
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Howie Klein
Sep 45 min read
Why It's So Crucial To Try Our Best To Elect More Members Of Congress Like Jamie Raskin
There are 7,386 state legislative seats in the U.S., from just 49 in Nebraska, the only state with a unicameral legislature, to a massive...
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Howie Klein
Sep 17 min read
Trump, His Acolytes Plus Foreign Regimes Have Funneled Millions In Shady Spending Into His Pockets
Trump owns a majority-share of Trump Media (59%) and the lock-up period, in which he wasn’t allowed to sell his shares is about to end,...
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Howie Klein
Aug 307 min read
Klitgaard’s Formula: C = M + D - A (Corruption Equals Monopoly Plus Discretion Minus Accountability)
Looking At A Slice Of California Through That Lens Ralph Vartabedian could have just as easily written “How Texas Became a New Center of...
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Howie Klein
Aug 272 min read
Underwriting The Oligarchy— Here Are Some Of The Worst Villains... But By No Means All Of Them
If Thérèse (professionally known as Madame Defarge) were alive today— and if I had her e-mail address— I’d send her this list, knowing...
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Howie Klein
Aug 29 min read
Middle East Dictators Are Allowed To Root For Trump— But Sending Him Bags Of Cash Is Too Much
In 1969 I spent a month driving around Morocco. I took a ferry across from Algeciras in Spain to Tétouan, still part of Spain but on the...
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Howie Klein
Aug 19 min read
Not One Politician Was Charged In FTX Bribery Scandal— Now Congress Is Selling Out To The Crypto-Mob
Congress And, Of Course, Trump Sam Bankman Fried is in prison— at least for now— but the crypto-criminal Mafia he helped cobble together...
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Howie Klein
Jul 285 min read
The Marriage Of Convenience Between Trump And The Crypto-Criminals Was Always 100% Inevitable
Many people say that AIPAC— with its network of other, smaller pro-genocide committees— is the most pernicious of the PACs funneling...
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Howie Klein
Jul 258 min read
Is There Any Part Of The MAGA Agenda Trump Wouldn’t Sell Out? Does The Drooling MAGA Base Care?
Pay Trump Enough And He'll Flip Flop On Anything In 2015, one of the absurd Trump talking points was that as a billionaire he was above...
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Howie Klein
Jul 244 min read
Shame On Schumer And The Rest Of The Hypocrites In The Senate For Not Expelling Menendez
I wasn’t thrilled to read that Bob Menendez had deigned to finally agree to resign from the Senate on August 20. The members of the...
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Howie Klein
Jul 173 min read
Robert Menendez Guilty Of All Charges— He Deserves A Hanging Judge
Robert Menendez began his career as a crusading reformer who ran as a candidate of the GOP-funded Alliance Civic Association which put...
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Toon Janssen
Jul 1411 min read
The Split Life Of Prince Bernhard, From War Hero To Nazi Prince
Prince Consort Of The Netherlands, Prisoner Of His Own Myth Toon Janssen, Amsterdam correspondent Huizen is just another relatively small...
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Howie Klein
Jul 113 min read
Elect Dems If You Want Bribe-Taking Supreme Court Justices Impeached-- OK With Bribes? Vote GOP
Clarence Thomas Belongs Behind Bars, Not On The Bench Last week, while the House was in recess, AOC said she planned to file impeachment...
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Howie Klein
Jul 61 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Supreme Court Now Openly Displays New Flag!
Your Saturday Cartoon by Noah Yeah, the Supreme Court is for sale. And everything in it! Especially any remaining stray copies of the...
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Howie Klein
Jul 55 min read
No More Slaps on the Wrist: Why Corrupt Politicians Must Face Serious Consequences— Menendez & Trump
From Gold Bars To Jail Bars— & We're Not Forgetting Clarence Thomas' Bribery Bob Menendez’s attorneys rested their case on Wednesday with...
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Howie Klein
Jun 264 min read
Under Trump, The GOP Has Turned Itself Into The Party Of Extremists, Whiners And Losers
All the votes in the VA-05 Republican primary are finally counted and the loser is neo-fascist incumbent Bob Good. The one who didn’t...
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Howie Klein
Jun 225 min read
Another Thing Trump Killed And Buried: Godwin's Law
There was once so much pushback and squawking when anyone compared Trump to Hitler, that it discouraged the practice. Who even remembers...
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