Author: Joshua De Leon

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has obtained “sworn testimony and documents” that link Michele Bachmann to various criminal actions, such as wire and mail fraud. In mid-May, the FBI joined a criminal investigation launched by the Iowa Supreme Court to determine whether or not Michele Bachmann had a direct hand in ethics violations such as paying off former Iowa chairman and state Sen. Keith Sorenson (R-Iowa) during her 2012 presidential election.   Members of Bachmann’s own camp stepped forward and claimed that improper and unethical payments were made to Sorenson.   Former Bachmann campaign Chief of Staff Andy...

An explosion of domestic and international protests against Monsanto has been a testament to the biological engineering company’s complete negligence of the environment and consumers’ well-being.  This past week has seen marches, lawsuits, and suspensions of international imports of Monsanto’s products. Monsanto has been on the unethical side of many issues.  The company has poisoned farmers, aggressively sued small farmers for unintentionally and unknowingly growing crops with Monsanto seeds, produced foods that have caused new food allergies, and a slew of other heinous actions.  But the last year has seen an increase of lawsuits and protests against the chemical...

After majors news outlets raised over $60,000 to hire stenographers to record Pfc. Bradley Manning’s trial, the military court overseeing the trial has denied the stenographers press passes, cutting off any publicly-accessible written record of the proceedings. Numerous news organizations that pooled together and formed the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) started the fundraiser to pay for a stenographer to ensure the court’s transparency during the trial.  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange also assembled a group of journalists and first-amendment activists to file a lawsuit, on two accounts, against the Department of Defense to force the court into transparency....

The major insurance companies are threatening to raise insurance premiums, despite their claims that the Affordable Care Act will raise them.  Their threat came amid their record-high profits and a slowdown on rate increases. The profit margins for insurance companies have exploded over the last few years.  According to Bloomberg, the earning per stock share of insurance companies jumped 29 percent from 2008 – 2011.  Even in 2008, when the economy took a nosedive, the top insurance companies, like United Health and Aetna, racked revenue in the billions of dollars.   Because they’ve been hauling in cash by the...

In the midst of numerous scandals that have walloped President Obama in the last several weeks, the GOP is now comparing Obama to former president Richard Nixon.  Scandals revolving around Obama and Nixon are similar only on the most superficial of levels, it’s something to do with the IRS and journalists.  But the true nuts and bolts of which are anything but similar. Putting aside for the moment the AP scandal . . . we’re at least seeing that these were all through legal channels.  We may find them inappropriate, we may find them . . . encroaching on...