Tag Archives: Corruption

More on the Museum of Tolerance + Mamilla Cemetary

By Syndicated News | Published: June 24, 2010

Last month, Haaretz published an extensive and lengthy multi-part special report on the controvery — and fight — over the construction of a Museum of Tolerance on top of part of the ancient Mamilla Cemetary that became part of West Jerusalem and Israel as a result of the 1948 creation of the State of Israel [...]

Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Jerusalem, Mamilla Cemetary, Museum of Tolerance, Palestine & Palestinians | Leave a comment

Bhairavi Desai, Organizing in Arizona, and Corruption in the Church

By newsreader89 | Published: May 20, 2010

Obama has passed ground breaking stimulus bills and health care reform in the past year and a half, but what is the perception of these compared to the reality? Executive Director of the Taxi Workers Alliance Bhairavi Desai joins us in studio to tell us how the economic atmosphere is for one of the most [...]

Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged 1000 dead americans, abortion, Afghanistan, american security, anti muslim, anti pakistan, apartheid, Arizona, Barack Obama, Bhairavi Desai, Bhiravi Desai, bigotry, Brave New Films, catholicism, child rape, code pink, constitutional rights, corrupt catholicism, economy, ellen bravo, Episodes, families in arizona, feminism, foreign policy, grittv, international relations, international security, Iraq, job insecurity, labor reform, labor rights, laura flanders, multi state working families consortium, new york city, Pakistan, pedophilia, phoenix, priests, protest, public opinion, puente arizona, racism, rethink afghanistan, SB1070, security, sister margaret mcbride, sylvia herrera, taxi workers, Taxi Workers Alliance, the catholic church, The F Word, the obama brand, the war on terror, thomas olmsted, unions, us miliatry presence, us military, us military presence abroad, Video, war, war in afghanistan, women, womens coalition, xenophobia | Leave a comment

The F Word: Pedophilia is Fine, but Hold the Abortion

By newsreader89 | Published: May 20, 2010

In another story from Arizona, but one that's attracting less attention than that state's check your documents anti-immigration law, a nun in Phoenix has been ex-communicated after approving a live-saving abortion. Sister Margaret McBride was excommunicated for approving an abortion without which, doctors say, both the woman and her 11-week-old fetus would have died. According to Thomas Olmsted, the Bishop of Phoenix, approving an abortion is an excommunicating offense -period

Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged abortion, Arizona, catholicism, child rape, Commentary, constitutional rights, corrupt catholicism, grittv, laura flanders, pedophilia, phoenix, priests, sister margaret mcbride, the catholic church, The F Word, thomas olmsted, Video | Leave a comment

Alex Gibney and Bob Ney: Casino Jack & Corruption in Congress

By newsreader89 | Published: May 5, 2010

Get the money out of Washington. It's an ongoing refrain now, from the left and even from those in the Tea Party movement. Too much corruption, too little trust. Jack Abramoff, the superstar lobbyist whose spectacular fall brought down then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was the very public face of the problem of lobbying when he headed off to jail, and he is the subject of Alex Gibney's newest documentary, Casino Jack and the United States of Money.

Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged Alex Gibney, Bob Ney, Congress, corrupt, Jack Abramoff, lobbying, lobbyists, money, Panel Discussions, Tom DeLay, Video, WASHINGTON | Leave a comment

Alex Gibney & Bob Ney, Richard Trumka, and Treme

By newsreader89 | Published: May 4, 2010

Get the money out of Washington. It's an ongoing refrain now, from the left and even from those in the Tea Party movement. Too much corruption, too little trust. Jack Abramoff, the superstar lobbyist whose spectacular fall brought down then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was the very public face of the problem of lobbying when he headed off to jail, and he is the subject of Alex Gibney's newest documentary, Casino Jack and the United States of Money.

Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged Alex Gibney, art, arts, bailouts, banks, big sammie williams, Blake Leyh, Bob Ney, bobby jindal, Coco Robicheaux, Congress, corrupt, david simon, Donald Harrison, Dr. John, Ed Ott, Episodes, Fiction, Goldman Sachs, hbo, hurricane katrina, Jack Abramoff, jazz, John Boutté, Jr, kermit ruffins, labor, lobbying, lobbyists, louisiana, mardi gras, mardi gras indians, money, Music, musicians, Ned Sublette, New Orleans, new york, protest, richard trumka, Tom DeLay, treme, trombone shorty, union, Video, wall street, WASHINGTON, when the saints go marching in | Leave a comment

What does this mean?

By Syndicated News | Published: April 4, 2010

Ma’an News Agency has reported that “President Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen] issued a decree on Sunday banning all violations of privacy and personal freedoms, following the results of a Palestinian Authority inquiry into corruption allegations against his former chief of staff. ‘In light of the report handed over by the inquiry commission into the [...]

Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged Abu Mazen, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Rafiq Husseini, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment, Tawfik Tirawi | Leave a comment

It depends on how you define “corruption”

By Syndicated News | Published: February 14, 2010

How do you define corruption?

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Abbas suspends Rafiq Husseini for “sex + corruption” affair – orders “investigation”.

By Syndicated News | Published: February 14, 2010

It has just been announced in Ramallah that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has apparently suspended (not fired) his Chef de Cabinet Rafiq Husseini, and established an investigation committee headed by the Fatah No. 2, Abu Maher Ghneim, in the wake of the all-too-public release of a “sex + corruption” videotape featuring Husseini. [...]

Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged Abu Mazen, Fahmi Shabaneh, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Rafiq Husseini, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment | Comments closed

Palestinian “sex + corruption” videotape scandal continues

By Syndicated News | Published: February 13, 2010

Some of the reactions are interesting — some Israeli comments on various news stories and blog posts say they are happy to learn that the Palestinian leadership is interested in sex rather than violence… “Let them make love, not war”, one Israeli wrote. OK. This only shows how the lack of contact, the media incitement [...]

Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged Fahmi Shabaneh, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Nasser Lahham, Palestine & Palestinians, Palestinian television, Paletinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Rafiq Husseini, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment | Comments closed

Who is this man?

By Syndicated News | Published: February 12, 2010

Who is this man, really? (He is the Chief of Staff of the Palestinian President.) Is all this just another Israeli conspiracy? Or is there something seriously wrong here? Does responsibility start at the top? Or somewhere in between? Certainly, it also has to start inside the heart, and conscience, of each [...]

Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged East Jerusalem, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Ramallah | Comments closed

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