Tag: Corrupts U.S. Congress

NOVANEWS How can we, the public, make our voices heard by a Congress corrupted by war profiteers, when the war industry can buy a bipartisan majority for war and militarism in the U.S. Senate with such a tiny fraction of its profits? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Global Research   Former President Jimmy Carter has called U.S. politics a system of“legalized bribery” in which powerful interests spend billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign funding to ensure that members of Congress pay more attention to them than to the general public. With the upcoming midterm elections, we will see the full force of this tsunami of cash washing over our electoral system. The human cost of this corrupt system has been searingly rammed home since the Parkland school shooting, as g...