American Leftist. Thursday, December 30, 2010 Just Do It From The Peninsula, a Qatari newspaper: Top officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks.These officials are spies for the US in their countries, Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday.The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview which was a continuation of last week’s interface, that Assange had even shown him the files that contained the names of some top Arab officials with alleged links with the CIA.Assange or Mansour, however, didn’t disclose the names of these officials.
Philip Agee released this sort of information, and lived into his 70s, being fortunate enough to fall in love with a German woman who married him, enabling him to obtain German citizenship. Big Think - We Are What You Think. Ideas worth spreading. Howtoread.pdf (application/pdf Object) Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime. June 15, 2007 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The following is text from a speech delivered by Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter to the Taming the Giant Corporation conference in Washington, D.C., June 9, 2007. 20. Corporate crime inflicts far more damage on society than all street crime combined. Whether in bodies or injuries or dollars lost, corporate crime and violence wins by a landslide.
The FBI estimates, for example, that burglary and robbery -- street crimes -- costs the nation $3.8 billion a year. The losses from a handful of major corporate frauds -- Tyco, Adelphia, Worldcom, Enron -- swamp the losses from all street robberies and burglaries combined. Health care fraud alone costs Americans $100 billion to $400 billion a year. And then you have your lesser frauds: auto repair fraud, $40 billion a year, securities fraud, $15 billion a year -- and on down the list. 19.
Not true. 18. The mafia, no. 17. 16. 15.