This is the 2nd Democratic Congressman who has been charged with taking money from foreign countries. Both claim innocence and are/have run for re-election. This party doesn’t seem to learn it’s corrupt lessons.
Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted on charges related to accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes and laundering the funds.
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted on more than a dozen federal charges alleging they accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from an oil company owned by the government of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank, the Justice Department said Friday. pic.twitter.com/unqz0Q2KaR
In 2022 Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn flew to Texas to campaign for Henry Cuellar – an anti-choice conservative – in his primary against a progressive, pro-choice Latina woman, Jessica Cisneros. They did this knowing he was under federal investigation – just to stop a progressive. pic.twitter.com/nA8e6XbhUO
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) and his wife allegedly accepted $600,000 in bribes from an oil company controlled by the Azerbaijan government and a bank headquartered in Mexico, according to a federal indictment unsealed in Texas on Friday. https://t.co/6lHZr1rhbf
Henry Cuellar won by just 281 votes against his progressive challenger in 2022, thanks to the help of Democratic leadership. Now he could tank the Democratic majority in the House. https://t.co/61zMq5XZFw
— The American Prospect (@TheProspect) May 4, 2024
Why hasn’t Menendez been removed from Congress yet? Well, we know the answer.
The government's case against Senator Bob Menendez, who is facing bribery and public corruption charges, is expansive and strong.
Here are the facts of the case, and why we're standing firm on our call for his expulsion: https://t.co/AAbMEVnPbF
Control over America by the 1 percent is complete, courtesy of the two-party system:
An analysis published Friday by the renowned economist Gabriel Zucman shows that in 2018, U.S. billionaires paid a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans for the first time in the nation’s history, a data point that sparked a new flurry of calls for bold levies on the ultra-rich.
Taxes on corporations have been declining for decades. During that period both Democrats and Republicans have been running the show:
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
The resistance is spreading like a wildfire. The authorities in the U.S. thought they had upper hand, they don’t. The politicians/press tried smearing protesters as anti-Semites. That didn’t work either. They tried using violence. That didn’t work. You can’t defeat truth and justice, in the end.
Students and supporters shut down the University of Texas (Dallas) admin building in solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/iomHHllvGs
— Party for Socialism and Liberation (@pslnational) April 24, 2024
UT Austin students chanting “You don’t scare us” even as countless militarized Texas Troopers swarm their campus, attack their protest, and bring in horses. This movement will not be stopped.
As in the 1960s, students are using civil disobedience to stop an unjust war. This time around it’s ending the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli military, with the help of the U.S. government.
Despite Trump trying everything in the book to prevent this trial from happening, it’s finally here.
Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the trial of former President Trump over his alleged hush money scheme involving adult film performer Stormy Daniels. The trial will be the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. @vaughnhillyard reports. https://t.co/klHqUzXazi
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) April 15, 2024
It’s no longer a secret that Israeli Prime Minister Benajamin Netanyahu is trying to prolong, and expand, the war with Hamas as a way to save his career and skin. There is an argument that can be made to suggest Netanyahu wanted war with Hamas as way of avoiding being forced from office and going to jail for corruption. When the World began to revolt against the heinous bombing of Gaza Netanyahu, and his equally monstrous partners in the government, they decided on a plan to force the U.S. to continue to finance their genocidal war against Gazans. Why not attack Iran and when they retaliate it will mostly likely bring America in to join the fight. It would be a win/win for Israel since Biden lately has been demanding the Jewish state stop it’s genocidal mess in Gaza. If Iran attacks U.S. forces then all is forgotten. America would be forced to join the proxy war with Iran, since Hamas is funded by Tehran. And there is potential all this could lead to WWIII since Russia supports Iran, Hamas:
Israel's attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria was a criminal act of war.
As Iran prepares to retaliate, Biden's promise of "ironclad” support for Israel is insanely reckless, putting US in the crosshairs & risking WWIII.
US-UK-EU-armed Israel bombs Lebanon, as Netanyahu tries to drag the US into a regional war, for Israel and the US to bring even more carnage, death and destruction to the region than they already have over the past several decades. https://t.co/hctDOuxuVCpic.twitter.com/XI3Vfys2fC
Netanyahu has both a political and a personal stake in all this. A drawn-out regional conflict would block or at least postpone any official accountability for his utter failure to prevent Hamas’s attack from happening in the first place and could also put his multiple indictments on corruption charges on an indefinite hold.
Look it up and you’ll find next to no coverage in the US media about top Israeli officials visiting Washington this week to push for military strikes against Iran, raising the risk of sparking war. Yet that’s exactly what happened.
It was widely reported in the Israeli press this week that defense minister Benny Gantz and top spy chief David Barnea were meeting with Biden administration officials on Thursday to push for a more aggressive US policy against Iran, as fraught negotiations resumed this week over restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, that was signed in 2015. According to reports, Gantz and Barnea pressed US officials to back up the push to reenter the deal with a show of force in the form of harsher sanctions and even strikes on Iranian targets.
Despite the worldwide condemnation from the assault on World Central Kitchen trucks last week, the Israeli military has done it again. This time there is only silence from U.S. politicians and press:
A UNICEF worker whose aid convoy came under fire on Wednesday while waiting to enter northern Gaza tells @MaxFosterCNN the attack shows "how dangerous" it is for aid agencies to operate in the enclave right now. pic.twitter.com/9dOpiDfCmY