Crime

The Often Overlooked Role of Natural Gas in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Mother Jones shows how Gazan natural gas became the epicenter of an international power struggle. The Middle East is a region rife with conflict, and a single thread ties them together: the frenzied competition to find, extract, and market fossil fuels. This is a threat that will lead to cataclysmic environmental crises if their future […]

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Hurray! About time! Payday Loan Mogul May Face Criminal Charges Under Laws That Targeted Mafia Loan Sharks

ThinkProgress explains the new charges… Federal prosecutors are preparing to bring criminal charges against car-racing mogul Scott Tucker, whose online payday lending empire uses American Indian tribal lands as a base of operations to evade state law, according to Bloomberg.  Predatory payday loans with triple-digit interest rates remain legal in many states, and even those

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