Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond
East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact. A recent sampling:
Why is Congress funding Israel’s genocide in Palestine? Rep. Rashida Tlaib offers an answer: between 2019 and 2021, 97 members of Congress, or their family members, invested in weapons contractor stocks; 25 of them sat on committees responsible for shaping national security while also trading and profiting off defense stocks.
Tlaib has introduced the Stop Politicians Profiting from War Act. If enacted it would ban Congress and family members from having any financial interests in corporations doing business with the Defense Dept., and ban them from trading defense stocks.
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