Public Corruption

It may be hard to imagine that Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author beloved by millions of readers, could be a crooked propagandist for some of the most toxic and destructive industries on the planet. Investigative journalist Yasha Levine didn't think it was possible, either—at least not until he happened to stumble across an old article by Gladwell defending the tobacco industry, and discovered a paper trail that led him to the shocking truth... Levine presents well-sourced evidence showing that Gladwell spent his entire career systematically and ...

What if everything you admired about the Victorians—was built on denial? Beneath the lace gloves and gaslight of 19th-century England lay a darker world—one of public executions and private abuses, imperial brutality and official denial, moral posturing and systemic hypocrisy. The Dark Side of the Victorian Era pulls back the velvet curtain to reveal the crimes, cover-ups, and contradictions that polite society worked hard to ignore. From child migrants sent overseas under the banner of Christian charity to the macabre spectacles of execution day, from Parliament’s strategic silences ...

They told you it was safe. They told you it was necessary. They lied. For decades, powerful forces in government, Big Pharma, and public health agencies have crafted a master plan —one designed to control, deceive, and profit from a trusting population. But now, the truth is laid bare. In this explosive exposé, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny unveils the sinister blueprint behind pandemic profiteering, vaccine corruption, and the weaponization of public health. What you'll discover inside will leave you outraged: • The collusion between Big Pharma and government agencies, ensuring profit takes ...

They don’t buy you all at once. They buy you one reasonable decision at a time. Somewhere between the first flattering introduction and the moment a leader can no longer speak freely, vote freely, or act without calculating who is watching, something fundamental changed. This book is about what changed, how it changed, and how to make sure it doesn’t change in you. Incorruptible is the anchor book of the Citizen Servant Leader doctrine, the framework that connects financial independence, physical resilience, information warfare resistance, and civic leadership into a single, unified ...

In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green. What happened to Dantrell led to a truce among Chicago’s gangs, but it also ignited a national panic about poverty and violence in America’s cities. Dantrell’s name would soon be used to demolish all of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, displacing tens of thousands of low-income families.

David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution that was meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. Stockman describes how the working of free markets and democracy has long been under threat in America and provides a surprising, nonpartisan catalog of the corrupters and defenders. His analysis shows how both liberal and neoconservative interference in markets has proved damaging and often dangerous.

The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis.

Selected as a Finalist for the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Mystery! TROUBLE IN VALDEZ COUNTY is the first novel in the new Doc Gunther Mystery series, which is centered around a modern-day Texas Ranger assigned to the Texas border with Mexico. A rural Texas border community, mired in corruption, on a lark elects a twenty-seven-year-old woman with absolutely no law enforcement experience as the county sheriff. This throws a wrench in the plans of the local politicos and their cartel backers. When the body of a young woman is discovered during the annual Javelina Harvest, an...

A former public defender takes us behind the closed doors of America's criminal courts, revealing how the institutions that claim to protect us are doing the exact opposite—and offering a blueprint for finally fixing it. “A searing, compassionate, and utterly necessary book that pulls back...

Ethics in the Public Sector examines how integrity, accountability, and transparency form the foundation of good governance. The book explores the moral duties of public officials and the mechanisms designed to prevent corruption, conflicts of interest, and misuse of power. Through practical examples and critical analysis, it offers a structured approach to ethical decision-making in public administration. The authors, Alessio Faccia and Laila Kabab, combine academic depth with practical relevance. They discuss key concepts such as ethical leadership, codes of conduct, whistleblower ...

Corruption isn’t random. It’s engineered. Architecting a Corrupt State map how modern corruption is built like a system: incentives, gatekeepers, cover stories, and paper trails designed to look “normal.” It’s not just bribes its procurement as theater, regulations as weapons, institutions as shields, and accountability as a performance. This book walks you through: • How corruption becomes a network strategy, not a “bad people” problem • The power stack: influence, contracts, permits, enforcement, and narrative control • The mechanics of “legal corruption”: ...

In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing - creation of ostensibly grassroots movements set up to advance political agendas and commercial campaigns. The democratization of information and polarization of politics offer a perfect storm.

Three firefighters are dead. Everyone calls it a tragic accident. Fire Investigator Jack Mercer knows better. When a devastating warehouse fire erupts along the St. Louis riverfront, veteran fire investigator Jack Mercer arrives expecting to determine how a routine structure fire turned deadly. Instead, he finds something far more disturbing. The fire behavior doesn't make sense. The building had been altered. And the evidence suggests the fatal flashover that killed three firefighters may have been engineered. As Mercer digs deeper, he uncovers a web of corruption stretching from ...

This program is read by the author. New York Times Editors' Choice A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability Through his vaunted philanthropy, Bill Gates transformed himself from a...

(Second edition) From Louis Clark's Introduction to Money, Politics, and Corruption in U.S. Higher Education: "Author Dan Moldea focuses on three whistleblowers: Dr. Jon Oberg, Rod Lipscomb, and Dr. Jim Keen, as well as attorney David Halperin, a well-known and respected advocate of whistleblowers. Moldea traces the origins of the complex scandals that these whistleblowers exposed, identifies the allies and enemies they attracted, and illuminates the retaliation they have courageously endured. From these case studies, a powerful narrative emerges: Moldea shows his readers what happens when ...

Proof doesn’t matter. Corruption hides in plain sight, and justice is just another deal to be made. This book isn’t about speculation. It’s about fact. It’s about how one man was wrongfully charged, how the real shooter walked free, and how the system bent over backward to protect itself instead of the truth. For nearly four years, Larry Rothi sat behind bars in Broward County, Florida — framed by conflicting police reports, protected lies, and a “credible eyewitness” who couldn’t keep his story straight. His sister, Schelli, dug through every statement, every report, every ...

In The Direct Democracy Alternative, Bernd Riemann presents a rigorous architectural blueprint for the "civic resurrection" of the modern state. He argues that the pervasive political decay, corruption, and social divisiveness of the current era are not moral failings of individuals, but the inevitable structural byproducts of what Riemann terms the "Representative Monopoly". Core themes and structural solutions presented in the work. The Problem: The "Representative Monopoly" and "civic atrophy": the work identifies a "grand disconnect" where citizens, though theoretically masters of their...

Former law enforcement officer and homeland security expert Christopher Armitage writes about the origin, history, and current state of policing in America while addressing possible solutions to concerns for police officer safety, public peacekeeping, and the consistent removal of constitutional rights meant to be protected. "Bad Cop, No Donut" looks at policing from its inception to the present day and presents actionable solutions for protecting the peace while reforming a system riddled with corruption and scandal.

US Deputy Marshal Dirk Sterling is tasked with the near-impossible and perilous mission of capturing Beaux Crandall, an elusive fugitive and former mogul on the FBI's most wanted list. Crandall, a mastermind of vice with charges ranging from money laundering to illegal firearms and child pornography, broke his pre-trial release conditions and disappeared without a trace. Crandall is rumored to be hiding out in a small rural town in Montana.

Ten thousand years after humans figured out how to stop wandering and plant crops, veteran investigative journalist Mark Schapiro plunges into the struggle already underway for control of seeds, the ground-zero ingredient for our food. Three-quarters of the seed varieties on Earth in 1900 had become extinct by 2015. In Seeds of Resistance, Schapiro takes us onto the frontlines of a struggle over the seeds that remain, one that will determine the long-term security of our food supply in the face of unprecedented climate volatility. More than half of all commercially-traded seeds have fallen under the control of just three multinational agri-chemical companies....