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Showing videos filed under: huffington post investigative fund
The Big Business Wall Street Won't Discuss
October 30, 2010"Do you mind being a vulture?" That's the question Emory law professor Frank Alexander asks in this segment from the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. He's asking it of huge Wall Street banks like JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America, which buy up tax liens from local governments when homeowners fall behind on their property taxes, and then foreclose on the homes.The Loaded Chamber, Tax Liens, Mamachas del Ring, and Lee Camp
October 29, 2010In the first two parts of our investigative series, The Loaded Chamber, we met the faces behind the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, its shadowy fundraising for the election cycle, and the government entities that are supposed to be keeping an eye on it. In part three, we look at the foreign money flowing into the chamber--and the connections between that cash and the Chamber's support for outsourcing jobs. And is that foreign money going to pay for elections?Huffington Post Investigative Fund: New Prescription for Delta's Poor
July 21, 2010Digital technology was touted as a huge saver on costs and solution for ills during the health care reform debate. That bill has pssed, but is digital technology actually helping? In the Mississippi delta, there's a long history of low-income people suffering medical mistreatment. The Huffington Post Investigative Fund looked into it to see if the new tech was helping or hurting.Greg Grandin, Fracking, and Shirley Sherrod
July 21, 2010A massive workers’ struggle in Panama resulting in week-long strikes and fatal clashes with the police? Drug cartel wars leaving twenty-two dead in a single day in Mexico? Does any of this sound familiar? Most likely not, seeing as how it appears to be a complete mass media whiteout on these topics in America. Since the American media seems to think that omission means non-existence, we asked our Latin American correspondent Greg Grandin to enlighten us on the actual goings-on in Panama, Mexico, and the American media’s harsh critique of Oliver Stone’s recent exposé on South America and exploitation, South of the Border.Searching for Signs of Deception
February 24, 2010You've seen them: the signs that pop up everywhere, with just a phone number and a seemingly-unbelievable promise. "We Buy Houses" "Make $45 an Hour." They're becoming even more common during this recession, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund has found, and they made this video in Baltimore with Robert Strupp, director of research and policy at the Community Law Center.The Spectacle of Sports, Maude Barlow, and Frank Schaeffer
February 23, 2010The Olympics have seen more than their share of controversy this year, from the death of a Georgian luger early on to the ongoing debate about policing, spending and co-opting Native land for sports. But many people still love the games, and tune in to watch sports that get forgotten the other three years--or to see dream teams put together to compete for gold.
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