“All the checks and balances—from press to public interest groups to criminal prosecutors—are slowly being cut back,” investigative journalist Russell Mokhiber tells Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges in a discussion about corporate crime.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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