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Wall Street Crime and Punishment is a weekly series by Benzinga s Phil Hall that chronicles the bankers, brokers and financial ne’er-do-wells whose ambition and greed take them in the wrong direction.
Roughly six decades before Elon Musk joined the executive team at
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), another brash and self-confident innovator sought to shake up the automotive industry with bold new ideas.
But unlike everyone’s favorite dogecoin-touting entrepreneur, Preston Tucker never managed to complement his engineering genius with financial prowess. As a result, Tucker’s efforts were detoured due to quirky financial strategies resulting in a federal trial that destroyed his reputation and set the cause of independent automobile manufacturing back by nearly 60 years.
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth, a new book by The Red Nation which connects the struggle to prevent ecological collapse to the struggles against imperialism, capitalism, and settler-colonialism, including in Palestine. As The Red Nation summarizes: The choice is decolonization or extinction.
The United States owns the deadliest and most funded military power in the world. It invests more in its military than the next seven largest military powers combined. The US military also owns more international military bases than any other country.
Why does the United States invest so heavily in its military? The answer can be found in the creation of US settler sovereignty, forged through war against Indigenous nations. In its early years of existence, the United States needed free land to repay war debts following its war of independence with Great Britain. Looking westward from its original settler colonies to find
WWI Memorial opening ceremony features song developed in Southern Tier Provided by Prospect Theater Company “The Hello Girls,” a musical about America’s first female soldiers in World War I, was developed in Johnson City and performed at the opening of a World War I memorial in Washington, D.C.
Song inspired by the “Hello Girls” developed in Johnson City was performed at the ceremony
April 22, 2021
On April 16, the World War I Memorial site in Pershing Park, Washington, D.C., was unveiled in a livestreamed ceremony of the Inaugural Raising of the Flag. The event covered the history of World War I and included numerous speakers whose family members served in the war. Viewers learned about the “Doughboys,” the “Hello Girls” and other veterans who gave their service to the country. The Binghamton community played a role in this, as a song about the “Hello Girls,” which was written in Johnson City, was performed at the ceremony.