Papantonio: Foreign Money Buying U.S. Election

News stories over the last year talking about campaign spending have been dominated by the talk of Super PACs. But that's only half the story. What the Citizens United court decision really did was to allow unfettered corporate money to influence our election process. And it isn't just American firms getting in on the action -- the US Chamber of Commerce, the oil industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and a host of others are all finance by overseas, foreign, corporate money, and they are all spending big time to influence this year's presidential election. Mike Papantonio talks about what this means for our democracy with investigative reporter Lee Fang.

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[487shawn]

agree intirely, however just want to point out that even so call American Companies are really not American anymore, there are no nationalities for these corporate conglomerate monsters, there is no loyality to anything but profit margin

[xadam2dudex]

u don't understand.. it isn't gonna be the people of other countries it is going to be more fascist corporations / enemy countries that fund the elections..they work for their own benefit not any country or people

[SuperBenzid]

Good, America sure can't govern itself very well.

[pianobanana]

Why are people so uninformed? And why is no one doing anything about this? Thank you for bringing this forward. Tweeted.