Corruption
John McEvoy: What happened to Labour Friends of Palestine?
Careerist Labour MPs dishonestly pretended to care about Palestine for factional advantage: what’s new? In ‘Declassified UK’. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Energy
Sharon Kelly – Oil Execs Warn Privately That Trump’s ‘Chaos’ Could Be ‘Disaster’ for Their Industry
After donating heavily to Trump’s reelection, Big Oil is just catching on that the president’s policies can hurt them too, anonymous survey of industry executives reveals. Sharon Kelly is an attorney and investigative reporter based […]
Corruption
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – Germany has sealed its own demise
With the passage of its huge military spending bill last week Germany has assured its economic and political decline. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an […]
Corruption
Corruption
Aziz Rana – Constitutional Collapse
An insightful analysis about what is continuity and what is change in how Trump is exerting presidential power. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Lobbying
Neil A. Abrams – Elon Musk Is Not the Problem
Musk and his fellow plutocrats are not omnipotent. They are exceptionally vulnerable, in fact. Neil A. Abrams writes on corruption, democracy, the rule of law, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia. You can find his work […]
Corruption
Tulin Dzhengiz – The peculiar Turkish corruption issue behind Istanbul mayor’s arrest – and how it became a tool of political oppression
Central to the allegations of corruption is what is known in Turkey as “naylon faturacılık” referring to deliberate attempts to fabricate transactions, inflate expenses, or obscure real beneficiaries. Tulin Dzhengiz is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainability […]
Corruption
Simeon Djankov – Asymmetric sanctions on Russian individuals
This column suggests that the asymmetric treatment between the EU and the US may be a manifestation of biases in the procedure for imposing sanctions. Simeon Djankov is Policy Director at London School Of Economics […]
Geopolitics
Ragip Soylu: What’s Erdogan’s end game with Imamoglu’s arrest?
Erdogan’s team is likely betting that public outrage over Imamoglu’s arrest will eventually fade and the economy will recover before the country next goes to the polls. Read HERE Ekrem Imamoglu, Photo: Orhan Erkılıç/VoA