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Corruption

SPENGLER : Hockey moms and capital markets

Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, derided outside the United States as a mere country bumpkin unfit for higher office, personifies why Asian investors continue to pour money into the US, even as its...

Knesset Lobby Calls for Extension of Ban on Disgraced

The Knesset Lobby for the Struggle Against Corruption, led by MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) agreed on Monday to propose a law that would lengthen the time period during which politicians convicted of crimes are forbidden to...

Stop the Debauchery

"We inflate our paper currency, we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy." -- Thus, by proclaiming that bailing out Wall Street was necessary to prevent economic devastation...

The Congressional Betrayal of America

To his pathetic, costly and destructive legacy President George W. Bush has added the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H.R. 1424) passed by a corrupted Congress on October 3.

Corruption in Lebanon, between decline and steadiness

While the Administration and Justice Committee continues its efforts to forge electoral reforms that would, ideally, ensure fair representation for all Lebanese voters, a recently released report from the Lebanese Transparency...

Thai protesters occupy street outside parliament

Chamlong Srimuang, a key anti-government protest leader arrives at criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Thai police arrested the one-time Bangkok mayor on Sunday on charges of insurrection in a...

12 officials arrested in Delhi for graft

The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of Delhi Monday arrested 12 officials of the Delhi government, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Delhi Police on charges of corruption after it conducted a month-long sting operation.

Winning the battle, losing the faith

'The lion of the people will turn on you," warned Mullah Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, a former Taliban foreign minister, as we sipped green tea at his home in Kabul a few weeks ago. He noted that while Americans had been shocked by...

NDC Declares War On Corruption

As one of its cardinal points in their manifesto dubbed -"A better Ghana", among other relevant issues, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), under the flagbearership of Prof. John Evans Atta Mills has declared total war on...

Bishop Seeks More Powers for EFCC

Bishop of the Ife Diocese of the Anglican Church, Rt Rev. Oluranti Odubogun, has appealed to the National Assembly to make legislation that will strengthen the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).