Category Archives: Corruption

Follow the Party’s yellow brick road…if you can find it

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Naomi

How to make a dazzling political promise, from Harper’s Weekly Review: “Since we have inaugurated it, it will be constructed too,” said an official in Uttar Pradesh, India, referring to a rural road for which his party, the BJP, is … Continue reading →

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New kind of fun on the horizon!

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: After Saudi Arabia’s recent announcement that it would open an oil-themed extreme park and resort as part of a national rebranding effort, a former Saudi intelligence officer said that the country’s crown prince was a “psychopath” … Continue reading →

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Every once in a while, do you think about Jeffrey Epstein? I do

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: The CEO of Barclays, who once cut his bonus and was fined when it was discovered that he was attempting to identify a whistleblower who wrote a letter of “concerns of a personal nature” about a … Continue reading →

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