29 May 2023 ( GlobalVoice ) In his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation about the increasingly close and lucrative relationship between the U.S. government and the defense industry. He famously labeled this constellation the “military-industrial complex,” introducing this term into the...
29 May 2023 ( GlobalVoice ) After facing the nation’s biggest corruption scandal in January 2023, the Mongolian government has its hands full with another major corruption case. The country’s media space blew up on May 16 with the report on systemic corruption surrounding the State Educational Loan Fund. Based on the audit...
02 June 2023 ( Reuters ) El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Thursday pledged to build a prison to hold white-collar criminals as part of a crackdown on corruption that he likened to his fight against criminal gangs. "Just as we fought the gangs head on with the...
27 May 2023 ( Euronews ) The allegations have brought into question the reliability of the country's electoral system. Allegations of electoral fraud in at least seven cities has tarnished Spain’s key regional and municipal elections in advance of voting on Sunday. The allegations surround the buying of votes,...
31 May 2023 ( The Guardian ) María Teresa Montaño Delgado was kidnapped while investigating suspicious contracts worth $300m awarded by the state of Mexico. It was a muggy summer day when the veteran reporter María Teresa Montaño Delgado drove almost 450 miles from Toluca, capital of the...
27 May 2023 ( Times of Israel ) A German manufacturer of defense equipment suspects that an Israeli company known as BIRD Aerosystems paid a bribe as part of an arms deal in Africa. The German company, Hensoldt, was looking into the issue since it supplied some of...
27 May 2023 ( The Canberra Times ) US authorities have arrested two suspected Chinese government agents in connection with an alleged plot to disrupt the exiled anti-communist Falun Gong spiritual movement. John Chen and Lin Feng were charged with scheming to revoke a New York-based Falun Gong...
29 May 2023 ( Casino ) Joseph Muscat, the former prime minister of Malta — who was forced out of office following the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia — is facing a new scandal involving a different casino. Media outlet Times of Malta has found that he once received...
26 May 2023 ( Foreign Policy ) Another Tick in the Autocracy Column? Guatemala, Central America’s most populous country at over 17 million people, will hold presidential and parliamentary elections next month. A drumbeat of evidence of democratic backsliding has preceded the vote. Last week, the top-polling presidential contestant became...
28 May 2023 ( Buffalo News ) It’s said that all politics is local. Yet it often seems that all political corruption investigations are federal. To be sure, bribery and misappropriation can usually be punished under state law. For example, the New York Penal Law punishes over...