The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a not-for-profit, joint program of a number of regional non-profit investigative centers and for profit independent media stretching from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
Och om man säljer ut svenska medborgare till utländsk makt så är det det ultimata förräderiet, gränsande till statskupp, säger han. Har USA agerat i Sverige som i Norge är det brottsligt: Om bevakningen av svenskar ägt rum utanför ambassadområdet, rör det
"Why More Equality? Our thirty years research shows that: 1) In rich countries, a smaller gap between rich and poor means a happier, healthier, and more successful population. Just look at the US, the UK, Portugal, and New Zealand in the top right of this
Praise in Columbia Journalism Review for article by Lucy Komisar et alios in Miami Herald 2009 on Alle Stanford Ponzi Scheme (phony certified deposits). For this article, Lucy Komisar later won thef National Headliner Award, second place for Business
Kurras war ein unpolitischer Waffennarr und ein reaktionärer Bulle, trotz Kontakten zur DDR. Gespräch mit Till Mey(Tageszeitung junge Welt), 27.05.2009: »
WSJ 15.1.14: "The Libor manipulation scandal has ensnared at least 17 financial institutions and 22 individuals in a wide-ranging investigation spanning 11 countries and four continents. So far, it has netted at least $5 billion in penalties, with more on the way. Below, we've taken the most complete list of allegedly involved parties, compiled by WSJ reporters and editors, and mapped an extensive web of 298 reported connections that reveals the depth of the alleged conspiracy. Connections do not represent allegations of wrongdoing. The Journal has attempted to contact every institution and individual mentioned in this graphic. Their comments, if any, are included."
the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists made a splash in the financial media in April 2013 when it disclosed a trove of secret documents ...in the aftermath of the Cyprus deposit confiscation ... the ICIJ is back in the spotlight once again, this time revealing "nearly 22,000 tax haven clients from Hong Kong and mainland China."
A mysterious company's coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
Scientists and journals express concern over influential studies of COVID-19 patient data that evaluated possible treatments such as hydroxychloroquine
Science 2 Jun 2020
With the help of governments and their intelligence agencies, the global arms trade continues to be a controlling and corrupting force throughout the world.
The trauma being experienced by Sundar’s men in the control room of KKNPP-1 are not teething troubles of a new technology. There are enough evidence to show that the reactors at Kudankulam are made of counterfeit and sub-standard equipment and spares rendered surplus due to post-Chernobyl cancellation of two dozen VVER-1000 reactors in Eastern and Central Europe. As Gopalakrishnan said, “a very large amount of public funds have been spent on this reactor, with very little benefit accrued to the people in return. The reactor is known to have suffered continuous and unprecedented problems during the construction, erection and commissioning phases as well as during the present initial operation period till date.”
In the recent past, there have been instances of large scale corruptions involving politicians, administrators, industrialists and scientists and technologists, even frontier-science driven government enterprises like space research. In all these scams, all what happens is flow of public assets to private pockets. Not a single child is going to suffer from thyroid cancer or mental retardation and hence we tend to forget these the moment a new scam surfaces, which is a cyclic process in modern times. Nuclear corruption may end up in catastrophe of global level, and the impacts can be trans-generational. India and Russia have enough experts and wise women and men to understand that the dips in the graph above and events since its grid connection reported earlier are worthy of an independent investigation. Fortunately it is possible now as the decisions on Kudankulam are taken at the highest political level and the “Prime Minister Narendra Modi firmly believes that transparency and accountability are the two cornerstones of any pro-people government”
Glenn Greenwald theguardian.com, Tuesday 5 February 2013 The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize In September 2011, it killed US citizen Anwar Awlaki in a drone strike in Yemen, along with US citizen Samir Khan, and then, in circumstances that are still unexplained, two weeks later killed Awlaki's 16-year-old American son Abdulrahman with a separate drone strike in Yemen.
By Felicity Morse and Jonathan Owen , Belfast Telegraph 20 January 2014: "Mr Garcia is the fifth person to have tried to bring the former Prime Minister to justice, at the prompting of the arrestblair.org website. He’s unlikely to be the last and was unrepentant on Monday night. “I hope that it will keep people from forgetting that he is a war criminal. I hope one day he faces his charges in The Hague. People seem to think that those laws only apply to Nazis and African warlords.”
The repatriation of human remains ... has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West Africa. This contribution situates the current issues and practices of memory politics between Namibia and Germany within their historical context.
"An international alliance of publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Elsevier and Pearson Education Ltd, has served successful cease-and-desist orders on a piracy operation with an estimated turnover of £7m." "Alexander Skipis, Börsenverein c.e.o., added: "This case demonstrates, in particular in the context of current debates, that systematic copyright infringement has developed into a highly criminal and lucrative business." "
(Santiago, den 28 januari 2013). Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (Cloc VC) beklagar och fördömer mordet på ledaren för MST i Brasilien, Guedes Cicero dos Santos, 54, som sköts till döds 25 januari i Campos dos Goytacazes. Cicero deltog i ett möte på lägret och blev skjuten i ett bakhåll när han återvände med cykel till sitt hem i Zumbi Dos Palmares. Cicero var en av ledarna för MST i Rio de Janeiro.
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, also known as the Uncatchable, is said to have been passed over for several senior positions within al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).