Links tagged with “corruption”
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Diary by Peter Pomerantsev (London Review of Books)
Starts as a fascinating brief description of sistema, the pervasive Russian corruption, ends up starting to show how London is now a place where this is legitimised. Laundering crookedness.
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LRB | letters from Vol. 27 No. 15
The first letter describes how US corruption in Iraq is a direct descendant of the US corruption in Vietnam.
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LRB | Ed Harriman : Where has all the money gone?
Excellent but despair-inducing article outlining some of the mind-boggling corruption in post-invasion Iraq.