#Kleptocracy

Dr Meenal Viz

meenalsworld

I've read the full 46 page report from the National Audit Office on PPE procurement and it's a doozy.This government has awarded over 1300 PPE contracts without any competition, for

David M. Perry

Lollardfish

Historian here: We will not be baffled. Cruel kleptocrats and societies whose elites don't care so long as they get theirs too are pretty normal over the long run of

Casey Michel 🇰🇿

cjcmichel

THE U.S. JUST BANNED ANONYMOUS SHELL COMPANIEShttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/us/politics/senate-override-trump-defense-bill.html Pardon the all-caps, but the Senate's veto override today means that the U.S. A) just eliminated the pr

Van Jackson ✊🏾

WonkVJ

Kamala Harris has a track record of foreign policy views worth understanding. With the caveat that personnel is policy, what we already know tell us a lot. Fits well w/

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

The strange gift of the Trump years is that we got an advance copy of our autopsy as a democratic republic. Trump stress-tested every institution -- from Congress to the

Edoardo Saravalle

esaravalle

Global financial infrastructures like SWIFT have been allies of US foreign policy. But what if they stop cooperating when the US goes after kleptocracy and tax evasion? I consider this

Andrew Prokop

awprokop

There's some surprisingly good stuff in Congress's end-of-year bills that hasn't gotten much attention because it doesn't really fit anyone's narrativehttps://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/1345100027266551809 One is the b

Arapaho415

arapaho415

Recap thread: h/t @unclenate Dec 3, 2020:1/ "The U.S. president-elect and his top advisors have made the fight against dirty money one of their early priorities.""Biden, who as vice president

Casey Michel 🇰🇿

cjcmichel

NEW: We compiled a new database of donations from post-Soviet oligarchs tied to election interference operations. Our findings: They donated between $372 million to $435 million to more than 200

i can click❤️🌸☁️🐛🌎

l_CAN_CLlCK

Reminder: Lee Smith is a Hudson Institute ghoul & former fellow at FDD, one of the many neoconservative think-tanks & lobbying groups which were formed after 9/11: https://twitter.com/tabletmag/status/1357350705841934342 Smith share

Gregg Carlstrom

glcarlstrom

Since "pivoting east" is still popping up in Lebanese media, quick thread. It's true that China doesn't impose political conditionality. They don't care if you're a democracy, a dictatorship or

Dirk Schwenk (Esq) 🎵

DirkSchwenk

Dirk puts on the Rose Colored Glasses and takes a hard look at presidential pardons. Did Trump just checkmate himself in 5D chess? Let's look. So we have just learned

Yuval Weber

yuvalweber

.@Aspeniaonline column on "the possible contours of a 'cold' working relationship" between Biden and Putin is up and I argue that for two reasons that there's a chance things *won't*

Josh Rudolph

JoshRudes

The Biden White House will seek to counter kleptocracy. Congress is outlawing anonymous shell companies.Now @USTreasury should plan to root out dirty money and take on oligarchs.Our new report proposes

Luc Dockendorf

LucDockendorf

Don’t know any voters still on the fence but anyone should read David’s letter. President Trump was a godsend for dictators around the world. In 4 years, he did

Heather e^‑1/x^2

HeatherMoAndCo

The simultaneous downplaying of the seriousness & the normalization by #cdnmedia, of an assassination attempt on ’s PM, sidesteps the #NatSec threat of domestic terrorism, RW extremism, white nationalism &

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