Government Corruption

El15 de octubre de 2020, el arrestodel general SalvadorCienfuegos Zepeda en el aeropuerto de Los Ángeles, California,sacudió las estructuras del poder militar en México. El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos lo acusaba de usar surangopara ofrecer protección al Cártel de Sinaloa,así como de recibir sobornos millonarios y estar coludido con dicha organización criminal para el trasiego de drogas. La denominada “OperaciónPadrino” era la investigación internacional más sólida y contundente sobre un militar mexicano relacionado directamente con el narcotráfico.

WE Charity had changed the game. In its 25 years, the international development charity and youth empowerment movement impacted lives the world over. While most charities focus on making the world a better place for our children, WE Charity focused on making better children for our world. And then, unwittingly caught in the crosshairs of a partisan fight, WE Charity was forced to shutter its doors in Canada. In this book, former WE board member and lawyer Tawfiq Rangwala cuts through the fog and explains what really happened, why it happened, and who should be held to account.

Las conferencias matutinas de Andrés Manuel López Obrador se convirtieron en el imperio de los “los otros datos”. El mandatario prometió que las mañaneras serían una herramienta de transparencia, pero desde el día uno de su gobierno devinieron en instrumentos de propaganda y desinformación.

En México, extorsiona el viene-viene para #cuidar# el coche, extorsiona el líder sindical al amenazar con huelgas a mansalva, extorsiona el burócrata que exige una #ayuda# para destrabar un trámite, extorsiona el gerente de una trasnacional al pedir moches, extorsiona el político que solicita un porcentaje para soltar una concesión...

Este reportaje, a cargo de uno de los más capacitados periodistas de investigación de Venezuela, se lee como una novela gracias a su interés por el mundo íntimo y las vueltas del destino de sus dos protagonistas: en primer lugar, María Lourdes Afiuni, jueza convertida en prisionera por orden directa de Hugo Chávez Frías; en segundo lugar, Eligio Cedeño, el banquero a quien Afiuni liberó de un encierro similar al que luego –en represalia por su desobediencia al poder militar absoluto– le tocaría sufrir a ella.

El poder vacío no escatima ideas para exprimir (en el sentido barroco de "explicar") la naturaleza de la política, su crítica y la estructura social en nuestro país, lo que constituye el bagaje para analizar, por momentos acaso sin piedad, los lastres de un PRI muy venido a menos, como la violencia, la corrupción y la violación de los derechos humanos, así como las realidades que no previó ni como partido ni como gobierno: las elecciones de 2018, la enseña lopezobradorista y, finalmente, el inimaginado cambio que, cuando despertó, ya estaba ahí.

Behind the deeply contentious 2020 election stands a real story of a broken election process. Election fraud that alters election outcomes and dilutes legitimate votes occurs all too often, as is the bungling of election bureaucrats. Our election process is full of vulnerabilities that can be - and are - taken advantage of, raising questions about, and damaging public confidence in, the legitimacy of the outcome of elections.

La historia secreta del "Milicogate". El millonario desfalco a los gastos reservados del cobre, por el periodista que destapó el caso.

Gladys Berejiklian was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman elected to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with a steady hand. To many, she was 'The Woman Who Saved Australia' for the way in which she navigated the first wave of COVID, with a sterling reputation as a dedicated and reliable public servant. But for all of her premiership, and well before, Berejiklian was harbouring a secret. That secret would eventually bring down one of the country's most deeply respected leaders.

In a factual firsthand account of this turbulent period in our nation's history, Donald Trump's 2016 deputy campaign chairman takes us deep behind the scenes to examine the truth about how Trump won, why the Mueller investigation failed, and how the current state of presidential politics is tearing apart the very fabric of our democracy.

For only the fourth time in American history, the House of Representatives has conducted an impeachment inquiry into a sitting United States president. This landmark document details the findings of the House Intelligence Committee’s historic investigation of whether President Donald J. Trump committed impeachable offenses when he sought to have Ukraine announce investigations of former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The Impeachment Report is necessary listening for every American concerned about the fate of our democracy.

This book was a result of the author's anguish and refusal to tolerate injustice, corruption and oppression any further. It is his call to his countrymen to stand up and fight for principles and help in reforming society.

Donald Trump promised a return to national greatness, but each day of his presidency seems to bring a new crisis, a deepening sense of national unease. Why, and how, has he failed his supporters? And how has he, on occasion, bested his detractors? The Best People takes complete measure of the Trump administration, to grasp with clarity the president and his intentions, and how those intentions are being carried out - or subverted - by the people he has hired.

In Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s "Witch Hunt", New York Times best-selling author of Killing the Deep State Jerome R. Corsi, PhD meticulously details the psychological torment he was subjected to in what the media has simply called "The Mueller Investigation". In late 2018, in an FBI closed conference room with no windows, Dr. Corsi was confronted for hours upon hours at a time by detailed questioning about events that occurred in 2016.

Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce tells, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. Author Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalization fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of illegal trade and considers diverse ways of responding to this increasing challenge.

Este es un libro lleno de rabia y amor perro por el México maltrecho que debemos rescatar. Es una crónica del hartazgo, del enojo con la cleptocracia que se rota en el poder, con los privilegios inmerecidos de los cómodamente apoltronados en la punta de la pirámide. Un país atorado en la desesperanza, en el desamparo, sofocado por la corrupción, amenazado por la violencia, sin soluciones fáciles.

Egypt has long set the paradigm for Arab autocracy. It is the keeper of the peace with Israel and the cornerstone of the American-backed regional order. So when Egyptians rose up to demand democracy in 2011, their 30 months of freedom convulsed the whole region. Now a new strongman, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is building a dictatorship so severe some call it totalitarian. The economy sputters, an insurgency simmers, Christians suffer, and the Israeli military has been forced to intervene. But some in Washington - including President Trump - applaud Sisi as a crucial ally.

Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at modern Southeast Asia, written by one of the region's most experienced outside observers. This is a first-hand account of what it's like to sit at the table with deadly Thai Muslim insurgents, mediate between warring clans in the Southern Philippines and console the victims of political violence in Indonesia - all in an effort to negotiate peace and understand the reasons behind endemic violence.

In Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Brooklyn - neighborhoods notorious for drugs and violent crime - some of the worst criminals wore police uniforms and carried badges. Henry Winter was a good cop when he first entered the infamous 77th station house, which was already infamous as a home to the dregs of the NYPD. Before long he and fellow officer Anthony Magno found themselves deeply entrenched in the Alamo's culture of extortion, lies, corruption, and crime.

Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding.