The cases are still rare where organized crime and wholesale corruption get backed up by a repressive, autocratic government. As in Venezuela, North Korea, and Russia, deposed Syrian leader Bashar ...
Since the very beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, some of the Kremlin’s fiercest battles have been fought by a lawless private army, its ranks swelled by convicted felons. At its head is ...
The philosopher and historian Hannah Arendt noted that some of the Nazi party’s most effective leaders were not fanatics or sociopaths, but rather bureaucrats who ruthlessly engaged in murder and ...
A murdered journalist. Shady offshore deals. A tiny nation in the grip of large-scale criminal interests. These are the leading factors behind the selection of Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat as ...
Long-Serving Dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea Receives “Lifetime Non-Achievement Award” ...
His first real job was as the Prime Minister of Montenegro. He has either been the President or Prime Minister for most of the nearly three decades of his career and the life of his country. While he ...
A file discovered at General Intelligence Directorate headquarters details an operation to investigate SIRAJ, a Syrian ...
Medical Properties Trust, the hospital real estate company that rented to Steward, had sued Viceroy Research LLC for making ...
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