Tag: organised crime

Israel murders over 100 Palestinians in a designated safe zone. Christmas Day, 2023

Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame: Revelation 16:15. More than 100 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes late on Sunday in the centre of the besieged Palestinian territory, including at least 70 in bombings that hit a residential block in the Maghazi refugee camp near… Read More Israel murders over 100 Palestinians in a designated safe zone. Christmas Day, 2023

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By Trying to Humiliate Gaza to Its Core, Israel Is the One Being Humiliated

Gideon Levy As if all this were not enough – the thousands of dead children, the death toll nearing 20,000, the hundreds of thousands uprooted from their homes, the tens of thousands of wounded and the starvation, disease and destruction in Gaza – on top of this, they must also be humiliated. Humiliated to the… Read More By Trying to Humiliate Gaza to Its Core, Israel Is the One Being Humiliated

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‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon

With short amulet-covered spears made of blackened chonta palm, GIS mapping phones, walkie-talkies and wearing black and green uniforms, the A’i Cofán seem to merge into the jungle as they march silently down a path through their land. Calling themselves the Indigenous guard, the 27-strong group patrols a territory of 243 sq miles (630 sq… Read More ‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon

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Auditor General reports central government’s ‘cash diversion’ to unknown repositories

A 27-page chapter titled ‘Quality of Accounts and Financial Reporting Practices’ in the CAG’s report number 21 of 2023 shines a light on accounting shenanigans that will leave any private conglomerate and its auditors aghast at the sheer audacity of the sharp practices in central govt accounts R. Suryamurthy, Pinak Ghosh There is something rotten… Read More Auditor General reports central government’s ‘cash diversion’ to unknown repositories

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Modi-Adani Nexus: बीजेपी की नोटबंदी

NB: The link between India’s political and economic life is explained well in this reporter’s report on th latest revelations of the OCCRP. Behind the mask of Hindutva, sections of the Indian corporate business houieses have taken over the regulatory institutions of the Indian state. The BJP/RSS have become their willing collaborators, hence they have… Read More Modi-Adani Nexus: बीजेपी की नोटबंदी

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‘Collective’ is an exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back

First posted November 21, 2020 By Gary Kramer Alexander Nanau’s extraordinary documentary “Collective” unfolds in the aftermath of a 2015 tragedy in the Bucharest nightclub Colectiv that gives this film its title. While 27 people died in the fire, more than 100 were injured and sent to area hospitals. However, an additional 37 of the 100-plus victims died as a… Read More ‘Collective’ is an exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back

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Adani family secretly invested in own shares, documents suggest / Adani’s reject allegations

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Simon Goodley in London A billionaire Indian family with close ties to the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, secretly invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the Indian stock market, buying its own shares, newly disclosed documents suggest. According to offshore financial records seen by the Guardian, associates of the Adani family may have… Read More Adani family secretly invested in own shares, documents suggest / Adani’s reject allegations

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Mafiacraft, or how to do things with silence. Toward an ethnography of crime

Mafiacraft An Ethnography of Deadly Silence Deborah Puccio-Den’s Mafiacraft is a kind of ethnography that is much needed in our part of the world. Here’s the abstract of an earlier article. It has recently been expanded into a book-length study: How to construct an ethnography about such a phenomenon as “the mafia,” shrouded in silence? What methods… Read More Mafiacraft, or how to do things with silence. Toward an ethnography of crime

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