Emily Jones
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Tag: Government
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Monitoring and Fighting Corruption in Nigeria: A Year of Impact with TransparencIT | World Justice Project
To address the gaps in Nigeria’s fight against corruption, Transparency Information Technology Initiative (TransparencIT) launched the Trial Monitoring of Corruption Cases project in 2016. The project’s objective is to foster courtroom openness and galvanize citizen participation in judicial processes to promote accountability and advance the rule of law. — Read on worldjusticeproject.org/news-year-impact-transparencit-nigeria-corruption Read.
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Congressional Republicans Block Aid to Haiti Amid Unrest – The New York Times
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NETANYAHU AND POLITICS
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Opposition to Netanyahu
Haaretz, 11/18/23. In marches the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, compared in size to those protesting Netanyahu’s judicial changes, thousands of Israelis demanded the return of Israeli hostages. While Western media largely ignores the opposition to Netanyahu’s right-wing government, protest in Israel has been active since the November 7th Hamas attack. Haaretz estimates that some ten thousand… Read.
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Netanyahu
Monday 13 November 2023 The US press covers very little of the criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu since the October 6 Hamas attack. But Gershom Gorenberg, an Israeli journalist and historian, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times (10/18/23) which reflects what many Israelis are thinking, i.e., that Netanyahu deserves a lot of the… Read.
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What’s Up With Mike Johnson’s Very Shady-Seeming Financial Disclosures? | Vanity Fair
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What’s Up With Mike Johnson’s Very Shady-Seeming Financial Disclosures? | Vanity Fair
The new House leader lists no bank accounts, including checking or savings, on financial disclosure forms going back to 2016. — Read on www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/mike-johnson-financial-disclosures Read.
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Menendez NEEDS TO BE IN JAIL
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Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America’s Racist Economics | Institute for New Economic Thinking
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean — Read on www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america Read.
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SUPREME COURT PODCAST. RECENT ARGUMENTS.
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amanpour interview with michael lewis about his new book
Christina Amanpour interviews author Michael Lewis May 6, 2021 about his new book “The Premonition.” In his book, Michael Lewis followed three characters involved in the public health system and tells their stories. The stories carry lessons for pandemic response in the past and the future. As Amanpour notes, Lewis had already written about the… Read.
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Why Free Market Capitalism Will Bury Us, Literally
Amid the absurdly trivial corporate media coverage of the Coronavirus crisis, are stories that slip by unnoticed. One of them is another investigation, another investigation by a congressional subcommittee about whether “the U.S. government is paying too much for ventilators made by a Dutch company that received millions in tax dollars to develop an affordable… Read.
Law, Power, and Justice 