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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political corruption
Uncovering more than 200 events, organisations, people, symbols,
pop-cultural references, and other examples underlying suspicions
of the looming New World Order, this book uncovers the truth behind
the disconcerting reasons for the rapidly expanding militarisation
of the police; the increase in doctors prescribing mood-changing
drugs to children; the manipulative actions of the Illuminati and
the surveillance of social media and calls, to name just a few.
Tracing the power and destructive effects of the global elite, The
New World Order Book exposes their unpleasant reach into today's
world.
'It will terrify you but it's a story you must know.' - Mandy
Wiener It was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the
post-apartheid era, and its consequences were devastating. At least
a thousand people died between 2011 and 2019 as a result of one
senior police officer's criminal decision to sell a huge cache of
guns. Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo, former head of the Gauteng
firearm license division, and his network of cronies sold guns
decommissioned by the SAPS to South Africa's gang lords. The sale
of these weapons led to a killing spree of unprecedented
proportions. Based on interviews with police and the criminal
underworld, this book tells the story of this callous crime for the
first time. Shaw explores how the illegally sold guns got into the
hands of South Africa's crime bosses. The book describes the
bloodbath that ensued and uncovers accounts of rampant corruption
within the police and in the gun-licensing system, probing the
government failure that has been instrumental in arming the
country's gangsters.
'This elegantly written, erudite book is essential reading for all
of us, whatever our identifications' - Lynne Segal Antisemitism is
one of the most controversial topics of our time. The public,
academics, journalists, activists and Jewish people themselves are
divided over its meaning. Antony Lerman shows that this is a result
of a 30-year process of redefinition of the phenomenon, casting
Israel, problematically defined as the 'persecuted collective Jew',
as one of its main targets. This political project has taken the
notion of the 'new antisemitism' and codified it in the flawed
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's 'working definition'
of antisemitism. This text is the glue holding together an
international network comprising the Israeli government, pro-Israel
advocacy groups, Zionist organisations, Jewish communal defence
bodies and sympathetic governments fighting a war against those who
would criticise Israel. The consequences of this redefinition have
been alarming, supressing free speech on Palestine/Israel,
legitimising Islamophobic right-wing forces, and politicising
principled opposition to antisemitism.
__________ 'Many of the world's great leaders request to come to
Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. They like it. I like it. We're
comfortable.' - Donald Trump A bit too comfortable, perhaps.
__________ Since losing the 2020 Presidential Election, Donald
Trump returned home to Mar-a-Lago. His schedule is restricted to
playing multiple rounds of golf and watching his impeachment trial
on TV. Donald Trump's opulent Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago has
thrummed with scandal since the earliest days of his presidency.
Long known for its famous and wealthy clientele, the resort's guest
list soon started filling with political operatives and
power-seekers. Meanwhile, as Trump re-branded Mar-a-Lago "the
Winter White House" and began spending weekends there, state
business spilled out into full view of the club's members, and vast
sums of taxpayer money and political donations began flowing into
its coffers, and into the pockets of the president. The Grifters'
Club is a breakthrough account of the corruption, intrigue, and
absurdity that has been on display in the place where the president
is at his most relaxed. In these pages, a team of prizewinning
Miami Herald journalists reveal the activities and motivations of
the strange array of charlatans and tycoons who populate its halls.
Some peddle influence, some look to steal government secrets, and
some just want to soak up the feeling of unfettered access to the
world's most powerful leaders. Filled with the drama of an expose,
The Grifters' Club takes you behind the velvet ropes of this
exclusive club and into its bizarre world of extravagance and
scandal. _____ An astonishing look inside the gilded gates of
Mar-a-Lago, the palatial resort where President Trump conducts
government business with little regard for ethics, security, or
even the law. This ground-breaking and shocking expose reads like a
thriller. Perfect for fans of Fire and Fury, Team of Vipers and
Fear.
Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme
poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate
change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal
causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in the
contemporary world cannot be undervalued. In this Very Short
Introduction Leslie Holmes considers why the international
community has only highlighted corruption as a problem in the past
two decades, despite its presence throughout the millennia. Holmes
explores the phenomenon from several different perspectives, from
the cultural differences affecting how corruption is defined, its
impact, and its various causes to the possible remedies. Providing
evidence of corruption and considering ways to address it around
the world, this is an important introduction to a significant and
serious global issue. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
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Nigeria's democratisation efforts since attaining political
independence from Britain have been tumultuous and have spanned
over three successive republics. A persistent bug decimating
Nigeria's democracy and repeatedly leading to military coups has
been brazen electoral violence perpetrated by the nation's
political elite. Nigeria's 2019 Democratic Experience analyses and
explains what went wrong in Nigeria's experiment with democracy.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and the world's seventh most
populous nation, also contributes 70% of West Africa's population.
She is sub-Saharan Africa's largest oil producer and has remained
Africa's largest economy by GDP since 2014. The country has
hundreds of diverse ethnic nationalities and languages grouped into
36 states (or federating units) and an independent federal capital
territory. Though recognized as Africa's largest democracy, her
democratisation process since the 1960s has remained tumultuous
with massive electoral violence and political intolerance. This
repeatedly compelled the military to intervene in the nation's
political history in the years 1966, 1983 and 1985. It is these
developments that provided the motivation for this volume to
capture for posterity the conduct of the 2019 General Elections in
Nigeria.
How has corruption shaped - and undermined - the history of public
life in modern Britain? This collection begins the task of piecing
together this history over the past two and a half centuries, from
the first assaults on Old Corruption and aristocratic privilege
during the late eighteenth century through to the corruption
scandals that blighted the worlds of Westminster and municipal
government during the twentieth century. It offers the first
account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations
of anticorruption reforms and the shifting meanings of
'corruption'. It does so across a range of different sites -
electoral, political and administrative, domestic and colonial -
presenting new research on neglected areas of reform, while
revisiting well known scandals and corrupt practices. -- .
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