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The story, akin to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's ambitious 1962 masterpiece One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, steadily indicts the corruption of state power – a power ever-willing to kill and to align itself with an even more corrupt power, the Orthodox Church.
Now, it is up to the courts to discern the truth about corruption among Turkey’s so-called “public servants.”
To be sure, this does not mean that there were no coup attempts by members of the military in the past or cases of corruption by politicians and bureaucrats.
Beyond showing that the US and others are taking seriously the governance failures that frustrate citizens everywhere, the fines create an opportunity to stamp out corruption.
Rather than treat the fines as national revenue – as in the US, where they are deposited directly into the national treasury – governments should apply them to addressing the root causes of corruption worldwide.
Meanwhile, social movements in the Middle East, India, Russia, Malawi, the US, and elsewhere have challenged corruption, demanding increased accountability and transparency from governments and business leaders.
To increase the FCPA’s impact, the fines collected should be dedicated to the global fight against corruption.
After all, corruption exists everywhere, so legal empowerment is always needed.
Significant funds have been collected in the name of fighting corruption worldwide.
There was hope of inclusion of marginalized groups, such as a Shia minister for the first time in the Kingdom’s history, and action against corruption, represented by the removal of long-serving ministers.
Such laws make investigations into official corruption far more difficult for independent journalists, who have often been taken to court by senior managers and state officials simply for reporting on their luxurious lifestyles.
Now, digging into corruption by local police is equivalent to inciting hatred against that “social group,” and “expert” linguists have also found journalists to be “inciting hatred” against employees of regional administrations, judges, and other authorities.
Each of these outlets was distinguished by its coverage of sensitive stories – from conflict in Ukraine to high-level corruption.
Finally, the corruption that was endemic in Qaddafi’s regime endures, with ministry officials accepting bribes, for example, in exchange for contracts.
Moreover, government investment and allocation of resources has long been tainted by corruption, and Modi's government has yet to show that it can implement the budget's promises in a transparent and sustainable manner.
Meanwhile, Egypt's sagging economy, high unemployment rate, and rampant corruption have driven many Egyptian youngsters to despair.
Whatever happens, the need to tackle corruption is undeniable.
While the media have tended to focus on big-ticket corruption, such as that revealed by ongoing scandals concerning on the allocation of spectrum to telecom companies or the organization of the Commonwealth Games, petty corruption has often affected people more directly.
The mass outpouring of support for the quirky Hazare reflected the genuine frustration that most Indians feel over the corruption that assails their daily lives, rather than a clear understanding of Hazare’s proposals to combat it.
Indeed, corruption in India is far broader and deeper than the headlines suggest.
Corruption isn’t only high-level governmental malfeasance; overcoming it requires nothing short of a change in Indians’ mindset.
Corruption will not end until Indians stop giving bribes as well as stop taking them.
The level of political corruption in America is staggering.
Exchange-rate flexibility is not particularly useful when a country has no export capacity, and establishing import or foreign-exchange controls would only generate corruption and rent-seeking.
What appears to have driven so many people into the streets is a common sense of economic frustration, disgust with official corruption, and humiliation at being oppressed.
These state controlled benefits have little to do with the justice supposedly wanted by their socialist promoters, but everything to do with rent-seeking and corruption.
Indeed, corruption, including “protection” of traffickers, is distributed along the lines of party control in various regions.
It was not only the endemic corruption of the official Palestinian leadership that turned so many Palestinians from it.
Nowadays, both advanced economies (like the United States, where unlimited financing of elected officials by financially powerful business interests is simply legalized corruption) and emerging markets (where oligarchs often dominate the economy and the political system) seem to be run for the few.
The symptoms of the disease of selective modernization are clearly discernible in both countries in the form of ubiquitous corruption.
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