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Pasok, Greece's traditional party of the left, is mired in
scandal
and seems to have reached the end of the line, receiving just 4.6% of the vote.
Much speculation has centered on the recent damage to London’s reputation stemming from the
scandal
surrounding banks’ manipulation of the Libor interest rate.
But domestic politics has made a bad situation much worse; indeed, the biggest obstacle to economic recovery this year came in the form of a massive corruption
scandal
at the state-owned oil giant Petrobras.
Although the
scandal
broke last year, allegations and evidence have more recently been mounting against senior officials of the traditional political parties, as well as prominent businessmen.
And, like Italy’s mani pulite (“clean hands”) investigations in the 1990s, the Petrobras
scandal
has thrown Brazilian politics into disarray.
Perhaps the most prominent such
scandal
concerns the string of revelations tying Trump’s administration to Russia, including the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn over “misleading” the vice president about the nature of his pre-inauguration conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the US.
Here blasphemy resonates only as
scandal.
The court ruled that Parliament had failed to hold the president accountable in a
scandal
concerning diverted state funds.
No direct link exists between that result and the dramatic Dominique Strauss-Kahn
scandal
in New York, but in the immediate aftermath of DSK’s arrest, Italian women and young voters decisively mobilized to defeat Berlusconi’s party (led in Milan, ironically, by a woman).
There’s nothing like a good
scandal
or two to discourage already unenthusiastic followers.
Blatter, the president of FIFA, the Cup’s organizing body, wants the afterglow of an exciting month of play to blot out the corruption and backroom deals – and, most recently, a ticket
scandal
– that have roiled his tenure.
The biggest
scandal
is that reform of the collapsing public health care system is unlikely.
The recent scandal, however, has opened the public’s eyes to the threat that inaction poses to democracy itself.
Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer – famous for exposing a forced abortion
scandal
in Shandong – was given a four-year jail term on the dubious charge of “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
On the other hand, in Brazil, despite an ongoing corruption
scandal
that has toppled one president and could topple another, investors recognize that the country’s institutions are working – albeit in their own cumbersome way – and they have priced risks accordingly.
This is not true only in the US and the United Kingdom, which happen to be entangled in the Snowden
scandal.
The current scandal’s impact on Obama’s image increasingly resembles the impact of the Watergate
scandal
on President Richard Nixon’s standing in the 1970’s – only now the events are playing themselves out on a global stage.
But the
scandal
has begotten many losers.
Similarly, the
scandal
will likely inspire China to strengthen its Great Firewall further.
One can only hope that his actions, and the resulting scandal, will compel Western leaders to reassess their approach to national security – and not simply lead them to try to conceal it better.
Even Germany's rock solid Christian Democrats are poised over an abyss of
scandal.
For example, as consumers of media, we have power: the next time you are peddled a sex scandal, refuse to buy it.
This was her approach with the Monica Lewinsky
scandal
– which is predictably rearing its head again, as Lewinsky has come forward (we can’t know the machinations that may have been behind that timing) to muse on old events.
Yet the
scandal
plaguing UK soccer is hardly unique.
And then there is the Penn State scandal, in which the university’s trustees turned a blind eye to a long-running cover-up of the serial pedophilia of Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach who gained access to his victims through his own charity for troubled youth.
As we have seen with the FIFA corruption scandal, sponsors and investors can use their influence to bring about change.
Hiding from a
scandal
may help you in the short term, but it is harder than ever to keep a secret nowadays – and those who cover it up enable crimes and ethical violations are complicit in them.
Yet many media organizations, including two leading newspapers, Asahi and Mainichi, continued to report on the supposed
scandal
– leaving out the testimony of Hatta and Kato, while providing an extensive account of Maekawa’s accusations.
Emerging more united from this tragedy, the country welcomed the world to the long-anticipated Olympics, which were remarkably successful, but were soon superseded by the tainted-dairy-product
scandal
in which many babies became ill, and some died.
I am counting on people around the world to back us in ending this silent
scandal.
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