Posts Tagged ‘Corruption’

McMafia: Seriously Organized Crime (Book Review)

“If you have a lot of what people want and can’t get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough”. – Lucky Luciano
It’s a simple enough concept, and one that helped make the father of modern organised crime in the United States cited above ‘one of the most influential builders and titans [Read more...]

Bulgarians Choose A New Path

The unsurprising landslide victory of the opposition GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) party in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections on Sunday (July 5) could prove to be the sea-change which many ordinary Bulgarians have been desperately waiting for. In the aftermath of the elections, I believe that the overwhelming support for the three-year old centre-right [Read more...]

Can Iraq Realise Its Potential?

At the end of April, Risk Watchdog went to the ‘Invest Iraq’ conference in London. It was attended by several hundred representatives from a broad range of companies, and a large chunk of the Iraqi government, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (who gave the keynote speech), was there. The delegates were very ‘on message’ and [Read more...]


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