Tony Blair faces calls for greater transparency over Middle East role
Tony Blair is facing calls for greater transparency in his role as Middle East peace envoy after it emerged that he visited Muammar Gaddafi in 2009 while JP Morgan, the investment bank that employs Blair as a £2m-a-year adviser, sought to negotiate a multibillion-pound loan from Libya. Blair also championed two large business deals in the West Bank and Gaza involving telecoms and gas extraction wh
Corruption in India: 'All your life you pay for things that should be free'
Vishal is an ordinary man with an ordinary story of corruption in India. He lives in east Delhi, part of the traffic-choked sprawl of India's capital. He owns a fried chicken takeaway similar to thousands of others that have sprung up in recent years to serve the new tastes of the burgeoning middle class. And he faces an ordinary Indian daily routine of petty corruption. The number of people Visha
この国と原発：第１部・翻弄される自治体（その１） 立地自治体へ代償 - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
原発と関連施設の立地自治体には、さまざまな「原発マネー」が流れ込む。毎日新聞のまとめでは、過去の累計総額は電源３法交付金と固定資産税を中心に、判明分だけで２兆５０００億円に達する。原発推進の「国策」を支えてきた交付金制度などの仕組みや歴史を紹介する。 ◇計画段階から支払い 自治体が原発から得る財源の大半は、電源３法交付金と発電施設の固定資産税だ。運転開始前は交付金が大半を占め、資産価値が生じる運転開始後は固定資産税が柱となる。 交付金のほとんどを占めるのは「電源立地地域対策交付金」だ。一部は着工のめどが立たない計画段階でも支払われる。電力会社が現地の気象や地質などを予備的に調べる「立地可能性調査」が始まった翌年度から、立地都道府県と市町村に年間１億４０００万円を上限に交付される。 福島県南相馬市は今月、この受け取りの辞退を決めた。東北電力が同市と浪江町に計画中の浪江・小高原発に伴う交付金。
Karzai’s Kin Use Ties to Gain Power in Afghanistan (Published 2010)
WASHINGTON � Until recently, Taj Ayubi’s specialty was retail. Mr. Ayubi, an Afghan immigrant, ran a furniture store in Leesburg, Va., and before that, a thrift shop in Washington. But today, Mr. Ayubi’s specialty is foreign policy. He is the senior foreign affairs adviser to the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. Among Mr. Ayubi’s qualifications for his post in Kabul are ties to President Karzai’s e
Collapse of Kabul Bank Points to Fatal Corruption of Karzai Government
I write in anger. Not blind rage, mind you. A cool, searing, steady anger. I think it is a righteous anger. It is not consequential, but it is my reality. I am angry about the 1,172 US troops dead in the Afghanistan War, and all the other brave NATO and Afghan soldiers who gave their lives for a new Afghanistan. Because they haven’t gotten a new Afghanistan. They have paid the ultimate sacrifice f
Afghan officials resist clean-up of Kabul Bank as scandal engulfs elite
Officials in Afghanistan are resisting US pressure for a wide-ranging clean-up of Kabul Bank, which is mired in allegations of corruption that have engulfed some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country. The stand-off came as the bank's third-biggest shareholder, Mahmoud Karzai – the elder brother of President Hamid Karzai – called for a US bailout of the stricken bank. The centra
Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Tied to C.I.A. (Published 2010)
KABUL, Afghanistan � The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials. Mohammed Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for the National Security Council, appears to have been on the payroll for many years, according to officials in Kabul a
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Regulators Ignored Warnings About Afghan Bank (Published 2010)
What can we do about corruption in Afghanistan?
Fighting Corruption in Afghanistan
U.S. Debates Karzai’s Place in Fighting Corruption (Published 2010)
Kabul Bank taken over by Afghanistan central bank
Inside Corrupt-istan, a Loss of Faith in Leaders (Published 2010)
Afghan government tries to freeze shareholders' assets after run on bank
The Afghan banking crisis
Graft-Fighting Prosecutor Fired in Afghanistan (Published 2010)
CIA pays officials around Karzai
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