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World politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
14 hours ago

Forget petty bribes, state capture' is corruption so deep it is shaping the rules of democracy itself | Kenneth Mohammed

Global youth uprisings are challenging entrenched state capture, toppling governments and exposing elites who have transformed public institutions into mechanisms for private enrichment.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 days ago

The first honest American president

Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment. Every era of American government has had its scandal. Trump's innovation is to make scandal itself a governing philosophy. Although it is tempting to see the Trump regime's corruption its open profiteering, its use of the state as an instrument of vengeance and self-enrichment as a perversion of American democracy, the truth is more unsettling: it's a mirror.
US politics
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