Pratap Chatterjee, Tomdispatch.com. November 18, 2009. An eye-opening inside look at how the system of nepotism and corruption in Afghanistan actually works.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. November 13, 2009. One reason Afghan villagers prefer dealing with the Taliban than govt. security forces is that the latter have a habit of seizing their sons at checkpoints and sodomizing them.
David Corn, MotherJones.com. October 6, 2009. The White House Press Corps jumped on Robert Gibbs when they saw the glaring contradiction of demanding a corruption free government and not withdrawing from Afghanistan.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 28, 2009. With no good way out of Afghanistan and no good way to stay in, Obama's team of rivals sends mixed signals on the U.S.'s next move.
Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. July 24, 2009. More than 40 people, including politicians, officials and several rabbis have been arrested in a major FBI operation.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. July 20, 2009. The Obama administration is shortchanging the auditors responsible for ensuring that taxpayer dollars don't go into the pockets of swindlers.
Rory O'Connor, RoryOConnor.org. July 14, 2009. In the fight for media survival, none of us is immune from temptation, and few revenue sources are beyond consideration, if not actual adoption.
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, AlterNet. July 12, 2009. Insiders in Washington are going to keep dealing themselves winning hands until we decide that it isn't allowed.
Christopher Hayes, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. July 6, 2009. Shouldn't there be repercussions for 'those powerful few' who allowed access to them to be sold?
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. May 29, 2009. Allegations of kickbacks rock key government department as 1,000 officials face arrest and the Trade Minister is forced to resign.
Saad Abbas, Azzaman. May 15, 2009. Corruption is more dangerous to the future of Iraq than the terrorism that has been tearing the country and its people apart.
Harry Hanbury, American News Project. March 24, 2009. It's pretty awkward for members of Congress and their staff to have a video crew show up your fundraiser.
Marcus Stern, ProPublica. March 3, 2009. The former No. 3 official at the CIA was sentenced to three years in federal prison last week for defrauding the government.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 3, 2009. For reasons that have never been clear to me, state lawmakers in Illinois haven't been in too big a rush to impeach Blago. That's about to change.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2008. There's a very good reason the president-elect seemed completely unconcerned about any connection to the Blagojevich controversy ...
