Sentences with phrase «own kleptocracy»

The Kim family's multi-generational kleptocracy has little to show for itself save for a handful of unreliable rockets and a rudimentary nuclear capability.

In his meeting with his international counterparts, Mnuchin said, «we discussed how to achieve our shared objectives of restoring Venezuelan democracy, combating the kleptocracy of the Maduro regime, and responding to the humanitarian crisis caused by Maduro's economic policy.»

The inquiry is being run by the Justice Department's Kleptocracy Initiative, which has seized properties in the United States owned by relatives of politicians from Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, South Korea and Taiwan.

you can also fill the airwaves of all these surrounding nations with disruptive ideas / propaganda like freedom of the press, individual liberty, economic opportunity, etc. — dangerous ideas to the surrounding kleptocracies / oligarchies.

And so Russia is a sophisticated, postmodern kind of kleptocracy run by someone who — wishes America ill and is determined that Russia will prevail everywhere.

Putin reportedly entered Spain illegally, bypassing Spanish passport control by entering through Gibraltar, according to the book «Putin's Kleptocracy» by Karen Dawisha.

The 1MDB case has become a signature campaign in the global effort by prosecutors to crack down on kleptocracy and the relative ease with which the superwealthy move their money beyond the oversight of government authorities.

Today's show: «The New Kleptocracy».

So the aim was not only to provide basic infrastructure needs freely or at subsidized prices, but to prevent private owners from erecting tollbooths on roads and charging monopoly prices for power, phone systems (as in Telmex in Mexico or similar phone monopolies in the post-Soviet kleptocracies).

These articles include, Financial Bailout: America's Own Kleptocracy — the Largest Transformation of America's Financial System since the Great Depression; The Paulson / Bernanke Bailout: Will the Cure Be Worst than the Disease?

Last Friday, Sept., he was joined by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke singing in unison an advertising jingle for America's new kleptocracy...

Banks and all forms of businesses are ostensible to check the SDN list to safeguard they do not yield financial services to people, organizations, and governments which the U.S. has designated as «blocked» due to impasse in terrorism, chief proliferation, kleptocracy, tellurian rights violations, and other crimes.

Icelanders for their part feel that the EU has treated them as a financial colony while backing a neoliberal kleptocracy preying on an increasingly indebted population.

Wall Street is in control, but its policies are so shortsighted that they are eroding the underlying economy — which is passing from democracy to oligarchy, and indeed it seems to a bipartisan financial kleptocracy.

(Inspect here the histories of European fascism and socialism, as well as third world kleptocracies).

Putin's Russia is an authoritarian kleptocracy with a post-modern difference, for the veteran KGB man is far more clever and deft than the reptilian characters who preceded him (think Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko).

The International Olympic Committee, which is trying to effacer its own image as a cynical kleptocracy, is airing a silent television commercial in Africa, Asia and Europe to remind people what the Games are supposed to be about: athletes performing at the highest level.

An orderly transition, instead of a violent revolt or catastrophic collapse, also reduced the likelihood of thugs setting up their own kleptocracy.

If the norm that «corruption is bad» can be institutionalised in Romania, officials will be less likely to take bribes and the state will be less likely to fall into Russian - style kleptocracy.

If Britain can renege, why shouldn't Hungary quit and give its Putin - wannabe president more latitude to remake the country as a kleptocracy?

On the other, there is authoritarian kleptocracy, as represented by Moscow.

Yeltsin also turned Russia inwards to manage the economic and social cataclysm of «shock therapy», which facilitated the emergence of an oligarch - led kleptocracy.

We tend to call them kleptocracies as the entire economy is bent in their interests.

In this connection, we congratulate the US government on launching a Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, which was spearheaded by the US Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering.

But there is a need for a party more radical than Labour, a party that says no to war and no to wasting billions on new nuclear weapons or nuclear reactors, that dares to talk of the greed of the rich, of boardroom kleptocracy and the duty of top earners to shoulder a fairer share.

Because New York's policy kleptocracy — including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the union - front Working Families Party — are pressing the governor hard to double - cross the electorate.

Neighborhood watch: an honest man fights the power in Russia's post-Soviet kleptocracy in Yuri Bykov's emphatic tale

Interweaving two strange futures, from a ramshackle community of US army veterans, to the teeming masses of a mega city, The Peripheral tells the story of a brave new world of drones, outsourcing and kleptocracy, and of a crime that can only be solved across time.»

In Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?

Under Trump's new kleptocracy, we need, more than ever, to be pragmatic and determined to push back at a government hell - bent on taking away from the socially marginalized and vulnerable their few state - subsidized safety nets and educational opportunities.

However I'm not so sure the prediction of getting a major position in a UN global kleptocracy is going to work out for Kevin.

There is now a team in DOJ dedicated entirely to «kleptocracy», which focuses on the US assets of corrupt foreign government officials.

I haven't joined the Anarchists Who Nick; I think the kleptocracy we already have is quite powerful enough, thank you; and though I'm old enough to remember Abbie Hoffman and «Please Steal This Book,» the fact that he sold more than a quarter of a million copies of the damn thing kind of took the edge off that razor for me a long time ago.

Home to a well - olied kleptocracy, Andrei Arshavin and, apparently, incredibly wealthy people who don't know what to do with their money.

The latest attraction in London is the Kleptocracy Tour, organized by anti-corruption groups.