More: Transparency
China: The Democracy Question
China is not a democracy; at least not in the sense to which our western sensibility is acclimated. Starting in the 1980s (the period...
What Justice cannot see – spectacularization, publicity and coercion in times of Carwash
As it has been extensively discussed lately, Brazil has developed a fresh (and arguable) political conscience in the past years. People have been to...
Hells on Earth: A Hobbesian Ranking of Peace, Democracy, Health and Freedom around the World
There are numerous think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and philanthropic institutions diligently and impressively working all around the globe today to bring us knowledge and...
The Gambia: African Intelligence Run Amok and the Prospects for Reform
F or a very long time Intelligence Studies has been dominated by analysis of the Five Eyes community, which is comprised of the...
Demonetization and its impact on Indian Economy
On November 8, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a historic decision by announcing that the high-denomination notes (Rs 500 and Rs 1,000) then...
Deep State Rebelling Against Donald Trump’s Cleaning Up Of The Judiciary
O ne of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises was to clean up the judiciary, ie, one of the 3 main branch pools of...
Drain The Neo-Con/Neo-Liberal Deep State Micro-Swamp
Now that President Donald Trump is, in a lightening fast, almost blitzkrieg manner, using his first weeks to pass monumentally powerful Executive Orders, in...
The power of citizen participation
Several times, the concepts analyzed in theory and the ‘how should it be’ don’t really happen in reality, for social scientists like me it’s...
Follow The Money Of The Deep State
Like any other criminal enterprise, there is always a leader, or series of leaders. This is the essence of the RICO Laws, ie, the...
Brazil’s Locomotive Breath
The process of growth and modernization in Brazil has been always described as an example to be followed by other developing countries. Nevertheless, the...