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Somalia and the Houdinis of Corruption
November 8, 2018 6 min. read

In the moral version of human history – expressed in the Quran, Bible, and Torah – corruption is considered the worst reckless impulse that caused men to fall from grace. It was the betrayal of trust and loyalty for purely selfish gains. From that perspective, the root cause of corruption is individual moral shutdown, derailment […]

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Somalia, No Political Legitimacy without Genuine Reconciliation
August 13, 2015 8 min. read

Out of context, all concepts and issues find themselves under the mercy of the dimwitted and exploiters.

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What “Extending a Hand to the Poor” Too Often Really Means
August 7, 2013 5 min. read

  The Irish playwright Brendan Behan once opined that, “I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse.” Behan was hardly an unbiased commentator, having misspent his youth in activities that assured a mutual antipathy between the literary giant and the law enforcement community, but the findings of Transparency […]

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