USA: Our Veepstakes Speculation

Here in the US the ongoing presidential race is an endless source of speculation and debate, with VP selection now feeding the media churn. The process has been brilliantly skewered by the Daily Show: “That’s not a question, that’s a just bag of words!” While we like to claim the high road, we just can’t…

Facebook and Authority Collide in Egypt

Global Integrity contributor Sherif Mansour (currently working with Freedom House), writes on the challenge that activism via Facebook, a social networking website, presents to a country where the government is uneasy with full popular democracy, and has a history of online censorship. Egypt’s Facebook showdownThe online gathering place for young people poses a challenge to…

Nuts and Bolts of a Scandal in Kenya

Global Integrity’s Kepher Otieno has been busy muckracking in Kenya. Here he details a distressed company’s creative bookkeeping that should be all too familiar to readers familiar with Enron, Worldcom and the like. Corruption & fraud: it’s not just a Western-nation problem.Livelihood threatened at troubled Sony By Kepher Otieno The Sony Sugar Outgrowers Company (Soc)…