Strengthening the resilience of rights-respecting democracies is one of the defining challenges of our era. Corruption eats away at the foundations of democratic societies. It makes government less effective, wastes public resources, and exacerbates inequalities in access to services, making it harder for families to provide for their loved ones. Corruption attacks the foundations of democratic institutions, drives and intensifies extremism, and makes it easier for authoritarian regimes to corrode democratic governance.
Corruption is a risk to our national security, and we must recognize it as such.
Today, I am issuing a National Security Study Memorandum on the Fight Against Corruption to establish combatting corruption as a core U.S. national security interest. With this Memorandum, I am directing departments and agencies to make recommendations that will significantly bolster the ability of the U.S. government to combat corruption.
Senior administration officials said the National Security Study Memorandum (NSSM) builds on efforts already underway at departments like Treasury and Justice to crack down on shell companies and kleptocracy.
“The essence of the memorandum … is that the U.S. government is placing the anti-corruption fight at the center of its foreign policy,” a senior administration official told reporters.
The NSSM is the first such memo to be issued by the administration since Mr. Biden took office in January.
The memo serves as “formal and public direction from President Biden that he expects all relevant federal departments and agencies to up their anti-corruption game in very specific ways,” an official said.
STATEMENT: CAP’s Katrina Mulligan Praises Biden Administration for Making Global Anti-Corruption Efforts a Key Focus of National Security
Date: June 3, 2021
Contact: Sam Hananel
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Biden administration announced the release of its first National Security Study Memorandum, which calls for a whole-of-government effort to fight corruption. It instructs and offers guidance to relevant federal agencies to pursue a robust anti-corruption agenda aimed at rooting out the pernicious influence of corruption and kleptocracy in the international system and within the U.S. economy and U.S. institutions.
Recently, the Center for American Progress released a report that offered comprehensive guidelines for how the world’s leading democracies can address the growing problem of kleptocracy and illicit finance practices that pose a threat to the security of democratic societies. It called for greater regulation of the global financial system and pushing back agains
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Submitted by Dave Hodges on Sunday, February 7, 2021 - 15:11.
Food wars are coming. Food deprivation will be used, in the near future, to bring America to her knees and force compliance from a population that largely rejects the communist takeover of our government that has just taken place.
In the
1. Bill Gates has become the largest owner of American farmland.
2. Biden s new 45% capital gains tax, with no offsets, will make it impossible for the vast majority of family farms to survive.
3. The food supply chain is permanently broken.
4. The meat packing plants are still closed. They will likely open under Biden s control.