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Cyprus Confidential: ICIJ-led investigation reveals how Mediterranean island ignores Russian atrocities and western sanctions to cash in on Putin’s oligarchs
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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists-led investigation reveals how the EU-member state powered the Kremlin’s financial machine
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A covert level of influence peddling lurks just beneath the surface of public discourse in academia, which is subject to what have been called “greenmail” endowments designed to legitimize one side of a debate or the other. It has badly infected my field of study and my role in exposing it may help to explain why my teaching career has been spent mostly outside Canada.
The shifting sands of the ongoing communication revolution are still settling, but it is abundantly clear so far that digital communication gives government an advantage over journalists. Canadians are right to be increasingly skeptical of its media messages and should under no circumstances simply trust what the government tells them.
Following the publication of a report in this newspaper exposing how a number of Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, particularly Dubai