February 21, 2016 07:49 am PST
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Plummeting oil prices and 13 years of official looting leave Iraq on the brink
For 13 years, Iraq's post-Saddam elites have run amok, looting the country's riches while creating a pervasive culture of corruption that spreads all the way down -- only the continuous injection of new money from the country's oil-fields kept the whole thing from collapsing. (more…)
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