Peter W. Klein
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A clip from GRC founder @peterwklein.bsky.social's Bribe Inc. documentary was featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where @trace-inc.bsky.social president @alexandrawrage.bsky.social presented an anti-corruption argument on @cnbc.com against bribing foreign governments.
TRACE President @alexandrawrage.bsky.social was featured on "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" in a segment on corporate corruption. John shared a clip from Bribe, Inc. where CNBC asked Alexandra to give the anti-corruption argument for the law banning bribing foreign governments. bit.ly/450qbhR
August 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A clip from GRC founder @peterwklein.bsky.social's Bribe Inc. documentary was featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where @trace-inc.bsky.social president @alexandrawrage.bsky.social presented an anti-corruption argument on @cnbc.com against bribing foreign governments.
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What happens when critical infrastructure is carved up and sold off to investors? A new investigation looks at how these firms are capturing our rail networks and prioritizing profits — often at the expense of safety @cnsmd.bsky.social cnsmaryland.org/2025/10/29/p...
PRIVATE TRACKS: How Wall Street is Reshaping the Railroad Industry
Investment firms are quietly taking greater control over America's railroad industry, accumulating large stock positions in railroad operators and buying up companies that lease and manage rail cars o...
cnsmaryland.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
What happens when critical infrastructure is carved up and sold off to investors? A new investigation looks at how these firms are capturing our rail networks and prioritizing profits — often at the expense of safety @cnsmd.bsky.social cnsmaryland.org/2025/10/29/p...
I grew up listening to my dad playing recordings of Hungary's greatest comedian, Géza Hofi. I got to thinking recently about Hofi's dangerous antics during the height of the Cold War, and wrote this piece about the risks to American comedy today.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Authoritarian regimes need their court jesters
There’s a long history of political satire in authoritarian regimes. In Communist Hungary, it came courtesy of Géza Hofi
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I grew up listening to my dad playing recordings of Hungary's greatest comedian, Géza Hofi. I got to thinking recently about Hofi's dangerous antics during the height of the Cold War, and wrote this piece about the risks to American comedy today.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Chris Cannon put it well cannonwriter.substack.com/p/america-ha...
August 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Chris Cannon put it well cannonwriter.substack.com/p/america-ha...
@globalreportingcentre.org continues reporting on how sports, politics and human rights are interconnected. Check out this bonus episode that just posted!
NEW: State of Play is back with bonus episodes! We look at Los Angeles where protests, immigration raids, and tensions with the Trump administration have the city on edge.
Is LA ready for the FIFA Men's World Cup next year? Find out:
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Is LA ready for the FIFA Men's World Cup next year? Find out:
globalreportingcentre.org/state-of-pla...
State of Play Podcast - Bonus Episode 1: Is Los Angeles Ready?
Amid ICE raids, protests and federal friction, is LA prepared for the FIFA World Cup?
globalreportingcentre.org
July 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
@globalreportingcentre.org continues reporting on how sports, politics and human rights are interconnected. Check out this bonus episode that just posted!
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The GRC's founder, board chair, and academic director, @peterwklein.bsky.social, will be screening his new film, Bribe, Inc., in The Hague during the NATO Security Summit on June 21st. Don't miss your chance to see his latest documentary! bit.ly/3FwZUO5
Just Peace Movie Night: Bribe Inc.
Join us for Just Peace Movie Night to watch Bribe, Inc. organised by III Europe, YAC and The Hague Humanity Hub.
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June 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The GRC's founder, board chair, and academic director, @peterwklein.bsky.social, will be screening his new film, Bribe, Inc., in The Hague during the NATO Security Summit on June 21st. Don't miss your chance to see his latest documentary! bit.ly/3FwZUO5
Bribe Inc. documentary showing this Saturday, 1 PM, at Rialto Elmwood in Berkeley. On #WorldPressFreedomDay, we're showcasing this bold investigation about corruption, followed by Q&A w/ @erichavian.bsky.social of @whistleblower.law.
May 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Bribe Inc. documentary showing this Saturday, 1 PM, at Rialto Elmwood in Berkeley. On #WorldPressFreedomDay, we're showcasing this bold investigation about corruption, followed by Q&A w/ @erichavian.bsky.social of @whistleblower.law.
I keep hearing that the detentions like those of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk are unprecedented. As I wrote in @nytimes, these kinds of investigations and detentions were common after 9/11, as well as previously in US history. www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/o...
Opinion | My Father’s Red Scare (Published 2007)
My father was never a spy, never a member of the Communist Party. Nonetheless, the F.B.I. kept a file on him from the day he arrived in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I keep hearing that the detentions like those of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk are unprecedented. As I wrote in @nytimes, these kinds of investigations and detentions were common after 9/11, as well as previously in US history. www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/o...
Worth circling back to my @nbcnews.com fact-check on Vivek Ramaswamy's spurious claim during primary debate that Canada is a major source of fentanyl. We debunked it then, but Trump has continued to propagate fiction that the deadly drug comes across northern border. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Fact-checking the third Republican primary debate
As five Republican candidates traded barbs onstage, NBC News fact-checked what they said in real time.
www.nbcnews.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Worth circling back to my @nbcnews.com fact-check on Vivek Ramaswamy's spurious claim during primary debate that Canada is a major source of fentanyl. We debunked it then, but Trump has continued to propagate fiction that the deadly drug comes across northern border. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
How will a new Trump administration prosecute corruption?
Experts weigh in on whether a second Trump administration will maintain robust anti-corruption efforts or politicize enforcement to serve strategic interests. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Experts weigh in on whether a second Trump administration will maintain robust anti-corruption efforts or politicize enforcement to serve strategic interests. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
How will a new Trump administration prosecute corruption?
Experts weigh in on whether a second Trump administration will maintain robust anti-corruption efforts or politicize enforcement to serve strategic interests.
www.nbcnews.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM
How will a new Trump administration prosecute corruption?
Experts weigh in on whether a second Trump administration will maintain robust anti-corruption efforts or politicize enforcement to serve strategic interests. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Experts weigh in on whether a second Trump administration will maintain robust anti-corruption efforts or politicize enforcement to serve strategic interests. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...