“Hoarders & Wasters”, 1857, by Gustave Doré, Dante Alighieri Inferno, Plate 22, Canto VII
In most cases, corruption has nothing to do with one state’s attempt to buy propaganda relays in another: it is most often internal and, when it is not, it is characterized by the purchase of foreign officials in order to promote the signing of a contract. Converse…