The Maltese journalist, famous for her fearless reporting on corporate and political corruption in Malta, was killed by a car bomb last week.
Last week, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, investigating the fallout from Panama Papers, was brutally assassinated. She repeatedly drew attention to how the nexus of political and corporate interests is destroying the possibilities of good lives for ordinary people.
Her final written words were: “there are crooks everywhere you look. The situation is desperate”. Her assassination has hardly drawn any condemnation from western governments.
The warnings about powerful unaccountable corporations have been with us for a long time. In 1864, US President Abraham Lincoln is accredited with saying:
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.”
Full story at Leftfoot Forward.
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