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P14 Layout 1 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2016 ANALYSIS THE LEADING INDEPENDENT DAILY IN THE ARABIAN GULF ESTABLISHED 1961 Founder and Publisher YOUSUF S. AL-ALYAN Editor-in-Chief ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-ALYAN EDITORIAL : 24833199-24833358-24833432 ADVERTISING : 24835616/7 FAX : 24835620/1 CIRCULATION : 24833199 Extn. 163 ACCOUNTS : 24835619 COMMERCIAL : 24835618 P.O.Box 1301 Safat,13014 Kuwait. E MAIL :[email protected] Website: www.kuwaittimes.net Focus Oilman brought Trump and Bush worlds together hroughout the presidential campaign, the Bush family and many of its Republican allies turned their Tbacks on Donald Trump. Now, they’re finding com- mon cause with Trump over his pick to lead the State Department: Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who has long orbited their same political, philanthropic and busi- ness worlds. Former President George W Bush, who has largely avoided politics since leaving office in 2009, heaped praise on Tillerson in a recent phone call to Sen Bob Corker, the Tennessee lawmaker who will oversee the sec- retary of state confirmation hearings. Jeb Bush, Tillerson’s preferred candidate in the 2016 race, called the Exxon 2016 rocked by corruption scandals executive a “good man and accomplished leader”. Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates - Bush’s vice president, secretary of state and secretary of rom the Panama Papers to the impeachments of the bribery-and-kickbacks scandal involving the state oil compa- weekly mass demonstrations, some of which drew crowds of defense - have all offered glowing endorsements. Gates, presidents of Brazil and South Korea, 2016 was a year ny Petrobras. Rousseff was not impeached on the Petrobras more than a million people. who runs a consulting firm with Rice that represents Fmarked by corruption scandals, and by rising public allegations but rather on unrelated charges of cooking the Other leaders, though, are batting away graft allegations Exxon, first put Tillerson on Trump’s radar when the presi- outrage over graft. The question is, will that translate into a government books. But the Petrobras affair is wreaking hav- that piling up against them. One such official is Malaysian dent-elect was dissatisfied with his more conventional lasting demand for cleaner politics? “A new phenomenon” oc for her unpopular successor, Michel Temer. He has lost sev- Prime Minister Najib Razak, whom the US alleges embezzled options. Despite the high-level backing, Tillerson faces is being seen, said Jose Ugaz, a renowned Peruvian lawyer eral ministers after they came under suspicion in the scandal with his family and associates billions of dollars from a sover- obstacles in his path to Foggy Bottom. He has no govern- and the chairman of Transparency International, a Berlin- and questions are emerging about whether he will be able to eign wealth fund. Najib has shut down domestic investiga- ment experience, having spent his whole career at Exxon. based anti-corruption watchdog, who expressed cautious see through his term. tions into the scandal, claiming a plot by enemies. But tens of Senators in both parties have raised questions about his optimism. thousands of protestors have held demonstrations demand- ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a relationship “What we are facing today is very different to what we Mass protests ing his resignation. that’s particularly eye-catching given uncertainty about were facing 27 years ago,” when Transparency International Impeachment also hit South Korea’s President Park Geun- South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, nicknamed the “Teflon presi- Trump’s own connections to Russia. was founded, he told AFP. “Around the world we are seeing hye this month. She faces a parliamentary inquiry into accu- dent” for his survival of multiple scandals, is also seeking to Corker said that while the support from the highest this kind of corruption that affects the people - and we are sations of colluding with a longtime friend, Choi Soon-Sil, to see his mandate through to 2019 with the backing of his ANC levels of the Republican national security establishment seeing a mobilization of the people against it,” he said. “I think strongarm donations from large companies worth tens of party, despite a court ruling he should face 783 counts of cor- won’t wipe away senators’ questions about Tillerson, it it has been a difficult year - but at the same time it gives hope millions of dollars for a couple of dubious foundations that ruption. An official report has also implicated him in graft could ease anxieties. “Most people will look at that and for the future.” The Panama Papers leak in April - an unprece- Choi controlled and allegedly plundered. The scandal ignited allegations involving a wealthy Indian family. — AFP understand that he’s not outside the mainstream,” said dented data dump - triggered much of the outrage early in Corker, adding that George W Bush was “effusive” in his 2016. Offshore companies used by many of the world’s praise for Tillerson when they spoke last week. famous, wealthy or powerful, or kin or aides close to them, were exposed. Among them were the leaders, or relatives of Stalinist crimes divide Russia Rejection the leaders, of Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia, Syria, Pakistan, While Trump was never fully embraced by more tradi- Argentina and Ukraine. Also implicated was a close friend of ndrei Kolesnikov laid out the letters his grandfa- War II. “These people all had different fates,” Kolesnikov, tional Republicans, his rejection by the Bush family and President Vladimir Putin, as well as current or former govern- ther sent home from the Stalinist labor camp who works for the Carnegie Moscow Centre, said. its national security apparatus was particularly glaring. ment officials in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East - Awhere he eventually died after eight years as a Kolesnikov’s grandfather was accused of being a politi- The family produced the last two Republican presidents more than 140 politicians and public officials in all. political prisoner. “It was an everyday case, so common cal opponent of the Bolsheviks - his grandson guesses and had hoped for a third in 2016. The two Bush presi- The revelations forced Iceland’s prime minister to resign for that period,” political analyst Kolesnikov told AFP in either to fulfill an arrest quota or due to a private dencies also defined the GOP’s foreign policy philosophy and embarrassed Britain’s then-prime minister David his Moscow flat. “My grandfather David Traub was vendetta. He died in the sick ward of his labor camp, as one that saw overseas military intervention as a Cameron. China, although in the midst of an anti-corruption caught up under the wheel of history.” It has been eight leaving his wife and children. means to pre-empt attacks on the US and promote drive that has netted more than a million officials, sup- decades since the start of the Great Terror that saw democracy abroad. pressed the Panama Papers information relating to Xi’s family countless innocent victims across the Soviet Union exe- ‘Diametrically opposed views’ Trump has vowed to take the Republican Party in a in domestic media and online forums. That bolstered suspi- cuted or sent to the Gulag camps - and 25 years since “Unity” is the current buzzword among Russia’s elite - new direction, both in style and substance. He showed cions among observers that relatives of the Communist Party the USSR itself finally ceased to exist. uttered repeatedly by Putin as he tries to forge a sense no reverence for the Bush family during the campaign, elite remained untouchable in the crackdown on graft. But a fight over the historical truth - and memory - of of national identity that instils loyalty to the Kremlin and blasting George W Bush over the Iraq war and deriding “There is a double standard,” said Willy Lam, professor of poli- the crimes of the Soviet regime still drags on in Russia smothers dissent. The strongman leader - and many of his administration’s focus on nation building abroad. He tics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. as the current authorities under President Vladimir those who surround him - served in the NKVD’s succes- was particularly hard on former Florida Gov Jeb Bush, Putin stand accused of trying to minimize the dark sor organization, the KGB, and headed its post-Soviet who ran against Trump in the GOP primaries. ’Power of transparency’ chapters of the past in a bid to bolster their own grip on incarnation the FSB. Central to their push is shaping a Trump transition officials say the Bush family has not “The publication of the Panama Papers reminds us of the power. Earlier this month leading human rights group vision of the past that emphasizes the USSR’s victory in coordinated its support for Tillerson with the president- rapid expansion and power of transparency,” the head of the Memorial - which has been battling for decades to World War II and Stalin’s role in achieving it while down- elect, though Gates and Rice did directly offer their sup- World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, told a London anti-corruption shine a light on Soviet abuses - released a database playing the Soviet crimes and repression. port to Trump’s team. Like the Bush family, Tillerson has summit in May. He urged more transparency, stressing that with the names and some biographical details of When Memorial released its list of NKVD agents it strong ties to Texas and its vast oil industry. Presidents “corruption is, quite simply, stealing from the poor.” around 40,000 people who served in the Stalin-era provoked a level of interest - both positive and negative George H W Bush and George W Bush ran oil companies According to a recent estimate, between $1.5 trillion and $2 NKVD secret police from 1935-39.
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