So, too, are some of Qaddafi s dirtiest diplomatic secrets being exposed.

There's no filth, there's no beggars, all the snake charmers have vanished, everybody's gone. This tells you how the capitalist world rules.

Companies and investors are hedging their bets by taking a few resource efficiency measures and investing in some low carbon assets, but leaving their high carbon portfolios and activities largely intact.

After all, it was during the reign of Catherine the Great that the Potemkin village was invented, whereby the squalor of the lives of Catherine s serfs was hidden behind cheerfully painted housing façades as the Empress toured her country.

A high ranking revolutionary guard, Sajadi, entered the British embassy and such an act could be considered a war declaration, because the embassy is considered British soil. Such an act is in contradiction with Iran's constitution.

After years of torturing people in one of South America s most savage dirty wars, Brazil s generals decided to stop it, because its institutionalized use was undermining the armed forces discipline and morale.