It's willful. It's intentional.

Hardly a day passes without a new story of malfeasance.

Stories of corporate malfeasance do, of course, abound in the US.

One of Chávez's discredited predecessors was impeached on flimsy charges of malfeasance

Indeed, its leaders willful ignorance of the lessons of the past is criminal.

The financial crisis provides an apparently endless opportunity for unmasking deceit, malfeasance, and corruption.

The intellectual history of colonialism is littered with many a willful cause of recent conflict.

When companies are fined for malfeasance, their shareholders, not their CEOs and managers, pay the price.

They represent a collapse of governance these are the wages of the sins of administrative incompetence and political malfeasance.

They send their leaders before law making bodies to express contrition for grave malfeasance and promise future good behavior.

Rockstar is seeking increased damages against Google, as it claims Google's patent infringement is willful, according to the complaint.

Such continuous and willful blindness helped corruption to thrive and a tiny group of oligarchs gain control of the economy.

Yang had conspired with the government officials directing the lottery, who were arrested for malfeasance, to fraudulently obtain the top prizes.

But even in this more charitable scenario, much of the malfeasance is a direct result of the federation s total lack of transparency.

More often, its attack on authority takes the form of willful provocations or ever more uninhibited and graphic depictions of violence.

From a Western perspective, willful confrontation makes little sense, because the EU and Russia are and will continue to be neighbors.

Such a complex operation could not occur without professional assistance from both outside and in plus large doses of willful ignorance.

This constitutes a powerful disincentive for Chad and Cameroon to act against company malfeasance or to defend individuals adversely affected by the project.

Revelations of malfeasance have also come from the governments of New York (Attorney General Elliott Spitzer) and Massachusetts (Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin).

But these obvious signs of malfeasance were all too easily ignored when times were good and in the face of the current US administration's hostility towards regulation.

Dollar denial, that state of willful blindness in which bankers and central bankers claim not to be worried about America s falling currency, seems to be ending.

The fact that North Korea's close neighbors seem unable to grasp this seems to confirm that Asian disunity is not just stupid, but chronic and willful.

That this outcome is possible despite protestations to the contrary by all involved reflects the willful ignorance and lack of imagination of Europe s heads of state and government.

But not only the direct results of colonialism remain relevant the indirect ones also matter. The intellectual history of colonialism is littered with many a willful cause of recent conflict.

The picture is no brighter in Europe, where countries' willful neglect of their military capabilities has undermined their ability to enforce the rule of law when international mechanisms break down.

Only rarely, however, does American inspired popular culture possess this dimension explicitly. More often, its attack on authority takes the form of willful provocations or ever more uninhibited and graphic depictions of violence.

Until the Russian government releases more details about its policy toward ISIS related online content, it's hard to deny the Kremlin's double standard, which at best seems to be a case of willful ignorance.

Citizens attention can be channeled away from, say, major corporate theft and government malfeasance toward narratives involving two hapless individuals (and their wives and children, who are usually suffering quite enough without the media s heavy breathing).

The first two were forced upon the US, but the third was the result of a willful, deliberate decision by former President George W. Bush, taken on ideological grounds and, most likely, for personal reasons as well.

The world s governments will meet in Montreal at the end of November to plot the next steps, including specific measures that the world could adopt if the Bush administration abandoned its willful neglect of this critical issue.

NEW YORK It is difficult for me, as an advocate against rape and other forms of violence against women, to fathom the laziness and willful ignorance that characterize so much of the media coverage of the sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

What else can we call our willful ignorance of the agony of so many in the underdeveloped world the torture chambers that litter virtually every Arab nation, the million martyrs'' in the lunatic Iran Iraq war, the thousands of state executions in China, the grotesque subjugation of women?

But over the last decade, Latin American politicians have made presidential systems more flexible by finding innovative ways to remove unpopular presidents. One of Chávez's discredited predecessors was impeached on flimsy charges of malfeasance Ecuador's Congress declared a disastrous chief executive mentally incompetent in Peru, an autocratic president, after months of domestic and international pressure, was forced into exile.

And, because sex scandals are always interesting to read about certainly compared to yet another undeclared war, or a bailout that created jobs costing an estimated 850,000 each they will always be useful diversions. Citizens attention can be channeled away from, say, major corporate theft and government malfeasance toward narratives involving two hapless individuals (and their wives and children, who are usually suffering quite enough without the media s heavy breathing).

NEW YORK It is difficult for me, as an advocate against rape and other forms of violence against women, to fathom the laziness and willful ignorance that characterize so much of the media coverage of the sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. To report that we are simply witnessing Swedish justice at work, one must be committed to doing no research not even the bare minimum of picking up a phone.