Quoting U.S.-funded propaganda while recycling Muscat’s ideas — Borg’s hypocrisy knows no limits.
Alex Borg
Alex Borg strutted through the Nationalist Party leadership debate as if he had uncovered some devastating truth. With a smug flourish, he reminded everyone that Joseph Muscat had once been branded the “2019 Person of the Year in Organized Crime and Corruption.”
What Borg conveniently failed to admit was that he was not delivering an original thought, but parroting the lines of the so‑called Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — an outfit that pretends to be independent journalism, but in reality dances to the tune of its paymasters in Washington.
The OCCRP: Bought and Paid For
Let’s not mince words. The OCCRP boasts of being the world’s largest investigative reporting network, but the evidence tells another story. Investigations by Yann Philippin and Stefan Candea have shown that the U.S. government bankrolls half of the OCCRP’s budget, funds its pet investigations, and even claims veto power over its leadership appointments. That’s not independence — that’s servitude.
The OCCRP makes noise about transparency, but hides the explosive truth: it takes orders, funds, and direction from U.S. foreign policy interests. Russia? Venezuela? Always in the crosshairs. The U.S.’s geopolitical enemies miraculously become the OCCRP’s biggest “corruption stories.” Shocking, isn’t it? Except not really — when your puppet master holds the strings, your reporting isn’t journalism, it’s propaganda dressed in investigative clothing.
And this is Borg’s “source of truth.” This is the authority he clings to when attacking Joseph Muscat.
Joseph Muscat
The Borg–Muscat Paradox
But Borg’s hypocrisy doesn’t end there. Even while slandering Muscat in front of his own party, he is actively copying Muscat’s political blueprint. Consider this: it was Joseph Muscat who first introduced the role of a Chief Executive Officer to manage party finances. It was Muscat who revived the post of Deputy Head for Parliamentary Affairs.
And what is Alex Borg proposing? The exact same things.
So which version of Borg should Malta believe? The Borg who demonizes Muscat as irredeemably corrupt? Or the Borg who sees Muscat’s policies as so effective he has to recycle them for his own leadership campaign? The hypocrisy is laughable — or rather, pathetic.
A Puppet Quoting Puppets
At the end of the day, Borg is a man quoting from a compromised organization to score cheap points, while slyly ripping off Joseph Muscat’s ideas in hopes no one notices. If that is what passes for vision in the Nationalist Party, then heaven help them. Because what Borg offers is not leadership, not conviction, not originality — but a puppet quoting puppets.
