“One thing is geopolitics, another is trade,” said Milei. “I’m not going to break commercial ties with China”.More
Reopening the Veins of Latin America
Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything, from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European— or later United States— capital, and as such has accumulated in distant centers of power.More
How Mexico More Than Tripled Its Minimum Wage in Eight Years Without Triggering the Economic Disaster Many Had Predicted
Yet more evidence that improving the lot of those at the very bottom of the income ladder does not necessarily produce unemployment or runaway inflation. More
Halliburton Files ISDS Suit Against Venezuela for Damages Resulting from… US Sanctions on Venezuela
Talk about making the victim pay…More
Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs As They Escalate Their Assault on Online Privacy and Anonymity
“Politicians have now discovered that people are using VPNs to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.”More
Shining a Light on How Exxon Mobil Bankrolls Think Tank “Experts” Pushing for Regime-Change War in Venezuela
For the US oil major, this is about reclaiming its stake in a market it walked away from in 2007, after the Hugo Chávez government called for a fairer divvying up of profits. More
Israel Is Trying to Turn the Tide of Opposition (to Its Genocidal Proclivities) in Latin America
Could one of the few pockets of resistance to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and its myriad other war crimes, be about to fall?More
The Empire of Lies Is Once Again Sowing Chaos In Its Own “Back Yard”
This is unlikely to end well for all parties concerned, including the US. More
The UK Government’s Plan to Resurrect the Public Finance Initiative (PFI) Is the Definition of Financial Insanity
The Starmer government, desperate to keep its public borrowing in check, is bringing back (in the words of a senior City of London banker) a “fraud on the people.”More
Just How Dystopian Can Starmer’s Britain Become? (Part 2)
Scaling back trial by jury, further attacks on lawful speech, the nationwide deployment of deeply flawed facial recognition systems… The list just keeps growing longer. More
Nick Corbishley 