At the beginning of July, the AMLO government’s biggest bet on energy self-sufficiency — the Dos Bocas refinery in Tabasco — began processing crude oil. But since then, things have not gone according to plan.More
The Fallout from the Nigel Farage Debanking Scandal Continues to Spread
The share price of Coutts’ parent bank, semi-state owned Natwest, has slumped 8% over the past 10 days, wiping £1 billion off its market cap and generating juicy returns for short-selling hedge funds.More
No Joke: Ursula Von der Leyen’s EU Commission Just Received “World Prize for Peace and Freedom”
Few political figures have done more to keep Ukrainians fighting — and dying in huge numbers — in a bloody, futile proxy war of attrition than Von der Leyen.More
Latin America Again Refuses to Fall In Line With the Collective West on Ukraine, This Time from Brussels
Another attempt by the Collective West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world — or the “Jungle,” as the EU’s chief “diplomat” Josep Borrell calls it — fails spectacularly.More
The Dark, Shady Past of Spain’s Likely Next Prime Minister, Alberto Núñez Feijóo
Spain’s general elections this Sunday (July 22) could be a milestone event — of the bad rather than good kind.More
A Transatlantic Trend: Banks in UK and US Are Closing Customer Accounts With Little to No Warning Or Explanation
“The escalation team just reached out to me. They told me that the account was being shut down, and they wouldn’t give me a reason. I asked them if they would ever give me a reason. They said no.”More
Is Peru About to Descend Into Another Wave of Political Violence, This Time With US Troops on the Ground?
The Boluarte government has next to no democratic legitimacy, is broadly rejected by the public and under investigation for numerous human rights violations. Now, with roughly 1,000 US troops stationed in the country, it faces a third massive march on Lima. More
The EU’s Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?
Government censorship of public online discourse in the West’s ostensibly liberal democracies has been largely covert until now, as revealed by the Twitter Files. But thanks to the EU’s Digital Services Act, it is about to become overt.More
Will War-Torn, Power-Starved Ukraine Be World’s First Cashless Economy? (Serious Question)
Zelensky is reportedly “very determined” to move towards a cashless economy as swiftly as possible. And he has the full support of Australia’s richest man.More
The Digital Euro, Like All Prospective CBDCs, Has a Serious Marketing Problem
CBDCs may be all the rage among central bankers, but as long as they offer little in the way of public benefit while posing huge risks to privacy, anonymity and other basic freedoms, they will struggle to gain traction.More
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