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
Mexico’s AMLO Government Refuses to Bow to US Sanction Threats, Ups Ante in Fight Over GM Corn
Washington is threatening to expand its sanctions regime to Mexico, its second largest trade partner, for wanting to protect its own native crop diversity as well as its citizens’ rapidly worsening health. More
Is A New Housing Crisis Brewing in Spain?
Spain is one of the European economies that was hardest hit by the COVID-19 virus crisis. Now, after years of falling real incomes, millions of families are facing skyrocketing mortgage payments as a result of rapidly rising interest rates.More
US Troops Are in Peru to Counter Chinese and Russian Influence in Latin America, Reports Peruvian News Outlet
Peruvian troops’ “training alongside US forces will help to improve their capabilities and strengthen the operational performance of [Peruvian] Special Forces, boosting their interoperability with NATO systems and doctrine.”More
The UK’s Tory Government, With Labour’s Help, Just Took Another Big Step Toward Outlawing Peaceful Political Protest
“The move – which uses secondary legislation to bring the powers into force – violates the constitutional principle of the separation of powers because the measures have already been rejected by Parliament.”More
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