“George Orwell’s iconic novel 1984, published in 1949, raised the spectre of Big Brother. This nightmare has now been brought to reality by a Conservative government supposedly rolling back the state.”More
Will 2024 Mark the End of Ursula Von Der Leyen’s EU Presidency?
With court cases and EU elections looming in the first half of this year, big question marks hang over the future of the EU Commission president. More
Javier Milei is Preparing a Nice Little New Year’s Gift for the World’s Richest Man, Elon Musk
Musk is “extremely interested” in Argentina’s vast lithium deposits, according to Milei. So too, apparently, is the US Government and many other US companies. Milei will happily oblige.More
2022: The Year That Many Brits Learnt to Love Cash Again
Small slivers of hope in the Global War on Cash.More
Definition of Madness: Peru and Ecuador Ask Washington to Come Up With a “Plan Colombia” 2.0 to Combat Drug Cartels
Even the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has admitted that Plan Colombia was a resounding failure from a counter-narcotics perspective (albeit not from a “counter-insurgency” one).More
Australia’s Central Bank Governor Discusses Possibility of Retailers Charging People for Paying in Cash
“The challenge with cash is that it really does have a big community public service sort of aura attached to it.”More
Who Is Luis Caputo, Argentina’s New Economy Minister (Who Is Already Making the Economy Scream)?
Meet the new boss, same as the old.More
Amid Mushrooming Wars and Other Global Crises, the WEF’s Corporate Takeover of the UN Continues Apace
The multistakeholder model being embraced by the UN gives corporations even more power over society, the economy and the environment, at the expense of national democratic institutions.More
Venezuela Takes a Step Closer to War With US
Following Sunday’s referendum, Venezuela’s Maduro government de facto “annexes” the oil-rich Essequibo region. Guyana calls for help from friends, including US Southern Command. Military exercises are already under way.More
Pfizer and BioNTech Are Suing Poland Over Its Refusal to Pay for More COVID-19 Vaccines. Are They Also Suing Hungary?
Even by the normal standards of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS), Pfizer and BioNtech’s lawsuit against the government of Poland for refusing to take delivery of more unwanted vaccines is especially egregious.More
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