This is good news for Mexico’s long-beleaguered state-owned oil company, Pemex, but not such good news for the US’ refinery industry.More
Why Is the Gates Foundation Funding the UK’s Medicines Regulator?
Just as importantly, why is the regulator laying off 20-25% of its workforce in the midst of a global pandemic?More
Spain’s Supreme Court Rules Against Using Vaccine Passports to Restrict Access to Public Spaces
It’s the first time a high court of a European Member State has challenged the use of vaccine passports domestically. More
Going, Going, Almost Gone: UK Government Speeds Up Privatisation of National Health System
Operating on the maxim of “never let a good crisis go to waste”, the government is exploiting the pandemic to embed even more private interests across the system.More
The US Is Losing Power and Influence Even In Its Own Back Yard
Politically, economically and geopolitically, the sands are shifting in Latin America — and not in Washington’s favor!More
Quelle Surprise: Covid Cases Surge in Europe’s Tourism Hot Spots, Just One Month After Grand Reopening
It turns out that a massive increase in cross-border travel — particularly by air — is a great way of spreading an airborne virus. More
Remittances to Latin America Surge, Even As Virus Crisis Continues to Bite in Host Economies
One of the rare economic success stories of the past year. But there are also downsides and dark sides to the remittances story.More
Vaccine Certificates Are Making Global Travel Harder, Not Easier
Vaccine certificates were ostensibly rolled out to help facilitate cross-border travel as vaccination numbers increased. But thanks to vaccine geopolitics, the opposite is happening. More
Does the Fate of Ivermectin As a Covid-19 Treatment Rest in the Hands of the Deeply Conflicted Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?
One of the world’s biggest vaccine proponents and strident defender of intellectual property rights is funding, directly and indirectly, large trials into cheap, off-patent, off-label COVID-19 treatments, including ivermectin.More
A Worrying Trend Emerges in South America, As Right-Wing Populists Take A Leaf Out of Trump and Netanyahu’s Playbook
If the elected leaders of long-established democracies like the US and Israel can question the workings of their electoral system, why can’t others of less-established ones? More
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